In Britain, the government released DORA - the Defence of the Realm Act, which granted the government wide powers including the control of railways and shipping. ... Extending its powers far beyond munitions factories, the Ministry set standards for employee health and welfare, pressured key manufacturers to assist in the production of armaments, ended strikes through promises of arbitration, and extended daytime working hours by introducing daylight saving in May 1916. ... Additionally, in 1917 the government established the Womens Auxillary Army Corps where women served in positions that...

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Each document, despite their similar purpose, sets its own standard of rights and has its own distinctive features which have all emerged from their past history. ... The concept of human rights refers to the treatment of each individual life and the rights given to every individual agreed to by society, and the government such as the right to life, the right to freedom of opportunity, right to freedom of speech etc. ... It was in the period between the two world wars that the concept of social rights was adopted and the idea that government involvement was a necessity for human rights to be t...

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For example, India is building a wide variety of new missiles with a range of 90 miles to 1,300 miles. (2) And Iraq refuses to let United Nations teams in to inspect its nuclear weapons stores. (1) In addition, the many of the countries in the former Soviet Union have set up lines of trade, both legal and not, to support their own economies. ... Even if they did the set date to lower arsenals is by 2003... The governments in question still must ratify them, a process which can take years if it happens at all. ... In many cases the collapse has, in fact, served to amplify the problems alrea...

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Citing his faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy of a Communist coup. ... Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). ... This in turn, would increase government spending on missiles, which would create higher taxes, ending in an even greater unbalanced budget. ... To "combat inflation- of the dollar, the government would begin controlli...

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Adolf's dreams of becoming an artist did not match the government official job his father wanted him to have. ... Since he had no set income he was forced to move into the ghettos and became somewhat of a bum. ... He left Vienna to get away from the mixture of races and to escape the military that he had to serve in with Jews. ... Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... He quickly outlawed all political parities and made the Nazi way the new form of government. ...

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Liberal governments, at least from society's view, seemed unable to meet the continuous strains of the industrial society. ... A former soldier that served in the war, Adolf Hitler was one among many that were embarrassed by the ending of World War One. ... Although he only served eight months he wrote a book addressed to Rudolf Hess (who later became the deputy leader of the Nazi Party) titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle). This book set out his political philosophy. ... On the 30th of January Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the Chancellor of a minority government. ...

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Once a new government was established it was already set to fail. Coming in with a whole new set of rules, a republic that was not popular to begin with. ... It did not help that the government was often in paralyzing standstills and could not get a whole lot done. ... With the help of the United States government, the German economy started to stabilize. ... Sentenced to a five year stay at a minimum security prison, he only serves about a half of a year. ...

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Governments that failed to fight the depression caused domestic politics to become chaotic. ... Most governments implemented new taxes to help pay for the desperately needed welfare services. In America under the New Deal program, The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was set up. The CCC was set up to aid unmarried men by suppling them with jobs. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak of World War II. ...

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Unlike the Korean War and World War Two, the American government decided not to censor it and let the press have free access. ... He got life but served only three months. Critics said that it was hypocritical standing one man on trial for war crimes when the government had ordered the use of such weapons as Napalm and Agent Orange. ... The war was also a great hindrance on America's economic stature. 13 percent of all government spending by 1968 was on Vietnam. ... America wanted to set up a working relationship between Moscow and Peking. ...

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An evening in front of his television set watching his daily dose of world news from CNN or MSNBC or some other news station tells the typical American that we are engaged in global conflict. ... We are in the process of assisting Afghanistan in the formation of a democratic government. ... The armed conflict is in its final stages and we are in the process of assisting the Iraqis in the formation of a democratic government. ... Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Haiti as part of a United Nations force after that County's democratic government was overth...

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In the word s of Norman Birkett, who served as a British alternate judge: it was the greatest trial in history . ... Three of the four allies wanted the Nazi leaders to be executed without a trial Winston Churchill said, They should be rounded up and shot like dog s but the Americans persuaded the other allies that a trial would be most beneficial from a public relations standpoint, so now with the allies agreed the stage for Nuremberg was set. ... He said his proof of being innocent was that he served time in a German concentration camp for disagreeing with Hitler. ... With all the charge...

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The year of his election, Eisenhower increased military spending "17 percent as a portion of the government budget from 2 years earlier and nearly doubled the total number of dollars spent on defense" (Document D). ... The 400,000 mile network connected a total of 237 cities with a population above 50,000 and principally served the country's most prominent industrial and defense areas. ... In a special message to congress in January 1958, Eisenhower outlines an emergency roll that the "federal government must play in the education of the nation's youth" (Document ...

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On the night of February 27th, 1933, the Reichstag building was set ablaze. ... The Enabling Act of 1933 set Adolf Hitler's plan in stone and appointed him dictator of Germany. ... In Hitler's opinion there was no alternative to a strong dictatorial government. ... The NSDAP had enough power to paralyze Germany's democratic government, which was put in place in 1919. ... As the returns on income taxes decreased, the government began to depend much more on state trade and property tax (Castillo, 2003). ...

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Such as, a government loan of 1000 marks, which at the time was roughly about nine months of regular income to the average worker at the time in Germany. ... Of course in every society there are those who go against the rules set by the government, but in Nazi Germany there were very few women who opposed these sets of laws set by the Nazi Party. ... The Nazis made sure that women would not get too upset by new laws, or procedures set out by the Third Reich. The Nazis understood that policies towards family chiefly concerned women( Some of these new policies reflected both widespread anxiety a...

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He could not find a viable career option that he had the skill set for. ... Eventually, Adolf moved to Munich, Germany and joins the 16th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment to serve his country during World War I. ... Shortly after being named leader, Adolf turned the group radical and joined with a general named Lundendorff in an attempt to overthrow the Barvarian government. ... A different form of propaganda aimed to serve the same purpose, appeal to the public in a manipulative way. ... Regardless, something had to replace the struggling political and governmental systems. ...

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The American government could not take a foreign position that would not in some way benefit one of the belligerents and harm the other. ... In 1916 President Wilson took a stronger stance toward foreign affairs by increasing the size of the military and issuing a warning to the German government: Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogeth...

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Just a month after being named a Chancellor, the Reichstag building was set on fire. ... This rejected Economic Freedom, Private Property, Self-Interest and as well as Competition since the state controlled the economy--since it is in Stalin's plan to have a command economy or a system in which the government makes all the decisions involving the economy of the nation-state. ... There was also no room for competition since the government controlled everything and everyone had to follow what the government ordered to meet the planned production increase, which is 20% per year. ... The Rule...

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Hollywood had become a viable power of communication "one that certain members of the government had begun to fear. It was the beginning of another "red scare- in the nation: fears of communism, which had been on the rise ever since the stock market crash that set off the Great Depression, sparked accusations that artists, writers, actors and learned people were communists. ... Hawaii served as America's midway point between the mainland and Japan, and although the Japanese attempted to wipe out much of those offenses in the Pearl Harbor attacks, the American naval fleet struck b...

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During the early 1980s, income tax was set at 50% for anyone making over $5,720 a year. ... Instead of having to give most of it away in taxes, they were able to spend more, allowing more money to be collected in sales taxes by the government and thus increasing economic levels. ... If people have more money to spend instead of having to give it to the government, they spend money on resources they need, and in greater quantities and more regularly, allowing sales taxes to pay the government. ... Reaganomics, as the name suggests, was President Reagan's economic policy, which called for m...

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It formed modern government in many countries, made drastic legislative changes, and even spurred a major war for many countries. ... The German government ordered the workers to strike as a form of passive resistance. To compensate these workers the German government printed huge amounts of new money. ... They lacked mass support and had no chance against the military force of the government. The rebellion failed and Hitler was imprisoned and sentenced to five years although he only served one. ...

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In their northern zone the Soviets set up a puppet Communist clique and trained a Communist army, Deter minded to prevent the formation of a free South Korean government, the Russians fought against its establishment. ... General Macarthur set forth his assessment of the situation along with his military proposals. ... President Truman had concluded that General of the Army Douglas Macarthur is unable to give his wholehearted support to the policies of the United States Government and of the United Nations in matters pertaining to his official duties. ... Macarthur had wanted to do, America go...

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Possibly the greatest crisis faced by the United States since the Civil War, the Great Depression completely changed the nature of American government. It is easy to trace the development of the national government as a guarantor of public welfare and defender of not only our lives but our well-being. Though the Great Depression allowed the government to take a more active role in what were once private matters, I do not feel that it helped to create a "modern welfare state". ... One can say it all began with World War I, but even pre-1914 cyclical economic conditions set the world stage fo...

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Air Force Officer who served in the Vietnam War. ... A willow, not terribly tall but set in a clump of other willows, offering concealment in those long, flowing tresses. ... In Mockingjay ,The third and final book of the Hunger Games trilogy, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion, which causes a real war between the government, known as "The Capital", and The Rebels. ... The Capital is supposedly allowing Capital Children to be sheltered there, but are actually using them as human shields for President Snow, the leader of the government. ... Collins' father taught her about simila...

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Australian forces moved in to combat these problems and other problems such as the lawlessness and government corruption in the Solomon Islands. The Australian government also supports a country's right to self-determination, which means supporting itself rather than being run by outside governments such as the colonial rulers. ... The changes did not come directly after the war, because the war only served to harden the attitudes of the Australian people because of how the Japanese had treated Australian troops in their POW camps. How strong it was came to light when American troops came...

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In spite of the friendship displayed at the time, however, the scene was set for the ensuing Cold War between the East and the West. ... Instead, communist governments were established in all those countries, noncommunist political parties were suppressed, and genuinely democratic elections were never held. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ...

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