Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point of irresponsibility, with respect to the systematic persecution and annihilation of the Jewish people of Europe during the period between 1938-1945? ... With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant se...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. ... Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. ... Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. ... In being able to choose how much liberalization to allow, governments are responding to a variety of factors and politics. ... From a political perspe...

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In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-Enfield (GB) or Mauser (Germany) used in the latter conflict, together with the machine gun, poison gas and more powerful, accurate artillery meant that casualties were almost assured in the Great War, and dissatisfaction or disillusionment rendered the earlier tactics outdated, if not obsolete. ...

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However, there is still discussion of what the coins will look like and whether coin sizes will fit into each countries individual telephones and vending machines which are measured to old currencies. ... But there is strong political opposition to the move in countries like the United Kingdom and Denmark. ...

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