"The vast majority of casualties were civilian. ... In Northern Ireland, it would seem that Protestants and Catholics had a civil war about religions, when in fact it was about British rule in Ireland. ... Tibet is opposed to Chinese rule for a number of reasons. ... By 1938 they had become segregated outcasts and in November of that year, during the Kristallnacht rule, there were violent attacks in many parts of the country,"(Holocaust). ... The great majority decided to make a new life outside Europe, the largest number going to Israel and the United States. ...

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The Watutsis regarded themselves as an elite minority, constantly on guard against real and imaginary plots by the Bahutu majority. ... The Germans established indirect rule over the central African territory by permitting the Watutsi aristocracy to retain its dominance over the feudal structure. ... The Allied victory in World War I led to Belgian military rule in Burundi in 1916, known then as Ruanda-Urundi. ... This change had real importance, as the U.N. trust criteria required Belgium to prepare the population for self-rule. This meant majority rule. ...

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This would undermine Tito's rule and result in Yugoslavia becoming a Soviet satellite. ... Tito believed in equal opportunity stating, "We have to prove that there cannot be a majority and a minority. Socialism rejects minority and majority. It demands equality between minority and majority, but then there is no majority, no minority, only one nation."" ...

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The overwhelming majority of the students present took my standpoint." ... But sooner or later we shall have a majority - and after that Germany." ... Hitler followed this rule when joining and then recruiting people for the Nazi party. ...

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Unrestricted submarine warfare was a simple military policy: contrary to the prevailing rules of conduct, German U-boats attacked merchant marine and civilian vessels as well as battleships and, also contrary to the rules of conduct, refused to warn surface- bound vessels when a U-boat was in a position to attack, arguing that such warning undermined the very purpose of the submarine. ... Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and called for the violent overthrow of the Provisional Government and control of Russia by the soviets alone. Lenin attracted...

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Specifically, Hitler signed the Enabling Act of 1933 and won two thirds of the Reichstag majority, he destroyed democracy in Germany for a period of time, and he improved the economical problems in the country greatly; those deeds modified political standpoints around the globe. ... It required a two-thirds majority to be passed, but with the support of ally parties, it went through easily. ... The Nazi Party devised the Enabling Act to gain complete control without the need of a majority or the need to barter with their coalition partners (Hall, 2013). ... Hitler did succeed in destroying d...

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I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. ... Coming in with a whole new set of rules, a republic that was not popular to begin with. ... In a move to have control over government to move his measures through, Chancellor Bruning convinces President Hindenburg to invoke Article 48 of the constitution which gives the president power to rule by decree in a state of emergency. ... It became the biggest party but not a majority. ...

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According to the American Political Science Review, "they observe that democratic leaders are beholden to voters, and argue that voters oppose war because of its human and financial costs. " If the majority of the citizens in a nation oppose going to war, and the government decides to do so anyway, then any and all the negative aspects that come along with war, such as casualties and financial strains are the fault of the president and the country's government. ... Vietnam ruled by the Vietnamese Communist Party, the only legal political party in the country. ... Democratic nations are...

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Though we cannot know exactly what laws Roosevelt discussed with his counsel, we can retrospectively examine the rules that have in the past given the president this power to act. As Justice Hugo Black put it in his majority opinion on the case Korematsu v. ... The Court ruled in favor of the respondent and upheld the constitutionality of the order. ...

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More than 500 million Chinese and 220 million soviets lived under communist rule. Japan ruled Korea from 1905 until the end of World War 2. ... The United States provided the majority of the UN military forces which drove the North Koreans out of South Korea and still stand guard along the border today. ...

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We Were Soldiers Once and Young was co-authored by Lt. General Harold G Moore and Joseph L Galloway. Lt General Moore was in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary division during the November 1965 battle, which took place in the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam. Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that a...

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Both Soviet and Chinese troops would conduct patrols on many of the small islands (the majority of these islands were disputed territory between the two sides) and small skirmishes would occur. ... In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ...

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This guilt rules their lives and promotes behaviors that are not only self-defeating but damaging to relationships. ... While there is no doubt that the majority of the blame and guilt should be set on Hitler and his Officials, his allies must take part in a good portion, just as they did in the war. ...

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In the book " A Separate Peace" it exemplifies true feelings and characteristics of ordinary people. It takes place in 1942 during the dark days of World War II. The book is based on a flashback by main character and narrator Gene Forrester. Based at a highly regarded prep school, by the name of ...

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By the end of 1942 Germany occupied an area containing 40% of the Russian population, and the majority of its coal manufacturing. ... In this chaotic time Stalin's totalitarian "rule by decree" was impractical and he allowed greater freedom and autonomy in the lower echelons. ...

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However, the French were much more involved in their more lucrative and well-known colony of Vietnam, and did not spread an educational system to the majority of the Cambodian population. ... "21 During the Khmer Rouge's rule, the wearing of glasses, the "mark of a civilized person," was outlawed and the use of any language beside Khmer meant death for the speaker, because knowledge of a foreign language was a mark of education and therefore a threat to national unity.22 In addition to the destruction of schools, the Khmer Rouge effectively destroyed Buddhism in Cambodia, t...

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People have learned important things from Hitler's rule as Chancellor. ... For the majority of the population they have learned a valuable lesson, as for those out there with that hatred, they will soon learn their lesson from the Holocaust and Hitler. ...

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The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. This vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his grasp f...

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Truman caused relations with the Russians to worsen right away by submitting the Truman doctrine which "aided" Turkey and Greece by freeing them of communist rule, many more were killed. ... The Television had become a major communications tool in that the majority of the programs and commercials portrayed in the 1950's contained no elements of death, poverty, ethnic blending, or any type of racial tensions that had in fact increased. ...

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The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... The proposition that they were not raised under Nazi rule does not mean that they could not become racist. ...

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The Netherlands were under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire but there were a series of uprisings and revolts in Netherlands. Netherlands was economically very powerful, technologically advanced, and the majority of the population was Protestant. ...

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University-wide administration imposed numerous rules designed to keep politics off of all the University campuses.  ... Immediately after the revolution Sadaam Hussein of Iraq, with the support of the U.S and a majority of the international community, invaded Iran in a war that lasted for over 8 years. ...

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The majority of the research for this project was done in New York City. ... Truman ruled out all other possible options and took the recommendation of a committee headed by the Secretary of War, Henry L. ...

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Block countries intended to organize against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance. The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. All the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia were included. The treaty was drafted by Kkrushchev in 1955 and signed in Warsaw on May 14,1955. The members of the Warsaw Pact were to defend each other if one was attacked. ...

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Throughout history, a great deal of things evolve and revolutionize due to changing factors in our environment. Fashion is just one of the many things that change through time. The many factors, like our current world standing in war or more importantly the current economic situation, shape how im...

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