The Middle East isn't a prime location to do business anyway, and with so much devastation going on there right now, I don't see in the near future an opportunity for terrorists to facilitate an attack comparable to the devastation of 9/11. ... Granted, that was in the past, and the actions of the U.S. to end the Japanese attack on the U.S. in World War II can't really be used to describe the current state in which we live due to terrorism, though it does paint a picture about the way terrorists interacted in the world prior to 9/11, and it is proof that the terrorists at that t...

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Germany had been divided into East and West. The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into east and West. ...

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First the author explains that the French politicians were impressed by the idea of having some part of east in short-term (some land from a very developed agricultural society-Turkey-), the thought of capturing the Ottoman Empire's lands that include the middle-east which the French politicians can't wait to get a part from. ... As time passes the British War Council decided to send the famous 29th Division to the East from Europe and General Sir Ian Hamilton is appointed as commander-in-chief for the operation. ...

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While this German colony submitted early to Allied pressure, other colonies held out much longer, like German South-East Africa holding out until the war ended four years later. ... The gas hit the African Light Infantry and the Algerian Riflemen dead on and their lines quickly collapsed leaving a gaping 8,000 yard hole in the middle off the line. ... The main areas that battles took place were the four German colonies of Togoland, Cameroon, German South-West Africa and German South-East Africa. ... So by early 1916, the only colony left in German hands was German South-East Africa. ...

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The purpose here has simply been to determine whether Russian and Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR consented to Germany's full membership in NATO after unification, the alliance would not expand to include any other East European countries. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... In numer...

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All of which reject any possibility of coherent intention or program in Nazi Germany's foreign policy.(2) The ferocity of this debate, perhaps best personified by the AJP Taylor, Trevor-Roper duels, has only increased the stubbornness of each side, and impeded any sort of configuration of a middle group.(3) It seems almost impossible to prove that any side can be completely and inequivocally correct due to the vast amount of sometimes contradictory statements made by Hitler which can be used by both sides equally. ... All allowing for the conquest of Lebensraum or living space...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, ma...

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Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." ... He now aimed to end the war in the west so he could concentrate on attacking communist Russia in the east. ...

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From 1965 until 1973, the United States of America was at war with the communist nation of North Vietnam. One of the darkest and most controversial time periods in American History, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam caused drastic cultural changes within the American nation.1 Americans...

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Money was distributed between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. ... The large and growing disparity of wealth between the rich and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. ... Mussolini's political views as a young a young gentlemen were almost completely opposite of what they became when he was a middle-aged man. ...

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Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the Alliance Treaty in Warsaw, Poland, known as the Warsaw Pact. ... With the Berlin Wall being built in 1961, through the middle of Berlin, the countries East Germany and West Germany were formed. ... East Germany was involved in The Warsaw Pact, while West Germany was in NATO. ...

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The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. According to Day (2006), Middle Eastern ideas of how a democratic government should work are entirely different from how the West views democracy. ...

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Britain had an Empire to defend; Russia was pushing in the Middle East and was already present in Persia; Italy wanted to live up to its glorious past and Germany wanted to create its own sea power, or Weltpolitik. ...

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The East took over all of the communist values that we look at the U.S.S.R for. ... This split of Germany and the ideological differences between the East and the West laid some of the groundwork for the Cold War. ...

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It demanded a considerable loss of European territory and for the establishment of a Polish corridor, (to give Poland back its land and access to the Baltic Coast) which then separated East Prussia from the body of Germany. ... The life savings of the middle classes and the working classes were wiped out. ...

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If India does not adhere they would be put in a costly and possibly deadly arms race with the Pakistani government who could potentially receive funds from sympathetic countries in the Middle East putting India behind in the race, however India does have the stronger economy therefore Pakistan would probably be the first to declare bankruptcy if it received no help. ...

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Question: Discuss the evolution of the international protection regime and explain the rationales that underlay the decision to amend the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees reflected in the elimination of the temporal and geographical limitations. Abstract The root ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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This added a long and inviting eating counter that ran down the middle that both added to social aspect of the diner and the production standpoint. ... Jerry O-Mahony's goal for the architecture of a diner was to combine beauty and form so that in could withstand harsh East Coast winters, while still catching the eye of every tourist that passed by. ...

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If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the da...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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