Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramatic escape and eventually traveled along the Portuguese East African boundaries back to the fighting front in Natal. ... "The Dardanelles failure seemed the end of his political career."... As secretary of state for air and colonies, he had a major role in setting the political boundaries...

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Under the massive stress and pressure of wars like the various conflicts in the Middle East, the structures of society and the political groupings that have held the country together begin to buckle and break and people begin to lose their bearings. ... Once the empire collapses a vacuum is created and new political alliances and new countries eventually emerge. ... The history of both countries illustrates very clearly how the creation of national boundaries based on political horse trading and ignoring the wishes of the people involved can sow the seeds of future disaster. ... We are seeing ...

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Although, the United States suffered comparatively minor financial losses, huge war debts threatened the economic and political stability of Great Britain and France. ... The old aristocratic political order was dead. ... Boundaries of parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa had to be redrawn on maps. ... The political picture was as joyless as the economic one. Many political parties competed for votes. ...

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His aim was for France to be dominant in an Older Europe whose geographical boundaries were wider than those of the six, Europe was seen as a road back to great power status as well as security from German Aggression. ... The primary nature of this was the political and due to Franco-German hostility. ...

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Technological advances continue to communicate our ability to stretch the boundaries and the use of any personal cellular phone technology or to improve the network can interact with another person from a totally different culture. ... If you want to see the capital, the globalization of goods, the free flow of labor and services all over the world, by a very large business company, it has a huge control world economy, beyond national boundaries. ... Globalization can be seen in five different ways; political, economic, technological, cultural and environmental. ... They are: to change the gl...

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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. ... The political system is originally modeled after the communist Soviet Union. ... It was a boundary set up as a surrender o...

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Eisenhower imposed a demilitarized zone on Vietnam that split the country into two and effectively delineated a civil war boundary between the Northern communists under Ho Chi Minh's rule and the Southern nationalists under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... (this kind of repeats what youve already said) At the same time, the United States saw an opportunity to "modernized Vietnamese political and social institutions and introduced the country to the expanding international economy" (Lessons 11). ...

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Aside from ancestral [genealogical] and political camaraderie with many countries that were involved in World War I, Europe was a vital economic trading partner, as well as a crucial loaner. ... By parading the Big Stick in the Caribbean and Latin American countries and sending troops when deemed necessary, America secured its geographical and political boundaries. ...

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The planet is covered with geographical, political, and racial boundaries. ... Through the influence of family, intimacy of touch and the effects of war, it is evident that geographical boundaries are more significant then the boundaries of love. ... When he heard of the news that the atomic bomb has destroyed two Asian cities the racial and geographical boundaries came back. ...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. ... This would be an opportune time, since the United States was heavily invested, both economically and politically, in the Vietnam conflict in 1969. ... Both the Chinese and Soviets hoped the United States and our Western allies would deem this rift as a sign of regional and political instability between the two Asian nations, resulting in military cutbacks and a reduced...

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For immigrant Japanese Americans the boundaries between religion, politics, and culture are porous" (940). ... The author also states that there is an: "interwoven sense of religion (spiritual healing and development), politics (an awareness of discrimination and prejudice), and culture (kinship and acceptance) that is not confined to the walls of the church"" (940). Therefore, Japanese religion focuses on everything (religion itself, politics, and culture) yet does not force anything upon those that follow. ...

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Outside of the war and supporting the South Korean side with troops and supplies, the U.S involved themselves in South Korean politics. ... After the war, they helped North Korea to rebuild and influenced their political decisions for many years after. ... He supported democratic South Korea and fought communism only within the boundaries of North Korea. ... By aiding South Korea, the U.S gained huge advantages in politics and footholds in Asia. ...

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It was the strength of the opposition forces, both liberal and conservative, rather than the ineptitude and stubbornness of President Wilson that led to the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles. World War One introduced a new and terrifying concept to a nave and unsuspecting world: total war...

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Also, the stipulations in the Treaty of Versailles, such as the German loss of its international colonies, which caused the loss of foreign markets, shipping and investments, the restriction of its boundaries, and the occupation of the Ruhr, made it very hard for Germany to rebound from its financial depression. ... Also, Germany proposed a network of bilateral trade agreements that was designed to somewhat unite a politically divided Europe. ... He furthered Lenin's work by forcing the Russian population to conform to the beliefs of his political party. ... However, his system already ha...

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Although, as trade and migration were introduced, phenomena such as the expansion of empires and religious movements, economic structure and political ideals led to interconnections between certain parts of the world and the beginnings of globalisation. ... Where the Early Modern Era was still deeply rooted in its recent past due to the ideals of communal sentiment, religion, and the rule of the monarchical government , the Modern Era saw the world transform from empires to nation states with respective national identities and hardened geographic boundaries. ... The French Revolution was an ...

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Nation Anderson in his book, "Imagined communities," goes on to try to define the impossible by describing nation as an "imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign (Anderson 1991: 6)." ... The description of nation would technically be very similar, but the term "nation" implies more than a political or legal institution, it also represents the individuals who live within the states boarders, but as observed by Hugh Seton-Watson, "I am driven to the conclusion that no "scientific" definition of nation can be devised; yet the phenomenon has exist...

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Throughout this time, his political affiliation was revealed. ... Truman decided to spark his political career. ... A long, discouraging struggle ensued as U.N. forces held a line above the old boundary of South Korea. ...

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In the article A Political Science Perspective on the Balance of Power and the Concert, the author Robert Jervis (1992:717) states, "The growth of a nation's power, if it becomes great enough to menace other strong states, will be at least partially self-defeating; the attempt to dominate the international system will call up a counter-balancing coalition that will restrain the state. ... A period of time in political history that great exemplifies a multipolar world was the time after the Napoleonic war and the firs World War. ... From the Concert of Europe to the End of the Cold Wa...

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In recent years (2012-2013), China refocused and has tried to increase its geographic boundaries militarily. ... Should the United States prepare for a disaster that may never happen and potentially cause a political disaster? ... China's reason for wanting these islands almost seems childish on today's political stage. ... Many nations protested the claim and said how some of their territory seemed to fall within the boundary of the dashed line. ...

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Political factors caused by the war also hurt Europe's ability to recover. The redrawing of political boundaries created new states with little regard to economic viability. ... The self-serving political interests of the world also precluded any possibility of solving the problem. ...

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According to Dean Acheson, "If the best minds in the world had set out to find us in the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea ". ... In other words, the Korean War happened soon after World War 2, and Korea was in horrible condition politically and militarily. ... At the end of the Korean War, the political boundaries of the Korean Peninsula remained divided and North Korea's population grew rapidly. ...

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The State System in this arena was affected by Industrial Revolution, representative governments, political changes, growth of international law, emergence of international organization, economic interdependence, revolution in the means of transport and communication. ... This meant that international politics and wars revolved around a few families. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ... Television, the mass media, telephones, and the Internet are erasing the boundaries between nations, bl...

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Communism is a political theory about leading a society to equality. ... However, America feared this political view because their ideology was very different from that of communism's ideology. ... Eventually, European countries were divided into East and West by the "Iron Curtain" (Doc A), the boundary that separates the Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries; America was in charge of Western Europe and the Soviet Union was in charge of Eastern Europe. ...

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While the penny press was expanding it's boundaries in Canada the telegraph and telephone was starting to capture a hold of the American population. ... This holds true whether it be religion, education, politics or the news media. ...

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United States knew it was time to do something about it, they could not let this spread to the US and other nations that have not yet moved politically towards Soviet Union Communist. ... At The end of World War II brought the redrawing of boundaries all over the world. ...

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