The capitalist and communist blocks were then to compete politically by fighting proxy wars in the Third World. ... For the Third World, the artificial increase in the price of oil drove them into bankruptcy. ... Being unable to pay their debts, Third World countries were forced to go to the IMF for assistance. ... The debt of the Third World never actually gets reduced. ... With any potential income from the Third World locked up for many years to come, British oil companies started developing oil fields around the world, such as in the North Sea and certain Third World nations such as Mal...

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This was another factor to the rise of the Nazi party. ... The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. ... One of the parties was the Nazi party (National Socialists party); the leader of that party was Adolf Hitler, he blamed the politicians who signed the Treaty of Versalilles for betraying the country. ... Between 1930-1932, the Nazi party found money to finance three massive election campaigns. ... With no opposition parties, there were no opponents to the new order. ...

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This involves setting up a barrier or presence between the two parties. ... Negotiation is the best way to achieve a settlement because it is the only way a third party is not involved. ... This is not an investigation, rather it is to assist the parties in resolving the conflict. ... These involve third parties and are not required to achieve a settlement, and if they do reach a settlement the parties are not required to fulfill the requirements. ... The International Court of Justice only has jurisdiction if both parties agree. ...

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He then changed the name from the German Worker's Party to the National Socialist German Worker"s Party or the NSDAP. ... The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. ... Shooting broke out between the two parties. ... Hitler despised and overthrew all the other political parties, and the Nazis became the strongest political party. ... Hitler boasted that the Third Reich would endure for a thousand years,# and in Nazi parlance it was often referred to as "Thousand-Year Reich" (Shirer 20). ...

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Hitler received orders to join the German Workers party. ... In 1920 the Nazi party had 193 members, half were laborers. ... Hitler often refused offers he received from other political parties. ... "The Party is Hitler and Hitler's the Party." ... No party, including the National Socialist. ...

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He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stal...

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In April 1929, he felt his position as chief propagandist for the party. ... In July 1921, he became party chairman with dictorial powers. ... Like what they had when they were the Third Reich. ... This only gave the party twelve out of the 491 representatives seats. Although, Hitler succeeded in increasing his party membership and developed the organization of the party with the help of Gregor Strausser. ...

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Stalin's revolutionary career began in 1899, when he joined the Social-Democratic party as a propagandist among Tbilisi railroad workers. ... Unlike the intellectual party members, his contribution to the cause was practical, not theoretical. ... Stalin edited briefly the new party newspaper, Pravda (Truth) and at Lenin's erge wrote his first major work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. ... Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party decisions. ... Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 19...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... The N.E.P had created a large amount of friction within the party at all levels and this was beginning to cause problems for the USSR. ... It is true that the plans bought huge amounts of glory to Stalin as well as securing his ultimate power within the party, but this glory was justified by the revitalising effects of industrialisation on the soviet people and the communist ...

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Arms control is arguably one of the most prominent issues every nation of the world has to deal with, this is because every man woman and child on the planet may potentially be affected by the arms another country posses. In today's society more than ever the worry over the nuclear capability of countries is at the foreground of debate, some countries possess weapons of mass destruction a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the most notorious of which are the USA and the Soviet Union. These two countries became the s...

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He was also a founder member and the first secretary-general of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in August 1939. After a brief period, he co-founded the People's Revolutionary Party. After the Second World War, this party was named as the Socialist Party. ...

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So, the question is now, how could this one man and his political party (the Fascists) become so unbelievably popular within Italy in a post World War One era? ... At best they could be considered merely coalitions of random parties who did not always seek the same political apex. ... He founded the Fascist party within Italy and set himself up as a powerful and lively man who could "sort out" Italy's problems. ...

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Introduction As the world modernizes, the relationship between nations becomes increasingly important. Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, social, and security connections with one another. The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs focuses on establishing and maintaining beneficial U.S....

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It is of no use and always leaves a scar on both parties. ... When we pose for war as a solution, the aim becomes one, complete submission of the opposite party irrelevance to the humanity. ... Both the Soviet Union and the United States, along with their respective allies, provided significant military assistance to parties in conflict. ...

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Third, the National Assembly elections in May 1948 in South Korea that led to the establishment of a Republic of Korea and the election of Syngman Rhee as president; followed by a countermove in North Korea with the establishment of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and the appointment of Kim Il Sung as premier. ... It also was a period of political organization; Korean leftists emerged from the underground and began to rebuild their communist parties. ... Many North Koreans who did not agree with the party lines that formed during these years typically moved south and many South Korea...

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These groups are causing constant chaos, which makes it harder difficult for political parties to attempt to rebuild any infrastructure that remains after the ruling of Sadam Hussein. Thirdly, the Iraqi population has never experienced a truly democratic political system. ... First, when the elections occurred in 2005 none of the parties who ran candidates for election had the majority vote. ...

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However, in practice, the "UN and the World Court have seemed reluctant to apply the principle of self-determination beyond the formerly colonized areas of the Third World" (Wilmer, 2000: 183). ... Article 35 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that the "State Parties shall take all measure to prevent the abduction, the sale of, or traffic in children for any purpose or any form." ... Article 27 states that the "State Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, and spiritual development." ...

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In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14 years of rule by the People's Democratic Party, Kabul fell to a coalition of mujahidin under the military leadership of Ahmed Shah Massoud. ... On November 9, 1989 East Germany's Communist party leader Gunter Schabowski, said that the Berlin Wall's border would be opened for "private trips abroad". ...

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He believes the conflation of the monumental which he describes as "backward looking" as reflecting the political ideologies of the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes, as well as the association of modern architecture with liberal democracy and the social welfare state as being too simplistic. ... Architectural power was utilized as a form of propaganda by which "charismatic leadership, circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties, and interest groups, gains direct hold upon the masses". ... The reclamation of the Pontine ...

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Thirdly, Joll analyzed pre-war militarism and strategic planning. ... The determination to go to war did not emerge from domestic pressures, or one party would have opposed war as a way to weaken the other one politically. ...

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The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ... The third would be to turn to Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba, and inform him of the danger his country was in by siding with the Soviet Union. ...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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Immigration of various populations into the United States and other parts of the globe occurs as one of the topics that has and continues to be explored by various scholars. Worth noting is the fact that after the World War II, there are various factors that offered a comprehensive platform that enhanced entry of immigrants into the United States. One of the most comprehensive factors that enhanced entry into the United States is the policies that were set after that Second World War. The 1965 Immigration Act of the United States occurs as one of the most comprehensive policies enacted after t...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has ...

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There was later, in 1927, a nationalist-lead group called the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang, the Indochina Communist Party whose aim was to overthrow the French, and the rise of two religious groups who attracted nationalists support. ...

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