The declaration of war with Japan affected many people in America in a number of ways. ... She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. ... Ira was also praised by another group of people, his tribe in Arizona. ... America celebrated the people who helped win the war, while not forgetting who fought against U.S. soldiers. ... Japanese Americans were able to return home, but were still considered a lesser people. ...

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This organisation encouraged women to go out and hand white feathers to able men who were not fighting for their country. ... Another argument against the white feathers came from a Compton McKenzie. He argued that these "idiotic young women were using white feathers to get rid of boyfriends of whom they were tired". ... The above quote was one of the first slogans from the people's war. ... The campaign opened with the following poster (pg 43 persuading the people). ...

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They affected many people emotionally and physically. ... Alexander Butterfield, a former White House official, testified in July 1973 that Nixon had taped conversations in his office. ... The White House said that two subpoenaed conversations had never been taped. ... White House officials and Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, gave confusing testimony on how the gap might have occurred. ... It opened many doors for other people to follow. ...

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Art is a medium that allows people to express their thoughts and feelings on various world issues affecting citizens today through the use of descriptive paintings and drawings. ... This is why the pigskin used in Bind is so symbolic – it is used to represent the lies society feeds to people. ...

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During this decade a belief in the tightening of ties between Britain and her colonies of white settlement was widely favored as one of ensuring Britain's survival as a great power. ... He was an ardent imperialist, who advocated, " economic development of the empire, the education of its peoples as to its value, and the promotion of political unity."" ... Over the course of the about fifty years Dutch, German and French Huguenot settlers, the ancestors of the Afrikaner of Boer people, arrived at the Cape and found a colony whose economy was based on cereal farming, viticulture and...

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Garraty argues that Nazi and New Deal anti depression policies bear striking similarities, and because the systems were perceived to be so fundamentally different his comparison is expository of how people handled the crisis. ... Garraty suggested similarities between the two systems were: having a strong leader, an ideology stressing the nation, the people, the land, the state control of economic and social affairs, and the quality and quantity of government propaganda. ... According to Schivelbusch, monumentality consists of the eternal need for the people to create symbols that reveal their...

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He learned how to evaluate and exploit the mentality of the marginal people , the Lumpenprotetariat. ... He would go on believing that these were the working class people of Germany. ... He then made a statement that would forever change his life and the lives of people throughout the world... He continually stressed that the German people were racially superior and the "lower classes" were here to serve the superior white Europeans. ... He then went on to say that the people of Germany needed to eliminate Communism, humanism, and Bolshevism. ...

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Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... As a result, responsibility fell upon the black and northern white youths to effect a real change. ... In both instances, under one ruling, the court, consistent with the sexually conservative morals of the time ruled in favor of the government, stating: "The protection given speech and press was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people but implicit in the history of the Firs...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new Bolshevik government. ... In January of 1919, Lenin and Trotsky sent Stalin into Siberia to stop a major White advance westward, led by the former Tsarist officer Admiral Kolchak. ... Petersburg) in order to stop a White offensive from Estonia (which co...

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World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. ... The United Nations is creating new patterns of interaction among people and states, promising unprecedented opportunities for material progress in larger freedom, but also threatening to compound many existing challenges before the international community. ... For many people, the U.N. is simply a large building in New York City. ... It is a rather interesting organization that represents the more than six billion people on Earth. ... Some 20...

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Worth mentioning is a fact that at that time people started to talk about the beginning of a New Cold War. ... In revenge the White House canceled the summit Obama-Putin which was planned to take part in September. ...

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It is the right of the people of the nation to determine their own government. ... "It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war,'' Wilson declared in his war message (Leckie 629). ... Many people in the U.S. favored the war, but many people opposed it believing there was no need for us to interfere with European affairs. ... People bought billions of dollars worth of bonds known as Liberty Bonds to help pay for the war (Raynor, 92) Many blacks also signed up to fight in order to show patriotism. ... They also moved to predominately white neighborhoods and f...

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Truman was overtly aware that the people of the United States rallied behind his doctrine, and wanted any and every nation to have a choice in their political happenings; however, he was also aware that the people of the United States were tired of war, and especially war for European benefit. ... Truman did by avoiding military action, using airlifts, while still aiding in some manner the people of Berlin was create a nice balance that would win him reelection. ... The decision on the part of Truman to stay in Berlin and airlift the supplies to the people of Berlin was a significant point i...

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Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. ... As a result, many people became unemployed; these people were looking for someone to blame. ... Hitler used this to his advantage by tricking the German people into believing his views. ... He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). ... When the people applauded the Bavarian Truimvirate ...

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History There is an old folklore that I remember from childhood, of how the Korean people came into being. ... Millions of people were left homeless and casualties were estimated at 2 million people . ... Also, Korean people tend to judge by appearance. ... People who smoke and drink alcohol will be surprised how low the prices are. ... When most people hear of Korea, the first thing that comes to mind is the Korean War. ...

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Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. ... These terms recognized the government that Soviet occupants had imposed upon Poland, as legitimate and left no basis for how any voice from the Polish people regarding their political future would be heard. ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Easte...

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Terrorism kills innocent people, hurts the economy, and threatens the globe with biochemical warfare. ... When fully occupied, there were over 150,000 people in the buildings. ... The building was evacuated, as were other federal buildings in the Capitol, including the White House. ... There are very few people throughout the United States who do not have some knowledge of the Pentagon. ... However, relatively few people have had the opportunity to visit the Pentagon (Richardson, 5C).The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense in Washington, DC. ...

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.; and the year when the conflict between two schools of psychiatric treatment, transorbital lobotomy operation and psychoanalysis with pharmacy therapy, gradually turned white-hot. ... Undeniably, Laeddis is insane, but many places in the movie are trying to inspire us to think twice of this problem: who is actually insane, Laeddis who has a strong desire for justice or the so called "normal people" who are indifferent with the violence in the world? ... " Similar to the so-called "normal people" feel horror at those criminally insane, they are at the same time afrai...

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Less than two weeks after taking office, Truman met with the Soviet Foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov at the White House. ... Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause of a possible next World War. ... Truman said, "I believe it must be the policy of the U.S to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." ...

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In other words, they are talking about victors" justice and trying to demoralize the people. ... To many people that lived in the Eastern half of Germany nothing changed. ... Some people would argue that Stalin was worse than Hitler, but that is a completely different story. ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... The German people began to come restless to see what was going to happen to them. ...

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People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Plato even said "Only the dead have seen the end of war," 3 and Cummings emphasizes this thought by showing that despite our many warnings by people who we accept as profound thinking, we still continue our ignorance until death. ...

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"4 Some scholars such as Seymour Lipset state that exceptionalism refers only to America as a unique nation but not necessarily a better one.5 Whereas others such as Ceaser feel that packed into exceptionalism is the belief that the American people have a mission to better the world and spread their greater way of life.6 For my essay I went with the definition provided by Ian Tyrell ; "American exceptionalism refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty.... ", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic...

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Clayton, coming across as a Whig in his writings on the French decolonization, implies that the rise of nationalism is perhaps a progressive step towards freedom for the peoples of the colonies. Due to the mistakes of the French and their ignorant, laid back attitude towards the rise of nationalism, people were able to make progress in breaking away from the Empire and gaining self-governance in order to form their own destinies and choices. While it can be considered that this perhaps was an unwise move from the colonies, like Indochina, the problem seems to stem from the French with their us...

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It was from here, the first bipolar world, that people began to place more and more importance on the power of individual countries in a world spectrum. ... In the words of Dean Acheson "The great thing which creates purchasing power is people if the people can develop their own countries, they will become an increasing market for all goods including our own"2 Also Western Europe appeared open to influence by the USSR. ... "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed majorities or by outside pressures. ...

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However unlike French Black Africa there were people here who supported the war in Europe and actually signed up, this helps explain the large number of men who served for France. ... The Germans had a defense here of about 10,000 men, while against that the South Africans were able to come up with a force of 50,000 white men backed up by 33,000 black men . ...

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