... a "scientific- and "open-minded- way. I just want to rely on some details that most historical books seem to ignore or underestimate. The main question is: which factors helped the American nation (does American nation, actually exist? That's another question it keeps my mind busy for the last 10 years) become so strong and influential. Let's go back 500 years. Europe was under ... . After the result of Independence War, Americans were free to continue their march to the west. Eventually, they found themselves living in a heaven. They lived in a country practically "virgin-, their popula...

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... meant security as well as economic prosperity. Whenever I am asked in foreign countries about "German identity" (which still seems to be a favorite question outside Germany especially in American colleges and universities) I like to draw my foreign colleagues' attention to the unique German positive experience with semi-sovereignty. Positive connotations with semi-sovereignty may be one reason why ... European citizens from Germany, may well be the easiest to handle, meaning at the same time those who are most eagerly looking for a European Constitution. Germans − politicians, parties ...

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... of the curriculum as learning to count (In North Korea, learning to hate US starts with children, 2012). This system of education shows the traditional propaganda technique of stereotyping the American population as the typical 'dangerous western enemy' which is corresponded in an interview from a North Korean kindergarten principal who states 'Our children learn from an early age about the ... pointing down towards the unattractively depicted Jewish man, shows the use of the traditional propaganda technique of pin-pointing the enemy. This allows the German public to see the J...

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... Roman Catholicism in Germany. Within three years of launching the Kulturkampf, Biz also decided to introduce measures to cripple the Social Democrats who had gained political popularity amongst Germany's growing population of industrial workers. Biz saw the Social Democrats as atheistic, radical revolutionaries who sought to destroy the existing political, economic, and social system of Europe in alliance with their ... to remain as "non-political" as possible, with their non-political attitude usually clouding an authoritarian and conservative bias. In short, the German constitutional o...

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... were the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities and Alexander Graham Bell. Parallel to today's arguments, many American scientists during the 1920s and 30s enthusiastically thought that they could and should apply genetic and population science to political issues. Ideally, population engineers lead by eugenicists would determine who should be cloned or allowed to procreate (Nazi eugenic 1994; Kluger ... et al. 1997). However, the traits a culture values and finds favorable are not fixed; these traits change with the nature of the economy and technology as well as fashion. For ...

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... of these same subjects are being addressed with therapeutic abortions and genetics counseling. In America, breeding for a better race was supported. For example, the Pioneer Fund, an American eugenics foundation, proposed that American pilots should be encouraged to have more children by paying them stipends. They believed that pilots of the U.S. Army are especially valuable, that they should procreate and not ... inferior members of American people ("Nazi Eugenic"). This idea of creating a group of better soldiers has been one of the theoretical uses of cloning also. Parallel to the arg...

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... and conflicting interests prevented the Big Three from reaching a compatible agreement. The Soviet Union needed security, especially in Eastern Europe, to eliminate the threat posed by Germany. American feared another economic depression and required the European market. With the Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe the US might loose the market. Therefore, the United States sought free flow ... , the Big Three pledged to help the liberated peoples, where they judged the requisite conditions existed, "To form interim governmental authorities broadly representative of all democratic element...

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... excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the misdistribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize. The large and growing disparity of wealth between the rich and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. For an economy to function properly, total demand ... to causing the disparate distribution of wealth was tariff policy of the United States. The United States had traditionally placed tariffs on imports from foreign countries in order to...

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... Plan. The Second World War left Europe in hunger, misery, unemployment and a housing crisis. The income for most people was largely destroyed, and a deep depression spread among the population. At the war's end, not only did the economy of the countries lie in ruins; the entire framework of the European economies had been upset by the war and its ... necessary funding. This program of aid, called the "GARIOA Program" (Government and Relief in Occupied Areas), covered part of the urgent import needs. The funds approved by the American Congress assured the German population's food require...

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... 14% of Polish immigrants, compared with 39% of people born in the U.S. were under age 25. Immigrants have historically made up a substantial proportion of the American population. In 1991, for example, 16% of the population was immigrants. The immigrant population, however, is very diverse; immigrants come from a wide variety of countries and as a result have different histories, cultures and economic backgrounds. Some famous immigrants ... from Poland are; Kazimierz Pulaski who was the father of American Cavalry, Walery Goetel who was an ecologist, geologist, and conservationist, and M...

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... to malnutrition and starvation which was due to the blockade. The German government had to set food rationing to provide enough for the population. The blockade was also very effective in cutting off supplies of nitrates, which were vital for the production of both explosives and fertilizers ... their rations were choked. In consequence, the German army was severely destabilized. The naval blockade was crippling Germany and with the inevitable arrival of American troops, it was about to be beaten. Erich Ludendorff , the quartermaster General devised one last assault against the Allies to...

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... The attack also got the United States into World War II. The slogan "Remember Pearl Harbor" helped boost the morale of the population. American participation was an important reason why the Allied nations defeated the Axis nations, which were headed by Japan and Germany. Japan wanted ... Roosevelt told Americans they should avenge Pearl Harbor. He said "Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history." At the time of the attack, Nazi Germany had taken over much of Europe. The U.K. and the Soviet Union provided the main resistance...

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... natural expansion of the Reich occur. This was further elaborated in chapter IV where Hitler asserted that "Germany has an annual increase in population of almost 900,000 souls." Feeding "this new Army of citizens" would prove to be increasingly difficult unless Germany took corrective measures. ... Hitler set forth four probable policies on solving this population dilemma: birth control, internal colonization, expansion of export industries, or " the acquisition of new land and soil." Hitler rejected the first three ... in 1917 with the almost total collapse of the French army. Had it ...

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... "Any aspect of human culture or environment can act as a barrier, separating populations from each other (Heikki 1)." The Worlds population is now broken up into four main groups: The Australoid include; Australian aborigines, Veddahs of Ceylon, the pre-Dravidian people of India, and a small ... Africa, Asia, and India. The Mongoloid centers around the Pacific Ocean and includes the Malayan, northern and southern Chinese, Mongolian, Siberian, Eskimo, and American Indian. The Negroid is found in the western, central, and southern parts of Africa. This group includes; Melanesians and Papu...

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... essentially fascism plus racism. Fascism is a government system in which the government, specifically a single dictator, takes complete control of a country and it's population; the goal is having everyone submit to their country's ruling in order to rule the world. A fascist government does not tolerate any questioning of the ... most powerful Reich. He justified expanding beyond Germany's territorial boundaries by the need for Lebensraum, living space, to support an ever-increasing dominant German population. Hitler's dream of a third Reich would require a racial purity that rapidly gre...

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... her mother suffer, just as she had. The town was a small community, and because of that everyone seemed to know of Sethe's past. She is outcast from the population, and viewed on as evil for killing her daughter. Once Paul D. finds out about her history, her too reacts like the town with disgust and confusion. He doesn't ... such a horrible crime, and leaves her because of it. In Alice Walker's essay, "Looking for Zora", she tells a story about a woman who lived in a small, mostly African-American town. She is a very well educated woman, who is well liked by the townspeople. She leads a...

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... for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade due to his losses inflicted by the RAF o He mistakenly concentrated his air force upon London and other population centers instead of important military targets January 6, 1941 Four Freedoms Speech June 22, 1941 Germany invades Russia (OPERATION BARBAROSSA) o Bad idea for Germany because they are now fighting a 2-front war ... a decisive defeat for the Japanese navy December 8, 1941 Germany declares war on the United States o Hitler needlessly involves US in the European Theater and underestimates the producti...

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... was Germany's announcement of an unrestricted submarine warfare. It was a warning to everyone out on the oceans; they would be sunk by German submarines. On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, an American ship was sunk by the Germans. These two events persuaded President Wilson to declare war on Germany. At the same time, U.S. citizens back in the states contributed to make it ... possible for America to hang in a war. Also, rural population was beyond the city's population. Because of this, the unemployment rate decreased greatly because so much work was available since the U.S. needed manufac...

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... 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped, then later on August 9 the second bomb was dropped. It was then when Japan surrendered to the U.S. After the bomb was dropped, the American population was happy the war ended. Americans were tired by atrocities, privations and bombardments, and they didn't know the dreadful effects of atomic bombs. That poll showed that senior citizens still ... scientists built the atomic bomb. If they hadn't, Hiroshima and Nagasaki would never have been destroyed. The bombing of Japan didn't respect the conventions signed twenty years before about civil popul...

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... sorrow for the Jews. He demonstrates great courage and tolerance when he takes the Jews in to work for him. He is going against the majority of the population by doing so, but he really doesn't care. He doesn't see the Jews as anything less than human beings. When he looks at them, he sees ... you perceive people. In "Night," it is obvious that people are based entirely on the fact that the people of Germany blame their problems on the part of the population that was not German. I think, that in this situation, the country should have united, rather than split. I think that if all Germans...

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... of a process aimed toward social separation of the Jewish people. World War II was precipitated by Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939, resulting in the Third Reich's control of a population of nearly 1.3 million Jews. Concentration camps were a direct result of the invasion, as the Germans needed a way to deal with all the newly acquired Jews. In addition to more concentration ... anti-semantic laws being adopted. The situation of the Jewish people in Germany at the time seemed nearly identical to the Jim Crow laws that the African-American people in the United States also f...

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... the devastating effects of the crash such as poverty and radical politics whereas other countries history was to be made because of it. The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... . Unemployment figures dramatically increased leaving millions in a state of poverty. The effects of unemployment were widespread throughout the world, affecting 14 million workers in American, 6 million in Germany and 2.7 million in Great Britain. Middle class families were forced to sell their homes, if ...

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... watched as religion changed and molded modern day civilizations. For example, Martin Luther founded the Lutheran religion and this religion still inhabits more than a third of the German population (at least a third of the population that still claims to have a religious belief). In the United States, it's unnatural to claim that there is no god, no god of any kind. Atheist beliefs ... , taking care of family, and other daily responsibilities. The big difference between the U.S and Germany is the fact that women in Germany are over worked and under paid. Unlike the American women who hav...

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... sent over a wire, it was clear that electricity would produce a much better system of communication than ever before. The signals sent over a wire were developed into the telegraph, which the American Samuel Morse improved. Before long, Morse code, developed by the same Samuel Morse, was being used to send signals everywhere. The world was being strung with telegraph wires and undersea ... transition tp a greater extent that any other nation, had a winning combination - large amounts of coal and iron, along with a growing population. It would industrialize more than any other nation on ...

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... openly and under an agreed and legally accepted policy. The potential for abuse is vast in an unregulated and underhanded system" (Bernards 69) For example, In Holland 90% of the population supports euthanasia but the policy has become relaxed. One in five cases of euthanasia in Holland occurred without the patient's explicit request, and in 17% of such cases, alternative treatment ... pessimistic enough is to reduce the probability of such extraordinary recoveries from low to zero." (Bernards 71) Finally, there would be an increased fear of hospitals and doctors. The general American p...

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