... in. Saar was home to the richest coal mine in the country .German soldiers where also banned form the Rhineland another rich industrial part of Germany. Germany's fishing waters were also restricted. All of the land Germany had taken over the years had to be given back. Germany were not allowed to join the league of nation which is like the United Nations today. The war leaders of Germany were ... put on trail and faced the heaviest penalties. The American and English Prime Ministers of the time thought the treaty was extremely harsh on the Germans, but the French just wanted revenge ......

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... countries engaged in nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. 1The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the CIA, which attempted to overthrow the "Castro Regime". It failed miserably. This invasion gave the Soviets an excuse to begin shipping arms to Cuba in 1961. The Russian President(Premier) had given the order to send the equipment to start building nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba. 2The United States government ... knew that the arms were being shipped into Cuba, but they ... ...

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"How successful was the League in the 1920's?" Order of the Leagues objectives: • to improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world • to encourage nations to disarm • to discourage aggression from any nation • to encourage countries to co-operate, especially in business and trade During the 1920's the League of Nations was thought of as a relative success. However, upon thorough re-examination, it has been ... Conference in 1921, Britain, France, USA and Japan all agreed to limit the sizes of their navies. This seemed to indicate that a treaty through th...

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... damaged the aims and methods of the league. The failure of the disarmament conference in 1934, the 1931 invasion of Manchuria, the Stresa font in 1935 and the Hoare-Laval plan all seriously damaged the aims of the league. In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria and took over the country. The league sent representatives by sea to ... investigate as they did not think it was important enough to rush. The league decided that the invasion was illegal but Japan ignored the league and nothing was done to stop it. The Manchurian invasion highlighted the fact that the league of nations had no teeth. Thi...

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... in great numbers. Women in their hundreds and thousands took on work, some of this was traditionally men's jobs. This kept the Australian industries going. During World War II women made up to 40% of the working force in factories. By October in 1942 the were over half a million women working in Australian industries. Their working hours were long, and often they had heavy working ... do the same job. By 1950 women earned only 75% of the male rate of pay for the same work. This started to concern trade unions that women were paid lower then men, and fear that employees would keep women ...

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... . This split in ideology drove to the development of the 'two camps theory', which was that the world split along the lines of the two ideologies. The Tehran War Conference where the 'Big Three' – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met to discuss issues focusing on military matters in Europe. One of the main outcomes was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. This second front ... a significant event in world history portraying the tensions that arose between the former allies. The superpowers of the US and the USSR came forwa...

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... June 28th 1919 and the formation of the League of Nations were thought to be the two ground-breaking events that would idealistically end war and bring an everlasting peace to the world. Even with the covenant of the League in place, war broke out in 1937 after other blatant acts of aggression by Japan, Italy and Germany. The League may have failed in the sense that it ... . A conflict involving Greece and Bulgaria occurred in 1925 where shots were fired, but the League was able to resolve the situation by having the Greek troops withdraw from Bulgaria and pay damages. The League did hav...

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... seen as their attempts to downsize the power of the Turks in that area and was not looked upon favourably by the great powers. Self-determination proved to be an assisting cause of the break down of the system of alliances in Europe. Although there were many contributing factors to the outbreak of war, the main ones can be seen as being the breakdown of the system of alliances. The alliances had worked up ... until that stage and there was no reason for them to fail, but the mounting tension between nations and the ... ...

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... the few people in this world who greatly incorporates and has acted on this belief is the Dalai Lama. In every aspect, he represents a true leader, one who has translated a vision into a reality. A true leader has the courage to make tough decisions, the confidence to stand alone, and most importantly, the compassion to listen to the needs of others. The ... Dalai Lama may not have set out to be a leader, but because of the quality of his actions and the ... integrity of his intent, he has become one of the ... made major contributions towards the preservation of the Tibetan identity a...

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... arrangements, South people rose against Sudanese government and the second civil war took place.1 This paper will examine the causes of the South Sudan and Sudan conflict, followed by analysis of the resolutions to the conflict and detailed examinations of possible solutions. Causes There are a numbers of contributing factors to the ignition of the Sudanese conflict: geographical and ethnographical.2 The basis of conflict is long-standing ethnic discord between two worlds of ... 2011. UN involvement in the conflict became essential in order to support Comprehensive Peace Agreement. UN S...

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... their priority when they passed the resolution. That is at least worrying. Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, and after reaffirming once more the previous resolutions, the SC established a programme known as the Oil-For-Food Programme. It was intended to help the suffering to the Iraqi people caused by international sanctions and it consisted in exporting oil to finance humanitarian aid to the country. Iraq was allowed to sell $2bn of oil every ... find useful an institution of such features. Anything above sovereign states has no real power. Iraq's conflict clearly reflects th...

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... -General of the UN is Kofi Annan. He was born in Ghana, on the 8th of April 1938, and assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya and the UN's security council concerning responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in 1999 and ... Palestinian hard - liners. For over a year now, his most prominent concern has been the lead-up to and helping his organisation cope with war in Iraq. While remaining strictly neutral in the con...

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... in three decades of pervasive fear. The United States and Soviet Union were destined to be enemies from the start because of a fundamental difference "in the ways the great powers envisioned the postwar world."" Prior to the Cold War, the two powers were allies and worked together to defeat Hitler and the Nazi Party. Ironically, Stalin was very similar to Hitler himself, and an alliance with the United States was highly improbable based on ... that an attack against one member is an attack against all. After the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union created its own communist alliance in E...

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... for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory, or of racial and national allegiance." If only it could have been that simple. Collective security depends on principles that proved difficult to uphold during the League of Nations lifetime. In order to make it work, the balance of power needs to be diffused, there needs to be an acceptance of the status quo, and there ... . If the country that "coined" the idea of the countries of the word coming together to solve their disputes did not want to involve themselves in the League, what hope did it have? As well...

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... 150 countries, in six regional offices with the headquarters located in Geneva. All decisions for the WHO are made by the World Health Assembly. Each year, this group of delegates from 194 states around the world meet up in their headquarters and discuss on the best policies WHO has to offer. The inputs of all these membered states is crucial to the policies because of their varying backgrounds in ... are more likely to solve epidemics in their local areas by reaching out to those countries that might have gone through similar problems or that are going through similar problems at the sa...

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... unfairly. Their mother nation was across an ocean had sparse, if any, representation in the colonies. This of course sparked the move towards freedom led by the founding fathers of the United States and the recognition thereof by the mother country, England. Thereafter for nearly 120 years after the birth of this new and for a while unprosperous nation left a thorn in England's side ... each other, having been at odds for such a long period. The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. With a sinister feeling that the US should remain ...

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... ,it collapsed because of its bad foundation,and its internal problems.The problems and system had been the cause of the one's own downfall.But West only affected the accelaration of the collapse.I will argue and show how poverty and economical problems ,lack of freedom and despotism affected the collapse as internal reasons and the location of west on this reasons as a destructive. In U.S.S.R because of communist regime ... giving jobs,that had no meaning and did nothing,to citizens because of laws.This jobs were a burden to economy,and from these jobs State couldn't get any production o...

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... , Fascists ruler Benito Mussolini took power after promising to restore order to Italian states. In Germany, the Nazis became increasingly powerful by taking large but legal steps towards Chancellorship. By 1933, the Germany Parliament had been dissolved, Hitler had been made the president and chancellor of Germany, and the Nazis were by far the most popular political party in Germany. Hitler joined the Nazis after WWI and become their seventh member ... experiences Roosevelt made pland for what is now called the United Nations to solve international problems. In 1945 the war was finally...

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... in 1945. The IMF's job is to uphold global growth and economic stability by giving aid to developing countries so they can achieve macroeconomic stability and reduce poverty. The IMF provides alternate sources of financing. The two primary functions were to oversee the fixed exchange rate arrangements between countries and to provide short term capital to aid balance of payments. The IMF was also intended to help mend the international economy to prevent economic downfall ... , since the Great Depression ... ...

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... entered the war. At the time Dulles was a special advisor to the Secretary of State Acheson. Dulles was in Tokyo when the Koreans staged war. Dulles sent a message to Acheson that if the South Koreans start losing and cannot hold back the North Koreans, they should send in United States forces. He said to do so, "even though this risks Russian counter moves. To sit by while Korea is overrun by unprovoked ... armed attack would start a disaster chain even leading most probably to World War III." ... When Dulles got back to Washington he specified ... ...

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... for agriculture, ranching, and fuel gathering are all responsible for the destruction. Their greatest threat is acid rain pollution, which is already severely affecting large areas of the conifer forests of northeast North America and Europe. Solutions include the development of alternative fuel wood supplies through fuel wood plantations, the regulation of logging, and a consensus as to the value of forest conservation over commercial development. Overgrazing and firewood ... plant and animal species represents a major conservation concern. Habitat loss, especially in tropical forest a...

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... taking over from the north is bias, but saying that the UN should go into Korea to stop nuclear war is not. After the north invades the south, but before the United Nations decide to go into Korea, the USA has already agreed to send forces in. Imagine for a minute that the UN voted against using military action in Korea and the USA was pushing the north Koreans back all by themselves. Soon after ... pushing the north back, china ... gets scared and allies with the north Koreans. The ... ...

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... areas escalates. The UN provides help to countries in need such as giving food and medicine to member country on the right to vote on decidions which will affect them. To safeguard peace and stability, the UN helps member countries to settle disputes peacefully. The UN is most successful in providing aid to members who are in trouble as she is able to harness resources such as food and medicine donated by its many ... members from the developed world and other organisations. However ... ...

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... was originally an attempt to replicate (but reform) the failed League of Nations set up in a similar world climate of post-war devastation both politically, economically and socially. It may be said that bringing an organisation into existence in such turbulent times will lead to instability and can cut short its effective life span as it struggles to adapt to the changing world. One ... fundamental criticism of the United Nations has been simply that, ... There is of course another side to the argument, despite the fact that the UN was severely undermined as it failed to deal effective...

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... You could think of the federation as a large-scale, successful version of the United Nations. Humans have fleets of starships that travel at warp speeds to go where "no one has gone before" to seek out new life and new civilizations. The federation is also governed by the Prime Directive, a document that the founders of the federation created to make sure that the evolution of species and ... unadvanced civilizations was not interfered with in any way. The ideals that Star Trek has created are motivating ... . When I come to a predicament in life, I think what would ... ...

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