... workforce, which meant colleges would experience growth, just like the rest of the economy. The computer was becoming a device that would start to enter homes within several years, and silicone "chips- would start to replace big, bulky vacuum tubes used in older computers. This invention made the home computer possible ... the suburbs once again, and this time the move was on a much larger scale. This movement was held back by one thing, a lack of housing. This would have to be dealt with in a fast manner, but the homes still had to be high quality. This posed a relatively major problem....

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Japanese Internment Camps What were they? Internment camps were permanent detention camps that held internees from March 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. There were ten different relocation centres, which were scattered all over the interior West, in isolated ... war hysteria. This was especially strong along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes and businesses. Leaders in California, Oregon and Washing...

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... number of beheadings. Everyone from the common foot soldier to the highest-ranking General both committed and encouraged these beheadings. In fact, two officers actually held a competition for who could behead the most Chinese. The winner of this competition received a hefty check and a lot of reputation. Also, women ... the following chapters. History In 1928, the Chinese Nationalist Government moved the capital of China from Peking (Beijing) to Nanking. The city normally held about 250,000 people, but by the mid-1930s its population had swollen to more than 1 million. Many of them were ...

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... living across from a Benedictine monastery whose prime symbol in its coat of arms was the swastika. The swastika became one of Hitler's favorite symbols and he held on to it his whole life. The personality of Hitler began to develop when he was a teenager. He entered into a secondary school where he did quite ... if we were living like royalty. The people of Germany were starving and Hitler promised to bring them food. They were homeless, and he promised them homes. They had no means of transportation, and he promised them automobiles. All this would be given to them if they offered him ...

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... a target of discrimination. The fear spread as time went on and eventually leaders in California, Oregon, and Washington Ritzert 2 demanded that all residents of Japanese ancestry be removed from their homes along the coast and relocated because of the possibility of their connection with Japanese intelligence. As a result of this pressure, on February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ... United States (Noe, Michael). One hundred and twenty thousand men, woman, and children were forced to sell their property, businesses, and homes. They were moved into internment...

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... Reform Bill. For example during the war it was debated whether or not a general election was going to be held, this was a problem because most of the men who qualified as householders, with twelve months continuous residence at a given address, had left their homes to fight or work in another part of the country. Therefore the cabinet had to spend a lot of ... women gaining the vote in 1918. They proved that they could be reliable in a time of crisis and that they loved and respected their country enough to give up their homes and go to strange places and use machines they had never eve...

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... . Elie's father, Chlomo, was respected by all and sought for advice quite often. His words were always helpful and brought hope into the homes of his followers. Elie himself was very proud of his father for who he was, although Chlomo wasn't at home to help his own ... time again, showing us how basic human dynamics outweighed the propaganda shoved down the throats of the respective militaries ("Illusion"). Special interest prisoners were held in higher regards as well. Any prisoner who had something unique to offer the Germans were taken care of. The young boys who were molested ... sur...

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... ancestry to sell their belongings and report to assembly points on specified days. Most were given two weeks to sell their homes and possessions. Some were given less. Neighborhood people acted as scavengers and offered outrageously low prices for the Japanese homes, businesses, cars, and other personal belongings. They knew the Japanese Americans were being forced to leave so they couldn't get ... those people seventy seven thousand of them were United States citizens, the rest were Issie, people of Japanese ancestry that weren't born in the United States. The Japanese Americans were h...

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... and the West (communist) made no direct military conflict for the most part because of the reciprocated fear of nuclear warfare. The Cold War held military peace in Europe for almost 50 years. During the Cold War there were many major events including: The Berlin Blockade (1948), The Korean ... country and became more bitter than ever. More and more Soviet forces covered Hungary's land, seizing railways, and bombarding cities where the rebels held out. Thousands of these Hungarians were jailed of killed as a result of the fighting. Many Hungarians fled into neighboring Austria. They conti...

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... were produced. However, the high amounts of production did not mean farmers would become wealthy. The supply increased, however the demand was unchanged, hence prices were low. Farmers lost their homes and farms. In short, the farming industry did not gain an excessive amount of benefits from a so-called prosperous era. The Roaring Twenties was a fabulous decade outlined by a booming economy ... . There were several causes to this awkward distribution of income and wealth between U.S. and its European counterparts. Most obvious is that fact that World War I had devastated European busine...

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... author does a great job on describing the tough times the Japanese had returning into society. After the Japanese were released from these camps and allowed to return to their homes, America still held a fear and hatred towards these people. Jeanne does a great job describing how hard it was for her to return back into society, and how the people she had known ... camps were not death camps, but they made Japanese Americans live in harsh living conditions because America was afraid of these people. The government divided families, removed them from their homes and lives, and forced them...

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... most infamous persecution of the Jews occurred in the 1940's in Germany in association with World War II. Millions of Jews were killed during this time. The Nazi party was held responsible for this persecution. When the economy in Germany started to fall apart, everyone was looking for a scapegoat. Adolf Hitler made it clear in his book Mein Kampf that he ... gas chambers. This movie was very disturbing although it probably did not even depict half of the terror that occurred during the Holocaust. The Jews were run out of their homes and moved into ghettos by the Nazi party, where they ...

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Over a million people were bombed and driven from their homes. Hundreds of thousands killed. This all took place in the early ninety's in Bosnia because the Serbs ( ) were trying to wipe out any existence or physical evidence of any non-Serbs every living in Bosnia. The United States and Nato should be held responsible for the carnage in Bosnia. They did nothing to ... flood of Bosnian refugees because of the ethnic cleansing that was on the verge of being a Serb and Croat dominated country, with Muslims on the outside looking in, Western Europe held meetings on June 1993 to coordinate tighte...

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... revolutionizing values and ideals it is no wonder they made as big an impact on the society and decade as they did. This uprise of the younger generation can be held accountable for their part in the conflicts of the 20's. With women winning the right to vote many politicians realized they had to appeal to women as well as men ... younger generation. With both women and men smoking, tobacco industries began producing sexier ads that featured flappers to promote their products. The Freudian doctrine brought the word sex into many homes of the younger generation. This would help to bring ...

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... for Europe in the winter of 1939, as Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. Using his father's connections, JFK was able to stay in ambassadors' homes for the majority of his trip, and he sent detailed reports to Joe Sr. from every stop. JFK's most prescient observation came in Poland, ... curb civil liberties, but in general, he voted with the Wisconsin senator on most issues. Nevertheless, it is difficult to blame JFK--McCarthy held immense influence for a time, and he attracted strong support among the working class Irish Catholics who had voted JFK into the Senate in the ... JFK's ...

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... and his notorious work camps. Stalin's work camps were so repulsive and deadly that Hitler modeled his own concentration camps after them. Joseph Stalin held an iron tight grip on his country and he was obsessed with the possibility of losing that choke hold. He imagined that everyone, from the ... trial and found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government (Purge 2). This very hypocritical action was never noticed by the Russian public, since the trial was held in secret (Purge 2). For the next year and a half everything seemed to stop as quickly as it started and the remaining Bol...

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... Washington D.C. in 1969. 40,000 people gathered at the Arlington Cemetery and marched through the city. 3 and ½ hours later the crowd grew to over 500,000 people who held antiwar demonstrations. Thousands held up a "V- sign that came to mean peace. It was the largest demonstration ever during the war. Many of the men who were opposed to the war grew out their ... of them were basically ignored when they got home. Many people said that since they fought in the war they weren't welcome back. Now the government has set up many homes for veterans and hospitals to treat any illnesses that w...

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... times as many as after the First World War (Mazower 214). Many Jews, some 220,000 from Eastern Europe moved westwards unwilling or unable to go back: their pre-war homes were generally occupied by others, their possessions gone (Mazower 215)."" Families were destroyed and searches turned up nothing. Lives were ruined by the war and this left the people of ... deep fault-lines in the unity of the European nation. At this time, the Allied powers were very concerned with preserving Germany as a state (Salvestrini, Presentation). The Potsdam Conference was held from 17 July 1945 through 2 A...

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... Washington D.C. in 1969. 40,000 people gathered at the Arlington Cemetery and marched through the city. 3 and ½ hours later the crowd grew to over 500,000 people who held antiwar demonstrations. Thousands held up a "V- sign that came to mean peace. It was the largest demonstration ever during the war. Many of the men who were opposed to the war grew out their ... of them were basically ignored when they got home. Many people said that since they fought in the war they weren't welcome back. Now the government has set up many homes for veterans and hospitals to treat any illnesses that w...

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... . The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Most of the youth in Germany were raised in fatherless homes. Hitler, being the corrupt opportunist that he was, capitalized on this state of affairs. Hitler was able to influence this segment of the population and hold them in allegiance to ... , and Communists were agents of the Jewish conspiracy. Internationalism and pacifism were Jewish ideas intended to destroy Germany as the stronghold of Western (Aryan). WHAT IS PROPAGANDA? The most generally held concept of propaganda is that ...

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... directed the Fourth Division of the association. "Wives and family members have been trying to keep it operating, but they just can't do it. People are winding up in nursing homes and intensive care units" (Lovett). Harry Kerr, another survivor and director of the Southeast chapter, said, "We just ran out of gas, that's what it amounted to. We felt we ... ). Another Pearl Harbor survivor, Lee Soucy, will not be able to make it to the ceremony as he passed away recently at the age of 90. However, a special ceremony was held earlier in the week. Soucy requested that his ashes be placed wit...

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... accidentally carried to Europe with the American forces. The disease spread rapidly through the trenches in Europe. The exact number of deaths is unknown, but it could most definitely be held accountable for many of the deaths throughout Europe during the war. The experiences of the war lead to a sort of national trauma afterwards for all the participating countries. The optimism ... such a thing should happen here, you would not blame me for a feeling of pride. Perhaps some will say that you should not be allowed to go yet - that you have homes, mothers, fathers, that you should not be...

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... did not have a lot of mobility and were put at a level in society that was not very high,but war changed that for them. War took them out of their homes were they have been in for all in their lives . During world war II women were asked to work out side as well as inside of the home. This step ... still got paid $31.21 for the same job..."(12/Zeiert). In America " women volunteered in factory jobs worked in building that fix aircraft, tanks and armament factory jobs once held by men who were called away to fight in the war."(12). With these doors opening up for women a lot problems sta...

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... one's home soil, one tends to be scared, as a civilian; they have a right to be."" (Hadawi 20). When the Palestinians tried to return, the Israelis were occupying their farms and homes. This is the first instance of where America both has backed the Israelis in doing something morally wrong, and started the anti-American sentiment. The foreign policy had failed in ... the self-defense treaty, saying Israel may not attack unless attacked. There was no reprimand of Israel, except the U.S delayed the delivery of 4 fighter jets to Israel. The delay only held back the delivery by 7 days (CQ ...

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... to this procedure but the fact that many did is an astounding implication on how assumptions can affect lives. Women also lost much of the status that they had previously held in the agrarian society. They were no longer essential to the family economy that they had been (Epstein/Easton 89). This was a major loss for women. Finally, there is the ... provide the goods and services needed both over seas and domestically. The government helped by providing benefits to ex-soldiers that allowed them to go to school and to purchase homes. More importantly though, the government also legislate...

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