There is some evidence to suggest the relationship between the father and the Emperor in Otsuka's novel, and the reason why the U.S. government arrests him on purpose. ... However, is the father a real Japanese spy employed by the Emperor based on these pieces of evidence? According to the father's appearance and background information in the novel, it seems that he has a close relationship with the Emperor, but there are still numerous Japanese-Americans like him not on west coast who are not caught by the U.S. government. ... In his confession, he admits to spying on the U.S. gover...

• Word Count: 1101
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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. Many great and brilliant minds were put together to come up with a government based around, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. ... Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? ... He lives in a world that fascism rules only it has a facade of an equality based governmental system. The government is constantly at war with many other countries, an...

• Word Count: 1826
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On December 1st, the American Ambassador Grew notified the Japanese government that the gunboat would embark from Nanking on December 11th along with three Standard Oil barges. ... The Japanese government's official inquiry resulted in the claim that the Panay and the vessels in her care had been mistaken for Chinese vessels attempting to flee Nanking. ... However, the United States Government anxious to avoid war, accepted the mistake theory and Japan's apology. In 1947, the squadron leader of the Japanese dive-bombers, Commander Okumiya, spoke during Naval Institut...

• Word Count: 460
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Japanese-Canadians were interned by the Canadian government as a result of this, therefore the Canadian government was not justified in the internment of the Japanese. ... From this point onward the general public began to constantly pressure the Canadian federal government to intern all Japanese-Canadians as anti-Japanese sentiment grew. ... However, this did not stop the Canadian government from interning Japanese-Canadians in isolated internment camps located in British Columbia's interior. The actions taken were intended to be a safety preventative measure; however, that was no...

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The economy was household based, and villages were isolated from each other. ... They struck at Watutsi soldiers and civilians in an attempt to overthrow the minority government. ... Government sources erroneously claimed that Bahutus killed more than fifty thousand Watutsis. ... Two dozen Bahutu army officers were executed by orders of the Burundi government. ... The Belgian government agreed with Ambassador Melady's assessment. ...

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Today government of state related to that of other human societies. ... Today politics or government has to deal with such issues. ... There were already many suspicions before government selected KF-16 in 10 years ago, performance of planes were contrary to government's expectation too. ... There was a big problem for Korean government, which was very possible that Bush government may involve plane business with North Korea policy. ... However government dispatched troops to Iraq finally. ...

• Word Count: 2405
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The story is composed of several different allegories including elements linked with religion, government and the contrariety of intelligence and power in society. ... In this novel, an important and very effective allegory has to do with government because it relates back to the desire for power in today's society. The boys see the necessity for government so that they can keep law and order and although they have good intentions, they do not have enough insight to maintain a well governed democratic society. ...

• Word Count: 3388
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Based solely on the fact that the USSR and the United States had different forms of governments many tensions arose. ... The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. ... The U.S. government has continued a policy of convincing the American public of the great evil existing elsewhere to achieve their economic, technological and defensive objectives. ...

• Word Count: 383
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His opposition party having been eliminated in that way, his next challenge was to undermine the central government of Germany. ... In that way, the central government had begun to be undermined by his accusations that they were being controlled either by the Soviet Union, or by the Jews. ... Whether or not the groups cited by Hitler actually felt that way about the central government, however, is highly doubtful. But this was neither the first time, nor the last time, that Hitler would make direct references to Jewish control over governments. ... By equating the Jew with the government,...

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This contorts their perception of what a stable, autonomous government looks like. ... The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. According to Day (2006), the primary difficulty in achieving national unity is finding the balance between local governmental power in the hands of tribal and religious groups and the central government. ... The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. ... This will make the transition to a democratic go...

• Word Count: 3028
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A few years after Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany as the Chancellor in 1933, his Nazi Government started policies that were mainly targeting the German-Jews and others that were seen as the enemies of the Nazi regime. ... The first and most obvious one is that the trials were not going to based on the laws of one country and they all had to agree on how to move forward and conduct the trials in a more fair way to both sides, that is to let the losing side defend themselves for their action, which is what they United States of America initially wanted. ... The three types of crimes t...

• Word Count: 1281
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main issues discussed were the frontiers of a postwar Poland and its future government. ... Some members of the exile government in London to be integrated into the communist Lublin government Stalin promised to hold free elections at the end of hostilities The main issue surrounding this provisional Polish government at the Yalta Conference was its status in determining the country's political future The Soviet Union had occupied parts of Poland ever since 1944. As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, ...

• Word Count: 3287
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The Yalta agreements were based on several broad principles upon which the peace of Europe was supposed to rest. ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Churchill and Roosevelt had both agreed that they would work for the establishment of a new Polish government that represented the Polish people. ... He insisted on the communist dominated Polish Committee of National Liberation that had proclaimed itself the "provisional government of National Unity. ... It proved to be the ideological base f...

• Word Count: 2338
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Much of the information regarding the origins of the Korean War is obscure, cloudy, and vague at best, but many scholars have recently begun to draw different conclusions and hypotheses based on their research. ... Hodge, the commanding general of the American military government in Korea, was assigned to " remove Japanese imperialism, maintain order, and prepare the Koreans for eventual self governance" (Cumings 1983:107). ... Syngman Rhee returned to Korea from exile, and works were put in motion in the South to merge Rhee and another exiles including Kim Ku, with the remnants of the colon...

• Word Count: 3532
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However, only in Italy and Germany did fascist movements turn into parties and become major political forces that by their own efforts achieved governmental power. ... Democracy was either not deeply rooted or a system of government of short duration, and nationalist sentiment often ran high. ... Therefore, While Mussolini's nationalistic aspirations were based on historical fact; Hitler's were based on figments of his imagination. ... This newly created system of government (corporate state in Italy), was one of strong rule and one all-powerful leader, a Superman', who was to ...

• Word Count: 1866
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However, this deal was not endorsed by the Americans.3 The two sides quarreled over this issue for some time, with Roosevelt showing no signs of openly committing himself to accepting Soviet territorial claims.4 Stalin, who was growing impatient, began to act unilaterally to enforce his viewpoint.5 He broke off all relations with the Polish government, which had been in exile in London.6 Following this, the Soviet leader recognized the Lublin committee, a Soviet puppet government, as the official provisional government of Poland.7 Though Stalin was unquestionably out of line in his actions, o...

• Word Count: 5160
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Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 197 on the list of countries based on growth domestic product. ... The theory of democratic peace is proven through the government and actions of North Korea. ... Any opposition to the government is prohibited. Several people are routinely arrested and imprisoned, with the government frequently charging them for "subverting the State", "endangering State security" or attempting to "overthrow the "People's socialist government". ... The Internet is heavily censored, most sites that show anti-communist content, critical or...

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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. ... His discussion of propaganda and symbols is based on the idea of democracy in the United States. Schivelbusch finds parallels in the ideas, styles, and programs among the disparate regimes based in Washington D.C, Berlin, Rome, and Moscow. ... Leaders including Hitler and Roosevelt altered the typical usage of propaganda to suit the needs of thei...

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Without a hard currency and a strong economic base the Soviet Union stood to be suffocated in this new world order. ... Gorbachev's vision was to see the Soviet Union enter into the world economy with a hard currency, a strong economic base, and a limited market economy. ... Gorbachev introduced his new policies at the United Nations in December of 1988: . . . . human interests take precedence over the interests of any particular class; the world is becoming increasingly interdependent; there can be no victors in a nuclear war; security has to based on increasingly on political rather t...

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Llewellyn argues in her online blog that Hitler's success created the downfall of the Weimar Government, others may disagree, stating that the failure of the democracy ultimately lead to the succession of Hitler. The Government on its own was failing without any external pressure from Hitler and the Nazi Party, purely based on the harsh and unsympathetic terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which were released in June 1919. ... This lead to the occupation of the Ruhr Valley in 1922, leaving the German people in a complete awe as to how this new government was in any way going to restore Ger...

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The Soviets were found to have built a nuclear missile base in Cuba, just under the belly of America. ... The firm US stance eventually led the Russians to concede and dismantle their missile base. ... This led to a period of talks between the two powers, which by 1972 had culminated in the ABM treaty, setting out limits on anti- ballistic missile for an indefinite duration, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT1), which was an interim agreement for 5 years, setting limits on numbers of land and sea based missiles to those that were already in existence or under construction. ... T...

• Word Count: 1917
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He decided to take out the governments that were sponsoring terrorism and terrorist organizations. ... To control Iraq, Saddam used fear as a means to keep his government in check, the same type of terror he imposed on Iraq's populace. ... A 1992 U.S. government report estimates that Iraqi forces executed or tortured to death over 1,000 Kuwaitis during the brief occupation (Kaplan 20). ... The Salman Pak camp functions as a training base for terrorists that train in areas that range from assassination, hijacking, and even kidnapping. ... Another defector told Aviation Week and Space Techn...

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"McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ... The nation was forever fearful of communists in positions of governmental, academic, and media power. ... The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. ... Similarly, the appellant Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and was charged with "lewdly keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with ...

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Economic sanctions are an increasingly popular way of economic statecraft available to governments. ... I will look at this, based on the use of sanctions against South Africa in the apartheid years. ... De Klerk also lifted the ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups, opening the door to negotiations on political reforms between the South African government and the ANC. ... q Governments often act covertly to support the sanctioned state even as they publicly profess their support of sanctions. ... Venter, A. 1998 Government and Politics in the new South Africa. ...

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They are police governments- police state governments" Such claims may be true, but the United States should have respected the diversity of politics. ... Much of this technology was retained through the use of western spies located with the government. ... The trade was based on the beginning of the sugar export, which further lead to the Soviet Union supplying machinery such as farming equipment and then military aid. ... This Revolutionary government caused great concern among the American government, because they had 60 years of investment and trade. The Cuban government was now begin...

• Word Count: 1988
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate