... was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war. Apart from the fact that Japan had been suing for a peaceful end to the war, there were a number of alternative routes of action that the ... of "death before dishonor" (Long). So therefore, a Japanese soldier would prefer death to surrendering, for to surrender is to give up one's honor. Apart from the fact that the Japanese had long wanted a peaceful end to the war, there were a number of alternatives that the Americans could have taken, as ... chil...

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... China), Tiaoytai (Taiwan), and The Senkaku Gunto Islands (Japan), to which they are most commonly referred ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). The Senkakus are 205 miles from China, 105 miles from Taiwan, and 105 miles from the closest island of Japan (McDevitt, 2014). In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as ... would not only bring great pride, but would also be beneficial for their maritime goals, in regards to EEZs due to the stipulation that an EEZ stretches out 200 nautical miles from the coast line. Thus allowing Ch...

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... . The test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching ... 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). President Truman was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in ... . The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event of the in...

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... a mile and a quarter into the enemy trenches", the net gain by the end of November (attack started July 1) was 5 miles deep at the greatest point, and 18 miles wide. Advance on July 1st however was just "a mile deep and three and a half miles wide" (official Dispatch to Haig). Source H contrasts with the other strongly patriotic, pro-war pieces, it ironically giving some humour ... ...

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... 21.9 percent of total investments. Budapest is the hub of Hungary's transportation system, which in the mid-1970's included about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) of navigable waterways, more than 18,000 miles (30,000 km) of roads, and about 8,500 miles (13,700 km) of railroads, about 10 percent of which are electrified. Budapest is also the seat of the Danube Commission, an ... ...

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... are "Two His Love" & "The Silent One." Both poems engage in ambiguous word usage, pastoral images and sense of realism, which draw attention to his vivid lyrics and elusive quality of style. "To His Love" is a monologue in which one soldier (perhaps Gurney), speaks to the girlfriend of a dead soldier about morning the loss and ... ...

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... part of the PRC would lead to an undeclared truce emerging with the likelihood of it becoming permanent, because the PRC would be leaving the Nationalist forces unchallenged just a few miles off the coast of mainland China. Thus, a policy of non-aggression could carry with it the same consequences as a defeat in military action against Quemoy and Matsu. The defeat of ... by atomic war maniacs that needed to be watched carefully, which was compounded by the stationing of Matador missiles on Taiwan (which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead up to 650 miles), in 1957. Obviously, Mao knew ...

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... employed the method of Blitzkrieg in Poland with amazing efficiency. Submarines had also made states feel uneasy, how could they feel secure when a fleet of enemy submarines could be a few miles off coast, armed and ready to fire? Of course maybe the most significant thing that had developed during the war was the airplane. The emergence of the airplane meant the ... . Such sudden change in technology meant that the very nature of war itself changed, targets changed. Boundaries were becoming increasingly permeable, and the fact that bombers could travel hundreds of miles brought these ne...

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... than civilians were. According to the Butt report's main findings prepared for Churchill stated that of the aircraft attacking their targets during strategic bombing one in three got within five miles, over the French ports two in three and over Germany as a whole one in four. Over the heartland of German industry, the main target of strategic bombing, only one in ... ten aircraft got within five miles of their target. During 1941 the RAF aircrews were not bombing the heart of Germany, which they were ordered to, but they were bombing the German countryside because they were ... ...

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... 's infrastructure would not be what it is today without him: Roosevelt employed over 8.5 million people to build 122,000 public buildings, 77,000 bridges, 285 airports, 664,000 miles of roads, 24,000 miles of sewers, and countless parks, playgrounds and reservoirs. As with most things, the truth (in this case, whether or not Roosevelt furthered the depression) lies somewhere in between ... ...

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... the five-year plans, and his glorification was such a reason, but there were far more important reasons for Stalin to introduce the five-year plans which otherwise would have torn apart the country and the communist party with it. Question 2. The five-year plans were one of the most propagandised achievements in history. The communist party in the Soviet Union used ... who were ridiculed because of their support for the NEP whilst wiping the leftist faction even out of soviet history books. There were many achievements of the five year plans apart from Stalin's personal glory and these ...

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... are various degrees of similarity between them, what does differentiate them from each other are their languages and histories, traditions and cultures, but "most important, religion" (Huntington, 1993). Apart from the demise of the political ideologies described earlier, Huntington gives six specific reasons for civilizational identity. First, the fundamental and basic levels of identity and differentiation noted above. Second ... he announced war against the US lead coalition as a war of Islam against the West, because Iraq under his rule was one of the most westernized of all Arab na...

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... this new and for a while unprosperous nation left a thorn in England's side. This led to England's support on two occasions", attempts to break apart the newly formed nation. There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. Well after the establishment of the United States a feeling of disgust towards this rebellious daughter nation still held true after ... ...

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... . Whilst if a women was raped her family would disown her, as would any male, creating a single-parented family out on the street. During the war years, many families were broken apart, creating many widows, but also creating the highest crude marriage rate between 1860 and 1990 with some exceptions. In 1993 until 1998 single-parent families ascended by almost a third in ... many alternatives other than marriage from the people in today's communities has altered the statistics from the past, as proven. In conclusion, there is now a more diverse and acceptable choice apart from heterosexu...

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... economy was unsuccessful. The allies adopted a tactic known as carpet bombing that primarily targeted industrial urban areas in an attempt to disrupt their economy. In Dresden for instance, 13 square miles were destroyed, illustrating the extent of destruction inflicted by the bombings. This meant that priorities were changed as focus had to be shifted away from the war economy to defence ... ...

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... crippled as 65,000 kilometers of railway track and 4,100 railway stations were destroyed. Transportation was made even more difficult by the fact that the Germans had destroyed 56,000 miles of main highway and 90,000 bridges. Communication was made all but impossible, as 36,000 postal, telegraph and telephone offices were demolished. The Soviet power industry was also severely ... ...

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... , they pushed the Indians further westward out of their homes. In the 1800's the whites destroyed buffalo, which the Indians depended on for survival while building tens of thousands of miles for railroads. Acceptance of Indians was finally given in the times of need during World War II. Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis ... ...

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... the Soviet arsenals. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba; just 90 miles off the coast of the United States and U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if ... ...

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... work out more equitable land policies, military tactics involving the local peasants and other doctrines. In October 1934 about 100,000 communists began the "Long March", which covered over 6 thousand miles. This gave the communists an important strategic advantage, because although it was in effect a tactical defeat militarily-this came with beneficial psychological and organizational effects that included positive involvement of ... ...

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... to divide the republics into large squares to be systematically cleared of supplies and the guerrilla groups within them. By the end of the war eight thousand blockhouses and 3,700 miles of barbed wire were built. About 30,000 farms were destroyed during the war . Boer General J.C. Smuts, later prime minister of the Union of South Africa describes the policies of ... ...

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... the nation was given on August 6th, sixteen hours later, when an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. The bomb destroyed over four square miles of the city, killing or injuring more than 135,000 people. (Goodman, Philip). In the early 1940s, Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific ... ...

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... appeasement. The first option - that of inaction - seemed no longer viable. Unlike the USA, the stretch of water between them and the belligerent powers was not hundreds, but tens of miles wide. Baldwin (who really establish appeasement into the Conservative consensus) summed up the way in which the Great War, and the development of new technology, especially aircraft (which was a particular ... ...

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... Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original inhabitants of the area of modern-day Burundi were probably the Batwa (Twa), a subgroup of the Twide pygmies. The Bahutus compose nearly 85 percent of the population in ... ...

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... to use " nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons against our troops in the field and our people at home- (Cohen). Whether they are being used at home or thousands of miles away the threat is something everyone needs to be aware of and think about. The NPT was written to reduce the threat of such a tragedy, yet the possibility of the ... ...

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... known as "area bombing". In the summer of 1941 a survey of bombing accuracy over Germany at night revealed that just 30% of bombers found their way to within even five miles of specific targets. The main difficulties were flying in darkness, bad weather and primitive navigation aids. This shocking news dashed Churchill's high hopes for the success of bombing. He later ... ...

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