However, the most significant impacts happened to occur on the role of men and women, that the war has altered the status of the genders in the United States. ... The YMCA, which stands for Young Women's Christian Association, helped the engagement of women's war-related work, and the Red Cross, which admitted thousands of women volunteers to provide most of the health and sanitary services to military and civilian casualties of the war, together played an important role in the development of women's rights and position. ... As a summarize, all of these posters tend to magnify w...

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At the same extent, it cannot be claimed that states are substantially the same, but they are formally undifferentiated, being units playing a potentially equal role in the international stage. ... Before the war, in fact, the international landscape was quite homogeneous, all the units used to play an equal role, and the inter-state relations were not so complex, following simple rules. ... Here the question of globalisation arises, playing a crucial role in the game up to the current time. ...

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Another major cultural change brought on as a direct result of the United States' involvement in World War II was the role of women in society. For years, women had been entering the workforce in growing numbers; however, they remained largely constrained to specific gender roles. ... This provided an interesting opportunity for the role of women in America. ... Women embraced these new roles in order to aid the war effort but also enjoyed a number of other opportunities such as increased pay and training in new skills. ... Propaganda and utilization of scare tactics by the government p...

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Technology played a major role in influencing the type of war that was fought between 1914 and 1918, however there were many other aspects of war that influenced the nature in which it was fought. ... This is a prime example of how technology played an important role throughout the course of the war. As with the Industrial Revolution, the development of "new age" weapons also played an important role in determining the nature of war. ... The war was no longer only fought on land, and at sea in minimal cases, but instead on three different fronts all of which played a role in determining the...

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Women's role during the war was crucial, as they helped organize home defense, and they provided themselves with uniforms and trained with riffles (Chenier, 2006). ... Since men had more of the upper hand at the time, women were placed back in their domestic roles. ... The belief that if they were able to fill the male's role when they were away, then they were more than capable to do those exact same roles even when they came back. ... In cause of the war women gained an experienced in the participation of male roles, and for many it was thrilling to take on a role unlike their own ...

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However, this essay will attempt to focus on the role of specific nations and how their leaders delivered their countrymen to the front lines of World War I. Before any one country can be identified as "most responsible- for the outbreak of war, one must first consider the parties involved and their role in Europe in 1914. ... So, I cannot place the blame squarely on the Tsar or Russia, despite their major role in the overall war. ... Finally, we examine the role of Great Britain. ... Least responsible, as I stated before, may have been the Serbians, who may or may not have playe...

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The efforts of the Home Front during the Second World War played an exceedingly vital role in the overall outcome of the hostilities. ... To overcome shortages of workers in 1941 Britain introduced conscription for women to work or join forces in a non fighting role. By 1945 eight out of ten married women and nine out of ten single women had either joined forces in a non-fighting roles or were working in factories. ... The rapid advancement of technology and organization in conjunction with the efforts of the home front formed the imperative roles in the success of the Allied forces in World W...

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In order to investigate the extent to which the conflict affected the status of women, it is necessary to investigate changes in the following factors: the women's role as a housewife, paid employment, sex segregation, consciousness, birth rates and government policy towards women. ... Women were empowered as they never had been before, stepping in to the spaces that the servicemen had left. " They played an important role in agriculture, industry, the armed services, civil defence and other vital work during the second world war." ... He believes that there was a visible migration o...

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Addison describes Churchill as employing "provocative language on the public platform while pursuing relatively conciliatory policies behind the scenes. " (68) His role as military leader in those years was soundly criticized because of his participation in the defeat at Gallipoli. ... He was in and out of a number of government roles, always striving to strengthen his persona and influence and to stay relevant on the public stage. ... In his role as Minister of Munitions, Churchill wrote about his views that war can lead to social development and progress, although he was opposed to brutality...

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What is worthy of mention is the successful role played by NATO in preventing large scale wars and disasters. ... As a consequence, as long as NATO will be able to uphold its commitment, it will continue to play the leading role in safeguarding the principals and values of liberal democracies, thus consolidating its position in the international arena....

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As per the analysis of Cobb the role of bringing change and transformation to the prevailing conditions could not be attributed to any person, because there was nobody from the elite or the middle class in bringing the change (pg.16) as noticed by Cobb. ... For it is the spirit and vitality of the people of the South who played a vital role in helping to bring about a change in southern society, changes now looked at by many outside the South as the model for economic improvement. ...

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Technology has always been a vital role in developing the means of communication, prominently within military affairs. ... Initially the American government was hesitant to use propaganda as a profitable tool but due to media pressures who needed the upper hand in the direction of the nation, the government was pressured into taking an active role (creating Rosie). The government claimed their role as providing beneficial information but their actions clearly proved propaganda techniques in consuming the thoughts and finances of the citizens (creating Rosie). ... This advertising technique all...

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Any attempt to analyze the transition from a Cold War system of international relations to a post Cold War one, will incorporate an analysis of the general nature of the system itself, in this case the system of international relations in Asia; of the actors involved and their respective roles; how changes in the political environment and in specific policies of the actors shape the evolution of a new system; and finally the nature of the new system with its own actors, their new roles, and new concerns. ... Firstly I will briefly outline the general strategic concerns or tenets of the Cold ...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... Christopher Browning accounts for the actions of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in Poland and the role which individual soldiers played in the mass murder of Jews during the "Final Solution." ... The experiment asked students to role-play a teacher and student. ... Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo constructed a mock prison experiment in which average American men took on the r...

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The role that the U.S. has played in the development and evolution of Latin American States differs markedly depending upon which of two time periods is under consideration: the first period dates from the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 through to shortly after WWII (to roughly the early 1960's), and the second period begins in the early 1960's and continues to the present. ... In accepting Centeno's theses, I will demonstrate that the U.S.' role in Latin America during the first period exacerbated the conditions, and reinforced the weaknesses that precluded de...

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This colossal conflict played a decisive role in destroying the Nazi regime: the German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. ... Fatal and persistent German underestimation of their enemy's strength played a crucial role in their eventual downfall. ... Eisenhower described Zhukov's role as "crucial to victory in Europe." ...

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The role of the embassy revolves around facilitating Japan-Canadian relations in Japan. ... The embassy continues to play a significant role in continuously encouraging all of the aforementioned relations in the most engaging ways possible. ... Indeed, The Japanese Embassy to Canada plays a major role in steadily improving relations between the two countries toward the direction of globalization and development. ...

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Because these incidents went unpunished and the Japanese public rallied around them the military was able to push for greater militarism and an increasingly active role in government till the entire government was run by the military. ... So the army played a very important role in the rocky path that Japan followed towards militarism. ... Now the relationship between the Koda-ha and the Tosei-ha was that they were both fighting to gain control of the military and so throughout the Saito government of 1932-1934 and the Okada government of 1934 to 1936 they played an important role. ...

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The role of USA concerning those balances of power is to protect potential victims against potential predators. ... Moreover, an intercontinental deal between an expanded NATO, Russia, China, Japan and possibly India, which would gradually give rise to a more formal structure, could play a decisive role in the deterrence of regional aggressors globally. ...

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Education plays a key role in the freedom of those who were oppressed by the early European colonizers and still lie vital to the break of success of all who seek freedom. ... African Americans demanded equality from whites when they embraced their heritage with truth and began the fight for white to accept that they played a key role to make American what it is today. ...

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One fundamental criticism of the United Nations has been simply that, that its birth into such an insecure international forum has lead to ambiguity surrounding its existence and failure to adapt as the world progresses away from the post war conditions: "the ambiguity of its specific world role, and the failure to change that role as the world has changed." ...

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Known as the "Roaring Twenties", the 1920s in America was overall a decade of great prosperity and optimism following the First World War. It was a phrase used to describe the period of sustained economic, cultural, and social success that existed in 1920s United States. The decade brought new forms...

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Information technology plays quite a significant role in every part of globalisation ranging from the interaction of people and rapid dispersion of the means of goods and service production. ... However, despite it role in cultural integration, it also leads to blending of cultures and the corrosion of unique cultural differences. ... (Mandelbaum, 2003) Political factor in USA has played a great role towards its globalisation. ...

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Another role as teachers, parents approach child in a new deeper level of interaction. Children will always find a role model, someone to pattern their own lives after. ... Each individual parent and child play an important role in the relationship which helps one another grows and develops. ...

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Sennett, (1998) focused on the switch between industrial capitalism and the new work role; with the contemporary culture of movement equalling a rise to the top, not instability. Industrial capitalism being the traditional "job for life" deal where the "bread winner" in the household went to work every day to the same job, then came home to a family and community with strong social bonds where each individual knew what was expected of them within their social role, and worked to maintain that image. The contrast between the traditional and new work role forces the individual to become flexib...

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