... WOMEN: Mass controversy has arisen over whether or not the Japanese military instituted sexual slavery for its troops during the World War II. Did sexual slavery exist, and should the female victims be compensated for the crimes committed against them? During World War II, approximately two hundred thousand women were forced into sexual slavery by Japan's armed forces. Euphemistically called "Comfort Women," these women ... were enslaved in "Comfort Stations set up throughout East Asia by the Japanese military from the invasion of Manchuria in the late 1910's until the end of the Second...

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... rapid technological development that affected furniture production during the 1930's became even more rapid in the post world war II period of the 40's and 50's. The war years affected the furniture industry drastically in Europe, while little affect was felt in the United States. Materials ... . The development of inexpensive and reliable plywoods and laminated boards was one of the leading technical advances of the decade before World War II. The other, taken from experiments made in the automobile industry, was foam- rubber upholstery. These advances had great significant for ... mad...

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... , making the prospects of cooperation ghostly superpowers and actually marked the beginning of an era of confrontation. Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. Defeated was obvious - Germany, but contenders for laurels of winners there were many, the overall victory no one wanted to admit that predetermined the ... ), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. During Wor...

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... crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. Traditionally, many have viewed this war as democracy versus communism, the United States against Russia, and as the fight to stop the flow of the "Red Tide ... and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). In this light, the factors that helped lead to the Korean War are: First, the division of North and South Korea post World War II along the thirty-eighth parallel with Russia overseeing the North and the United States overseeing the ...

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... and as Bao Dai's Minister for the Interior in the 1930's but quitted the colonial regime and went into voluntary exile before World War II. Fiercely independent, and both anti-colonial and anticommunist, he spurned offers for high administerial posts by both Ho Chi Minh and the French ... Minister R G Menzies followed a generally coherent and consistent foreign policy during its 23 years tenure of office. Two lessons of the Second World War had made a profound impression on their policy-making decisions. One was that the geopolitics of Asia, particularly South-East Asia, was of more ... ...

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... the early 1990s. This essay seeks to examine the political relations between the leaders of Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union during and immediately following World War II. The deterioration of Soviet-American relations was the combined result of the mistrust between both sides and the inconsistent American foreign policy resulting from the replacement of Franklin D. Roosevelt ... by Harry S. Truman. The question of a second front during World War II laid the foundation for this mistrust. In order to understand the Cold War, one must understand Soviet motives for...

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The icy tension between the two superpowers of Russia and the United States, infamously known as the Cold War, began its formation even before World War II had officially ended. The superpowers began their relationship as allies, but that affiliation quickly took a turn for the worse ... then eventually the Soviet Union would collapse. Truman would no longer appease Stalin, based on the Munich analogy and the mistake that led to World War II with Hitler. For example, on September 29, 1938 the "French and British agreed to accept the German demands in Czechoslovakia in return for Hitler's ... w...

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... and as Bao Dai's Minister for the Interior in the 1930's but quitted the colonial regime and went into voluntary exile before World War II. Fiercely independent, and both anti-colonial and anticommunist, he spurned offers for high administerial posts by both Ho Chi Minh and the French ... Minister R G Menzies followed a generally coherent and consistent foreign policy during its 23 years tenure of office. Two lessons of the Second World War had made a profound impression on their policy-making decisions. One was that the geopolitics of Asia, particularly South-East Asia, was of more ... ...

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... habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. This contradiction implied that the American Revolutionary War, instead of being a random, passionate incident, was in truth an inevitable event that ensued from certain political and economic conditions that was bound to happen in the Thirteen Colonies but ... the Province of Quebec did not send any delegates to either Congress, nor did the habitants appeal to the proposition of mutiny.ii The likely causes of their indifferences were the...

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... military weakness and political reputation in Europe. David Kaiser stated in his book, Politics and War: The South African war eventually demonstrated the costs of more serious economic imperialism "that is, of trying to secure ... , 1900, the British general Frederick S. Roberts was sent to replace Buller as commander, though he remained in the war effort. Early in February, Roberts order the British commander John D. P. French north to relieve the city of Kimberly ... Victorian campaign, while steam engines made a significant addition to military transport. Toward the end of the war t...

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... able to defeat on the battlefield." (03)In Parliament, there is a concerted effort to portray the work of the British Army as noble and gentlemanly. The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Brodrick, states during parliamentary session:" sufficient allowance is being given to all families in camp, and they are satisfied and comfortable."" (04)and:" every provision has been ... for freedom is a powerful motivator, one that can only be broken by persistent removal of the freedoms themselves. The British were able to gain superiority and eventually win the Boer War by utilizing the combination ...

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... the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. However, the Vietnam War failed to provide the same stories of struggle and bravery that made films about World War I and World War II successful because the conflict lacked clear objectives and easily identified enemies. Therefore, Hollywood directors used myths to create dramatic constructions of ... the realities of the Vietnam War that moved audiences" emotions. These myths reflect the demands of drama as opposed to the requirement ... into the origins of human nature." By ...

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... allude to Oliver Stone's Platoon, and the often overlooked Hamburger Hill. For me these films represent a justifiable range of different approaches to the war to explain their inclusion, and will be looked at as representations of Vietnam, and judged accordingly. It is important I stress that I am ... only as vile, depraved and sadistic, like the Japanese of Hollywood World War II films. The Deer Hunter's most renowned sequence, the infamous game of Russian Roulette (which was principally used as a metaphor for war: an atrocious game of chance) was entirely fictitious, there is no repor...

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The most significant development in international relations since the end of World War II has been the rise of a new political entity known as the Third World. The term Third World is a ... Soviet socialist countries bloc. Since the Third World countries basically share similarities such as colonial history, underdeveloped economic condition, and non-white ethnicity, after Cold War Third World has been commonly used in a slightly different way --- generally referring to underdeveloped and racial minority countries (countries like China Mongolia, Cuba, ... way of development. Nowadays, a West...

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... the entire worldwide arsenal of the United States " (Black 467). As Kaufman notes in his book, American politicians learned valuable lessons from World War I and World War II that they set out to not repeat in dealing with the communist regime in the USSR. First, they understood that United States security was ... the United States would be in serious danger. The USSR represented the most direct threat to this balance of power in the years after World War II. If the United States were to retreat into an isolationist foreign policy and allow the USSR to operate freely in Europe, it could ...

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... as a sovereign, independent, democratic state. 1938 was the important year in the Irish history. Douglas Hyde became first president of Eire. De Valera was Prime Minister. 1939 - Outbreak of World War II. Eire remained neutral, but many Irish citizens joined the allied forces. In 1948 de Valera lost the election. Eire was suffering economic difficulties. John Costello became Prime Minister. Dublin parliament ... plans to invade Ireland. The operation, called "Operation Green", would have provided a springboard for invading mainland Britain through its unprotected west coast). Neverthele...

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... at Sicily, he ordered the Piedmontese navy to stop Garibaldi's expedition for several reasons. Cavour might lose Napoleon III's support with a renewal of war with Austria and some sort of European intervention. Cavour also suspected that Garibaldi was linked with radicalism, and avoid possibly demand a republican Italy based ... the Italian unification happen the way it did, otherwise, it might and in the French domination of northern or southern Italy, or in civil war or foreign intervention which would destroy the Risorgimento altogether. It is important to realise that Cavour's origi...

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... at a reasonable price to the mass middle class. The Role of Attainable Pricing for the Masses If styling inspired the automobile's rise, than cheaper pricing enabled it. Immediately following World War II, "Americans did not hope for affluence-yet, but they clearly wanted something beyond adequate." At long last, the hallowed promise of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage ... creation of a "hot rod culture " and the emergence of a cult centered on excess. These effects would fundamentally alter mainstream American culture in the three decades following the close of World W...

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... anti-British activities by both Haganah and Irgun in pursuance of their common ultimate goal, the establishment of a national home and the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. During World War II, about 32,000 Palestinian Jews, both men and women, volunteered for the British army. In 1944 about 5,000 of these were formed into the Jewish Brigade, which fought ... fought with Sten guns, grenades, light mortars, antitank guns, flamethrowers, and light ammunition, much of it produced in Israel with surplus United States machinery acquired as scrap after World War II. After independence and ...

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... and is synonymous with banishment. Trop v. Dulles [356 U.S. 86 (1958)] has become a landmark case involving the expatriation of a U.S. soldier during World War II, and has subsequently had great impact on all other Supreme Court cases that are argued on the basis of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. To begin, ... be penal, it opens the door to an Eighth Amendment violation. The most important evidence the defense brought to the court was that the 1865 Civil War statute was termed "distinctly penal in character" by the very committee that created it. In Perez v. Brownell [356 U.S...

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... and was responsible for the conduct of all state affairs; in practice, the State Secretaries (bureaucratic top officials in charge of such fields as finance, war, foreign affairs, etc.) acted as unofficial portfolio ministers. "Neither the Reichstag, nor the Bundesrat could do a thing against the chancellor. If the ... could be managed in a similar fashion. Frederick died however, after only ninety-nine days on the throne and was succeeded by his son, Wilhelm II. Biz thought that the new emperor-forty-four years younger than Biz and only eleven when Biz made the empire-would be a pushove...

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... Warfare is one of these forgotten contributions. It took the concepts of Marx and Mao, and shaped them into the mainstream military headache known also as "Guerilla Warfare". Since World War II, the guidelines of Guerilla Warfare have been used by hundreds of countries and thousands of small revolts. It was represented through out the entire Vietnam ... under Army/Party control to prohibit any chance for political freedom of thought from partisan bands. It was once estimated that 1,500,000 Soviets participated in partisan warfare in World War II. One reason for the influx of partisan pa...

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... were realigned in order to fit the modern society. To do this, sixteen official documents were produced from the four sessions of the Vatican II, including the 'Sacrosanctum Concilium' (Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy), the 'Nostra Aetate' (Declaration on the Relationship of the Church ... (Dogmatic Constitution of the Church). These 16 documents were the basis of the revised practises of the Catholic Church as a result of Vatican II. Prior to Vatican II, the Catholic Church was run as a strict hierarchical religious organisation. The Pope was regarded as the most holy pers...

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... against him. But MacMurrough did not accept his defeat and so he travelled to Acquitaine in order to swear fealty to the English king Henry II. Up to this point, although Henry had been granted the Lordship of Ireland through the disputed Papal Bull "Laudabiliter" by Pope Adrian IV ( ... was forced into summoning one at Westminster in order to raise revenue. Westminster demanded reforms which would have greatly reduced the king's powers and so civil war seemed imminent. It seemed the appropriate time for the Irish to assert themselves. On 23 October 1641 a rising began at Dungannon, Char...

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... time as bits and pieces may be lost, misinterpreted, hidden or even altered along the way. The story of the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II is an example of a memory and piece of history that has been effectively preserved and subsequently, transferred from generation to generation. Unified under a collective drive to achieve a certain means, ... to put pressure on the government. In 1978, the JACL launched a campaign to seek redress from the U.S. government for the imprisonment and loss of freedom of Japanese Americans during World War II. Thi...

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