African-Americans in America look only towards filling their own pockets instead of giving the money to the people who truly need it, the people of Africa. ... For the African-American community to isolate itself further from America is to embark on a course whose implications are troubling. ... The average African-American makes over three times what the average person of Africa makes and in America, African-Americans have the opportunity for advancement. ... However, how he says this scares away white America and makes them get defensive towards African-Americans in general, although on...

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The Civil War is important because it affected African Americans and their future in America. ... It took many African American leaders, and even White leaders to help with the advancement of African Americans in the country. ... The Civil war helped in the abolishment of slavery, the advancement of African Americans after the war, and the place of African Americans today. ... African Americans played a major role in the Civil War. ... African Americans own their own businesses, which once was unheard of. ...

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Unlike Japanese Americans, African Americans did not face suspicion on their loyalty to the United States.  ... Before the Tuskegee Airmen, no African American had been an American military pilot and there were few African American pilots overall. ... Therefore, both the Japanese Americans and African Americans proved that the policy of segregation of military units was unnecessary. ... Because of that policy, Japanese Americans and African Americans were given the opportunities to earn positive recognition from other Americans. ... African Americans proved to be as successful as other Ameri...

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American Institution "Norman Rockwell is a brilliant storyteller within a particular American tradition. ... In the later years of his life, Norman Rockwell started to take a stand against bigotry by drawing pictures that made the viewer stop and examine his feelings towards African Americans. ... The artist portrays two young African American children moving into a predominantly white neighborhood. The two African American children, a young boy and his younger sister, look at three white children dressed in their play clothes consisting of baseball mitts, caps, shorts, and dirty shirts. .....

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Japan thought of a strategy to down America. ... America proved itself as a superpower. ... After the war, the African Americans pursued their civil rights. Some returning African American soldier spoke of double-V, meaning double victory both from oppression and against the Japanese. ... America proved its military capability to the world. ...

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This made Native Americans subject to the same laws and gave them the right to the same privileges and responsibilities of other Americans. ... The idea of "difference " was becoming un- American. ... The Marshall plan and the Four Points were developed to give aid to Europe and secure allies in Latina America, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. ... The Cold War experiences of African Americans and Native Americans mirrored each other in many ways, but Natives had an entirely different fight then blacks due to termination policies, the actual fact that Native Americans are the true inhabitants of...

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These hearings invoked panic within the American people. ... The minorities, namely the African Americans, were being segregated, abused, and treated inhumanly. The push for equal rights amongst U.S. citizens created the civil rights movement. " African Americans, encouraged by their churches, began organizing themselves to take direct action, and their efforts significantly advanced the civil rights movement" (Nash 950). ... The American dream was again being realized. ... "The American public was shocked. ...

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The Longest War in American History When you think of the longest wars in the history of the world, you immediately look back to wars fought centuries ago. ... In fact, not only did the Old South not accept their defeat, they did everything within their power and within the newly adopted Amendments to revert back to their old ways of mistreating African-Americans and thinking less of them. The emergence if Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan are the most common of examples, oppressing the rights of African-Americans and intimidating them to not do things such as vote, even though the 14th Ame...

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It was known that the American government was going through a financial deficit, and millions of people were living under the pressure of unemployment. Undoubtedly, if American people did not receive help from the U.N., plenty of them would live with hunger and for those who were sick, probably they could not even afford medical treatment. ... Due to the fact that most African countries are undeveloped， military conflicts happen everyday which makes African people live in dangerous space. ... In African countries, however, limited medical devices and resources are available. Therefore, extra...

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The sugar mills in the Caribbean and South and Central American region were owned by powerful families who used subsidized labor to run their businesses. ... In the beginning, American Indians were used for some of the labor, as well as African and European slaves. Because African slave labor was the cheapest, African slaves were increasingly used as labor in place of more expensive labor and therefore the sugar plantation experience closely mirrored the tobacco and cotton plantation experience that is more well-known. ... Once African slave labor was imported into these countries, the populat...

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"We are in Vietnam because our national security and security of the entire free world demands that firm line be drawn against the further advance of Communist imperialism - in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, and in Europe." ... Cuba, Algeria, China, and some African countries already fall into the communist hands, and many others could follow. Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... Vietnam War has been simply right thing to do for many Americans. ... No one wants ever to see America so divided again. ...

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It is where the war began, and America wanted to avoid this war. ... In 1935, Benito Mussolini-Italy premier since 1922 embarked upon an imperialist in the Northern Africa (May, 1973). ... America also wanted to help in shaping the peace of the post-war world. ... Decolonization over the period took place in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. ... During the process of decolonization in Africa, several territories towards the close of World War II gained political power under the rule of Europeans. ...

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Burundi did not offer Belgium a market for manufactures, and the region had almost nothing worth extracting for local use or for transport to Europe or America. ... Africa, Ambassador Melady observed, would lose its moral standing in the Third World; the genocide would also undermine black Africa's condemnation of apartheid in South Africa. ... African states, more ethnically heterogeneous than Western European nation-states, exhibited a paranoia about their independence and national security, and African leaders saw malevolent plots by the West against their independence. This misapp...

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To stop soviet nuclear program before developing the first soviet bomb would give Americans permanent lead in nuclear weapons technology. ... This led Americans to the same conclusion. ... Cuba, South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, Brazil, and Argentina were not among countries that signed NON-proliferation treaty in 1968. ... South Africa started its nuclear program 1974 because of Soviet expansionist threat but in 1990 the threat disappeared therefore South Africa was the first and only state to give up the ultimate weapon. South Africa has signed NPT in July 1991. ...

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The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. The progression of the civil rights movement for African Americans advanced through many important events. However World War 2 can arguably be said to have the greatest impact in African American history. This was because the Second World War emphasised the achievements black Americans encountered and the extent of racial discrimination in America. ... Most black Americans had accepted racial discrimination, but the War made a huge impact as most ...

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After the Great Depression and World War II, Americans were eager to exploit new American abundance and wealth and to put deprivation and war rationing behind them. ... l American world." ... Tomorrowland lauded American technology and a new innovative future, Frontierland praised a mythic American frontier past, and Fantasyland stood right in the middle. ... Americans also used leisure time to take advantage of the hobby mania that swept through 1950s America. ... American women needed motherly figures. ...

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During the cold war era globalization also had a part to play in the degrading of a number of African countries. During the cold war Ethiopia was a reliable ally to the United States who were trying to stop the spread of communism in sub Saharan Africa (Shinn). ... This now meant that the U.S no longer had a country in that region of Africa so they also had to look elsewhere (Shinn). ... The influence of the American culture can been seen in many different countries now whether it be through businesses such as McDonalds, movies, social media and other forms of widespread media in the world. .....

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Year 1776 saw the American Declaration of Independence and in 1789 the Estates General meets in Paris beginning the French Revolution. ... Britain got colonial possessions that it had occupied during the war, including Malta, Ceylon, and South Africa. Holland lost Ceylon and South Africa but got Belgium. ... New states joined America and it was recognized as major power after American Spanish war of 1898. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ...

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If anyone could be described as being larger-than-life American writer, Ernest Hemingway could. ... He divorced Hadley in 1927 and married second wife, American heiress Pauline Pfeiffer. ... Thanks to a generous gift from Pauline's Uncle, they took a much-anticipated African safari, which lasted several months. ... In addition, he had never fully recovered from injuries sustained in two planes crashes while on a second safari in Africa. ... In New York, he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neo-Plasticism. ...

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Axis's land operations continued in North Africa and in the Balkans, where Greece and Yugoslavia were occupied. ... In North Africa, British General Montgomery's rout of Rommel at Alamein in October of 1942 and the landing of U.S. troops in Algeria resulted in an Allied victory in Africa. ... Eisenhower began working with a group of high-level British and American leaders to execute Operation Overlord. ... During the night American and British paratroopers dropped from the sky. ...

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Life in America after World War II was immersed in social and political turmoil. ... American cultural norms became distinguished, especially of male and female roles. ... She pled to the housewives across America, appealing to their confining social responsibilities. ... While all of the women's rights movements were occurring, America was in a social upheaval. African-Americans were in search for equality, the Cold War, and the country was on the brink of falling into a war in Vietnam. ...

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Mountbatten asked help from the Americans to assist Wingate's expected three month campaign. He asked for assistance from the same unit that operated China over the Hump but the reply to this from the American Air Transport officers was a big NO since they were already getting ready to attack in the China Campaign and didn't have any more aircraft or even men to spare for Wingate's operations. ... The US join chiefs of staff were so impressed with the work of Mr Wingate that they not only agreed to supply the air support but also authorised the first American Commando force to h...

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In the film "Wag The Dog" a phony war is created to divert the American public's attention from their wayward President, mere days before (re)election. The viewers turning on the set for America vs. ... The portrayal of the president in Wag the Dog reflects and reinforces the American public's fear of the stereotypical presidential "Conspirator". ... Their messages will hopefully prompt some thought-provoking audience discussion about the media's power to fabricate, or at the very least sway, American culture. ... His words were not spoken to reach the ears and touch the sou...

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It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. ... in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... During his terms he mounted a major campaign to overthrow the Sandinistas, the communist party which ran Nicaragua, sent military equipment to Muslim guerrillas fi...

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They included the Fatherland Front, led by Engelbert Dollfuss in Austria, the Falange founded by Jose Antonio Primo in Spain, the Cross of Fire, renamed the French Social Party led by Colonel Francois de La Rocque, the Gentile National Socialist Movement and the South Africa Fascists, both in South Africa, the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, and the military dictatorship of Admiral Tojo Hideki in Japan (RoSo, 2002). ... The 1920s and "30s saw African-Americans intimidated by cross-burnings, and beaten and lynched at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan (RoSo, 2002). ...

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