But many countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific were fighting in the war to defend their countries against the aggressive powers. ... But America was hit the worst by the Depression. ... Those countries have so far provoked America directly, but mildly, and those countries also defied America's interests and attacked America's allies. ... Italy had invaded Ethiopia, Albania and Northern Africa. ... Before America entered the war, they found out about Germany's plans to invade South America in Brazil, Chile, and Peru. ...

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Economic expansion refers to increasing the American market overseas, which in turn guarantees jobs for the American middle class. ... The actual involvement of America in the war did not occur until 1917. ... The attack resulted in 128 American deaths (Lawson, 35). ... The British sent the decoded message to America. ... The Allies did not depend on the American military nor on the American armaments. ...

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Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... And farther west, nearer to the Atlantic side of Africa, a 1000-ship British and American invasion force had landed. ... Roosevelt met at Casablanca in north Africa. ... The North African campaign seemed certain to be a decisive Allied success. ... So decisive was this victory that commander of the American air forces, General H. ...

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When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. ... Soon, the American people were unhappy and decided to take action against the British. ... However, that was just the beginning of intelligence in America. ... This attack was considered a catalyst to the American intelligence community because after the attack, there was an increase in resources devoted to intelligence agencies. In June of 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created, and became America's first centralized intelligence agency. ...

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There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... The Englishmen decided that the Americans had no right to protest high taxes because of their low social position. ... America was no longer a truly British nation, so they decided to break away. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ...

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Setting the Scene As suggested by scholars like Loescher (1996, pp 11-92; 2001 pp21-81) and (Erika, 2001; Labman, 2009), the issue of refugee crisis is old wars and conflicts around the world-from Europe to the Balkans, to the old Soviet Union, Asia, to the Americas and to Africa, the story of wars and conflicts can never be divorced from the associated mass refuge crisis. ... But also before then, the war between Russia and Poland did not help as the dismemberment of Russian empire and the associated famine of 1921 many refugees fled to mostly France and Germany .others who could not make i...

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The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. ... In The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other stories Hemingway looked back on his African safaris from 1934. ... He returns to Africa simply because he had once been happy there, and he thinks perhaps there he can work the fat off his soul. ... Francis Macomber was a wealthy American on a safari with his beautiful, unloving wife, Margot. ...

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Causes of Liberian Civil War Liberia is Africa's first republic that was founded in 1822 as a result of the efforts of the American colonization society to settle freed American slaves in West Africa (Liberia geography, 2006). ... The psychological consequences for these children, especially throughout various parts of Africa have been significantly negative. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater part of the world faces daily, and expects in the future, are inconceivable to those in wealthy nations. World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. Never before, however, has the human race b...

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One aim was to build up strong anti- Communist countries and it helped American industry by creating markets for American goods. How convenient for America. ... The Americans, the British and the French controlled West Germany and the Russians controlled East Germany. ... The Russians and their Communist ideals were ruffling the Americans and their capitalistic feathers. The Americans assumed that as soon as one country became Communist, the neighboring countries would soon fall prey to Communism like dominoes. ...

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The above connoted law led to an influx of various immigrants in the United States including Asians, Africans, as well as the Europeans. ... Furthermore, the period preceding the American Revolution prompted various skilled Italian musicians, painters, artisans, and sculptors to explore into various opportunities provided by the American Revolution era. ... Even so, the number of Italian immigrants in various American contexts was not noticeable. ... Deductively, immigration of Italian Americans into the United States changed over time. ... Certainly, the new and unpredictable American environ...

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A battle in which not only Britons, but also Canadians, Poles, Czechs, Americans, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, and the French came together to defeat the greatest menaces the British isles would ever face. ... (Gilbert 13) He was born to Lord Randolph Churchill and an American, Jennie Churchill on November 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace. ... A month after arriving in South Africa he was captured by the Boers but quickly made a daring escape. ...

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In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. Germany was particularly badly affected, since Germany's economy was partly dependent on Americas prosperity and a large number of loans made by America to Germany were called back and the German economy crashed (Shirer 168-169). ... Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native Americans and how they were slaughtered along with reading about battles between the Germans and Russians. ...

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This is a concept that our violent neighboring nation, the United States of America, must begin to recognize. ... Therefore, the United States of America should realize how complicated it can be to achieve complete freedom and democracy. ...

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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. ... Lastly, it is important to consider how American economic and military concerns provided further motivation for the creation of a new threat. ... The American presidents military advisors soon made it clear to him that an invasion of France during 1942 was out of the question. ... The Americans attempted to compromise by proposing to send small contingents of troops to the French coast in order ...

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During the French and Indian War of 1754, British troops provided blankets that had been infected with smallpox to the American Indians. Native Americans defending Fort Carillon sustained epidemic injures of smallpox which directly contributed to the loss of the fort to the English. ... Ku Klux Klan groups began acts of terrorism against African Americans that included the use of devices, arson, bombings, and murder. ... Incidents have occurs in cities of all sizes, as well as in rural America. ... This bombing was intended to send a message to all Americans that terrorism could happen at anyt...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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When the narrator suggests the execution of Edgar Derby, an American who stole a teapot from the ruins, as the climax of the novel, Bernard still seems unenthusiastic. ... The outline ended with the exchange of prisoners who had been liberated by Americans and Russians. ... The scheme was cooked up by two monks who planned to raise an army of European children and then sell them into slavery in North Africa. ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis conducted in decades after the event, lead to a shift from the guilt perspective, to a broader one of various interacting factors. Although almost nine decades have elapsed, one question still persists: "Which explanation is best suited as the cause of WWI?" To provide an answer, the views of six h...

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The World Conference on Human Rights took place over two weeks in June of 1993. The Conference was held in Vienna, Austria. In attendance were 171 states committed to strengthening human rights throughout the world and to presenting an international plan to accomplish this goal. Also in attendanc...

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The region of Southeast Asia was chocked full of natural resources. Some of these natural resources included coffee, tea and spices. These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. Many of the top countries in Europe and Asia wanted to conquer parts of this region. Lockard describes the perspective of colonialism from a world view; he states "it served primarily to link Southeast Asia more firmly to a world dominated by the West and to introduce Western ideas and technologies". 1 As Lockard is right in that instance, the conquest that came along with coloni...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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