... fine art was created during idle time. Portraits made were of "still lives, landscapes, depiction of people at work and portrayed of rural and urban buildings." 7 Home entertainment was provided by popular radio programs, dance bands and hockey broadcasts, as all these provided cheap entertainment. Also there was participation in sports, picnics, dances and church socials due to shortages of cash ... may have led to explosive riots. "Political effects of the Depression were that capitalist system failed." 20 Prime Minister R.B. Bennett introduced unemployment insurance and minimum wages ...

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... say in the matter. However just twenty years and sixty-seven days later, war would once again break out in Europe. After the defeat of the French by the Prussians in 1871 the Prussian diplomats met with French offcials in the "Hall of Mirrors- and hammered out an agreement. Then just 48 years later ... 28th of June 1919 the leaders of the Allied forces came togethor and forced Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was at first called by the Germans the Diktat, because the terms were dictated to them, they had no say in the matter whatsoever. Three of the Allied leaders me...

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... were still concerns about women in the work field, as an importance. In this time period social values were extremely important as were family traditions. By women working, people were worried these values were going to be broken down, or desensitized. Women were no longer at home waiting for the husbands ... idea. Even though women were working hard and it was important to them, they still had to make extra time to carry out their "duties." By duties, I mean they always wrote letters to their husband, brothers, and friends that were fighting over seas. Females also frequently attended U...

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... order to prevent collapses as had happened during earlier depressions. The Watergate Scandal: The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by President Nixon and his staff members who were found to of spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and ... which ended World War I, in 1919. Although President Wilson was a member of the committee that drafted the covenant, it was never ratified by the U.S. Senate because of Article X, which contained the requirement that all members preserve the territorial independence of all other members, e...

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... Air Force arrested 101 African American pilots, navigators, and bombardiers for disobeying an order given directly from a superior officer. These officers risked their lives by not signing an order to place them in segregation housing. The officers were flown to Ft. Knox and placed under arrest. "These 101 officers, ... response, the French commended the all-black fighting units for their bravery in battle. Black soldiers were still not accepted or respected after WW I by the military or civilian communities. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan began trying to defend the white race. During the...

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... Zealand Wars, which exemplified the injustices inflicted on Maori, their culture and their land. There were two events in particular that resulted in Rua's resistance. Firstly, Rua was deeply distressed by the government's brutal attacks on the Urewera district after 1862 that were a direct violation of the Treaty. Secondly, and most importantly, a major source of grievance for Rua was the ... One indirectly helped to bring about the Waitangi Tribunal's investigation into the injustices inflicted onto Tuhoe, and is thus is of social and economic importance. While they were extremely up...

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... diners more comprehensively, describing diner architecture as something that changed significantly and dramatically – in style, function, and purpose – as American lifestyles changed throughout history"1. This statement by Offitzer in "Diners" gives a nice description of how not only diners became an important part of American history, but the architecture of the diners were just as important ... monitor with a raised clerestory to add natural light to the interior from above. Operable windows made the feel of the environment more user friendly now that ventilation could be controlled...

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... or strain, and intense physical burden. The United States Army would soon find itself struggling to cope with the great amount of soldiers affected by this mental disorder that came to be known as combat exhaustion. Combat exhaustion symptoms included a soldier being depressed or dispirited, apathetic and careless, ... I did after he withdrew to a safe distance I began a very cautious probing with my bayonet. I moved grains of dirt and sand one by one, peering carefully for any extraneous trip wire." Everyday these soldiers were faced with situations that could lead to death. Another me...

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... and was sailing 200 miles east of Halifax when the lookout called down and spotted masts on the horizon. The Guerriere, a 38 gun British frigate captained by James Richard Dacres, had been en route to Halifax when they spotted the Constitution. It was around 3:30 p.m. that the Guerriere backed the topsails and ... B. Orne that "the ship is boring down rather too boldly to be an American", and " the better he behaves, the more honor we shall gain by taking him (Gruppe 84)." This was a remark that would come back to haunt Captain Dacres and his crew on the Guerriere. Around 6:00 p.m. the G...

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... leader for the U.S. ("Diplomats" Museum.) He is also expected to promote peace, democratic principles, and human rights through out the world. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president of the twentieth by succeeding McKinley after his assignation in 1901. "Speak slowly and carry a big stick." this was Roosevelt's expression for foreign policy and strategy (Handlin). He meant that a country's diplomatic ... rights with United States ("World War I", www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com). However, bitterness was building up between the nations. American commerce with Germany had fallen to less th...

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... which joined the Commonwealth division on 1st of June 1952. for 12 months the battalion remained in Korea and left in March 1953 and replaced by 2 RAR in April. After two years and 17 days of negotiations, even as heavy fighting continued at the front, the UN and North Korean ... Korean War won much praise from other nations. Awards and decorations given to Australians during the war totaled 615, while awards given to Australians by other countries numbered 173. Australia also gained many political and security benefits, the most important being the signing of the ANZUS Treaty with the ...

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... and Senegal sent to France over 150,000 themselves . These regiments were almost always not volunteers but were in fact draftees, forced into service by the French Army. The reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were ... colonies of Togoland, Cameroon, German South-West Africa and German South-East Africa. All of these colonies were attacked simultaneously upon declaration of war by the allies on Germany. The battles for these areas lasted anywhere from several weeks to the entire length of the war. Togoland was the ...

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... government, something which the United States was completely opposed to. Castro and the Cuban government had become the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere by December 1960 (Finkelstein 26). The United States and the Soviet Union had been fighting for several years, and the United States had a strategic ... in history (Finkelstein 77). President Kennedy's naval blockade gave the United States' ships the authority to fire upon vessels if they did not abide by the quarantine line or did not obey the commands of the United States' naval vessels and authority. The blockade was t...

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... were handed out war bond leaflets from teachers so that they could begin saving as well (Home Front America). These advertisements greatly succeeded by promoting patriotism alongside capitalistic incentive to raise abundant amounts of money, thus generating the nation's primary resource (A Thousand Word). It is evident ... these gardens and to can and preserve any kind of grown food (Creating Rosie). These gardens gave Americans a feeling of involvement by being able to participate from their very own homes to help military conflict. Posters would include house wives in their gardens gr...

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... to the defensive positions set up all along the southern part of the island. They experienced much fighting in the central part of Okinawa. By April 8th, they had cleared through these defensive fortifications and pushed south. (Battle of Okinawa #2) The next American objective was Kakazu Ridge, ... to acquire water and supplies for them, which induced casualties among civilians. The American advance was inexorable but resulted in massive casualties sustained by both sides. The attack on Kakazu Ridge stalled and General Ushijima began a counter attack on the Americans. The 32nd Army was ...

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... in the early immigration era. 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. Arguably, a relative proportion of Italian who came into the United States were political refugees with the prominent one being Giuseppe Garibaldi. Evidently, ... Italian immigrants developed a number of language institutions such as churches, theatres, newspapers, debating clubs, recreational clubs, and mutual aid societies (Bencivenni 39). Estab...

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... Habyarimana was in was shot down when coming in for a landing at the airport of Kigali an airport that was supposed to be guarded by UNAMIR. No investigation was launched to find out who perpetrated the act and UNAMIR itself is under scrutiny for terrorist acts against civilians wrongly ... started (Berry 111). Kofi Annan indicts the usual bureaucratic suspects: lousy communications, bad information and decision-making inertia (Wallace 34). Rwanda was by any measures one of the worst atrocities to occur in one of the bloodiest century ever. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda has been ...

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... shame. This fanatical political system was to gain popularity in the Old German Empire that was defeated in World War One and later by the great world economic depression. The polices of the National Socialists were offered to deprived and hopeless people for solutions to their economic ... nation. This was one of the strong contributing factors to the rise of National socialism. The terms of the Treaty were laid down by the allies without negotiation with Germany. The Treaty was designed to have maximum humbling effect on Germany. All of German overseas colonies were lost ... Barvari...

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... person becoming massacred in the war, the campaign actually became more aggressive and bloody. During the later period of 1937 and early 1938, the Nationalists as they were called upon by the rebels received a lot of financial, economical and human support from the European states of Italy and Nazi Germany. On the other hand, the Republican government of Spain was receiving ... a semi-communist type of regime similar to that in Soviet Union. As stated above, the workers played a very critical role in the Spanish revolution and the Spanish working class responded by making a revolution t...

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... pro-American governments in Western Europe, those governments might fall under the control of rapidly growing domestic communist parties."" In February of 1948, a coup in Czechoslovakia, taken over by Stalin's allies, abolished any opposition preventing the Marshall plan from going into effect. That same year in April, "Congress approved the creation of the Economic Cooperation Administration, the ... agency that would administer the Marshall Plan."" Twelve million dollars was pumped into the European economy, and by the end of 1950, European industrial production had risen 64 percent, ...

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... the treaty. President Wilson had aswell have many interventions in countries such as: New Mexico, Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Tenderly nursed by his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924. The League of Nations was a former international organization that was formed after WORLD WAR I to promote international peace and security ... The U.S., which failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, never became a member. Based in Geneva, the League proved useful in settling minor international disputes, but was una...

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... is considered above politics, so therefore he never intervenes, and was never expected to intervene in political issues, his role was to sanction decisions made by the Cabinet, whether he personally approved of them or not. For this reason, the Emperor never expressed his desire for peace to the Cabinet; it ... warning for say two to three days in advance of use"(Bard). The Japanese should have been given some warning; the atomic bomb took them by surprise. A demonstration of some sort should have been conducted to give the Japanese a chance to see the destructive power of the atomic bom...

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... that Stalin spent at the Seminary fell within relatively quiet period, but the student body remained independent minded. The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. The most appealing of these ideas was Marxism, named for Karl Marx who was a 19th- century ... Germany suddenly signed a treaty agreeing not to go to war against each other. In a secret part of the treaty, Stalin and Hitler also planned to divide Poland between themselves. By December 1940, Hitler began p...

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... gas attacks was soon introduced in the form of "Gas Masks." Soldiers were given one in case of an unsuspected attack, which were recognised by a look out seeing a green mist approaching their line. Even though the use of gas masks successfully reduced the mass killings of soldiers, the ... stage was the most important weapon to a side, became too vulnerable to machine guns and artillery. Foot soldiers had now replaced the cavalry charge by the infantry charge. This was also known as "going over the top." The plan involved bombarding the front line trenches of the enemy and ... there we...

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... . Dispersed across a wide front, the tanks, infantry and guns of these formations were to be committed in small packets or as individuals. Opportunities for mutual cooperation were further diminished by poor communication systems. Even if they could have concentrated against the German armor, each tank commander had numerous jobs other than directing his crew. The German's, however, had two or ... strikes against 50 Allied airfields. Army Group B's invasion of the Low Countries forced the Allies" reaction and soon huge columns of Allied troops were pouring into Belgium. Meanwhile, unnoti...

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