... , very up to date, ship-by-ship description of the important units of the U.S. fleet. They document was complete with photographs and scale drawings for each. The second document was a map, also printed in Japan. It was an overall key to our pacific naval defenses including Hawaii. Striking even more fear was a diagram showing in precise detail the battle formation of ... the safety and security of the entire West Coast by allowing a few hundred or even a few dozen Japanese fifth columnists to remain and carry out their work. A secret Japanese invasion map of the United States was uncove...

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... with both these countries and was fighting against the axis power, but in late 1940's these relationships changed dramatically. WW2 marked Australia's journey to finding their place in the world map. During early WW2 Australia viewed Britain as their "mother country" which shows that these two countries had a strong relationship since WW1. In September 2nd 1939 after the invasion ... ...

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... number of people killed in battle per 100,000 population has dropped 1000 times as civilizations evolved. Since World War II, no UN members have been forcibly removed from the map. Territorial disputes, which was the most common cause of wars in the 20th century, have declined dramatically, especially among major world powers, and international borders have stabilized. There were 69 ... ...

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... done to us." The Versailles Treaty was presented to Germany by the allied powers in 1919. The good things about this treaty is that it kept Germany together, the European map was basically re-drawn, and the league of nations is formed. This treaty basically stripped Germany of everything though.. They were blamed for every thing and ordered to pay the ... ...

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... was represented by Czar Alexander I., Prussia was represented by King Frederic III.. but the president of the congress was Metternich, the Austrian state minister. The leaders wanted to redrew the map as it was in 1782 and also wanted to rebuild the balance of power in Europe. So in the treaty they decided to punish France by taking away all the ... ...

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... everyday horrors of war, Bob Hope was there to do his duty to the country he loved. The year was 1932 and Bob Hope was just a speck on the entertainment map, so to speak. He, like so many others, was getting his start on the vaudeville circuit. These were quick-fire shows that featured as many new acts as they could ... ...

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... fewer buildings and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions, but in many ways it left deeper scars than WWII, both on the minds of the people and on the map of Europe (it was the first major war). - In WWII more civilians died than soldiers: as opposed to WWI, civilians in WWII were in the front line of attack. They ... ...

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... . An attack on a nation of 22 million suffering people is discussed by liberal commentators as if it were a subject at an academic seminar, at which pieces can be pushed around a map, as the old imperialists used to do. The United States has failed to persuade the world to support its quest for "full spectrum dominance" or global hegemony. The belief that ... ...

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... everyday horrors of war, Bob Hope was there to do his duty to the country he loved. The year was 1932 and Bob Hope was just a speck on the entertainment map, so to speak. He, like so many others, was getting his start on the vaudeville circuit. These were quick-fire shows that featured as many new acts as they could ... ...

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In 1939, Wystan Hugh Auden fled from his home in Germany and came to America. The fascist regime of Nazi Germany was spreading across Europe like black ink spilt on a map. Never before had such destruction and terror been strewn across a continent in such a short period of time. As the boots of storm troopers cut trenches in the blood soaked earth, ... ...

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... Germany in the war, but when the Allies told them that if they would win the war they would get a piece of Austria, they made a secret treaty with the Allies. Map of the World The most important battles of WWI were fought on the Western Front, in the North of France and in Belgium. Some other battles, like Jutland and Tannenburg ... ...

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... . This was a big lead-in to the First World War because in addition to the clash between nation-states, there was rising internal friction within nation-states as well. The map of the European alliance system in Thick Facts 1 can be helpful to understand why Germany in particular was itching for a war. Within the Triple Entente, only France and Russia were ... ...

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... Ambassador from the Soviet Union left the crowd around Dr. Strangelove. The Russian Ambassador went over to the banquet table, and he secretly took photographs of the "Big Board" strategic map with a secret camera hidden in his pocket watch. This scene also shows a stereotypical thinking of the Soviets at the current time. Americans thought that the Soviets were always constantly trying ... ...

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... of humour, this was the image of the Anzacs after Gallipoli. Their patriotism, dedication, tolerance and loyalty had won the hearts of the nation and had put Australia on the map. Although the initial declaration of war was met by enthusiasm at home, as news began to filter back to Australia of the Gallipoli campaign, and later as casualty figures from ... ...

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... , and Vietnam. It is the eastern half of a long peninsula that extends into the South China Sea from the rest of Southeast Asia, making it just below China on the map. Although it is currently divided into these three nation-states, the French united the region after it was conquered. Before that it was comprised of independent tribes and states, which ... ...

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