... how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. Its weapons dated from World War I and were no match compared to the new artillery that Germany ... considered is the people's views and thoughts regarding the United States going to war. After all do not forget that the American government is there "for the people and by the people" and therefore the people's view did play a major role in this declaration of Neutrality. Roosevelt said ...

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... the score, by Bernard Herrmann, locations, lights and even the themes approached give the movie a dark and gloomy atmosphere which is so particular to this "French label". Also the period during which this film has been produced (the beginning of the seventies) - a post-war (Vietnam war lost) and political ... -scarred (his psychological profile approximates those of the fight-zone combatants which are characterized by insomnia, troubles of the behavior, and even schizophrenia). For Travis, working as a taxi driver "any time, any where" seems to be the therapeutic solution to his troubles...

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What was the policy of appeasement, and in what sense (if any) did it fail? The definition of appeasement changed over time. The word itself comes from the old French apaiser which means literally to make peace'. Of course it became a dirty word. The appeasers had invited German aggression, and hence the Second World War, through their weakness and ... badly governed, slave-holding country'. While the New Statesman described its government as a barbarous affair', Clement Attlee insisted there was little point in trying to defeat Fascism from without. As for Churchill he pointed out that Japan...

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