... be known as the Nanjing Massacre. Most experts agree that at least 300,000 Chinese died, and 20,000 women were raped. Some estimate the numbers to be much higher - 340,000 and 80,000 respectively."(Nanking 1937) Because of the incident, General Matsui, who led the Japanese troops to ... be known as the Nanking Massacre. Most experts agree that at least 300,000 Chinese died, and 20,000 women were raped. Some estimate the numbers to be much higher - 340,000 and 80,000 respectively. The Japanese government, to this day, maintains that the death toll is greatly exaggerated, ... first time t...

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... of the government who had ideas that were more on a democratic tone. At the same time, there were also a number of other people in large numbers who had more of an anarchist ideology and some of the reasons for the variations in these ideologies had to do with ... people were composed of the various prominent members of the Spanish military, the biggest landlords and the country's leading businessmen. There were a number of other smaller political parties that were siding with the Republicans. Some of them included large scale trade union and their respective political organizations, ... ...

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... ) It wasn't until World War I and the horror brought by the "industrialization of war" (The Century) that the symptoms suffered by hysterics could be compared with the symptoms of a large number of men who had endured documentable horrors. Originally, young British soldiers had enlisted for the war with enthusiasm. Edward Francis, a British WWI veteran recalled, "Everyone - EVERYONE - thought the war would ... by catharsis but were forever changed by war and needed intense follow-up treatment. The military felt it was enough to make them minimally functional. (Herman 26) However, such hu...

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... to immigrate was the widespread presence of anti – Semitism in Canada (The Quebec History Encyclopedia, 2006). This deterred countries from accepting large numbers of refugees. In 1938, after Kristallnacht had taken place, the Canadian Jewish parliament had arranged to sponsor 10,000 Jewish refugees to Canada and ... of Canada, 2013). These men were mainly Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria (Government of Canada, 2013). The statistics above illustrate the massive number of Jews that were considered as "enemy aliens" and adversaries in Canada during the Holocaust, consequently exp...

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... be more disagreement and objection to the war. According to Moskos,. when the war started there were 26 conscientious objectors per 1000 registraints. From those numbers Selective Service records show that about 65% were sustained during WWII. In Leo Bogarts book, "Silent Politics: Polls and the Awareness of Public ... the poll indicate the public overall is somewhat less supportive of the postwar situation. A majority of the public, 57% now favors a reduction in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, including 18% who favor a complete withdrawal. To summarize the Gallup Polls' findings in ...

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History is often thought of as a set of facts, or numbers and dates. These numbers are supposed to help the people who are alive in the present to understand what happened in the past. But how can someone who is alive in ... born? The reality is that people cannot understand the past unless they have something with which to connect it to their present. In order to make this connection, the numbers and facts which make up history must be brought to life in the present, through emotions which are timeless, and can be understood and experienced by both historical characters ... reader. In war, ...

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... unrestrained warfare, belligerents had to intervene in the economies, diverting production from peacetime goods to the manufacture of munitions and military equipment. Technological advances also took place, which increased the number of "mechanical contrivances-3 such as heavy artilleries, tanks, submarines, and airplanes, which made war an "untrammeled, absolute manifestation of violence-4 as Carl von Causewitz so eloquently put it. Total war ... expanded their activities. The growing needs of the military created an enormous demand for workers. To compensate for the millions of men w...

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... true total of the BCATP's fatal casualties be established? RCAF statistics show that 1,155 deaths resulted from accidents involving non-operational units, which were therefore training units.6 However, this number only accounts for airmen from the RCAF. BCATP schools also trained pilots from other air forces. Canadian airmen made up only 55 percent of the 856 students killed during their ... . Another group of 2,816 pilots who had received their training elsewhere also served in operational training units in Canada. Students from the other Allied forces (France, Poland, etc.), whose exac...

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... red, white and black. There are 48 paintings, each formed by 6 panels. The paintings are arranged together to form the large Diaspora. It's compiled of numbers, roman numerals, use of metaphors and biblical quotations. "You Must Face the Fact", "I and thou", "Earth, O Earth", "How is the Hammer ... Colin McCahon's works from his "Rocks in the sky" series. Tillers was particularly interested in McCahon's use of numbers, especially with two closed number sequences: 1- 10 and 1- 14. On the top right and bottom left section of Diaspora, there are the combination of roman numerals and ... nu...

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... are available, which forces citizens to look beyond the borders for work. Our changing immigration policy is motivation for some immigrants to come to America. If the U.S. is accepting a high number of one country's immigrants, than many of their citizens will emigrate for America, some legally and others illegally. The United State's has changed its immigration policy many times in the ... benefits limited in 1996 and the illegal immigrants were declared ineligible for all benefits except in cases of emergency. A lack of wars has lowered the number of refugees but political persecution...

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... Senate, and eight percent of university professors were Jewish; and there are more instances of Jews in influential positions. Note that although these numbers may not appear large, the Jews of Italy constituted only one tenth of one percent of the entire population, making them a tiny minority ... children to public schools, or marry or employ non-Jews. By 1943, at least six thousand Italian Jews emigrated and an approximately equal number converted religion; those remaining hoped for better days. Their optimism was not unjustified, as Badoglio was expected to restore the full rights o...

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... revolutionary methods, guerilla bands everywhere; such are the only means by which a small nation can hope to maintain itself against an adversary superior in numbers and equipment. By their use a weaker force can overcome its stronger and better organized opponent" (Miksche 25). A quote from the godfather of ... ). The most important and significant contribution the Soviet partisan movement made was its effect on the German Army. Although there are no clear numbers to how much effort the German Army put into worrying about the partisans, there are a few strong case examples. The primary ...

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... the US, of the 3,097,000 men recruited, only 517,000 were volunteers. So, was the number of enlisters due simply to opposition, or was the enormous difference between the number of volunteers numbers recruited due to something else? No doubt the complete effectiveness of controlling the population through propaganda had a ... the machine guns, I"m sure. The term PBI was influenced by such results, and although the attack on the Somme looked reasonable on paper, the numbers of "ifs" meant that the human wave was flattened literally. In hindsight we can say that the artillery should have ...

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... it became known was ushered in by a strong economy and strong economic optimism. It was created by a generation that was relatively small in number and thus relatively favored economically. If the economic theory that a prosperous economy produces an increased birth rate is true, then this was certainly ... young generation of consumers, and fueled the nations manufacturing industries. Twenty years later when the Baby Boomers entered the work force, their large numbers decreased their relative wages, devalued their increased years of education, and for many their desired standard of livi...

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... submarine impact was seen in the cutting of the British lifelines as was done in the First World War. The German submarines also recorded large numbers of victories in United States waters. The German submarines were controlling the wars in the Oceans until the allied forces began to attack back with ... system (HAH-WEB). During the Second World War the allied forces used the convoy system to defend a large group of merchant ships with a limited number of armed escort ships (HAH-WEB). This tactic became necessary in order to increase the amount of merchant ships that made there way thro...

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... propaganda gave somewhat a false picture, as sex segregation was going to continue in the post war years. Studies suggest this, in that although the numbers of women in male dominated industries increased, the volume of those allowed to undertake real men's tasks involving machinery was strictly limited. Moreover it is widely ... that only 10% of married women were wage earners, in 1951 that figure had risen to 21.74%. The conflict was responsible for the increased numbers of women in employment, thus meaning that this change can be attributed to it. On the other hand, trends in married ...

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... of Muslim guerrilla fighters, declared jihad, or holy war, on the Amin government and its supporters. This included Russia, who had a small number of forces in the country to help support the pro-modernization of Afghanistan. The Russians took interest in the country because they believed if Amin ... outnumbered the small pockets of Mujahideen guerrillas. Even though they were outgunned and outnumbered, the Mujahedeen was able to inflict a great number of casualties on the Russians for a number of reasons. Because they lived in Afghanistan their entire lives, they had a much better under...

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... . Japanese pilots would strap themselves into planes loaded with explosives and fly them into American ships. This suicidal type of fighting resulted in tremendous numbers of casualties on both sides. One option available to Truman was a full scale invasion on Kyushu. Another option was a naval blockade, and ... then there was the possibility of an extensive aerial bombardment or the full invasion of Japan. These were unlikely choices because the number of American and Japanese casualties would run into the hundreds of thousands or maybe even the millions. The last option was to utilize ...

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... in troops of up to an additional 400,000, but Johnson only approved 45,000, citing public opinion as one of the reasons why a limited number was approved. This shows that even the president isn't invincible; he has to answer to the public, which can sometimes be harsher than his peers ... , which was far less than Vietnamese deaths, but was still considered a mistake, especially by the public. Any time American lives are lost, especially in massive numbers, the American people lose support. In recent years the U.S. citizens have become accustomed to battles without much American bloodshe...

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... the concept of this rifle in this year while working for the C. G. Haenel Waffen und Fahrradfabrik Company. This rifle was developed for a number of reasons in late World War Two. The first reason this firearm was developed was to defeat the seemingly endless Red Army who came from ... fully automatic fire, giving the power of a multi person machinegun crew to a one-person crew. After the war, the Allied forces examined a number of the 450,000 produced to develop their own weapons. One of these people was the infamous weapons engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov. Mikhail Kalashnikov was conscri...

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... in Rwanda, but it did little good. "Trials in international courts have been limited. Compared to the great numbers of accused war criminals, only a relatively small number of persons have been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ... as the genocide in Rwanda. Even in the rare instances when the "judicial system functions well enough to expect fair trials only a very small number of the total are likely to be prosecuted" (Hayner, 2002: 12). International bodies are formed because they are less biased...

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... was really no new provocation for the Chinese Communists to retaliate against. Chiang's forces had been, as always, making covert actions on the mainland with small numbers of troops, but this event was nothing new and they were not conducted frequently or on a large scale. There were proposals to further expand the facilities ... alert status and the drill to claim that the US and the ROC were preparing to move against the PRC, since there were such a large number of troops moving around the area. Mao and the other communist leaders might have perceived this drill and alert as an actua...

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... These developments helped in maintaining the war effort on the home front in that focus was place upon efficient production through striving for a maximum number of workers to be employed, as well as taking action to secure labour in the workforce. Despite the early organisation of industry in Germany, ... the neglect of the German government to acknowledge an agricultural program was another of the factors that caused anti-war sentiments to arise, with a number of strikes occuring. Rationing began in 1916 under the War Food Office, however regulations were taken to extremes, with 258 l...

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... , while another 300,000 were wounded. According to sources in Baghdad there were also 35,000 civilian casualties. Scholars now believe that the number of Iraqi soldiers wounded and killed is much lower than initially thought, although concrete numbers were not established. The Gulf War is estimated to have cost between $60-$71 billion U.S. dollars. Bosnia In March of 1992 Serbian paramilitary ... actual military fatalities it would appear so. 3 million Koreans perished in the Korean War. 1.5 million Vietnamese dead after Vietnam. 200,000 unarmed civilians brutally massacred during the Gu...

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... feminism. One was the rapid expansion of higher education. Although the proportion of women among college students fell during the post war years, their numbers kept rising. This meant a far larger population of educated women, always the heart of feminist movements. Another major development was the steady ... increase of women, particularly married women, in the post war labour force. The rising number of working wives reflected the impact of birth control; women now completed their families at younger ages. It also reflected the post war ... set the stage for a feminist revival in th...

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