The decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan was a poor one considering the damage, the devastation, and the amount of people left dead, injured, or suffering the loss of a family member or a friend, all for the sake of quickly ending the ongoing War. When the Japanese had realized that they were the only ones left in the war, Germany their ally, was already beaten out of the war and all efforts were now concentrated at them, the Japanese began suing for a peaceful end to the war. ... The Japanese were completely cut off from the rest of the world, as Robert Butow said, " the scales of th...

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Writer Robert Graves wrote, "We held two irreconcilable beliefs: that the war would never end and that we would win it."... Worst of all, the war, as Robert Graves noted, seemed to have no end. ... (Hatt 57) Some were so disfunctional that they never again left hospitals or nursing homes. ...

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In his opening argument, head prosecutor for the United States, Robert Jackson said, "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a great responsibility. ... "The acts of Nazi Germany left no doubt that massive evil could emanate from the very summit of a nation state such a case called for an international tribunal to prosecute violations of universally accepted norms," (Cassel, 1180). ...

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"One young woman remembers her Father, Robert Smith being given a feather on his way home from work: That night he came home and cried his heart out. ... Another important factor regarding language was that most of the British public had left school at the age of fourteen, and it was suggested in order for them to fully understand, the language should be kept simple. ...

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In Europe after W.W.II, a lot of the continent was left in ruins. ... Much of Berlin was left in ruins from the war. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear weapons scientist, says "they [nuclear weapons] are not policy weapons but...are themselves a supreme expression of the concepts of total war" (Gilpin 77). ...

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Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life, in 1916, this disability will prevent him from joining the Russian army). ... In the June of 1918, Stalin left Moscow (the new capital) and arrived in Volgograd (which, incidentally, would later be renamed Stalingrad) with a new job: "Director General of Food Supplies in the South of Russia". ...

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South Korea is located on the eastern coast of Asia, it is the southern half of the Korean peninsula. It is officially known as the Republic of Korea. The population is approximately 47 million people, almost entirely Korean with a miniscule percentage of cultural or racial diversity. Seoul is ...

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On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close t...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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As the bombs continued to fall and the fires continued burn a question arose from the rubble of what was once Germany. The question was how to deal with Germany. Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. Since Germany has caused these problems, how can we let them be their own autonomous country? If we let them have their own country again, would they just then try to start another war? ...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...

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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 publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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