'The main cause of instability in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America between 1945 and 1990 were the domestic politics of those regions.â Do you agree? Discuss with detailed empirical examples of countries in at least two of the three regions mentioned. Introduction During the 19th century, a global transformation rearranged the basic structure of the international order.[footnoteRef:1] The...
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The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. -Malcolm X This quote by Malcolm X details that propaganda is promoted by the media and it is used to control people and groups and...
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Why did Africa become a theatre of Cold War conflict in the period between 1957 and 1962? The Cold War, originating in the aftermath of the Second World War, colored political, social, and cultural development during the second half of the twentieth century. The phenomenon of decolonization was no different, with newly independent states in both Africa and Asia finding...
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The Cold War was a conflict lasting forty-four years between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This all happened post-World War 2 when the United States and the USSR two superpowers were in a nuclear arms race to see who could make the most nuclear weapons. With fear surrounding the globe tensions were...
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Propaganda shaped the Second World War like no other war. Propaganda is the 'spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person'.The United States of America declared war on Germany and Italy on the 11th of December, 1941. What ensued was a constant effort to spread propaganda to get...
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On June 28 1919 on the sides of Paris and Europe crowded into the Palace of Versailles to sign one of historyâs most hated and also the most significant treaties. Commonly known as the Treaty of Versailles, it was a way all the countries ended World War I, but not knowing laid the foundation for the Second World War (WW2)....
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âSuccess is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that countsâ â Winston Churchill. Not many people today know the case of the sinking of USS Indianapolis during World War II, the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. After joining the Navy, I have heard so many horror stories about USS Indianapolis from...
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The Holocaust was the most catastrophic mass murder ever known in human history. So catastrophic that new words had to be invented to describe it (genocide). It is estimated that over 6 million Jews, gypsies, disabled, and mentally ill people were murdered. The word Holocaust stands for destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. The Nazis were trying to wipe...
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The anti-war movement was a reflection of a time period when individuals started to vocalize their opinions on political and social issues. The era of conformity and submission to higher powers was commencing its decay with the rise of the common manâs recognition of his or her authority and rights in response to certain societal dilemmas. This particular movement fully...
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The Second World War was unlike the First World War in that it was not seen as a European war. World War II was a clearly defined world war in that it was a war fought in two spheres and involved several countries across the globe. The first sphere was the European sphere where Germany and Italy tried to ravage...
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What was fascism and why did it happen? How did it affect the city of Florence? Fascism and its Effects on the City of Florence Fascism refers to the form of government whereby one party exercises dictatorship and forcefully suppresses the opposing party. Fascism is against democracy and puts one nation or state above the others. Fascist governments are often...
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The United States was involved in the war in Vietnam, broken down along the lines of the administrations of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. The US entered the Vietnam War to stop the spread of communism and lost it by 1973. The origins of the failure were the fact that the United States was committed to an indigenous political leadership that...
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A lot of Americans will guarantee that no additions could pay the value of what we paid with the outcome of the Iraq War. Because there were lost lives and untold several billions of dollars. Yet, we paid a far more significant expense in the Korean War with up to 36,000 dead. Maybe a couple would have thought in 1953...
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When World War II began, Britain released several propaganda posters. Through diction, symbolism, and imagery, Britain attempted to persuade its citizens to join in the war effort. Throughout several of the posters, targeted diction is used to convince the audience that it is essential for them to go to war. The emphasis on the word 'our' in one of the...
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As part of the British Empire, Australia was one of the first nations to declare war on Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. Nearly one million Australian men and women served in World War II. They fought in campaigns against the Axis powers across Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa, as well as against Japan in Southeast Asia and the...
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So how do you define a Civil War and what criteria do you have to fit to say that your country is at what? The most seen academic definition has two key criteria. ââThe first says that the warring groups must be from the same country and fighting for control of the political center, control over a separatist state or...
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Conflicts can be classified into two large groups, international and non-international armed conflicts. The UNHCR defines armed conflict as a violent confrontation between two human groups of massive size that will generally result in deaths and material destruction. International law is responsible for ensuring the safety of civilians during conflicts, seeking to limit the suffering of people and regulate combat...
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Propaganda is a simple but very effective tool used throughout history. This simple term turned winning sides into wars. What is little known, is how it is used and what made it so effective. Letâs dive deeper into World War 2 where one of the biggest impacts, of propaganda, takes place. This is one of the first major wars in...
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The two deadliest wars in human history, World War 1 and World War 2 had a significant impact on the prevailing world powers of the day. Although the wars have many similarities, they were different in many ways due to their direct causes, execution, and global impact. Prior to World War 1, political developments such as the shifting of powers,...
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Appeasement was a rational and calculated foreign policy. It was intended to prevent the possibility of a Second World War, In 1961 AJP Taylor published The Origins of the Second World War, where he lays out the Revisionist argument, that Hitler was not looking for World domination, but simply 'continuing the policy of previous German governments in seeking eastward expansion'...
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Adolf Hitler stated: âMake the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.â Hitlerâs early life influenced his rise to power, the holocaust itself, and the aftermath of the Holocaust. Adolphus Hitler was born in a small town in Austria-Hungary in 1889 as the second oldest child. He had two younger siblings, but his...
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No matter what the outcome of world war 2, the outcome would of still been the result of imperialism in one way or another. There were many causes that headed up to the start of World War 2, some of which can be traced back and connected to the first world war. After the first war, many countries were left...
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Thesis statement: World War two commenced on 1 September 1939 â on 2 September 1945 Soon after Hitler became chancellor, the use Concentration and extermination camps were put in place for order and the organization of deaths/labor for not only those of Jewish decent but also POWs, homosexuals, blacks, anti-war activists, those who were both physically and mentally disabled as...
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Before America joined the fight in World War 2, it was in a state of disarray. The Great Depression, which began in 1929, had ravaged the nation and resulted in record-high numbers of unemployed, 25%. Once Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, this gave the United States an opportunity to join the war full-time as they only aided the allies in a...
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World War 2 had a catastrophic impact on every aspect of everyday life. where the stock market crashed. Also, economic inflation had pushed building materials price up and led to materials shortages. As a result of this, the United Kingdom nationalized coal, steel, electric, and gas manufacturing. Pioneered by the infamous Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius,...
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As the Ancient Greeks would say, ââDesperate times call for desperate measuresââ. It all started in Japan in 1939, as newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and his predecessor or antecedent Zengo Yoshida, discuss the United States of Americaâs embargo, restriction, and impediment that deprives Japan of raw materials they can barely attain in the first...
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Created by Hiram Maxim in 1884, the machine gun greatly influenced World War I because of its rapid fire and high kill rate. This is because the machine gun was one of the most common and effective guns at this time. During the war, one of the main causes of death was from machine guns. Therefore, the introduction of the...
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Hew Strachan is the Chichele Professor of the History of War and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Strachan is the editor of The Oxford History of the First World War, which would lead to this three-volume history of the First World War. Strachan did not focus on covering the war in its worldwide aspect; therefore, we lose...
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The First World War was central to the coming of the 1917 revolution in Russia because it put enormous strains on the population and dramatically increased popular discontent. It also undermined the discipline of the Russian army, thereby reducing the governmentâs ability to use force to suppress the increased discontent. â whether or not Russia would have avoided revolution had...
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World War I, a time of massive killings and destruction, was not the product of a single, immediate event. Rather, multiple long-term causes, including the effects of Nationalism, produced the war. While liberals believed that a peaceful Europe would emerge from using national lines to organize Europe, the opposite happened. There was no cooperation amongst Europe's great powers; instead, there...
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