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  • Elections For Third World Nations
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    Since the United States is one of the last remaining super powers of the world, we have the obligation to maintain and support good relations with the smaller and weaker nations throughout the world. We should take full advantage of this authority in several different ways. First the U.S. must focus on investing and trading with those nations who have yet to become economic powers; second, we must implement a consistent foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern nations: third, the United States ...
  • Italy In The German States 1848
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    NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL MOVEMENTS: 1848-1871 in 1848 liberal and nationalist sentiments in Europe erupted in a series of revolutions but the revolutions of 1848, after a brief moment of success, ultimately failed liberals throughout Europe proved unable to establish and consolidate political power, and conservatives in the end retained control of most states but national feeling grew more intense after 1848 by 1871 both Italy and Germany came into being as new nation-states the United States, i...
  • United Nations Observer Mission In Liberia
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    Liberia owes its establishment to the American Colonization Society; founded in 1816 to resettle freed American slaves in Africa. An attempt at colonization in Sierra Leone had failed in 1815. Six years later native rulers granted a tract of land on Cape Mesurado, at the mouth of the Saint Paul River, to U.S. representatives, and the first Americo-Liberians, led by Jehu di Ashman, began the settlement. In 1824 an American agent for the society, Ralph Randolph Gurley, named the new colony Liberia...
  • Only Mission Of The Cia
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    After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was created by President Truman as an insurance policy against that kind of surprise, which caught America off guard in World War II. According to the National Security Act of 1947 the CIA's principal function was to be the correlation and evaluation of intelligence collected by other departments. In other words, the CIA is an All-Source Fusion Agency. The difference involving the direction of the CIA during the col...
  • Nation In The Middle East
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    With the beginning of a seemingly endless war on terrorism, and a shaky United States economy, now hardly seems the time to examine our general policy towards all other nations, and developing nations in particular. The wreckage of the World Trade Center is still smoldering, and our troops are marching on Kabul as I write. Nationalism is at a height only previously experienced during the World Wars. Every other car you see on the highway has "Old Glory" proudly flying in their window or on their...
  • Taliban As An Official Government In Afghanistan
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    Beginning on September 27, 1996, an extremist militia group known as the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Upon seizing control, the Taliban has instituted a system of gender apartheid, which has placed women into a state of virtual house arrest. Since that time the women and girls of Afghanistan have been stripped of all human rights including their voice, visibility and their mobility. The Campaign to stop Gender Apartheid, led by the Feminist Majority Foundation, ha...
  • Day Of The Draft
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    During 1940 depression weary Americans hoped that the new decade would bring better days than the previous one. War swept Europe and Asia. People began to wonder whether when war rumours began to flood the newspapers. People tried to ignore the war by going to movies, watching sports, and listening to music. By mid 1940 war was no longer possible to pretend. The time had come for citizens and representatives in Washington to take charge in the nation's course. Isolationists wanted to stay out of...
  • North And South Korea
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    A cry rang out, June 24, 1950, from a small country half way around the world and America listened. Korea was engaged in a civil war as an attempt to keep North Korea from thrusting its influence on South Korea. Communist Russia and China were strong supporters of the North, and to keep Communism contained the United States sent troops to the South. Our troops spent years fighting and dying for a country some had never heard of. The irony of this war is that no one really paid attention and its ...
  • Organization Of American States
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    I. 1. Miguel Angel Asturias- A Nobel Prize wining novelist and poet from Guatemala. Wrote about his experience under a dictatorship. Established small-town life and a clash of cultures as themes 2. Frida Kahlo- Started painting in 1925 when she was hospitalized. Married Diego Rivera. Was inspired by retablo's, religious paintings. Was a champion of Mexican culture. 3. John F. Kennedy - Kennedy encouraged Latin American countries to undertake reforms to raise the standard of living for their peop...
  • Key Regions Vital To National Interest
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    Introduction: WASTE IN THE PENTAGONS BUDGET Many in Congress and the Department of Defense (DoD) argue that there is not a penny to spare in the Pentagons budget and that the military is right on the edge of having insufficient capacity to meet the security threats to this country. There are many expensive and unnecessary weapons systems initiated to fight the Cold War that drag on due to bureaucracy at a cost of billions of dollars annually to Americans. In addition to these wasteful purchases,...
  • Iraq With The U.N. Inspectors
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    UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United Nation's chief weapons inspector briefed the Security Council Tuesday, saying his inspectors would return to Iraq to resume looking for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction if that was what the council wanted. But at the same time, the White House was saying the U.S. -led coalition had taken over the job. The French ambassador to the United Nations presented a third view, saying some way should be found to coordinate the efforts of coalition inspection teams now ...
  • Countries East Of The Iron Curtain
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    Thinking back into history, many important events have occurred in history since the publication of 1984 by George Orwell in 1949. In no specific order there would be the Holocaust, The creation of the United Nations, NATO (North Atlantic treaty Organization), and even The Iron Curtain being established. After 1984 was published huge events also occurred in history. There was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Korean war, the Vietnam War, the creation of the Berlin Wall, and the destruction of the Be...
  • Every Branch Of The Armed Services
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    There's a quiet move under way to abolish the Selective Service System, the government unit that keeps track of draft-age young men. Opponens of this relic of the military conscription that ended 26 years ago say it is time to shut down the agency that this year will spend $24.4 million registering 18-year-olds for possible call-up if the draft ever reinstates. Supporters counter that the money is a small price to pay to keep the nation prepared for a major conflict that might require deployment...
  • United Forces Of The Nations
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    Part I The United States was an infant country in the late 1700's. At this time, this emerging power had the opportunity to create its own identity and position on foreign policy. The United States had many ties to Europe due to her being the source of the majority of its peoples ancestries, while at the same time it was separated from her by an entire ocean. This has undoubtedly always made a huge difference in directly separating us from their affairs, whether they be small or large in signifi...
  • Long Range Ballistic And Cruise Missiles
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    What is thought of when someone says, "It is time to go to war"? Is it the thousands of troops that are sent overseas? Maybe it is the aircraft that will be sent to bomb the enemy? These things represent "war" in many people's minds. How often does one think about losing his or her life to a long range missile strike set in action from thousands of miles away? With the increasing technology of the human race this scenario is becoming more realistic everyday. The ability of a rogue nation to acqu...
  • Sukarno As The President Of Indonesia
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    Question 3 When Sukarno and Suharto were presidents of Indonesia, they did many things that changed their country. Some of these things were bad and others were good. There were similarities and differences in the way that they ruled. The first similarity between Sukarno and Suharto was that neither of them was elected to be president, they were both appointed. On August 17, 1945 just after the Japanese surrender Sukarno proclaimed Indonesia's independence. He was then appointed to be the countr...
  • Soviet Union
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    The Cold War was a contest between the USA and the Soviet Union. It led to the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons, two universal ideologies in conflict, and two different self-images, the United States championing a world made safe for democracy. Its opponent, the Soviet Union advocated world Communism. The United States prides itself on its heritage of freedom, a refuge for persecuted religious groups, a land of liberty that successfully rebelled against the imperial power of Britain in ...
  • New United Front In America
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    America: what was once considered a place filled with hate filled with hate, racism, and violence, has recently taken a turn from the worst to better due to the event of September eleventh. On September eleventh 2001, when high-jacked planes destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center and parts of the west wing of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Borders all along the United States were closed and the airports were shutdown across the nation. People all over the country awoke to what at ...
  • Etien And Marie Bois Vert Chr
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    Jean Chr " etien As the Prime Minister of Canada, most of Jean Chr " etien's life has been spent in the limelight. He was born in Shawinigan, Quebec, a small town where little English is spoken. Back then no one would have guessed that Chr " etien would one day become the prime minister of this great nation. Chr " etien has been a great leader for Canada. An example of his great leadership skills is when he backed the Canadian citizens for not joining the United States into going to war with Ira...
  • Economy And History Articles
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    United States (Overview), United States of America, popularly referred to as the United States or as America, a federal republic on the continent of North America, consisting of 48 contiguous states and the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii. The United States is discussed in seven articles: this overview, as well as separate articles on United States (Geography), United States (People), United States (Culture), United States (Economy), United States (Government), and United States (Histo...

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