...The Great War, commonly known as World War I was one of the bloodiest wars in history. Central Powers formed from four different countries: Germany was the strongest, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire and the Bulgarians who joined later on. These four countries were ruling Europe and expanding their empire. Something had to be done about this and the central powers had to be stopped. Their expansion had a huge impact on France and Britain because they were the strongest countries in the European Union which lead them to fear The Central Powers. So the Allied Powers who fought the Central Powers were formed from France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy and the United States who also joined later on. For many American citizens, U.S entry into...
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...us out of the War” to “Make the World Safe for Democracy” As it is well-known the World War I was primarily of a war fought due to imperialist aims, stemming from the need to satisfy the demand for raw material in the Europe. With the industrial revolution urge for raw material became of crucial importance for the European states. This was followed by the aggressive colonization projects that eventually led to a harsh competition between different parties around Europe, who want to hold control over the economic resources. The United States was not a super-power, as it is now, at the time of the War. Being aware of this Wilson opted to remain as a neutral observer during the initial phase of the war. It was the third year of the war, when the British intelligence intercepted the coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on 16 January 1917. While the two blocs, The Entente Powers (France, The British Empire and Russia) vs. The Central Powers, (Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire), were fairly evenly balanced between 1914 and 1917, with the year 1917 the Central Powers started to be weakened due to several reasons. The Americans were convinced that the Central Powers were doomed to lose the war, when the Zimmermann telegram was revealed. Therefore, Wilson aspired to take advantage of these circumstances and use the telegram as a pretext for convincing the American public opinion to join to the War and side with the...
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...Michael Willar Professor Walton International Relations 04-14-2013 “Major war will not occur in the future because the international community has created a set of international institutions that make it impossible.“ Many people believe that a major war will not happen again because international institutions would prevent it. I tend to agree with that notion because I believe that many things have changed since the last great power war in the 20th century. The League of Nations was the primary international institution after World War I. The United States however was not a member and the League of Nations, often failing to resolve conflicts in a diplomatic manner. Post World War II, many other international institutions were created which had the objective to manage the world economy and prevent another major war. These institutions included the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The league of nations turned into the United Nations (UN), which today has a total of 193 member states. The UN suggests that every country has a desire to solve conflicts diplomatically first and not start a war immediately. In case a country has a conflict with another country , both can state their cases and opinions in front of the United Nations. The United Nations then tries to mediate between those countries and solve the conflict diplomatically without any military...
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...Edberg Espinoza Why some politic are independents and do not follow the biggest parties. As you know there are two major parties, Republican and Democrats. The Republican are very conservative their ideology is fiscal conservatism. They do not mind spending money in large amounts in the army or military actions approved. But beyond that, hate spend on somebody else. Especially if it benefits all Americans and especially dual benefits of freedom and indoctrination supporting low-income school prayer, creationism in classrooms, religious symbols displayed in public and religious speech, prayer and ceremony that is allowed in all public places but are against the atheist freedom. In your mind, you are free to worship and rightly should be. But you are not free to be free of it. Gay marriage is wrong. This problem has embraced the American public take away from the real issues. As the economy. This should not be a problem. Instead, every time you have run out of ideas, go to this topic to distract the American public is easily distracted. Pro-life too. In other words, pro fetus. They care about the unborn or even became a human being fully identifiable. But once born, are send that child to war or kill him if they decide a crime worthy of death is committed. The really funny thing is that the Republicans were the liberals of the time when their party was founded. Now, they despise liberals. For other hand Democrats are very liberal and their ideology are pro-choice,...
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...Founding Brothers Introduction When I first heard the name of Ellis’ Book “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”, I could not understand why the author called the revolutionary generation “brothers”, but not “fathers” as usual. Now, after I have read the book, I understand why. Ellis did not write the history of the United States, he wrote the story of a group of men, whose remarkable personal qualities made possible the emergence of a new independent country. Although, the members of the group were different in their personalities, backgrounds and experiences, it seems like all of them shared a superhuman gene of the ability to change the history. Since Founding Father’s agendas on the political course of the U.S. had differed drastically, they were not friends and, often, even allies. However, the devotion to the U.S. independency was literary in their blood, so it made them...
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...of influence and power. Approximately one-third is from government and politics. The remaining is from financial industry such as banks, the industrial sector, the labor industry, education, and communications. These meetings are closed to the public and no media is allowed in. During these meetings they decided who is president, what countries will receive financial assistance from the World monetary system, and they also decide on new strategies like how to control population growth. The Bilderberg group is an evil and corrupt organization that must be stopped. They have all the control over how the entire world operates with the exception of Iran, North Korea, and Cuba. The Bilderberg Group is governed by a Steering Committee which designates a Chairperson; members are elected for a term of four years and can be re-elected. There are no other members of the Bilderberg conference. The Chair's main responsibilities are to chair the Steering Committee and to prepare with the Steering Committee the conference program, the selection of participants. He also makes suggestions to the Steering Committee regarding its composition. The executive secretary reports to the Chairperson (Peters, 2008). (Confrences 2012-1954, 2012) The Bilderberg Group is evil organization because they believe they can control people, they promote abortion, they worship a God named Moloch and they have orchestrated huge human tragedy like wars and famine. This will be unfolded has I provide the proof...
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...Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. The world bank Group 3 1. The Back ground information and its power. 3 a. The World Bank Authority 3 b. The Background information 3 2. Aims & Objective 4 3. The Funding Source 5 a. Bond Flotation 5 b. Subscriptions fees 5 c. The Loans 6 4. Ownership & Organization structure 6 a. The membership of World Bank Group. 6 b. The leadership position 6 5. Recent Activities about the new president of World Bank. 7 6. The Criticism about the management of the World Bank 7 7. The restoration of Thi Nghe and Nhieu Loc canals 7 III. Bank for International Settlement (BIS) 8 1. Back ground information & Power 8 a. The background information 8 b. The BIS’s Authority 8 2. Objectives 8 3. Funding Source 9 a. Informal way of funding 9 b. The Formal ways of funding 9 4. Ownership & Structure 9 a. The Ownership 9 b. The Structure of BIS 10 5. BIS is immunity to the global regulation 10 6. Experience in Vietnam 10 IV. Asia Development Bank (ADB) 11 1. Back ground information & Power 11 a. The background information 11 b. Asia Development Bank’ power 11 2. Objective &Aims 12 3. Funding Sources 12 4. Ownership & ADB’s structure. 13 5. Recent Activities of ADB on November, 2012 and its criticism 13 6. The support of reform the state own enterprises in Vietnam 13 V. International Monetary Fund (IMF) 14 1. Back ground...
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...Chapter 22 World War I 1. Create a timeline of the events leading to the outbreak of war in Europe starting with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand June 28, 1914. 2. What was Wilson's first response to the outbreak of war in Europe? 3 Why was it difficult for the U.S. to remain a neutral trading nation? 4. What was the Lusitania crises and what was the U.S. response? 5.Describe the next 2 sinkings and the U.S. response. 6. Describe the Sussex Pledge. 7. Eventhough we were neutral, how was the U.S. really favoring the Allies? 8. Which ethnic groups in the U.S. favored the Central Powers and WHY? 9. How did the British make sure that America had a negative view of the Germans? 10. Discuss the U.S. lack of preparedness. Which groups and persons thought we should prepare just in case we were drawn into war? 11. What was President Wilson's stance on preparedness? 12. What groups and areas of the country were vehemently against preparedness and why? 13. Describe the election of 1916 and tell why Wilson won. 14. What were Wilson's last peace efforts to keep us out of war? 15. What are 3 major reasons why, eventhough he wanted peace, Wilson had to ask Congress for a declaration of war in April, 1817? 16. What was Wilson's slogan in his war declaration request? 17. Describe the War Industries Board and its leader Bernard Baruch. 18. What was Herbert Hoover's role in preparing for war? 19. What actions did the Fuel Administration...
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...THE AMERICAN DREAM THE AMERICAN DREAM Section #1 a. The impact cultures in North America have on the United States is that each region adapted the traditions and/or beliefs of those who settled in that area by maintaining dance, music, and crafts. Many English settlers did not respect the Native American cultures, and were seen as uncivilized and/or savages. Basically there was a clash of cultures, with new ideas pushing away old ways and mayor cultures oppressing others. b. Immigration and migration shape the early United States, for example: The first person to be processed at Ellis Island was Annie Moore who arrived from Ireland on January 1, 1892. As the first immigrant Annie Moore was given a $10 gold piece. She soon was married and gave birth to eleven children. While Annie Moore was the first immigrant, she was definitely not alone. Some famous immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island included Charles Chaplin, Cary Grant, Harry Houdini, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is easy to see from this list how immigrants have changed the face of the United States. All of these famous people contributed to the United States, giving a bright future for innovative contributions to the young nation. c. The most important change in the United States ‘ involvement in foreign affairs from 1789 to 1877 was expansion of its territory. Marked by a treaty with France buying Louisiana territory doubling the United States, and other treaties...
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...How we ended up with 15 different kinds of plugs and sockets? There is 15 different types of power plugs and sockets in the world and those are named with letters from A to O. Main question is why we have those 15 different types of power plugs instead of one in whole world. All of this plugs works either with 50 Hz frequency or with 60 Hz and the voltage variate between 100 to 240 V. Around 80% of all the countries in the world use voltage between 220 to 240 V and the rest 20% use voltage between 100 to 127 V. Although the biggest user of lower voltage United States of America has started to use 230 V split in two 115 volts wire and that allows every possible appliance to plug in without concern of braking it. So maybe some point in future we only have one short voltage area. (International Electrotechnical Commission 2015), (H.McGregor 2015). Some history to this point to give a hint why we even end up needing these power plugs and sockets. All of this goes back to man named Joseph Swan who invented incandescent light bulb in 1878 and Thomas Edison who invented indoor light bulb which was huge invention at that time. Light bulb was huge invention at that time people were able to see in the dark house without candles. After many test and disappointments Thomas Edison was able to create lamp that lasted 13,5 hours 22nd of October in 1879 and he filed a patent for it and so it was the first commercial incandescent light bulb. After patenting the light bulb Thomas develop a...
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...outcome of a complex round of negotiation between interests, choices between values and competition between resources… there are no single ‘best’ options for any player in this game, for the ‘best’ outcome depends on what others do and what deals are possible.” (Davis et.al., 1993) 1. INTRODUCTION “Pure” conflict defined as the existence of competing interests between parties in absence of interests that are shared, is an anomaly in international relations where the defining feature of the relationship between states is mutual dependence. Such was the observation of Thomas Schelling, noted international economist, during the height of the Cold War. In the decades that have since transpired, globalizing developments in technology, communications, finance and trade have given rise to a world in which citizens, organizations and governments engage in millions of trans-national interactions on a daily basis. In the modern age, the need for developing mechanisms and skills to manage daily exchanges has grown, as has the necessity for smoothly navigating through the impasses that arise when the satisfaction of one nation’s interests, values or goals depend on the actions or intentions of another. At the national level, policies must address, and if possible, resolve tensions between the often divergent interests of an array of...
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...Power and the Balance of Power The first concept that we will discuss is power, and its related concept, the balance of power. Power is an important concept in global relations, and a fundamental idea within the school of thought known as Realism. Realism is based on the assumption of anarchy, or the absence of a central order, as the key description of global relations. This is supposedly a self-help system, in which states compete with each other for power. Power is defined as the ability to get someone to change their behaviour in a direction desired by a stronger actor. The idea of power and the balance of power go back only 300 years, but there is evidence, according to Realists, that the Ancient Greeks and Romans pursued power politics. The idea of the balance of power is that interstate interaction will be stable if states, operating under Realist principles, seek to balance each other in their relations. By acting prudently, "carefully, with foresight, avoiding rash acts," no state will seek to upset the system. Each state will check the others, and no state will grow powerful enough to overthrow the others. A state that seeks domination will be defeated, so no state will attempt this. The classical balance of power operated only under a certain number of conditions: 1. There were a large number of states for alliance formation. 2. There were clear geographic confines in the system e.g. the European continent. 3. There must be flexibility/freedom...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |A group sharing a common or distinctive culture, religion, language, or likeness. | |Anti-Semitism |Discriminating against, or prejudice, or hostility toward Jews. | |Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or their products or their culture. | |Xenophobia |An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. | |Persecution |A program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, and or subjugate a group of people based on their | | |religion, race, or beliefs. | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) ...
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...For centuries, people from all around the world have been subjected to jarring and authoritarian treatment. Holocausts in central and eastern Europe and Africa; Jewish people and African natives endured torturous genocides for the expense of German imperialism. Women in the United States were place in a domestic sphere with unequal rights and injustice before the Women’s Rights Movement. These are one of many historic events that display the inequality and oppression of human rights throughout the world. In the novels Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee, the theme oppression reoccurs in various points of the book to support the messages of anti-war and anti-imperialism. Joe Bonham, the main character...
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...Le-Tone Wei Why did Stalin emerge as leader of USSR in 1929? In 1924 the USSR’s leader Vladimir Lenin died after continuous strokes. His death triggered the leadership struggle, and Russia urgently needed a successor to continue in guiding the country and proposing policies to run the country. Candidates such as Trotsky and Bukharin were highly regarded and party members believed they were to take over Lenin’s position; Joseph Stalin on the other hand, was perceived as a mediocre and uninteresting party member, he was not thought as a suitable candidate to replace Lenin’s former status. Yet Stalin succeeded in taking power and control over the Soviet party and emerged as the leader of USSR in 1929. This led historians questioning: how and why did he emerge as the leader so unexpectedly? Many people believe that it was his personal skills that gave other factors an advantage. I believe his personal skills is the secondary factor that assisted his emergence; from my perspective, the reason why he became leader is primarily due to luck. Without luck there would less likely be a power struggle, Lenin could have appointed his successor and Stalin would never have become the leader of USSR. However the main cause of his success is still considered to be an exceedingly disputable topic, and I will be examining the different factors behind this topic while suggesting my personal opinions and beliefs. As mentioned before, many people believe that Stalin became the leader of USSR...
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