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- 5531: Effects of World War II on Japan
- ... but after the war a lot of western ideas entered this culture and influenced it in several ways such as literature, architecture, religion and others. "Japan's literature got influenced by Russian, Western European, and American literature characteristics" (Grolier, Japanese Literature) . For example, some modern authors wrote romantic novels based on their experiences in Germany. These novels were written after World War II. Newspapers and magazines started to carry cartoons, which ...
- 5532: History Of The Car
- ... States, Henry Ford was making twin-cylinder water-cooled engine cars, which traveled at 25 miles an hour. (Zeldin II 640). Car ownership early in the century was limited to the rich and privileged. The revolution in the whole character of the car, as well as its method of manufacture, was made by the introduction of mass production. In 1908, Henry Ford, a farmer's boy from Michigan with little education ...
- 5533: Holocoust
- ... Shulman, William L., ed. Voices and Visions: A Collection of Primary Sources. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 1998. Vol. 2 of Holocaust. Ed. William L. Shulman. 8 vols.1998. Stern, Guy. Nazi Book Burning and the American Response. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
- 5534: Homosexual Persecution In The
- For most of the medieval and early modern times death was the penalty for homosexual acts. Due to the impact of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, many German States, starting with Bavaria , decriminalized homosexuality. Prussia was the exception. It heightened legislation concerning this issue which eventually was carried over in 1871 on to the Reich as a whole. (Burleigh and Wipperman ...
- 5535: Hong Kong Transferring Hands
- ... is made up of Chinese nationals but can have up to 20% foreign born permanent residents. It is the Legislative Councils job to enact, amend and repeal laws. The council also has what the American government refers to as the power of the purse. The Council has to approve all budgets and taxes for Hong Kong. It is also the duty of the Legislative Council to debate questions that concern ...
- 5536: The Holocaust: The Devaluing of Human Life
- The Holocaust: The Devaluing of Human Life The German Holocaust is a vivid part of American history. People try to deny that the Holocaust ever happened, but in all reality there is more proof then not of what has happened in Germany. The Holocaust is a simple example of the devaluing ...
- 5537: How Did World War 2 Change The
- ... women joined up with the army... It was obvious; the U.S. needed a larger military force. Thus women joined the army within organizations. From there came Oveta Culp Hobby, the director for the first American military organization of women. This organization was called the WAAC (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps). Many people were impressed by the strength of the WAAC and it is said that within three months, the AAF ...
- 5538: The Holocaust
- ... to see what was going on and to smell the stench of rotting bodies. Then he ordered journalists to come, and make sure everyone knew what was happening. He said "We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for, now, at least he knows what we are fighting against." Marshall wanted to make sure that everyone would believe this really did happen. Eisenhower was even ...
- 5539: Oliver Cromwell
- ... complex. (Sherwood, 1997) When Cromwell's first Parliament met he justified the establishing of the Protectorate as "healing and settling" the nation after the civil wars. Arguing that his government had prevented anarchy and social revolution, he was particularly critical of the Levellers who, he said, wished to destroy well-tested institutions "whereby England hath been known for hundreds of years." He believed that they undermined "the natural magistracy of the ...
- 5540: Human Rights In Kuwait
- ... public life in the small nation. The decree crowned 30 years of determination and effort by Kuwaiti women to get their rights that were stated in the constitution. The Decree brought positive responses world-wide. American President Bill Clinton said the decree was a "historic step" that would "achieve a firm future for the State of Kuwait." The European Union also wlecomed the move that "copes with the role of women ...
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