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- 831: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- ... of their position "in the near future". No reply ever came and on the eve of the conference the British were unaware of U.S. refugee policy4, a practice that would recur throughout the refugee crisis. Assistant Secretary of State George Messersmith, in briefing the President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees (PACPR) before Evian, expressed the U.S. desire to "create some permanent apparatus to deal with the refugee problem ...
- 832: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... a formal peace in order to win what he regarded as an indispensable "breathing spell," instead of shallowly risking the future of the revolution (Daniels, 135). Trotsky resigned as Foreign Commissar during the Brest-Litovsk crisis, but he was immediately appointed Commissar of Military Affairs and entrusted with the creation of a new Red Army to replace the old Russian army which had dissolved during the revolution. Many Communists wanted to ...
- 833: Actions and Behavior of the President
- ... Cold War issues during his presidency than domestic affairs because he found himself in power during two of the biggest events of the Cold War. The failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis forced Kennedy away from domestic issues which he promised to tackle. Hoover's presidency was completely derailed because of the depression. Lincoln focused himself completely at the task of keeping the Union, even if this ...
- 834: USSR: The Doomed Empire
- ... the arms race with the US. This economic decision exhausted the Soviet economy and off balanced the entire industrial system.5 Russia's final offensive against the United States was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. 6 This offensive resulted in little more than a small trade of the US removing its missiles from Turkey. By the end of the arms race with America, Russia was economically destroyed and before long ...
- 835: Political and Economic Changes In Bulgaria
- ... in Bulgaria over the last two months i.e. January and February of 1997, subject to the news material which was available to me and to the time constraints of this project. Bulgaria's economic crisis exploded into popular outrage at the beginning of January 1997, when previously quiescent Bulgarians poured into the streets to demand that the governing BSP, leave power now rather than when their four-year term expires ...
- 836: Affirmative Action
- ... successful on my own? Why do I need laws to help me get a job?” These African Americans want to be treated as equals, not as incompetents. In my Idealistic world neither Black, White, Mexican, Asian, Woman or Man should need nothing, except their skills. In a statement released in 1981 by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Jack P. Hartog, who directed the Affirmative Action Project, said: "Only if ...
- 837: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... Japan During the Meiji Era 1867-1912 (New York: Scribner and Sons, 1916) 70. Footnote15 Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976) 116. Footnote16 Ernest Best, Christian Faith and Cultural Crisis the Japanese Case (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1966) 108. Footnote17 Ibid., 105. Footnote18 Ibid., 106. Footnote19 Ibid., 106. Footnote20 Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976) 117. Footnote21 Hugh Borton ...
- 838: The Role of Citizen Political Participation in Hong Kong and Singapore
- ... in Singapore acted to keep broad citizen participation in government to a minimum. Hong Kong after World War Two remained a colony of England and it's government remained under colonial rule. Unlike in other Asian nations such as Singapore their existed no major anti-colonial movement and the Colonial government was insulated from political pressure because many residents and immigrants from China appreciated the commercial opportunities that Hong Kong had ...
- 839: The Factors that Gave Rise To Japanese Militarism
- ... the western powers in treaties and by stopping its colonial expansion during the nineteen twenties. Once Japan commenced on the path of militarism it found that because of its technological edge it could defeat other Asian powers this increased Japan's sense of superiority and feed the fires of nationalism. These fires grew as following the 1931 Manchurian incident Japan invaded Manchuria then most China. In South East Asia Japan quickly ...
- 840: Metaphors that Justify War
- ... not know all the facts) the war is universally justified and the President can wash his hands at the expense of public interest. The public makes its determination several ways. In reference to the Gulf crisis, the involvement of the state initiates involvement of the media and the media passes on information to the public and the public makes the decision that justifies of condemns military action. Since the President had ...
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