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- 421: Philippine Annexation
- ... it meant that the United States would position itself close to Asia. They felt that this was important because it meant that the United States could have access to the ports of the Orient and Australia. They felt that the Philippines gave us a base at the door of all the East. This meant that the United States would have access to all the ports in the Pacific. The Pacific was ...
- 422: The Korean War and The Damage
- ... member states to aid the South Korea. Almost simultaneously U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered American Military Forces into action against the invaders. American Forces, those of South Korea, and, ultimately, combat contingent from Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey, with medical units from Denmark, India, and Sweden, were placed under a unified UN command ...
- 423: Persian Gulf Crisis
- ... were buying Iraqi land very cheaply because of the crumbling economy. All foreign purchases of land would soon end. By the end of 1988 Iraq had defaulted on loan payments to the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain. They were being rejected time after time for credit. Saddam required a large and quick influx of money. There was only one way that Hussein thought that this could be accomplished - to invade ...
- 424: World Wars of the 20th Century
- ... continued to be used to describe mechanized units. More combatants were mobilized for World War II than at any previous time. For the major belligerents the total number of fighting men in all services was: Australia, 1,000,000; Canada, 1,041,080; China, 17,250,521; Germany, 20,000,000; Great Britain, 5,896,000; Italy, 3,100,000; Japan, 9,700,000; the Soviet Union (army only), 12,000 ...
- 425: Canada in WWI
- ... in Canada dropped from $1614\farm to only $66\farm! Over and above all the hardships Canadian farmer endured, they had to sell the wheat they could produce dirt-cheap. Competition from countries such as Australia, and Russia had lowered world prices. By 1933, it cost more to produce the wheat than it cost to buy it. The Canadian economy was hard hit in the 30's, foreign countries were not ...
- 426: History Repeats Itself
- ... AC 64). The empire of GREAT BRITAIN is unparalleled by any other in that it encompassed one fourth of the world. Its numerous English-speaking colonies, which come from around the world, include Canada, British Australia, India, and New Zealand. The Realm of the UNITED STATES is vast and was acquired when the land on the continent was taken from the Native Americans and redistributed. III. Impact of The Political Order ...
- 427: Rites of Passage
- ... that importance affects that particular individual as well as their society. Finally, the essay will explore possible reasons as to why these initiation rites hold a deep meaning in their respective societies. The Kurnai of Australia have an initiation rite for the sons of married men in their perspective villages. Within a section by A. W. Howitt, in Eliade's book, From Primitives to Zen: A thematic Sourcebook of the History ...
- 428: Sexuality
- ... be raped by adult men-usually their fathers- often day after day, week after week, year in, year out. (Women, 65) The statistics also indicates that one in four families are incestuous among the US, Australia, Egypt, Israel and India. In the vast majority of cases, about 80 to 90 percent of these girls are being sexually used by their male relatives, usually their father. The world would not only have ...
- 429: Violence: Children Who Own The Streets
- ... rise with higher general technological economic level and in situations of varied social change. Hence Western Europe, USA and Japan have high levels of juvenile delinquency. Youth gangs are noted also in Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, USSR and Yugoslavia. Juvenile delinquency has shown an increase in such rapidly developing nations as Ghana and Kenya. Crimes against property are by far the most frequent type of offense. These include ...
- 430: Immigration Into Canada
- ... has been consistently ethnocentric. It was only recently that the Canadian government sought to maintain a white' society by selectively advertising abroad as well as granting prospective applicants from Europe, the US, New Zealand, and Australia preferential treatment. During the 1960s this distinction between preferred and non-preferred contries was replaced with a points-system. Along with the new points-system it was hoped that applicants from all countries and of ...
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