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- 251: Decline Of The American Empire
- ... 5% on environmental protection and 0.2% on industrial developments. This despite the fact that pollution and loss of productivity are more immediate threats than nuclear proliferation or annihilation. Unlike the United States, countries like Germany and Japan - who avoided large military expenditures - can continue to make large capital investments in their economies. Whereas, the United States tries to save itself from defaulting on its debts. As well as economic decline ... Europe Union is well on its way to becoming the world most powerful alliance of Western nations. It is currently a union of 15 European countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Greece, Finland and Denmark) who are committed to closer economic and political integration. The vision of European federalists, is a strong united Europe combining the resources of its member states in order to ... the option of entering into the European Monetary Union, while other countries may bide their time. Such flexibility, however, is flawed since the integration of currencies depends on the participation of the major powers - France, Germany, and to a lesser extent Britain. But with current austerity measures proposed by the French Prime Minister - intended to meet the criteria - being widely opposed, France's prospects are shadowed by doubt. Germany may, ...
- 252: Britain and Joining The Economic and Monetary Union
- ... and conflict on the European continent would disappear completely. Additionally, it can be argued that France is striving to create a Europe of global superpower by consolidating its economic strength. Furthermore, some might say that Germany has for a century tried to unite Europe, creating a super-state in which German influences would be great. But what is in a monetary union for Great Britain? Below are discussed the pros and ... in the UK have two main objections about Joining the single currency. First, they say, monetary union has imposed a "one-size-fits-all" monetary policy on the euro-zone: in booming Ireland and slumping Germany alike, interest rates are 2.5%. To complicate matters thanks to variations in the structure of economies, a given change in interest rates may have quite different effects in two different countries. The second objection ... the German Bundesbank, and is likely to put German interests before those of Europe. Additionally, it is likely that new money markets will develop at the initiative of the ECB, which is located in Frankfurt, Germany. Rather than using London, members of the single currency area will choose to anchor those markets in their territory. For the City of London, such a scenario would mean, at best, valuable opportunities foregone ...
- 253: Dwight David Eisenhower
- ... he snapped to his staff. "I'm not going to leave until I know more." He found out more. At that final session Khrushchev growled that his decision to sign a peace treaty with East Germany by the end of December was "firm" and "irrevocable." "If that is true," replied Kennedy, "it is going to be a cold winter." High over the Atlantic Ocean, flying back to the U.S. the ... meant war, to insist upon the maintenance of three basic Allied rights in Berlin: 1) the presence of Allied forces, 2) access to Berlin, and 3) a free and viable city as part of West Germany. Turning Point. It was to demonstrate that determination in the only language that Communism can understand that Kennedy ordered an armored U.S. troop convoy to travel the Autobahn from West Germany through East German territory to West Berlin. The journey made for some dramatic headlines, but its real significance was somehow diluted by the flood of international crises. Kennedy well recognized that if the convoy ...
- 254: Comparison Of Hitler And Stali
- ... had supported Hitler in return for vague promises, collapsed in July 1933, along with the few others still remaining. After Hitler became Chancellor Hitler passed a law that prohibited there being any other party in Germany other than the Nazis. By doing all of these things it was giving us a glimpse of what he was going to be like when he got into power. These examples show that both Hitler ... were still trying to recover when they came into power. Restoring the power back into their countries was of great importance to both men. After World War I, Russia had 9,150,000 casualties and Germany had 7,142,558 casualties. These losses were immense. Stalin believed that if he forced industrialization upon Russia, that it would help the country to rebuild. Collective farms was another one of Stalin's plans ... to defend the conquests of Socialism from foreign attack". This shows that Stalin's aspiration was to make his country strong, and that he had some ideas of how to go about it. Hitler's Germany also had a lot to recover from. "Hitler had plans for Germanic unity and German living space. German unity meant the gathering together of all Germans in Europe, one people into one empire, ruled ...
- 255: Eisenhower
- ... responded by ordering a military draft that began in 1940. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the next day the United States entered World War II against the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany, and Italy). A week later, General George C. Marshall called Eisenhower to Washington DC and put him in charge of the War Plans Division. Opinions differed on how to fight the war. Eisenhower favored the strategy of "Germany first", which meant that Germany would be concentrated on before Japan. President Roosevelt and army chief of staff George Marshall both supported him on this plan. Marshall liked it so much that he placed Eisenhower as the commander of ...
- 256: Destruction (holocaust)
- ... conventional means, mainly, riffles and machine guns in the hands of special army units or other armed representatives of the Nazi regime. The Holocaust was the effort of Adolf Hilter and the Nazi party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered being inferior. As a result twelve million people about half of them Jews were murdered. The murders were done by every means imaginable, but most ... National Social party that dislikes Jews and Arab. Hilter, argue that the destruction of Jews had to come. He blamed the Jews for decaying the Western society, which consisted of Europe. Hilter took power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began the chain of events that led to the Holocaust. During this period, while Hilter built his power, Jews were persecuted and brutalized. Still there was no organized effort to ... public schools. On September 1, 1939, Hilter took the first step toward his dream of building a "master race." The German attack on Poland was the first step in the offical slaughter of Jews outside Germany. While at home; in Germany itself, the authorized "mercy killing" of deformed and mentally ill people began. In 1941, Hilters' colleagues drafted up plans called the "Final Solution,"to get rid of all Jews ...
- 257: Genocide
- ... the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948. The crime of Genocide has been committed or attempted many times in recorded history. The best known example in this century was the attempt by Nazi Germany during the 1930's and 1940's to destroy the Jewish population of Europe, known as the Holocaust. By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been killed in Nazi concentration camps. The known objective of the Nazi rule was Jewish extinction. In November 1938, shortly after the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew, all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows of Jewish shops were smashed, and thousands of Jews were arrested. This "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht) was a signal to Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible. Several hundred thousand people were able to find refuge in other countries, but a nearly equal number, including many who were old or poor, stayed to ...
- 258: U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939
- ... the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. The question then became; what would they do? Persecution of the Jews in Germany began officially on April 1st 1933. Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity ... 9 November 1938, known as the "Night of the Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht, when over 1000 synagogues were burned. Jewish schools, hospitals, books, cemeteries and homes were also destroyed3. The mistreatment of non-Aryans in Germany was common knowledge in the U.S. in 1938. After the anschluss, the flow of refugees exceeded the capabilities of both the Nansen Office and the Autonomous Office of High Commissioner for Refugees. The commission ... refused to impose diplomatic or economic sanctions on the Nazi government8. Roosevelt publicly denounced Nazi brutality, saying that he could scarcely believe the Nazi barbarism. But when asked about getting masses of Jews out of Germany, he replied, "The time is not ripe for that," and when questioned further about the possibility of relaxing immigration restrictions, he responded, "That is not in contemplation, we have the quota system."9 This ...
- 259: Operation Barbarossa
- ... invasion of the Germans was a complete surprise as Russian dictator, Josef Stalin, had failed to acknowledge the increasing German troop concentrations on the border and he had also ignored British intelligence reports stating that Germany had intended to attack. Hitler once again used the Blitzkrieg technique with German tanks and air power leading the attack. There were three powerful German armies, made up of over 3 million men which moved ... Eastern front, launched a major counter attack and drove the Germans back 150 kilometers back before they stabilized their line. In the course of the invasion, the Russians had lost over 5 million soldiers and Germany over 1 million, but the German campaign still failed. Though there is not one single causing factor, the Germans had underestimated the Russians who had men to spare and were encouraged by Stalins message of Nationalism where he called on to defend Mother Russia against the invaders. Germanys military strategy was also flawed as there were too many goals at once and not one principal target but three, yet the front was too wide. In their quest for domination, the Germans ...
- 260: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... labor. Between 1929 and 1939 Churchill did not hold office. He disapproved violently of Baldwin's Indian policy, which pointed toward eventual self-government. At the same time he warned against the ambitions of Nazi Germany and urged that Britain should match Germany in air power. As World War II drew nearer, his warnings were brought to life in bloodshed. When general war broke out in September 1939, Churchill was offered his old post of first lord of the Admiralty by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Following the unsuccessful allied attempt to "remove" the Germans from Norway, Chamberlain was determined to resign. Churchill replaced him as prime minister, just as Germany invaded the low countries on May 10, 1940. The prime minister Winston Churchill was largely responsible for many aspects of war policy. He established personal relations of the highest value with U.S. President ...
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