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- 1131: Arab-Israeli Wars
- ... battles. Although Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979, hostility between Israel and the rest of its Arab neighbors, complicated by the demands of Palestinian Arabs, continued into the 1980s. THE FIRST PALESTINE WAR (1947-49) The first war began as a civil conflict between Palestinian Jews and Arabs following the United Nations recommendation of Nov. 29, 1947, to partition Palestine, then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state ... partition resolution. It had also secured its independence. During 1949, armistice agreements were signed under UN auspices between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The armistice frontiers were unofficial boundaries until 1967. SUEZ-SINAI WAR (1956) Border conflicts between Israel and the Arabs continued despite provisions in the 1949 armistice agreements for peace negotiations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had left Israeli-held territory during the first ...
- 1132: Arab-Israeli Wars
- ... battles. Although Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979, hostility between Israel and the rest of its Arab neighbors, complicated by the demands of Palestinian Arabs, continued into the 1980s. THE FIRST PALESTINE WAR (1947-49) The first war began as a civil conflict between Palestinian Jews and Arabs following the United Nations recommendation of Nov. 29, 1947, to partition Palestine, then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state ... partition resolution. It had also secured its independence. During 1949, armistice agreements were signed under UN auspices between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The armistice frontiers were unofficial boundaries until 1967. SUEZ-SINAI WAR (1956) Border conflicts between Israel and the Arabs continued despite provisions in the 1949 armistice agreements for peace negotiations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had left Israeli-held territory during the first ...
- 1133: The Civil War
- The Civil War The Civil War was mainly started because of the issue of slavery. The South wanted the right to have slavery in the West, but the North didn't want it to spread to the West. Since they couldn't agree they became very angry and started the war between the states. CONFEDERATE STATES OF 1861 In 1860, on December 20, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Because South Carolina was the only state that seceded, representatives from South Carolina were sent to ...
- 1134: Arab-Israeli Conflicts
- ... battles. Although Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979, hostility between Israel and the rest of its Arab neighbors, complicated by the demands of Palestinian Arabs, continued into the 1980s. THE FIRST PALESTINE WAR (1947-49) The first war began as a civil conflict between Palestinian Jews and Arabs following the United Nations recommendation of Nov. 29, 1947, to partition Palestine, then still under British mandate, into an Arab state and a Jewish state ... partition resolution. It had also secured its independence. During 1949, armistice agreements were signed under UN auspices between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The armistice frontiers were unofficial boundaries until 1967. SUEZ-SINAI WAR (1956) Border conflicts between Israel and the Arabs continued despite provisions in the 1949 armistice agreements for peace negotiations. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had left Israeli-held territory during the first ...
- 1135: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- The Atrocities of the Vietnam War The many decisions made by the policymakers in Washington regarding the War in Vietnam, perhaps America’s greatest foreign policy failure, had many consequences that, though unforeseen, could have been avoided. The main policymakers include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. These men ... advisors created a "policy of atrocity" in Vietnam. The decisions that created the most widespread destruction, besides the bombing escalation’s by Johnson and Nixon, was Robert McNamara’s proposal to JFK for a "quantified war". A "quantified war" is a war where the enemy body count, not territory, is the measure of winning or losing. Perhaps unforeseen, this notion of a body count led to the mass killing of ...
- 1136: Shakespeare's Henry V: Two Views of War
- Shakespeare's Henry V: Two Views of War Throughout the twentieth century, producers in the movie industry have tried to capture the art of Shakespearean plays on film. All of the attempts at establishing comparable productions has resulted in various impressions of a ... contained the same content. They had the same events and the same characters speaking the same dialogue. Yet each portrayal displayed dissimilar costumes and music. As a result of these director's different views of war, the audience receives a different experience after viewing each film. Although both Olivier and Branagh depicted the identical Shakespearean production, the result is two very different films. In 1944, at the closing of World War II, Laurence Olivier adopted William Shakespeare's script of Henry V. Using the setting, costumes, and music in his film, Olivier presented an overall idealized view of war. The cartoon-like opening, when ...
- 1137: Brave New World
- ... purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his colleagues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his individual thought, and ...
- 1138: Future Psychology
- ... affect our survival prospects like military overkill, dangerous chemicals, or fast population growth. Many matters are debatable such as alcohol-abuse, risky scientific research or biased nationalism. We might say goodbye to such things as war, secrecy, faceless social disaffection, and public powerlessness. Soon enough it could be goodbye to dangerous stress, tobacco, burgers, serial killings, muggings, and smog. Times change. Many of today s accepted virtues might one day be judged as crimes against humanity and nature, which leads to the question: What kind of world do you want to live in? Our ancient habit is to stumble backwards into the future. We feel that we as individuals make little difference, as if history and the future just happen at us ... expose the corruption of it all, or maybe an influential person might crack it. Still, it turns out that only a minimal difference is genuinely made. In the last decades of the 20th century the world situation has grown more and more complex and distressing. If we accept the idea that the present direction of civilization is decaying unless we change it, then we understand that we are part of ...
- 1139: The French and Indian War
- The French and Indian War The French and Indian War was also known as the Seven Years War in Europe. It was a war between the British and the allied forces of the French and various Indian tribes. The majority of Indians fought with the French, but one tribe called the Iroquois ...
- 1140: Brave New World - The Conflict
- BRAVE NEW WORLD Community, Identity, Stability... or Conspiracy, Ignorance, Sterility? In BNW, we are presented with 2 completely different worlds. The first mocks the supposed utopia of the 'perfect' world. The people who live in this Utopia believe... no, they don't even believe, as 'believe' implies they have a choice in the matter... they are conditioned, brainwashed, into accepting and embracing this fantasy place. We can see just how removed this world is by the way they treat their people. It is hard to imagine for us - living in a time where 'Human Rights' is a catch phrase - just how they will dehumanise their society and ...
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