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in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...

the Native American Indians had a strong bond with their fellow tribal members, people of different ethnic background feel strongl...

was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

Britain (2001). Those were the key players in the war. It was a treaty that was based on an agreement made by the "Allied Nations"...