1946

December 17, 1946, when was that? she thought. She had definitely killed a victim on that night from what she remembered. She walked over to the guest book. The date was not there. Her mind was boggled but she could not let that bother her. The landlady started to take Billy downstairs then she stopped. December 17, 1946, she thought. Billy’s head moved forward and his neck was bare. The tag on his shirt said Porter…

World War Two was a system-changing event in the context of the international system, which eventually materialised in the emergence of the "bi-polar era". The representative leaders who dealt with the aftermath had the benefit of decades of vital political experience, such as Winston Churchill (MP since 1900), Joseph Stalin (Bolshevik revolution, 1917), and Roosevelt (elected 1932 and in fourth term by death in 1945). These were experienced politicians who acted in precise and deterministic…

Unit 17: Minimum Wage Legislation A recent universal survey of the minimum wage fixing by law altering, distributed by the I.L.O., had this to say in regards to the points of the minimum wage fixing by law settling in the numerous nations seeking after such strategies: According to the view of survey ,the assortment of national approaches, the I.L.O. study recognized four parts which the lowest pay permitted by law settling might play in a national arrangement of pay determination. 2 The…

Back in World War 2, there were a lot of wars: the battle of Britain, which took a good amount of the troops, the battle of Atlantic, which took most of the battle ships. But the worst battle was the Dieppe raid. That battle was both a success and a failure. It all depends on the way the troops where, if they learnt their lessons and if they are planning to ever do that again. So what made it a success? The troops had learned that when they go to attack, they need to send a lot of people,…

establish Hindu Raj and to finish Muslims demands.” The British swiftly responded by mass detentions. The prominent leaders of this movement including Gandhi were arrested and put in jails. A total of 90,000 arrests were made nationwide. Cabinet Mission (1946):…

Truman’s foreign policy had a significant impact on international relations during the years 1945-1947 as it started the cold war. The year 1945 marked a turning point in America relations with Russia because Truman’s foreign policy sharply contrasted with that of Roosevelt. By releasing an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 Truman increased suspicion of US motives and further damaged the relationship with Russia. This differed from former U.S president Roosevelt policy of” comprising” with Russia.…

One of the core ideologies in International Relations has been Realism. Realism focuses on self interest, which is defined by the state seeking power and gaining complete sovereignty. According to Hans J. Morgenthau’s “Politics Among Nations, The Struggle for Power and Peace,” there are six important actors that cultivate this concept. These actors are the state, anarchy, self interest, human nature, rationale and force, which are what make a functioning society. Despite the origins and use of…

doing away with the caste system in 1871, which did nothing for the Buraku. Next, there was a national organization, Suiheisha (Organization of Levelers), was created in 1922 and lasted until 1946. This organization helped in various school boycotts, tax revolts, and other protests. Followed by the “1946, a more militant and politically active organization was formed: the Buraku Kaihō Zenkoku Iinkai (All-Japan Committee for Buraku Liberation), which in 1955 was renamed Buraku Kaihō Dōmei…

reclassified tea as an exclusion for certain kind food. “In 1884 a resolution was introduced in the House authorizing an investigation of adulterated food and drugs by the Committee on Public Health, but it received only fourteen favorable votes” ( Schmidt, 1946). Therefore, the government was not supporting the Pure Food and Drug Act in the beginning. However, between 1887 and 1892, there were hundreds of petitions that sent out to the Congress to protest against businesses who manufactured…

military strength, their economic power and their attitude of supremacy, “that the United States has the right to lead the world” as pronounced by President Truman in the Novikov Telegram. The Novikov Telegram was written by Nikolai Novikov in September, 1946. Novikov, the Soviet Ambassador to the US, warned the Soviet Leadership that the US was determined to introduce their own military, political, and economic dominance around the world. Novikov states that the United States was on a mission…