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War on Terror Greatest aspiration of humankind from ancient times up now is still yearning for a real peace and eternal. But in history, mankind has witnessed many times to the blue sky of the earth in an opaque by smoke of war. Currently, terrorism in many countries around the world are breaking the peaceful atmosphere of everyone. The word “terrorism” has become a word very familiar to people today. Associated with it is a tragic bloodshed, is dead, is ruined desolation, was haunting horrors…

Soviet Union much needed time to strengthen itself before Germany’s certain betrayal. Through the pact, Russia was not only promised half of Poland, a territory which had been under Russian sovereignty before World War I, but the Baltic States and Bulgaria. Although Ribbentrop, under the guidance of Hitler, most likely didn’t assume that Russia was ever planning to expand it’s sphere of influence to these regions. With the non-aggression pact, Ribbentrop had secured a safe border with Russia,…

Seneca the Elder of Rome once said, “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” The Roman empire was illustrated as a government spearheaded by emperors that controlled several parts of the Mediterranean, Asia, and Africa. The empire was one of the most powerful economic, political, cultural, and militant forces the early world had seen. It ensured a lasting influence of Latin culture, language, religion, and art. The fall of Rome was not the end of the world, but an end of a…

Why Carbon Finance? Carbon finance is a general term referring to resources provided to obtain greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Recognizing the impacts and threats of global climate change, governments and other entities have met annually at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 1995. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 1997, in which 36 industrialized countries (called the Annex B countries) committed collectively to…

World War II brought advanced forms of military tactics and maneuvers to the battle stage. The most prominent tactic for the Germans rapidly became the Blitzkrieg military strategy. Blitzkrieg accurately translates to “lightning war” and to Hitler this meant launching a substantial number of military units extremely rapidly in order destroy the opposition 's defense. The basis behind this war tactic is the concept of “combined arms.” The design called for numerous types of military units all at…

Between 1900 and 1945, drastic change occurred from a global view. New economic, political, and military ideas were introduced resulting in divided nations and people. Large continents struggled to cope with these changes in nationalism, imperialism and militarism. Their struggles creating poverty, death and misery. As these large continents battled out their differences, the balance of power from 1900 and 1945 shifted from European domination on all levels to U.S control using liberal and…

betrayed the USSR by attacking them in 1941. This was known as the Battle of Stalingrad which the Germans called Operation Barbarossa. The Second World War was fought between the Axis Powers, this included Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the USSR (until 1941), and the Allies, which were Britain, America, Australia, France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia and USSR (after 1941).…

The European Union has always been recognized as suffering from democratic deficit and the standard of the European Union has been a controversial issue since the early 1990s. Therefore, Lisbon Treaty was lately implemented in order to improve the Union’s democracy. However, it is arguable that whether the Lisbon Treaty is effective enough to tackle the problem of democracy, which will be discussed in the following. In this essay, I will first define what is ‘democratic deficit’ and show the…

Was Imperialism a Major Cause of World War One? By Jonathan Redpath iGCSE History (0470) Week 1: The Big Picture Imperialism played a big role in the centuries preceding the 20th century. Many of the European powers had large empires, which in turn ensured that they held tremendous military, political, and economic influence. For example, Britain, at its peak in around 1914 held Canada, Australia, much of Africa, India, and various territories in Asia and the Caribbean; Britain also was one of…

Holocaust War Crimes World War II was deadliest war in history. The war involved over thirty countries and the deaths of over fifty million military and civilian lives was recorded. The second World War started September 1,1939 when Germany invaded Poland, causing France and Britain to declare war on Germany a couple of days later. April 9,1940 Germany invaded Norway, May 10th they took over Belgium and then the Netherlands, and then they hit French forces at Sedan. Benito Mussolini, Italian…