| 1. | Australias changing identity 1945 1960
Australia’s changing identity: 1945-60
From the time period between 1945-1960, Australia’s profile and identity was changing rapidly. Identity factors included political structures, cultural and social profile and the economic system. The identity factors, as previously mentioned, were driven by...
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| 2. | New Zealand Search for Security 1945 55
Why did New Zealand seek collective security after WWII? Describe how New Zealand attempted to use collective arrangements to guarantee its security in the years 1945-55.
After World War Two, New Zealand realized it could no longer count on Britain for protection, and began to look elsewhere. Bet...
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| 3. | canadians rock
I. Responsibility for the Cold War A. conservative view: USSR brought it on by its expansionism in E. Europe and “international communist conspiracy” B. progressive view: USA responsible due to its use of the bomb, militarism and Truman administration’s refusal to recognize a Soviet sphere of influe...
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| 4. | Cold War was caused by fear not aggression
“ The Cold War was caused by fear not aggression”. To what extend does this view explain how the Cold War developed between 1945 and 1949 ?
The relation between the Soviet Union and the United States during years 1945 to 1949 was mostly the result of fear. As both countries found it difficult to...
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| 5. | WORLD WAR TWO
... entered the war in December 1941 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, when the Germans surrendered at Reims in France. The war continued in the Pacific for three more months. However, following the dropping of the first atomic (U-235) bomb on Hiros...
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| 6. | United nations
The United Nations
The United Nations was started after World War Two by the five countries that won the war The United States of America, France, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China in order to try to prevent future wars. The charter that established the United Nations was signed in San Fran...
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| 7. | hiroshima and nagasaki
... The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has proved to be one of the most controversial subjects in history. ... The tests, news, and results about the bomb were kept classified and were not revealed to the public until after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. ... ...
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| 8. | Was it necessary to drop the atomic bombs in Japan in 1945
... The most destructive way of killing people known to man would have to be the atomic bomb.
The United States of America were the first and only country to have used these bombs in a war. ... On August 6th 1945, the United States of America dropped one of these dreadful weapons labelled ...
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| 9. | Did the Attlee Government achieve a revolution in Britain
Did the Attlee Government achieve a revolution in Britain?
In this essay I will look at the achievements and the problems with the Labour Government in Britain 1945-51, and try to establish whether the Government can be described as a revolution or not.
In the July 1945 election, the Labour party ...
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| 10. | Foreign Policy Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
... In 1945, President Truman decided to drop the first Atomic Bomb on Japan. ... This war became very expensive and after the realization that Japan would fight until the bitter end, the decision to employ the Atomic Bomb fell into the hands of President Harry Truman. ...
On the morning of ...
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| 11. | film
... boxing- organizes crime see the film (Set-up)
4. ... Couple film + major distinct genre. ... (noir / western)
Stars - leading roles to sell film. ...
Suggest a film contains multiple genres but don’t name them. ...
film historians, critics, archivist
Why mix genre? ...
The L...
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| 12. | jackie robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson on January 31, 1919. ... The Robinson family also faced prejudice everyday. ... Jackie attended John Muir Technical High School where he starred in football, basketball, baseball, and ...
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| 13. | To what extent were the 1945 51 labour governments responsible for creating the post second world
This essay shall examine whether or not the Labour Government of 1945-51 is given too much credit with bringing the welfare state into being. The wartime Coalition Government and the war itself were powerful contributory factors which ought not to be dismissed; but mainly this essay shall look...
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| 14. | Status of Indochina and Ho Chi Minh as of August 1st 1945
From: OSS CentCom
To: Office of the President
:The Status of “Indochina” and Ho Chi Minh as of August 1st, 1945
For the second half of the War in the Pacific, OSS operatives have cooperated with Indochinese nationals in the rescuing of downed aviators and a general spying/harassing on ...
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| 15. | How Adolf Hitler Kept Power from 1933 1945
How Adolf Hitler Kept Power from 1933-1945
After Hitler became a dictator on January 30th 1933 he used many methods to try and retain power.
One of the main methods was to use brute force on the people of Germany to make them keep voting for him, to keep him in power. ... They were sent by Hi...
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| 16. | Truman and the Atomic Bomb
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by President Truman and the Atomic Bomb
Truman’s decision to drop the newly created atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was a completely new form of weaponry used in a war. ... There is no question that the bomb worked. Afte...
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| 17. | Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam
The Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
In august of 1945 Japan surrendered. ... Starvation was attacking the people of Vietnam. ... With the Viet Minh slogan “break open the rice stores to avert famine” a general uprising had erupted. On the 10th of August Ho Chi Minh called for ...
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| 18. | Germany 1918 1945
1914: Great optimism about the power and strength of Germany. ...
1918: The war had still destroyed much of the old Germany. ... Hunger and flu epidemic was killing thousands of people
1918- 1919: The Allies offered peace under some conditions: Germany should become more democratic. ... 5 of i...
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| 19. | Institutionalizing Murder The Annihilation of the Jews 1933 1945
Institutionalizing Murder: Nazi Doctor’s and the Persecution of the “Lesser” Races
Francis Galton’s “Eugenics” grew from a theory of survival of the fittest to an amoral application of Alfred Ploetz’s “racial hygiene” by Nazi medical professionals to eliminate Jews, “lesser races”, “asocials...
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| 20. | Discuss Priestley s use of Dramatic Devices in his play An Inspector Calls
... B Priestley was born in 1894, and lived for 90 years. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Priestley served as a soldier in the French trenches, fortunately surviving. By the time of World War 11, which turned out to be an even bigger atrocity with even more civilian casualties than Wo...
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| 21. | In August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Why did the American government
On 6th August 1945, an atomic bomb, which caused mass destruction, was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later on the 9th August another atomic bomb was dropped, this time on Nagasaki.
Two different kinds of bombs were used, the first was a uranium bomb and the second was a plutonium bomb. The ur...
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| 22. | How and Why did the Nazis Change Germany from 1933 1945
How and Why did the Nazis Change Germany from 1933-1945
A lot of Hitlers success is put down to a Dr Josef Goebbles who was in charge of "enlightenment and propaganda". ... These were to show that the Nazis were new and exiting. ... Another benefit came from these rallies as they showed that "e...
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| 23. | Trial at Nuremberg 1946
Topic: The Trial at Nuremberg (September 30th, 1946)
No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil
than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945-1949. According to the feature article published
in the London Times on September 30th 1946, Nuremberg remains...
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| 24. | Why Atomic Bomb was necessary to end WWII
The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. ... Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicists were frightened by the possibility that Germany might produce an atomic bomb. They insisted that Albert Einstein inform President Roose...
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| 25. | Hitler s strong belief in anti Semitism the ways in which he separated the Jews from
From 1933 to 1945 Adolf Hitler held power in Germany. ... However, Hitler imposed one very illogical belief. ... Subsequently, Hitler and his Nazi party discriminated and persecuted against the Jews to attain a ‘perfect nation’. This resulted in the death of 6 million Jews from 1933-1945 and wa...
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| 26. | foreign policy
During the course of American history, the United States has implemented many foreign policies. ... From 1945 to circa 1985 United States foreign policy was dominated by Containment. Containment is the United States policy after WW2 of trying to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its area of...
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| 27. | USS Indianapolis
The USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932. ... On 30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte, Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58. ...
Of the 1196 aboard the Indianapolis, about 900 made it into the water in the twelve m...
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| 28. | Cases
*35 Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. House of Lords. HL July 24, 25, 26, 27, 1945; Nov. 29, 1945. Before Viscount Simon, Lord Russell of Killowen , Lord Macmillan, Lord Porter and Lord Simonds. Workmen's compensation -- Action against employer -- Remedies independently of Workmen's Compensat...
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| 29. | Assess the effectiveness of the UN in international peacekeeping
... The United Nations and Peacekeeping
Assess the effectiveness of the UN in international peacekeeping.
The effectiveness of the United Nations (UN) in international peacekeeping has been an issue of contention since its creation during the post World War II years. In the assessment of the e...
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| 30. | The Deafening Silence
A blinding flash of light followed by a deafening silence, which hovered over the ruinous city of Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. This tragic event marked the first time an atomic bomb would be used as an act of aggression in a war. The resulting devastation testifies to why this day must never be for...
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| 31. | Freedom from Fear
... Kennedy recreates that crucial period in Freedom from Fear. ... In Freedom From Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, the first complete study that reaches all points of discussion about the Depression, the New Deal and World War II eras. ...
In Freedom From Fear, Ken...
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| 32. | 1945
1945 The war was coming to an end, a bad one for us Germans. I was stationed at the last Military Airport still open. But, alas, the enemy’s bombers came every day and every night. The sirens would sound loud and clear, piercing the air with an unforgettable noise I still remember to this day. I jus...
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| 33. | HISTORY AUSTRALIA AS A MULTICULTURAL NATION
HISTORY-AUSTRALIA AS A MULTICULTURAL NATION
Before World War II, Australia occupied the White Nation Policy, but ever since 1945, Australia has
become what is known to be a Multicultural Nation, all because of the desperate need of a larger
population for economic purposes in the time o...
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| 34. | atomic weapons
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Truth: The bomb dropped from the Enola Gay aircraft, piloted by Paul Tibbetts, was the first use of atomic weaponry in combat. ...
Both the book, Hiroshima by John Hersey, and the movie, Atomic Café by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, and Pierce Rafferty are documentaries, written by America...
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| 35. | How realistic is An Inspector Calls
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TASK: How realistic is ‘An Inspector Calls?’
‘An Inspector Calls’ was written in 1945 by J. ...
The inspector does not appear to be realistic. At the very least we know he isn’t a real police inspector because of Gerald’s meeting with the sergeant and Birling’s phone call with the chie...
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| 36. | United Nations
The United Nations
By Simon Brown
After WWII people had an immediate desire to try and prevent the needless loss of life that had just occurred over the previous six years, and twenty years prior to that. ... Not only that but an organization was required to replace the League of Nations...
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| 37. | In August 1945 Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Why did the U S
On the 6th of August the world was both shocked and amazed as the Americans dropped the most powerful bomb that had ever existed on the city of Hiroshima. ... There were many reasons for Harry S Truman, President of the US, to make this huge decision. ... Truman hoped that the Atomic Bomb would en...
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| 38. | Germanium
Germanium
Germanium was discovered in 1886. Germanium became economically available after 1945. Clemens Winkler discovered germanium. Germanium is obtained from refining of copper, zinc, and lead. ... Germanium is also used in certain glasses such as camera and microscope lenses.
Germanium...
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| 39. | Review of Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell was written in 1945. I enjoyed reading it although it takes a while to get into the story and start to find it realistic (animals taking over a farm and managing it themselves takes a while to catch on to…) The plot of the story is that the animals are fed up with the...
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| 40. | Report to Stalin about the actions of the USA in 1945 48
Dear Stalin:
According to the events that have been taking place lately, we must make up our minds on what to do with the Americans. ... We need to feel safe and secure and we need to know that the horrors of the war won’t happen ever again; this is why we want to cripple Germany and so it will...
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| 41. | Corrie's Diary
May 12, 1945 Dear Diary, Today I was given a way in which to make Betsie’s vision come true. I went to speak at Mrs. Bierens de Haan’s house to a group of people who wanted to hear my story. After speaking Mrs. De Haan came to me and offered her home as a place of rehabilitation and recovery for peo...
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| 42. | Rhesus Monkey
The Rhesus Monkey belongs to the family Cercopithecidae. ...
The Rhesus Monkeys are considered sacred animals by the Hindus. ...
At birth, the Rhesus monkey weighs up to one pound. ...
The Rhesus Monkeys have been used for scientific research, in circuses, menageries and as “organ-grinders’...
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| 43. | Hitlers Change Tools
... The eventual defeat of Hitlers Third Reich in 1945 occurred only after the loss of tens of millions of lives, from military causes, sickness and starvation, and from the Holocaust. ... ”
Change Models
Rackets: actions leading to reactions
1. ... The Americans wanted to change the politi...
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| 44. | Schindler's List Critical Analysis
Schindler's List Where to start? This movie takes place over a period of about 7 years between 1938 until 1945, during the 2nd world war. The setting is in Germany, where all of the Jewish community is treated very poorly. A few examples of this include cutting their braids off in public, throwing r...
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| 45. | vietnam war
The Vietnam War
The thirty year war in Vietnam included several different governments and peoples. While each of these governments, the French, the United States, the North Vietnamese communists (alongside first the Viet Minh and then Vietcong), and the South Vietnamese chose to go to war, they d...
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| 46. | Holocaust
... This was known as The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) and it marks the actual beginning of the Holocaust. ...
The Holocaust lasted from 1938 to 1945 and ended in the deaths of six million Jews and others who didnt fit in with Adolf Hitlers master race. More then half of Germanys Jewis...
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| 47. | How significant was Germany 1945 49 in the Cold War contest
Germany was the cause of all the problems in Europe. ... At the Yalta conference it has been decided that Germany should be divided into four parts and that it should be controlled by America, France, Britain and USSR. Russia, as the one won the World War II, got the biggest part, and the most impo...
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| 48. | Britain played a less important part in World War 2 than the USA
There has been much debate over whether the USA played a bigger and more important part than Britain in the war. ...
Britain fought right from the start in 1939, until the war ended in 1945. This shows how much Britain put into the war. ... Britain contributed crucial naval forces and lost 350,...
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| 49. | Mattel
Mattel, inc. ... Mattel has 36 facilities and office buildings all over the world. ... The Mattel Company sells its products to over 150 nations. ...
Harold Matson and Elliot Handler founded Mattel back in 1945. The name Mattel comes from the first three letters of Harold Matson’s last name...
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| 50. | North Korea
Japanese Colonialism in Korea
North and South Korea are nations that while filled with
contempt for Japan have used the foundations that Japan laid during
the colonial period to further industrialization. Japans colonization
of Korea is critical in underezding what enabled Korea to...
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