and weighed around 10‚800lbs and being ten times more efficient than “Little Boy”. President Truman warned Japan with the consequences if they didn’t surrender with the Potsdam Declaration. It was signed by President Truman‚ and by Prime Minister Attlee of the United Kingdom and with the concurrence of Chiang Kai-Shek‚ President of the National Government of China. Japan refused to surrender. In order to avoid an inevitable bombing campaign and land invasion of Japan that would have killed many
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catalyst to change‚ forcing people to adjust their daily routines and lifestyles in the short term and quite usually in the long term too‚ as well as innovating technology and weaponry. After the Second World War‚ between 1945 and 1951‚ Clement Attlee of the Labour Government became prime minister and passed a series of measures‚ which helped the period become known as the welfare state. These included social reforms addressed by Sir William Beveridge in his report of December 1942 and which were
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‘The constitution is no longer fit for purpose’ A constitution is a set of rules that seeks to establish the duties‚ powers and functions of the various institutions of government. The constitution creates limited government so the government is checked and restrained therefore providing protection for the individual and their rights. the UK constitution is uncodified‚ which means that it is not all written down in one document therefore entrenched creating a higher law like that of America; it
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Fabians – established the London School of Economics (LSE). Within it‚ they incorporated the Charity Organization Society’s School of Sociology to form a new Department of Social Sciences and Administration in 1912. Its first lecturer was Clement Attlee‚ who became Prime Minister of the UK after the Second World War‚ and in 1950‚ Richard Titmuss was appointed as the first Professor of Social Administration in the UK. Until 1987‚ Social Administration and Social Policy were used interchangeably‚ but
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Population: 1‚173‚108‚018 (July 2010 estimate) Capital: New Delhi Major Cities: Mumbai‚ Kolkata‚ Bangalore and Chennai Area: 1‚269‚219 square miles (3‚287‚263 sq km) Bordering Countries: Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ Burma‚ China‚ Nepal and Pakistan Coastline: 4‚350 miles (7‚000 km) Highest Point:Kanchenjunga at 28‚208 feet (8‚598 m) India‚ formally called the Republic of India‚ is the country that occupies most of the Indian subcontinent in southern Asia. In terms of itspopulation‚ India is one of
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LaFeber (2008) makes the poignant statement‚ “In the battle of MacArthur versus Truman‚ the long-range issues tended to be overshadowed by the personalities involved. In MacArthur’s case this was not an advantage” (p. 130). MacArthur had been invaluable to Roosevelt‚ but it was a completely different story with Truman. MacArthur and Truman had turbulent relationship consisting of disregard to the proper order of command. The Reason for MacArthur’s Dismissal The reason for President Truman’s dismissal
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Introduction Revolt Of 1857 Formation Of INC Extremists and Moderates Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Gandhian Era Non-Cooperation Movement Civil Disobedience Movement Quit India movement Independence Sources Introduction The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty‚ the surveillance of the population‚ and the education of citizens
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1. The Yalta Conference‚ which took place at Livadiya Palace in present-day Ukraine‚ was attended by U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt‚ Britain’s prime minister Winston Churchill‚ and Communist party secretary Joseph Stalin. One agreement made between the three powers was to both demilitarize Germany‚ and separate it into four parts‚ giving the U.S.‚ the U.K.‚ the Soviet Union‚ and France each a part of the land as military occupation. This presumably was an attempt to indefinitely prevent future
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August Revolution Introduction The August Revolution‚ also called the August General Uprising (and known in the West as the Vietnamese Revolution) by the Indochinese Communist Party‚ was a revolution in Vietnam. On August 19‚ 1945‚ the Việt Minh under Hồ Chí Minh began a revolution against French colonial rule in Vietnam. From August 19 onwards‚ demonstrations and uprisings against French rule broke out in cities and towns throughout Vietnam. Given Japan had surrendered to the Allies at the end
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Independence of India. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Act which partitioned British India into 2 separate and independent countries‚ India and Pakistan. The legislation of Indian Independence Act was designed by the Prime Minister Clement Attlee as Indian Political Parties agreed on the transfer of power from the British Government to the independent Indian Government and the Partition of India. This act received royal assent on 18th July‚ 1947.The Agreement was made with Lord Mountbatten
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