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    global mastery 3. Interwar period a. Economic crisis – started by US b. Dictatorial regimes – Fascist Italy‚ Nazi Germany‚ Soviet Russia 1. Totalitarian states wave of the future? 4. Communism as alternative to capitalism 5. Decolonization – Europe loses control of Africa‚ Asia‚ Pacific a. National liberation creates new nations 1. Smooth and peaceful 2. Attained by violence 3. Turned into chaos 6. Political extremes a. Democratization 1. Allow women

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    colonization‚ religions and ideals. As a growing mulatto class emerged‚ so did the Jamaican’s desire for decolonization. Dissatisfaction over colonial rules and racist factors begat a desire for freedom and instigated a rise in nationalism. A growing working class desired to protect their benefits and demanded independence. Between 1944 and 1962 Jamaica was striving for constitutional decolonization. These fights for freedom and independence‚ waged mainly by men‚ created the setting for women to assume

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    Comparative Essay: Ana Historic by Daphne Marlatt and Ravensong by Lee Maracle April 14st 2010 Nicole Leclerc 3012368 Women Studies Cy-Thea Sand Word Count: 2‚240 Format: MLA Ana Historic is a poetic novel about a woman named Annie who discovers Mrs.Richards‚ a woman of no history‚ in Vancouver’s civic archives. Annie becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards’ life. The novel is written by Daphne Marlatt‚ a Canadian poet. Ravensong is a fictional novel about a seventeen

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    Rwanda Genocide

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    genocide‚ the Rwandan population consisted of the Hutu (~85%)‚ the Tutsi (14%) and the Twa (1%)‚ where the Tutsi were generally regarded as the higher class of citizens while Hutus were regarded as the lesser. Tension in Rwanda began in the wake of decolonization in the 1950’s and by the 1990’s‚ the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda brought on a genocide (Burnet‚ 2012‚ p. 4). Within the short period of April 6th and July 4th 1994‚ an estimated 800‚000 Rwandans were slaughtered

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    Hasan Chapter Three-the Cold War in the Middle East Questions 6-11 6. How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet influences/ threats in Greece and Turkey‚ and why? What is the Truman Doctrine? 62-64. United Stated responded to the Soviet influences in Greece and Turkey by issuing a new policy called Truman Doctrine. This doctrine was issued by US president Harry Truman in 1947 to assist Greece and Turkey economically as well as militarily in order to prevent them from falling into Soviet control

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    The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice. The movement took place during the 1950’s and 1960’s for African Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United Sates. The Civil War‚ which took place from 1861 to 1865‚ had officially abolished slavery. The war abolished slavery but couldn’t end the discrimination the African Americans faced in the United Sates. They continue to undergo the devastating effects of racism. By mid to late-20th century‚ African Americans had had

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    Why Did Tsarism Fail

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    1) Contrary to traditional historiography‚ Pipes states that tsarism need not have collapsed. So why did it? a. Pipes explains that‚ despite what many historians view (in hindsight) as the “inevitable” collapse of tsarism‚ that no one could have foreseen its end. That revolutionaries “acted with such reckless abandon” because they believed it would have no consequences for the regime (11). b. He also cites the fact that foreign states were investing in the tsarist government‚ with nothing to indicate

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    “Ideological hatred breeds racial hatred and intolerance” (p. 297). It is from this ideology that historians have over the years realized how genocides occur within different countries. From 1975 until roughly 1979‚ the ideology is defined within the genocide that took place within the Portuguese colony of East Timor (p. 279). It was until this time that the country of East Timor had been loosely administered by the Portuguese. Because of this notion that‚ “…for more than four centuries Portugal

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    The Generational Difference: Age Changes Perception Ideology contributes greatly to the identity of immigrants‚ for it is ingrained in the culture from which they come. When integrating into American society this results in relatively different outcomes depending on the age at which individuals immigrate. First generation immigrants‚ for example‚ do not fair as well economically compared to their children (Schüller 2015‚ 965). Moreover‚ if the second generation grew up in an integrated household

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    IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON AFRICA In this view of the circumstances that existed during history in regards to colonial Africa. I venture to examine how colonialism is viewed‚ introducing you to a variety of texts which expose you to different views and debates about what Africa may well have been like today‚ had the colonization never taken place. The African resistance to colonialism put another perspective on the colonization of Africa by the Europeans and the Western influence Africa faced.

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