National sovereignty‚ multilingualism and living together (i.e. social peace) In the light of the recent events throughout the world regarding The Arab Spring‚ Russian growing expansionism‚ Ukrainian revolution‚ different strike actions in Europe the problem of social peace became one of the most urgent ones. Do national sovereignty‚ multilingualism and living together still define social piece or is it an outdated definition‚ which needs to be adjusted? The proverb says: “Times change and we with
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William III William of Orange or William III was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland‚ Zeeland‚ Utrecht‚ Gelderland‚ and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland; it is a coincidence that his regal number (III) was the same for both Orange and England. William III was not an absolute ruler because when he ruled over England and Ireland he did
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for his grandfathers‚ Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young. 33rd president of the United States (1945–53)‚ who led his country through the final stages of World War Il and through the early years of the Cold War‚ vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to turn back a communist invasion of South Korea. Two weeks after he became president‚ Truman learned of the top secret project to develop an atomic bomb Shortly after taking the oath of office‚ Truman spoke
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The Mexican War had numerous causes‚ some of which were extensive and others that were petty. The most essential‚ however‚ were the Texas crisis‚ westward American movement‚ the ideal of Manifest Destiny‚ and the behavior implemented by the President Tyler and President Polk. The fundamental cause of the war was Texas and California. When Texas split from Mexico in 1836‚ Mexico did not distinguish it as a self- government but as a depraved province. Mexico still considered this a part of their territory
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An Atlantic Habsburg? Maximilian and the dream of building an Atlantic Empire (Austria-Hungary‚ Brazil and Mexico) in the 1860s. João Fábio Bertonha From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries‚ the major states of Western Europe built great Atlantic empires‚ based on direct colonization‚ naval power and commerce. These countries were the main protagonists of a movement that included trade and the establishment of naval bases and commercial outposts in the Indian‚ Atlantic and Pacific
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power after their victory over the Spanish in the Spanish- American War of 1898. Before the war‚ the U.S. was too busy worrying about the problems facing them on their own territory such as reconstruction and industrialization to even think about expansionism or imperialism. Although America was primarily a reserved country after the Civil War‚ their foreign policy became more ambitious and imperialistic thanks to the end of isolationism and the strong presidency of Teddy Roosevelt. Following the
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did the failed acquisition of Cuba as an attempt to turn it into a slave territory by the South almost create an armed conflict between Cuba’s slave population (courtesy of the Spanish) but it also turned off Northerners completely to the idea of expansionism. This sudden disdain is expressed in why Northerners and the Republican party fought so hard to make sure that slavery would not expand beyond the southern states that they were already present
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Analyze the consequences of the American’s belief of Manifest Destiny in the mid-19th century. Manifest Destiny is the belief that Americans had the right‚ sent from God‚ to expand their territory to the west. The sole reason for the westward expansionism and manifest destiny was because of the severe financial crisis in 1837. They also wanted to spread democracy and to conquer anything or anyone as they marched across the North American continent‚ known as modern day America. There were three main
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Manifest Destiny This painting (1872) by John Gast called American Progress‚ is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia‚ intended as a personification of the United States‚ leads civilization westward with American settlers‚ stringing telegraph wire as she travels; she holds a school book. The different economic activities of the pioneers are highlighted and‚ especially‚ the changing forms of transportation. The Native Americans and wild animals flee.
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Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was a shadowy figure on the margins of United States foreign policy in the mid-nineteenth century. A journalist for expansionist publications such as the United States Magazine and Democratic Review‚ she deserves a place in the pantheon of the "Young Americans" (p. 96) who pushed for a U.S. commercial empire. But how big a place? Linda Hudson would like us to believe a very big place indeed‚ yet the evidence remains fragmentary. Many things about Jane Storm Cazneau remain
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