Secretariat. The UN is made up of six organs. They are the council‚ Secretariat‚ and International Court of Justice. NATO is made up of the Defense Planning Committee‚ Nuclear Atlantic Cooperation Council. UN and NATO were both formed after major crises in the world. UN was being formed during and after WWII. In 1944 reps of china‚ the UK‚ US‚ and USSR met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington‚ D.C. to plan the peacekeeping Organization. The forming of NATO began years after WWII. Many western leaders
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For the article on the war itself‚ see World War I. Personifications of Germany‚ France‚ Russia‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and the United Kingdom attempting to keep the lid on the simmering cauldron of imperialist and nationalist tensions in the Balkans to prevent a general European war. They were successful in 1912 and 1913 but did not succeed in in 1914. The causes of World War I‚ which began in central Europe in late July 1914 and finished in 1918‚ included many factors‚ such as the conflicts and
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that had a strong navy but a weak army; the two would balance out. This led to the outbreak of war because it created it atmosphere of fear‚ suspicion and mistrust. Many secret arrangements were made between allies‚ which resulted in small-scale crises. The Moroccan Crisis in 1904 is an example where Germany‚ in fear of secret arrangements being made by Britain and France‚ made a secret alliance with Morocco‚ promising to defend them if France invaded. In this instance‚ Germany was pushing for conflict
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Position Paper: Nationalism forces countries to pursue alliances in the name of national interest. As groups of countries form these alliances to grow in strength‚ they can lead to ultranationalism and hostility between each other. This hostility grows into situations where war is nearly unavoidable. The source shows how this happened with the conflict between Serbia and Austria‚ turning a small battle between countries into a massive world war. In the political cartoon‚ people representing Serbia
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political or cultural group”. Genocide is exactly what happened in the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina during July 1995. Between 6 and 11 July 1995 more than 25‚000 Bosnian Muslims‚ most of them women‚ children and elderly people living in and around town of Srebrenica‚ were forced to leave the town (Cemic 2007). In addition‚ 7‚000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred by the Republika Srpska army in and around Srebrenica (Cemic 2007). The Srebrenica genocide was one of the biggest massacres that
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different ethnicities were build up when the wars were going on. In the film No Man’s land‚ Ciki—a Bosnian soldier‚ and Nino—a Bosnian Serb‚ who were both wounded‚ confronted each other in a trench between their lines‚ struggling to survive. At Ciki’s instigation‚ they staggered out of the trench together‚ waving white flags and trying to get the attention of both the Bosnian Government lines and the Bosnian Serb lines so that two lines would not to shoot them anymore. After their cooperation‚ Ciki and
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“No single nation or alliance could be held responsible for the outbreak of war” How far do you agree with this opinion? The question of whether no single alliance or nation could be held responsible for the outbreak of war is a hotly debated topic. Source 2 strongly agrees with the statement giving the view that no one nation could be held responsible. However‚ source 1 gives the opposite view that German aggression was primarily responsible‚ which is supported‚ to a large extent by source
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“Truth and the Historian” Main argument This is both an introduction to the book and an essay about the causes of World War I‚ as seen by other historical writers and Lafore himself. He states that “World War I has become a fashion and a fad‚” and‚ while there is nothing wrong with the topic being widely discussed‚ historians should be careful in using research and analyzing historical topics. The introduction outlines the sources of the conflict that later was known as the Great War. All of the
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Position Paper Guideline Position papers for all committees should: be one page in length‚ single spaced (for all committees except Press Corps; see Special Instructions for Press Corps below) have one-inch margins use size 12 Times New Roman font be in black print only have the Committee Name‚ Topic Area‚ Country Name‚ School Name‚ and Delegate Name(s) headings in the upper left corner of the page appear untitled include citations (not considered to be part of the one page paper
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free. However‚ Austria-Hungary rejected this idea‚ due to the fact that they feared it would make them look like a weaker nation and threaten Austria-Hungary’s existence (Fay 2). Austria had also annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 and 1909‚ also known as the Bosnian Crisis (Anderson 1). This damaged Austria’s ties with Serbia and Russia‚ since the Serbs thought that the Slavic area should be theirs. As tensions steadily rose between Austria and Serbia‚ Austria promised Serbia and Russia that
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