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… securing a second term, Obama appeared at Fort McNair’s National Defense University to launch a public discussion … and slow” by comparison. Months later, Spaatz predicted the Soviets had “improved on the German buzz bomb” capable of … attack by the Warsaw Pact.” By 1991, the year of the Soviet Union’s collapse, fictional drones were once again …

… rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was … won victory in the Pacific, Knight coached Indiana to three national titles and eleven Big Ten championships. But in the … rating him a page-one story in The New York Times and a national interview on ESPN. In support of Knight, students …

… grounds. In 1596, the Ruthenian bishops signed the Union of Brest. The resulting Uniate church accepted Roman … Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) in 1921.   Soviet antireligious policies crippled church structures and … both Orthodox and Catholics claim the mantel of being the national faith.  The Catholics participate in the universal …

… medieval Islamic world. Abu Raihan al-Biruni depicted on a Soviet postage stamp. Many of the scholars who worked at the … 150 years before the region became incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s, …

… a private institution; the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; and four members of pacifist groups … With the onset of the Cold War, genuine apprehensions about Soviet power and the widespread fears it engendered prepared … back in the courts, as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild in Albuquerque have …

… By issuing such a challenge, he inspired a strong sense of national purpose and pride, especially among young … invasion led to a critically dangerous showdown with the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South …

… in the American arsenal. The United States, Canada, the Soviet Union and other European nations began in 1989 to discuss … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… conscript army, launched new industries, and established a national education system, all under the slogan “rich … and a constitutional monarchy modeled on Prussia. It held national elections, seated a national parliament, and transformed Japanese social and …

… told attendees of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) National Convention in August 2013 . “No one is taking away … of World War I, Civil War veterans also had access to ten national Soldiers’ Homes and a variety of state-run … a June 1917 meeting of the Medical Board of the Council of National Defense, an advisory body focused on health-related …

… the Ottoman treatment of Armenians in 1915. In the name of "national security," the Turkish legal system criminalizes … defeats in WWI, and, above all, a belief that Ottoman "national security " demanded a permanent solution to the … in the homogenization policies of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the Young Turks' governing body …

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… bank was closed and every ATM was empty. A line at the National Bank of Greece in 2015 with a “vote no” poster in … exit from the Eurozone (the countries in the European Union (EU) using the Euro as currency). A 2015 march against … that Germany controls the money within the European Union, fuels animus today towards Merkel and the German …

… on September 9, 1971, an army of New York State police and National Guardsmen stormed the prison and killed 39 … individuals incarcerated in jails and prison systems nationally. We have the second highest per capita … with gas, helicopters, and machine guns blazing, police and National Guardsmen stormed the prison, indiscriminately …

… the years leading up to World War II. Le Pen, head of the National Front Party, is not the first French politician to succeed by using anti-immigrant, xenophobic and nationalist rhetoric to gain political support. In fact, his … to these predecessors. “France for the French,” one of his National Front’s long-standing slogans, dominated the scene …

… back to the Civil War, not to the colonial period. Both the Union and the Confederacy made Thanksgiving proclamations … “American Political Traditions” (in which he discusses the National Anthem, the flag, Uncle Sam, the Pledge of Allegiance and …

… images are 50 years old. President Nixon had created a national commission to study marijuana and he even chose the … of the United States, just as it is not a client of the Soviet Union. We could sort of think of this as pursuing a third … Global/Transnational …

… administration of the program enabled insurgents from the National Liberation Front to overrun or infiltrate most of … for their collaboration with coalition forces. Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I), under the command of General … his primary goal, neatly summed up by President Bush in a nationally televised speech, "As the Iraqis stand up, we …

… of anti-Semitism, they had “no real self-love and no national self-respect.” They would feel good and right about … of their own, but exercising a “normal” degree of national power on the stage of world history. They expected … a show of power as the only route to “real self-love” and “national self-respect.” Five Israeli-Arab wars and 34 years …

… that “continuity with change” than any other branch of our national government.   The court, as personified by Warren, …

… while the latter connected domestic issues with international developments. The regulation of electricity and … resulted in a regulatory era in which municipal, state, and national commissions shaped the markets in two general ways. … gas market disrupted local economies, which affected the national economy. Meanwhile, in the international arena, …

… historic preservation to Katrina relief as well as international efforts, including the United Nations Literacy … of its seemingly private sphere and make it the core of our national mission. Earnest consideration of Laura Bush’s … of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …

… and it reflects my own research interests in Russian/Soviet and European cinema. I have elected to highlight … his time as a labor camp supervisor to Imperial soldier to Soviet POW. 2. Kanal , Poland, Andrzej Wajda, 1957 Still … her, just a son.” During the so-called Thaw (a period in Soviet history of relative political and cultural openness …