In part one, we gave a general overview of the 1919 or “Wilsonian moment,” a notion that extends before and after that calendar year, … Read the rest
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The Old Order is Crumbling, and a New Order is Rising
The end of Empires
In all the occupied areas of the Japanese, the three policies agreed on in November 1941 were applied with mixed results. … Read the rest
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Axis States Understood they settled the Moral Low Ground
US hesitancy in joining WWII
As we have seen in the previous part between the Pearl Harbor attack and Hitler’s declaration of war on the … Read the rest
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The Second World War Created the Conditions for Transforming Europe and the Entire Global Geo-political Order
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the … Read the rest
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The Five Days That Made Pearl Harbours As a Key For the Worldwide War
The riddle surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack
The dominant narrative holds that Japan’s surprise attack led inexorably to the outbreak of a truly global conflict. … Read the rest
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Creating a New World Order
The geopolitical transformation of Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s leaders understood that war with the United States was far from ideal. Still, it also ended … Read the rest
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Gorbachev’s Reform
Shultz would not let the matter rest, however. He told the president, “To succeed, we have to have a team: right now there isn’t one. … Read the rest
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Case Study: From The Manchurian Incident to World War II Part 4
Today, on 30 Sept., the Munich Agreement was signed and is generally accepted as the cause of the Second World War. However, as we … Read the rest
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Case Study: From The Manchurian Incident to World War II Part 3
As Kana Miller, whose books we have quoted in our article series, recently wrote; though Manchuria was a Chinese Territory controlled by warlords loyal (in … Read the rest