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Riots in China Over Japan’s Purchase of Disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands
Chinese protesters pelted the Japanese embassy in Beijing with eggs and bottles in response to the Japanese government’s announcement of a proposed plan to bring the “privately-held” Senkaku/Diaoyu islands under national ownership. Decrying Japanese imperialism while touting signs emblazoned with Chairman Mao’s iconic portrait, Chinese university students took to the streets and called for war […]
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The Rise of South Korea: How Economic Success is Transforming the Republic of Korea into Asia’s Newest Power Broker
- May 5, 2012
- 4 Asian Tigers
- business and finance
- chaebol
- conglomerates
- East Asia
- economic growth
- economic output
- Economy
- export-led growth
- Han River
- Hyundai
- industrialization
- innovation
- innovation gap
- Korea
- Korean War
- Lee Myung-bak
- Miracle on the Han
- North Korea
- Park Chung-hee
- Republic of Korea
- rising power
- Samsung
- South Korea
- World War II
The Economy of South Korea: How the “Miracle on the Han” Transformed the Republic of Korea into an Economic Superpower South Korea’s chaebol: Economy at a crossroads – Counting the Cost from Al Jazeera English The rise of the Republic of Korea’s economy has placed South Korea on the world map as a leader in […]
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The Cold War: The Origins of the Conflict.
- April 1, 2012
- Allies
- Atomic Age
- Atomic Era
- Clement Atlee
- Cold War
- Communism
- Fallout Shelter
- Fight against Fascism
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Great Patriotic War
- Harry Truman
- History
- Joseph Stalin
- Mutually Assured Destruction
- Nuclear Weapons
- Origins
- Potsdam Conference
- Russians
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Winston Churchill
- World War II
- Yalta Conference
The tensions of the Cold War are hard to imagine in the current era, even with the fear of ‘terror’ and living in what some call the ‘age of terrorism.’ For example, in the United States, Cold War paranoia reached untold heights, with secret bunkers and installations built across the country in case of nuclear […]
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Links Between Neo-Nazi Gang and German Secret Service?
Ties linking the Neo-Nazi “National Socialist Underground” gang responsible for a string of terror bombings in Germany to Germany’s own secret service have been revealed in the wake of the suicides of two suspected members. The group is believed to be responsible for the murder of a policewoman and nine immigrant street vendors with gun […]
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Dissolving Gold Before the Nazis Steal It: The Story of Niels Bohr and the Noble Prize Medals.
Imagine you are living in the 1940’s with the terror of the Nazi menace marching towards your home. This was the plight of physicist Niels Bohr in 1940. One of Jewish descent and one socialist, Max von Laue and James Franck had sent their Noble Peace Prize Medals to Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics for […]
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