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The Tiberian series features two warring factions called the United Nations Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the quasi-state terrorist group, the Brotherhood of Nod. The original Command & Conquer (also referred to as Tiberian Dawn) serves as the beginning of the Tiberian series storyline. The conflict centers around control of a new resource called Tiberium, an exotic substance that extracts minerals from the land it sits upon and deposits them in above-ground crystals that are simple to process int ...

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Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer - Tiberian series, Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Renegade, Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor, Command & Conquer - Games in the series, Command & Conquer - Red Alert series, Command & Conquer - Games in the series, Command & Conquer - Generals series, Command & Conquer - Games in the series

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The Cold War is usually considered to have occurred approximately from the end of the strained alliance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during World War II until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Korean War; the Hungarian Revolution; the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis; the Vietnam War; the Afghan War; and U.S.-backed military coups against governments in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), and civil wars in countries such as Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua were some of the occasions when the tension related to t ...

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Cold War, Cold War - Historical overview, Cold War - Arms race, Cold War - Historiography, Cold War - Significant documents

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A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between general elections. Usually this occurs when the incumbent has died or resigned, but it may also occur when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office, for example because of a recall or a criminal conviction sufficiently serious. Historically, members of some parliaments were required to seek re-election upon being appointed to a ministerial post. The subsequent by-elec ...

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A buffer state is a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers, which by its sheer existence is thought to prevent conflict between them. Buffer states when authentically independent typically pursue a neutralist foreign policy, which distinguishes them from satellite states. The conception of buffer states is part of the theory of balance of power that entered European strategic and diplomatic thinking in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the manipulation of buffer states like Afghanistan and th ...

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Chancellor of Germany Count Otto von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (April 1, 1815 – July 30, 1898) was one of the most prominent European aristocrats and statesmen of the nineteenth century. As Prime Minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the unification of the numerous states of Germany. From 1867 on, he additionally was Chancellor of the North German Confederation. The latter was enlarged in 1871 to the German Empire, as the first Chancellor of which Bismarck served ...

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• Otto von Bismarck - Biography
• Otto von Bismarck - Early life
• Otto von Bismarck - Early political career
• Otto von Bismarck - Ministerpräsident Prime Minister of Prussia
• Otto von Bismarck - The Defeat of Denmark and Austria
• Otto von Bismarck - The Establishment of the German Empire
• Otto von Bismarck - Chancellor of the German Empire
• Otto von Bismarck - Foreign Policies
• Otto von Bismarck - Last years
• Otto von Bismarck - Legacy

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In realist theories of international relations, bandwagoning refers to the act of weaker states joining a stronger power or coalition within balance of power politics. The term is opposed to balancing, and unlike balancing, is a relatively new term. Bandwagoning was coined by Quincy Wright in A Study of War (1942) and popularized by Kenneth Waltz in Theory of International Politics (1979) (in his work, Waltz incorrectly a

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The naval Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11 November – 12 November 1940 during World War II. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft naval battle in history, flying a small number of aircraft from a single aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean and attacking the Italian fleet at Taranto. Britain won the battle in what pundits around the world saw as the end of the "big gun" ship and the rise of naval air power. In 1940 Italian operations in North Africa, centered on Libya, required resupply from the Italia ...

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The 2006 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 39th general election) will occur on January 23, 2006. The general election will elect members for the Canadian House of Commons, and will indirectly determine the prime minister and cabinet, as the government will be formed by the political party or coalition that the Governor General determines is best able to command the confidence of the House (usually the one with the most elected members). This unusual winter election was caused by a motion of no confidence pas ...

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• Canadian federal election 2006 - Contenders
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Events during the 38th Parliament
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Brinksmanship in the spring of 2005
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Aftermath of the first Gomery report
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Issues
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Opinion polls
• Canadian federal election 2006 - State of the parties
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Candidates
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Vulnerable ridings
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Incumbent MPs not running for re-election
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Liberals
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Independents
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Conservatives
• Canadian federal election 2006 - New Democrats
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Bloquistes
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Election day
• Canadian federal election 2006 - Publication Ban

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United Kingdom This article is part of the series: Politics of the United Kingdom Parliament The Crown: Queen Elizabeth II House of Lords Lord Chancellor: Lord Falconer House of Commons Speaker: Michael Martin Prime Minister: Tony Blair Cabinet Government departments Scottish Parliament Scottish ExecutiveIncluding:

• Politics of the United Kingdom - Executive branch
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Legislative branch
• Politics of the United Kingdom - House of Commons
• Politics of the United Kingdom - The House of Lords
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Political parties and elections
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Electoral systems and reform
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Non-parliamentary political parties
• Politics of the United Kingdom - History of political parties
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Political landscape today
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Regional parties in Great Britain
• Politics of the United Kingdom - The fringe parties
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Independents
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Civil service
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Devolution
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Local Government
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Elections
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Major issues in British national politics
• Politics of the United Kingdom - British politics and the European Union
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Politics in Northern Ireland
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Government bodies
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Judicial
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Miscellaneous
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Referendums
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Political pressure groups
• Politics of the United Kingdom - International organization participation
• Politics of the United Kingdom - Footnotes

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In realist theories of international relations, balancing is a term for joining a weaker coalition to counter the influence or power of a stronger coalition. The term is derived from balance of power. Balancing is opposed to bandwagoning, which unlike balancing is a relatively new term. Balancing occurs when weaker states decide that the dominance and influence of a stronger state is unacceptable and that the costs of allowing the stronger state to continue their policies unchecked is greater tha ...

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The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a major European armed conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the last Spanish Habsburg king, Charles II. Charles had bequeathed all of his possessions to Philip, duc d'Anjou (Philip V), a grandson of the French King Louis XIV. The war began slowly, as the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I fought to protect his own dynasty's claim to the Spanish inheritance. As Louis XIV began to expand his territories more aggressively, however, other European nations (chiefly England and the Rep ...

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• War of the Spanish Succession - Origins
• War of the Spanish Succession - Beginning of the war
• War of the Spanish Succession - Early fighting
• War of the Spanish Succession - Blenheim to Malplaquet
• War of the Spanish Succession - Final stages
• War of the Spanish Succession - Result

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The United States federal courts are the system of courts organized under the Constitution and laws of the federal government of the United States. United States federal courts - Categories. The federal courts are a branch of the federal government, and include: General jurisdiction courts: United States district courts United States court of appeals (except the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) Supreme Court of the United States Subject-m ...

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• United States federal courts - Categories
• United States federal courts - Levels of U.S. Federal Courts
• United States federal courts - Limitations on U.S. Federal Courts
• United States federal courts - Study of U.S. Federal Courts
• United States federal courts - External link

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The Federalist Party was a political party during the First Party System in the United States, 1792-1816. It was formed by Alexander Hamilton who built a network of supporters in Congress and in the states about 1792 to support his fiscal policies; it came to support a strong national government, a loose construction of the constitution, and a more mercantile, less agricultural economy. Its early leaders included John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. Its great hero was George Washington (even though he was opposed to political parties). ...

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• Federalist Party United States - The rise of the Federalist Party
• Federalist Party United States - French Revolution
• Federalist Party United States - Whiskey Rebellion: Unrest at home
• Federalist Party United States - Newspaper editors at war
• Federalist Party United States - A new president
• Federalist Party United States - Alien and Sedition Acts
• Federalist Party United States - Election of 1800
• Federalist Party United States - Service as the loyal opposition
• Federalist Party United States - The disloyal opposition
• Federalist Party United States - Interpretations
• Federalist Party United States - Bibliography
• Federalist Party United States - Presidential candidates

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The Tiberian series features two warring factions called the United Nations Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the quasi-state terrorist group, the Brotherhood of Nod. The original Command & Conquer (also referred to as Tiberian Dawn) serves as the beginning of the Tiberian series storyline. The conflict centers around control of a new resource called Tiberium, an exotic substance that extracts minerals from the land it sits upon and deposits them in above-ground crystals that are simple to process int ...

Including:

• Command & Conquer - Tiberian series
• Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
• Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Renegade
• Command & Conquer - Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor
• Command & Conquer - Games in the series
• Command & Conquer - Red Alert series
• Command & Conquer - Games in the series
• Command & Conquer - Generals series
• Command & Conquer - Games in the series

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Collective Security is a system aspiring to the maintenance of peace, in which participants agree that any "breach of the peace is to be declared to be of concern to all the participating states," 1 and will result in a collective response. This began in 1918 after the international balance of power was perceived by many nations to be no longer working correctly. The lines between what is considered "collective defense" and "collective security" have been blurred. The con ...

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• Collective security - See Also

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Civics is the science of comparative government and means of administering public trusts - the theory of governance as applied to state institutions. It is usually considered a branch of applied ethics and is certainly part of politics. Within any given political tradition or ethical tradition, civics refers to education in the obligations and the rights of the citizen under that tradition. When these change, so often does the definition of civics. Related education in history, religion and media literacy is often ...

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• Civics - Civic theory

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William III of England (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and a Protestant Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English, Scottish and Irish Crowns following the Glorious Revolution, during which his uncle and father-in-law, James II, was depos ...

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• William III of England - Early life
• William III of England - Early reign
• William III of England - Glorious Revolution
• William III of England - Revolution Settlement
• William III of England - Rule with Mary II
• William III of England - Later years
• William III of England - Death
• William III of England - Legacy
• William III of England - Style and arms
• William III of England - Ancestry

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The Cold War was the open yet restricted struggle that developed after World War II between the United States, the Soviet Union, and each of their respective allies. The struggle was named the Cold War because it did not actually lead to direct armed conflict between the superpowers (a "hot" war) on a wide scale. The Cold War was waged by means of economic pressure, selective aid, intimidation, diplomatic maneuvering, propaganda, assassination, low-intensity military operations and full-scale proxy war from 1947 until the colla ...

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• Cold War - Historical overview
• Cold War - Arms race
• Cold War - Historiography
• Cold War - Significant documents

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Main article: World War I On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo in a conspiracy involving Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. Gavrilo Princip was part of a group of fifteen assailants, acting with some support from parts of the Serbian government. Though World War I was triggered by the chain of events this assassination unleashed, the war's origins lie deeper, involving national politics, cultures, economics, and a complex web of ...

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• Causes of World War I - Ideological causes
• Causes of World War I - The Rise of Nationalist Sentiment
• Causes of World War I - Social Darwinism
• Causes of World War I - German Domestic Politics
• Causes of World War I - Structural or Systemic Causes
• Causes of World War I - Unifications of Germany and Italy
• Causes of World War I - Changes in Austria
• Causes of World War I - Material causes
• Causes of World War I - Colonial Expansion
• Causes of World War I - Web of alliances
• Causes of World War I - Over by Christmas
• Causes of World War I - Incompetence
• Causes of World War I - Primacy of the Offensive and War by Timetable
• Causes of World War I - Communication Issues
• Causes of World War I - Specific Events
• Causes of World War I - The Congress of Vienna
• Causes of World War I - The Franco–Prussian War 1870–1
• Causes of World War I - The Rise of Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Causes of World War I - Anglo–German Naval Race
• Causes of World War I - Berlin-Baghdad Railway
• Causes of World War I - Historiography
• Causes of World War I - Sources
• Causes of World War I - External link

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Although claims have been made that Amerika was produced partly in response to the 1983 television film The Day After -- which some critics felt was too pacifist and did not portray the consequences of a possible loss of American freedom -- Stoddard dismissed this view, pointing instead to a column in the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner written by attorney (and later, television personality) Ben Stein. Stein's column appeared a few weeks befo ...

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Amerika TV miniseries, Amerika TV miniseries - Genesis, Amerika TV miniseries - Controversy, Amerika TV miniseries - Social Criticism, Amerika TV miniseries - Major Characters, Amerika TV miniseries - Backstory, Amerika TV miniseries - Situation Presented, Amerika TV miniseries - Plot and Resolution, Amerika TV miniseries - The Divided United States, Amerika TV miniseries - New International Zones, Amerika TV miniseries - National Symbols, Amerika TV miniseries - Ratings, Amerika TV miniseries - Influence, Amerika TV miniseries - Availability, Amerika TV miniseries - Quotes from Amerika, Amerika TV miniseries - Similar works, Amerika TV miniseries - Movies, Amerika TV miniseries - Television, Amerika TV miniseries - Books, Amerika TV miniseries - Games, Amerika TV miniseries - External link

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