Sorry if this has been asked before, but what was point of no return for the Nazis from gaining power in 30s Germany/When was the rize of Nazism inevitable?
Any resemblance between most of the Socialist political parties in Western Europ and the Communist Party as it existed in the Soviet Union is minimal if not non-existent. Totalitarianism trumps (not a pun!) any nominal ideology.In a no Cold War scenario, what happens to socialism? It didn't take off in the US I think due to fears of the Soviet Union.
And was the Cold War/USSR the reason why the US safety net is inconsequential compared to most Western European countries?
Thanks for the explanation.Any resemblance between most of the Socialist political parties in Western Europe and the Communist Party as it existed in the Soviet Union is minimal if not non-existent. Totalitarianism trumps (not a pun!) any nominal ideology.
As for the safety net, by which I assume you mean Welfare systems and Health Care, I would think the difference is a function of the US Federal structure which gives states significant control even over federal functions - such as the election process for President and Congress etc. I know US politicians try to equate the ideas behind Western European welfare/health care systems with Communism but that's political rhetoric not reality.
Question, has anyone estimated the population of the world and the countries inside without WWII? Just curious
Question, has anyone estimated the population of the world and the countries inside without WWII? Just curious
There are quite a few threads about Europe's population without the 2WW (or without both WWs) but I can't find on about the world's population.I saw one or two threads about it a few years back, but I don't remember their names or the general consensus they reached. Sorry.
Is there a path to making Chicago the largest US city?
I agree but I'd have said 1900 - 1940, 1941 - 1970, 1971 - 2000, 2001 -.I think this forum should be spilt in 4 1900-1930 1930-1950 1950-1990 1990-2020
Mexico ascendant is a good oneAny good >1900 Latin American TLs here?
Would this specifically mean that you cannot unilaterally release a POW then execute them?A prisoner of war cannot be compelled to accept his liberty on parole; similarly the hostile Government is not obliged to accede to the request of the prisoner to be set at liberty on parole.
I think you're right. Certainly all the pictures I've seen of turbines from that sort of time are labelled as being for specific ships; there are a few examples here: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Parsons_Marine_Steam_Turbine_CoAm I right in the assumption that steam turbines for ships are built to order, and not standardised? This would specifically be for a foreign ordered warship (one ordered, with two more in discussion) built in a British shipyard in the late 1920s. So not some Liberty ship or similar series production.
Or to put it different: Is there a way to tell if a ship will heave steam turbine X because that company produced only that version for those dimensions and performance at the time?
Then it's not a veto, it's just a no vote.What if the UN charter had a rule that allowed the override of a veto if a majority of the security council pushed for an issue?
Then it's not a veto, it's just a no vote.
The wording in Article 27 of the UN Charter is that decisions by the SC need 'an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members' and was actually a reduction from the situation in the LoN where all members had veto power and which led to effective permanent deadlock. There was agreement that this should be avoided in the new organisation, but the great powers would never have agreed to a system which allowed other nations to over-rule them by majority votes, so the veto was retained for the permanent members - the great powers - and removed for all others.
Perhaps instead the Charter could give the General Assembly the power to overrule the SC, as exists now following UN GA Resolution 377. I suspect that if this were to be written in originally, it would probably require something like a two-thirds majority as well, for a similar reason to above, that the great powers wouldn't want to be over-ruled by a simple majority.