Georgia Pacific
U.S. Department of State Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates
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Program Alumni – International Visitor Leadership Program
East Asia and Pacific ... Thirty-three (33) Current Heads of Government and Chiefs of State are International Visitor Leadership Program Alumni. Africa | East Asia and Pacific | Europe ... [Read More]
Eurasia – Educational Advising Centers – EducationUSA
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2004
1111--02/24/04 U.S. Policy Toward the Pacific Islands; Matthew P. Daley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Remarks at an event presented by Georgetown University's Asian Studies Program and Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies; Washington, DC ... 1111--02/12/04 Trade and Human Rights: The Future of U.S.-Vietnam Relations; Matthew P. Daley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Washington, DC ... [Read More]
Outline of American History - Chapter 10
General Hideki Tojo became prime minister of Japan in October1941. In mid-November, he sent a special envoy to the UnitedStates to meet with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Among otherthings, Japan demanded that the U.S. release Japanese assets andstop U.S. naval expansion in the Pacific. Hull countered with aproposal for Japanese withdrawal from China and Indochina inexchange for the freeing of the frozen assets. The Japaneseasked for two weeks to study the proposal, but on December 1rejected it. On December 6, Franklin Roosevelt appealed directlyto the Japanese emperor, Hirohito. On the morning of December 7,however, Japanese carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacificfleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in a devastating, surprise attack.Nineteen ships, including five battleships, and about 150 U.S.planes were destroyed; more than 2,300 soldiers, sailors andcivilians were killed. Only one fact favored the Americans thatday: the U.S. aircraft carriers that would play such a criti ... [Read More]
Signatories to the 1970 UNESCO Convention
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Background Notes
Within each Background Note is a link under "OFFICIAL NAME" that goes to the respective "country page" containing additional information. For a specific country, click on the Background Note link below, or, for a list of the countries in a region of the world (with links to respective country pages) go to the Countries and Other Areas section in each of these regions: Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Near East, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. ... [Read More]
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