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to protect their possessions from ending up in the hands of government agencies once they have died; however, this particular appr...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...

Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...

red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...

also the issue of the many displaced nationals from Europe, with the Surrender of France to the Germans in 1940, for a while Brita...

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

Even when it appeared that World War I was inevitable, however, Greece was very reluctant to enter the fray. She restrained from ...

attempts to change or has no recent history of change, change will become more difficult because people will naturally be suspicio...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...