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atomic bomb. Fearful of the world devastation that could result from their creation in the hands of such a tyrannical leader, man...

them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

In three pages FDR's New Deal is considered in an examination of U.S. presidential cyclical timing and how it both defined and con...

force from farm to factory, from country to city. They were also aware that the United States lagged behind Europe in its struggle...

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

place between the developed wealthy countries. Another form of capital flow is that indirect investment. This has been seen in m...

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Introduction World War II was the deadliest conflict in mans history and when it was over, most of the nations of the world were ...

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

to hide the inherent flaws of the command economy and discourage fundamental reform. "In this paradoxical way, the victory of 1945...

In ten pages the Second World War ambivalence between Finland and the U.S. is examined and includes a discussion of Finland's asso...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

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

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

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

In ten pages this paper evaluates the reasons behind the involvement of these countries in the Second World War. Six sources are ...

structure that was primarily the movement toward westernization of Turkey. He became a virtual dictator, monopolizing political po...