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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...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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 "...

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

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

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...