Noun 1. War of 1812 - a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.Want...
As the British defence production base had largely survived the war unscathed, the British warfare state was better placed than other Western European governments to resist this American vision for Western defence. Seeing Britain as a major power, British policy-makers remained committed to an ...
French and Indian War - British Advantages, Victory: William Pitt was the organizer of British victory in North America. In the 1763 treaty, France ceded Canada to Great Britain, gave up claims to land east of the Mississippi River, outside the environs
Anglo-Burmese Wars, (1824–26, 1852, 1885), three conflicts that collectively forced Burma (now Myanmar) into a vulnerable position from which it had to concede British hegemony in the region of the Bay of Bengal. The First Anglo-Burmese War arose from f
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly) the United Kingdom and the territories under its control, which reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I when it embraced over a quarter of the world's population and more than a quarter of the world's land surface ...
The Houthi group has maintained control over significant portions of northern Yemen since the onset of the Yemeni civil war in late 2014.■
To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States During World War II Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. 269 pp. $39.95.In her study of British World War II propaganda in the United States, Susan Brewer portrays efforts to influence the postwar world by guiding American...
Propaganda BureauorWellington Housewas a highly secret propaganda agency set up by the British government on the outbreak of theFirst World War. It operated under the supervision of the Foreign Office and directed its propaganda mainly at allied and neutral countries, especially the United States. ...
Factory canteen, 1943. United States Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division. A convoy of mobile canteens would move into bombed areas to feed residents and rescue workers for free, coordinated by the Ministry of Food. These mobile canteens were largely funded by donations from the ...
United States The United States in the beginning stages of the 20th century was very different compared to what it is today. Times were pretty rough around here due to recovery from the civil war. At this time living conditions were very different, along with way of life and the current te...