In 1940, about 22,000 Polish soldiers, intellectuals, and officials captured after the Soviet Army invaded Poland in 1939, were killed secretly by Soviet police in the forest of Russia’s Katyn.The Katyn Massacre had been a sensitive topic between the countries. The former Soviet Union always ...
In the postwar period, the Spitfire became the mainstay of a number of European air forces. France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Sweden all maintained fleets of the iconic warplane. The Spitfire even saw action during the late 1940s. In 1947, Indian Spitfires struck Pakistani insurgents in th...
Reumann's new book, American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports, provides an interesting and provocative window into the heated public discussion of American sexuality from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. She argues that this generation of Americans "...
A ) In 1930 s . C ) In 1970 s . B ) In 1940 s . D ) In 1980 s 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C [听力原文] 29-31 One of the most important questions a worker can ask is: "Will I have enough money for retirement " For more than 30 years, Americans have used...
Though more Americans than ever are living alone (25 percent of U.S. households, up from 7 percent in 1940), the connection between single-living and loneliness is in fact quite weak. "Some of the most profound loneliness can happen when other people are present," says Harry Reis, ...
During the next fifty years, however, life in America changed greatly. Most people moved from farms into cities or towns where the husband had a job in an office, store or factory. In the 1940sand 1950s most women continued to work at home, taking care of the house and children, doing...
In the 1940s, African-Americans faced considerable obstacles in their everyday lives due to Jim Crow laws and unwritten, racially biased social codes. These laws and behaviors created strictly segregated barriers, and discrimination pervaded most areas of life. Despite these ongoing hardships, the 19...
He did that in 1926. Henry Ford thought that if the working people had more free time they would spend more money and it was something good for the economy. By 1940 it had become common for most Americans to work 8 hours a day a week. Today the lives of most Americans ar...
听力原文: In the 1940s, urban Americans began a mass move to the suburbs in search of fresh air, elbowroom, and privacy. Suburbs began to sprawl out across the countryside. Since most of those making the move were middle-class, they took with them the tax money the cities needed to ...
After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not keep up with the cost of living.In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four.In 1970, Preside...