Once World War II broke out, outside of North America paper supplies were significantly constrained as import flows were disrupted. The US and the Canadians partnered to distribute newsprint around the world to papers deemed 'friendly' to Allied interests in Latin America, and this practice of ...
The integration of science into U.S. foreign policy during World War II initially came from the urging of scientists. In August 1939, just months after the German chemist Otto Hahn and Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, working with others, discovered that heavy atomic nuclei could be split...
Add to that the comforting myth that America’s “greatest generation” pretty much won World War II, thereby saving democracy (and “Saving Private Ryan” as well). Perhaps, however, we should imagine those years of conflict, 1914-1945, as a European civil war (with an Asian wing thrown ...
To quote the Imperial War Museum,“During the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed on operations, 12% were killed or wounded in non-operational accidents and 13% became prisoners of war or evaders. Only 24% survived the war unscathed.” An aircrew member was committed to fly thirty oper...
The complex took shape after World War II and was strengthened during the Cold War with the majority of Fortune 500 companies becoming defense contractors. Throughout the entire Cold War period, U.S. defense spending amounted to 10 trillion dollars, and the direct beneficiaries were the military...
摘要: Reviews two books on women workers. 'Women Workers in the Second World War,' by Penny Summerfield; 'From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980,' by Lynn Y. Weiner.年份: 1986 ...
France After World War II On September 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, beginning the Second World War. Their declaration of war was a reaction to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. While France had prepared for war, it had prepared for the wrong war: German tanks ...
World War IIwas the largest conflict in human history and devastated Europe, Asia, North Africa, and large portions of the Pacific. It began as two separate wars: one involvingJapanagainst China in the 1930s; the other involving Germany against Poland, France, and Great Britain in 1939. With...
his plans were derailed by the outbreak of World War II, and his relatives began the process of repatriation only in 1948. Then, to their horror, they found that the poet’s grave had been cleared. In keeping with French practice, the skull was separated from the skeleton, and the bones...
Explore a summary of the key events in the most devastating war in history, World War II. Study the important dates and chronology of World War II,...