The war was a time when many men were called to serve in the military at home and abroad. ... Women were able to fill in for their husbands and brothers who were forced to leave their jobs to serve in the military. ... "The "Rosie" image served as an appropriate ideal for mobilization propaganda. ... Whether it was the ability to provide a feminine touch or simply another set of eyes, women made countless contributions to productivity in the factories. ... Women continued to work in different fields such as Rosie Monroe how went on to drive a cab, own a beauty shop, set up her own construct...

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The family's dynamics are at once set as the reader finds the mother remote and as distant as the father, who seems to spend most of his nights in London, rather then at home. ... In fact, these two protagonists serve to move the story forward as their unresolved problems with each other and with the events that were set into motion that night circle around them. ... The reader learns early on that for whatever reason, possibly the dysfunctional family,Briony seems only to understand her world through the pages of her stories, Though she sets aside her writing for a time, it becomes ...

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Life endangering, and hostile, we will never know the full extent of the horror that took place at the time of the holocaust. On a rounded sum of numbers, six million Jewish men, women, and children we killed shamelessly. Of course the nazi party, who were the socialist government power at the time,...

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For example, India is building a wide variety of new missiles with a range of 90 miles to 1,300 miles. (2) And Iraq refuses to let United Nations teams in to inspect its nuclear weapons stores. (1) In addition, the many of the countries in the former Soviet Union have set up lines of trade, both legal and not, to support their own economies. ... Even if they did the set date to lower arsenals is by 2003... In many cases the collapse has, in fact, served to amplify the problems already plaguing arms control. To support its failing economy Russia has become an arms dealer, and Full nuclear w...

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Cold War - The Changing Relationship of the Superpowers The United States and Soviet Union, the single most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This irony was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which forced them in this relationship. Onc...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. Hitler had been defeated indefinitely. Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. However, not all of the changes were bad, some were good, but they were changes that affected America in terms of social, economic...

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Citing his faith and his patriotism in that two day conference in Indianapolis, Welch and the John Birch Society set forth on a crusade to enlighten America about the a very real Conspiracy of a Communist coup. ... Clearly, the upheavals and atrocities of 1789 served as a model for revolutions to come, especially the Bolshevik Revolution- (Thorton The New American). ...

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Since he had no set income he was forced to move into the ghettos and became somewhat of a bum. ... He left Vienna to get away from the mixture of races and to escape the military that he had to serve in with Jews. ... Hitler was thrown in jail for his attempt to overthrow the government, but only served nine months of his 5-year sentence. ... This deal with Russia was set up so that when Hitler took Poland the land would be divided with Stalin. ... He knew he could not defeat England so set out to attack Russia, but before he did he took Yugoslavia and Greece. ...

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The wrote letters of refusal to serve under him. ... The company reequips and reinforces back in England, then sets off for yet another airdrop, this time into Holland. ... Easy picked up a couple more soldiers, fresh from jump school, and in mid-December, was assigned to serve at the icy battleground of Bastone. ... It opened my eyes to what it means to serve our country and exactly what these men went through on a daily basis. ...

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Originally enrolled as chaplain, Pilgrim's intentions weren't to fight, but to serve the moral and spiritual needs of the soldiers. ... To cite this companionship a quote from the book would serve wonderfully, "The love of a man for a woman waxes and wanes like the moon, but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars and endures like the word of the prophet..." ... Pilgrim, gifted with the ability to travel throughout time, continually does so, never ending up in one set time and place.After fighting a gruesome war, Pilgrim is rewarded by incessantly traversing time an...

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Greatest Generation has seven different sections: Ordinary People, which shows the lives of citizens who contributed to the war and came home to lead normal lives; Home Front, about those who experience the change America went through as a nation at home; Heroes, both the decorated and the unsung of the war; Women in Uniform and Our, talks of the sacrifices of the mothers, wives, and girlfriends as they either supported the cause by filling spots in factories, or fought to get a taste of action as a nurse on the front line or as a WAVE; Shame, which addresses the disgraceful way that the minor...

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Nearly three hundred fifty thousand American women served in uniform. ... Women drove as truck drivers, worked as laboratory technicians, served as radio operators, repaired airplanes, rigged parachutes, flew military aircrafts across the country, test flew newly repaired airplanes, analyzed photographs, and even trained as anti-aircraft artillery gunners by acting as flying targets. ... Etta Shiber, author of Paris Underground, and Kitty Beaurepos, Etta's good friend, set out to try to save English soldiers from German imprisonment. ...

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For those who may have been struggling with a psychological breakdown due to the stresses of combat, the DEROS fantasy served as a major prophylactic to actual overt symptoms of acute combat reaction. ... On the opposite end of the spectrum the seasoned veterans who only had a couple months left to serve did not want to get themselves killed so they avoided everything with potential danger to keep themselves alive during the final months. ... Most of the women that served in the military served in the Nurse Corps. Over 8000 women served in the country of Vietnam and of those 8000 there were ...

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You wish to serve" (63). ... Rain also serves as a life-affirming symbol, one which baptizes Henry when he decides to desert the Italian army. It is raining outside almost every time something bad occurs, such as the army's retreat or Catherine's death, and serves to mark these events as random occurrences, just like rain itself. ... An American second Lieutenant in the Italian Army's ambulance corps, Frederick Henry, is depicted as an average man in search of a set of values. ... When Henry decides to row all night across the lake to help him and Catherine escape from the o...

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William George "Will" Barker World War I Fighter Ace William George "Will" Barker World War I Fighter Ace William George Barker was born on November 3, 1894 in Dauphin, Manitoba. As a boy he wasn't interested in schoolwork and spent most of his free time riding his horse and hunting bir...

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Set in post World War II England, the short story centers on a gang of adolescents who decide to demolish an aged man's house. ... In particular, not only do the boys of the gang are brought up in the war years, they live in an situation that serves as an constant message of the frightening experience of war. ...

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This shocked the Americans back home, and as practically every home owned a TV set, these shocking images bombarded the public, and sympathy for the war fell. ... He got life but served only three months. ... The youth started to revolt against the ideals set by their parents in favour of a life of peace, love and copious amounts of marijuana, Timothy Leany who was a professor of philosophy summed it up with the quote "Turn on and drop out". ... People were unwilling to fight and tore up their draft papers, support for the war was diminishing and people were tired of the endless stream of terr...

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This tone is often set by creating emotions in which the readers relate to. ... While there is no doubt that the majority of the blame and guilt should be set on Hitler and his Officials, his allies must take part in a good portion, just as they did in the war. ... In the film In Which We Serve the wife of the captain makes a speech in which she describes feeling many things about the war, she mainly felt sad, but also a little guilty. ...

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Women set in here helping as well. ... But still only the nurses served in the combat areas. ... Soon enough women had set up many services, like the women's auxiliary Australian air force, the Australian women's army service and the women's royal Australian naval service. ...

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It is set against the backdrop of the wartime conflict between democracy and totalitarianism with anti-nazi propaganda. ... As families saw their sons, daughters, mothers and fathers depart they turned their eyes to baseball and even though five hundred Major League ball players served in the World War II, baseball continued. ... They worked together to make movies to increase the morale, they wrote songs for one another to sing, and baseball games were set up in the evening so that the working class could catch the game to relieve their day. ...

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Hitler only served nine of those months in prison; while in prison, Hitler, at the age of thirty-five, wrote his famous Mein Kempf (My Struggle). ... He set up a private battle-ready elite guard known as the "Schutzstaffel" (SS) to transport and take care of all political prisoners and people thought to be inferior. ... Also, at this time the Concentration camps were set up to exterminate the Jews in Germany, Poland and Russia. ...

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The soldiers that served in the war were hit especially hard by the horror of war. ... They drove ambulances, served as nurses and doctors, and distributed food to the soldiers, "undeterred by discomfort and hardship.""14 Furthermore, a number of women "responded with enthusiasm to the call for drafts-15 and by their help, they contributed directly to the victory of the allied forces in the First World War. ... Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering also stated in his 1942 radio broadcast to the German nation that raw materials such as coal and iron should not be wasted, and that anyone who "uses t...

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An evening in front of his television set watching his daily dose of world news from CNN or MSNBC or some other news station tells the typical American that we are engaged in global conflict. ... Thus, it only makes sense that these will serve as a great starting point and much focus of my writing. ...

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He could not find a viable career option that he had the skill set for. ... Eventually, Adolf moved to Munich, Germany and joins the 16th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment to serve his country during World War I. ... A different form of propaganda aimed to serve the same purpose, appeal to the public in a manipulative way. ...

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A former soldier that served in the war, Adolf Hitler was one among many that were embarrassed by the ending of World War One. ... Although he only served eight months he wrote a book addressed to Rudolf Hess (who later became the deputy leader of the Nazi Party) titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle). This book set out his political philosophy. ...

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