Women before this period were almost invisible in society. ... Women took jobs in factories working shoulder-to-shoulder with men making uniforms, weapons, ammunition, and helping build trucks, tanks, airplanes and other large engines. (4) When the war first began about 600,000 women in Canada held permanent jobs in the private sector, by mid 1943 1.2 million women had jobs. (1) Women rapidly gained a good reputation for their mechanical dexterity and fine precision due to their smaller physic. (4) Thousands of Canadian woman proved they had the strength, skills, and ability to do the work t...

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Mayer was told " National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government-against all the higgling and haggling of the parties and the splinter parties, their coalitions, their confusions, and their conniving- (Remak 23) The selection reveals the desire of Germans to overthrow the government that had betrayed them so many times before and ultimately, in their minds, lost the war for Germany. ... Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi party's propaganda expert, promoted the Nazi idea of nationalism as being "The Common Interest Bef...

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The role of women in the family shifted significantly, after the World War II era. ... After a long journey, today we have women doing great things in the workforce, and men have put on aprons and are raising the future of America. ... Occasionally, they would attend University before marriage. ...

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After the introduction of the National Insurance Act (1911), benefits were extended to underpin the true nature of the scheme (Hill 2004, p20). ... Immunizations were introduced in 1941 and saw Diphtheria drop from 3,000 before the war to 818 in 1945. ... Before 1914 private renting of accommodation was normal. ... Housing had become the major domestic issue during World War 1 after the wave of strikes by housing tenants protesting against landlords' exploitation. ... After World War 1 Lloyd George promised "Homes for Heroes" in the 1918 election, and the Housing and Town Planning Act c...

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World War 2 World War 2 was the last big war for America, and it had many after effects towards our country. ... Before the war we were struggling to get our of a depression that had carried on about ten years; after we were an economically strong country facing many new opportunities and struggles. We were now a huge world power, and though we may have been before WW2, we had finally acknowledged it. ... After the war, Jim Crow laws were still in effect until Brown vs. ... But during the war they were given opportunities never given to them before. ...

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His family moved to Winnipeg shortly before the war started. In 1914 he joined the cavalry and soon after he would become a pilot. ... He failed his first year and was only allowed back if he made up what he missed the year before. ... However in his third year he was caught cheating, but before much could be done the war broke out. ... Not long after he earned his Observers badge. ...

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In the years before the war, society was very much dominated by men and women tended to do more domestic jobs. ... Before World War One, there was not a coalition government in power. ... An opposing view to this would be that after 1918, 90% of married women went back to domestic work. However, the 1919 Sex Disqualification Act opened up opportunities to women that they had never had before the war. ... This was part of a trend in British economy which continued both during and after World War Two. ...

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The world had made a commitment after the Holocaust that genocide would never happen again, but there were three other large scale genocides that occurred after this commitment. The world just needs to figure out when state sovereignty will only go so far before they need to act. ... After World War Two the Genocide Convention was held among the United Nations. ... The international community needs to better communicate on the Genocide Convention on how many lives have to be lost before the mass murders can be considered genocide. ... The United States needs to be devoted to the protection fro...

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Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. Fifty years before this, many Chinese immigrants arrived to take advantage of the Gold Rush in California. ... After the attack on Pearl Harbor, fear of Japanese-American citizens escalated to a fever pitch. ... After the attack, President Roosevelt classified nationals of the Axis powers as enemy aliens. ... After the war many sought restitution for their imprisonment. ...

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Before World War I, the declining Ottoman Empire had two rising movements that would begin the conflict in the Middle East. ... "Palestine was simultaneously the scene of a confrontation with Zionism that became a key issue between Ottomanists and Arabists throughout the Empire in the five years before World War I. ... "The movement made progress before 1914, but it remained a minority movement until 1918, when the Arab revolt, the British agreement with Sherif Hussein, and the British defeat of the Ottomans left the dominant faction of the Syrian and Iraqi Arab notables with no alte...

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Less than 5 weeks after Franz Ferdinand's death Austria made an alliance with Germany who declared war on Serbia. ... One of the most important causes was Japan attacking Pearl Harbor because before this it was solely a European war, but after Japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii it turned the 'European War' into a World War and as the Nazi army got stronger the other European countries had to defeat before they got too strong to defeat and without it there would be no armies for the war. ... After that England declared war on Nazi Germany triggering World War 2. ... Aft...

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Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark which ignited the flames of war. ... Before any one country can be identified as "most responsible- for the outbreak of war, one must first consider the parties involved and their role in Europe in 1914. ... They issued an ultimatum to Serbia that called for reparations and remained aggressive even after Serbia responded to their ultimatum respectfully. ... Diplomacy and intervention on the part of Sir Grey could have hel...

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In an article by David Zucchino in the Los Angeles Times, he reports how war molded Tim and his motivations for fighting before and after the war. ... Tim Kahlor remarks that he originally joined the army to fight after he felt a patriotic urge to serve his country after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, like much of the other youth. ... Before the war, he was looking forward to the apparent rewards. During the war, he realized that the rewards come after horrible costs. ... This reveals that the soldiers are deprived of their bodily integrity before they have even entered into battl...

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After being captured and tortured by the Nazi's for ten hours, he committed suicide by jumping out of a window, but not before writing down 724 false names and access codes. ... He saved by a man he never met before . ... David Quartermain is a member of a notorious wealthy family, and was contacted by Maria weeks before the incident and told David that Thomas was his son. ... Before the death of Laemmle, Thomas went to the banks where he finally released the secret codes that had tormented him for so long. ... Also, why didn't she use the secret codes to release the money before...

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Shortly after Fredrick started work at the saw mill, it fell into bankruptcy. ... For a number of years after the fire Weyerhaeuser mainly focused buying land. ... Weyerhaeuser's business was booming before the First World War and, after the onset of the war Weyerhaeuser began making sending spruce from Weyerhaeuser forests to build World War I airplanes. ... Most times the complaints needed extensive research before they could be logged in. ... This class helped me because before that class I had very limited knowledge of unions and how they worked. ...

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In the time before the war's outbreak (before 1914-in the beginning of the century) the world was separated into big empires that had colonies around the world (European countries ruled most of Africa). ... This, they thought would lead to a break -up of the empire(this eventually happened after the war). ... After the war was over these countries fought one against each other about the way they share the conquered land. After the fights Serbia became a stronger country than it was before. ... Austria-Hungary was an empire and it collapsed into smaller countries after the first world w...

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While Hitler probably lusted after some people throughout his life, his main lust was after power: He wanted to conquer the world in the way that the Romans had two millennia before him. ... Once Hitler received some of the power he lusted after so dearly, he became even hungrier for it. ... After this, is the seventh circle of Hell, divided into three parts. ... The eighth circle of Hell, punishment for those who committed usual fraud', is divided into ten pouches, each sin slightly worse than the one before. ... As has been stated before, he did try to create a different religion that ...

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Even with the covenant of the League in place, war broke out in 1937 after other blatant acts of aggression by Japan, Italy and Germany. The League may have failed in the sense that it could not prevent World War II, but it did in the time after its founding leading up to war have its own successes in humanitarian endeavors and general peace-keeping. ... Before the outbreak of World War II in 1937, the League of Nations experienced both great success and great failure. Cooperation between states after World War I seemed more possible than before due to advances in communication and exp...

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She asks Paul if her son felt any pain before he died. ... This foreshadows Kemmerich's fate for he only lasts a week in the hospital before he passes away. ... The first example of symbolism is the fog often described by Paul "After the assault, a thick fog covered the field which carried the stench of death along with it" (87 Remarque). The fog represents death because it always is around after a battle. ...

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Before Trumbo was involved in the "Hollywood Ten," he was a writer. ... After high school he went on to the University of California and Southern California, after attending the Universi! ... It was after that that he completed some of his best scripts. ... Dalton was suffering from cut-rate prices and needed to move to Mexico before the government found out his real identity. ... The article involved a British soldier that was badly flawed after World War I. ...

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After analyzing some moments in the novel, it was concluded that the Spanish Fiesta really attracted characters with the aim to find themselves in the atmosphere, similar to the war, in order to experience certain emotions, because in their daily lives' the characters have lost a true perception of the reality. ... By such a way, it's not a coincidence that Hemingway, describing the last days before Fiesta and Fiesta itself, the first days after it, uses a very specific style: it's certainly the description of the War in its action, swiftness and intensivety. ... The cafe'...

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The common uncertainties we were left with after the Great War gave rise to many new ways of thought and practice that inevitably shaped the world we live in today. ... Before Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard surfaced the validity of absurdity by explaining the acceptance of Christianity as a "Leap of Faith". ... I couldn't tell whether America made the movements to deal with uncertainty before or after the Great Depression. I know the partying was before, but throughout the section, you linked all of the responses without specifying the time reference.) ... The complaints were valid ...

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The play of the An Inspector Calls played first in Russia, in the 1945 just after the two World Wars. ... The play was set to show the audiences of the sufferings before World War1 in 1912 and gave the audience the power of retrospection of knowing what would happen after the play. Which meant the characters had no hold of the audience's minds by making the play after the two World Wars? ... The audience were given the power of retrospection by setting the play before World War 1. ... The audience realized that Birling is talking nonsense though he believes others, and look back t...

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Just moments after the two had been shot; authorities arrested the culprit, Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian student, who was believed to have been linked to the Serbian terrorist organization, The Black Hand. ... Nationalists believed that their own nation's needs must be met before that of other nations. ... Within Europe during the early years of the twentieth century, a system of military alliances was formed to provide European powers with a sense of security before the commencement of the war. ... The conditions of the alliance changed after Italy was added and stated that countries w...

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Russia, recognizing its mobilization problem, planned to compensate for its lack of railroad by mobilizing before the war began. ... In 1915, Italy entered the war on the side of Allies, encouraged by the promise of control of the Adriatic Sea after the war was over. ... Seeds of the Russian Revolution, however, had been sown years before. ... Petersburg had been renamed Petrograd after the abdication). ... After all, it had been selected by the democratically-elected Duma. ...

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