Whatever the reason, it is clear that architecture of the diner can be studied and looked at to further understand America after World War 2. ... Shortly after, a vast network of roads were built to connect what was then an America that was disconnected between cities and towns. ... Never before could you drive yourself to go visit California and go see the ocean whenever you chose. ... Yet, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a temporary slowdown of the production and usage of diners was upon America. ... Unlike before the war, diners were now faced with a new challenge. ...

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Twenty years after the First World War had come to an end, realists has shown that the human element of greed and annihilation was too much for the Fourteen Points; World War 2 being the obvious and excruciatingly painful proof. ... However the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, just two years after the war began, as well as the Axis powers declaring war two days after the attack, brought the US into World War II, something that analysts believe sealed the fate of Germany and Italy. But it was the economic and military polices that the US employed after the war- the Marshall Plan and the Truman ...

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Some could reach few of the things they have planned before, while some could reach none of their goals. ... After the big defeat in the Gallipoli Battles and huge loss of people, the Turks were in bad conditions, too. ... Second, the goals of the rivals are more understandable after knowing about the background of the war. ... In case it shall not be denounced by one of the high contracting parties six months before the expiration of the term named above, this treaty shall remain in force for a further period of five years. 7. ... After French forces join the war, Allied Forces destroyed...

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The Germans had ended Russia's invasion of East Prussia before it had begun. ... General von Moltke wrote a letter to Ludendorff stating, "You have before you a new and difficult task I know no other man in whom I have such absolute trust. ... However, after the Battle of Gumbinnen, Rennenkampf paused to rest his troops and to bring up supplies. ... He was in a hurry to get the battle under way before Rennenkampf showed to help Samsonov. ...

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The poster compels the reader to joint up for the US army, probably after the USA declared war on Germany, on the 7th April 1917, proving this to be a later source, produced after the war has raged unabated for three years, thus having dispelled the notion of adventure or even perhaps duty. 2) The three posters are very different in the fashion their aims are laid out, nevertheless, there are some similarities between them. ... Unfortunately, there is no date on this photograph so we cannot presume that it was taken before conscription was introduced and if it was taken after then it proves ...

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His later poems, after the war, continue to use the same themes that seriously depict his unstable mind. ... After being wounded by gas, Gurney returned to Royal College of Music but his erratic behavior led to his departure once again (22). From a young age, Gurney possessed a lively personality that was troubled by mood swings, which became very apparent after the war (20). However, even before the war, Gurney suffered a mental breakdown in 1913, and had several difficulties focusing on his work while in college (10). ... With this, it can only be assumed that before enlisting, Gurney was n...

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In order to fully grasp the causes of the First World War, and in order to eventually determine responsibility for the war, the state of affairs before its inception, including the events and intellectual climate in the previous century, must be recognized and acknowledged as vital components in the shaping of events that led to hostility and mobilization. ... All of the Powers involved in the Great War began to stake claims in Africa after 1870, eventually creating an animosity that would lead to the creation of the alliance systems; the very alliance systems that were a fundamental cata...

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Groups of militant nationalists seized Fiume, a port city on the Adriatic, and held it for a year before being disbanded by the Italian army. ... This was the background for the more immediate problems that Italy faced after the war. ... The parliamentary government that was set up after the war failed to ease these dire conditions, and Italians wanted radical reforms. ... After the war, these groups formed the base of Mussolini's fascist movement. ... The explanation of their success is to be found less in the strength of the fascist movement itself than in the Italian disappointments af...

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After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. ... The Treaty of 1815 was signed after Napoleon's final surrender. ... After all, the Germans were taking a greater toll on the merchant ships in the Atlantic. ... After the shelling, the soldiers were expected to simply walk over claim the land. ... After the events down in Agua Prieta, Villa was on a one course action, death to all Americans. ...

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He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. ... Theodore made it home only hours after his father had died. ... After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He introduced four reform bills immediately after entering office. ...

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He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. ... Theodore made it home only hours after his father had died. ... After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He introduced four reform bills immediately after entering office. ...

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The grievances of the German people after World War One lay mainly with the signing of the Treaty of Versalilles in the late Spring of 1919. ... The Weimar Republic was the political system that replaced the old imperial German Government after world War One. ...

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After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as an intellectual and at age seventeen attended Harvard, where his father was a professor. ... To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might seem extreme, and almost blasphemous to some, but his work in "plato told" cleverly uses traditional thought to mark him as a revolutionary thinker against traditional culture before most writers of modern time. ... The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. ... After the story ends, Cummings begins a narrative that praises Ola...

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Hitler had almost completely formulated a clear foreign policy program by the first volume of Mein Kampf, however before this final accumulation of ideas he went through a growing period in which he advocated many different positions. The choices he made through this period illustrate his ability to impose his ideas on changing circumstances, and his preference for continental, not global expansion.(7) Hitler began his political view as a revisionist, much like the overwhelming majority of the German public after the Great War. ... This trait that allowed him to use circumstances to...

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Firstly it is important to note that in 1914 a year before this poster was made an Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded The Order of the White Feather. ... Soon after this incident my father joined the army." ... The most striking was the reference to the Germans as Huns, after the barbaric tribe from the 5th century. ... After all the criticism of black propaganda in the first world war Britain was reluctant to be seen using any form of propaganda again, and it waited until 1939, when the outbreak of war was once again upon them. ... Milne, who was also the author of the children's classi...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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This movie tells the story of a reluctant hero, Benjamin Martin, who enters the war after his family, becomes endangered by the British. ... After they threw 90,000 pounds of English Tea into the Boston harbor in the famed Boston Tea Party, the king was furious because the waste of the tea had cost him a great deal of money (Conroy). ... This movie puts a positive twist to war in that the blacks took up arms too to support a cause, which is something they had never done before. ... But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more pop...

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After the defeat of the French by the Prussians in 1871 the Prussian diplomats met with French offcials in the "Hall of Mirrors- and hammered out an agreement. ... The basic German understanding of the treaty was that if they knew before the cease-fire was called how harsh it was they would have held out and fought until the bitter end.(3) Originally ten leaders and diplomats from France, Britain, United States, Italy and even Japan met togethor. Shortly after though Japan left and only the "Big Four- remained, which was Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George plus Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando of I...

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After November 1917, new measures were taken up and another 72,000 men were raised from the black French Africans including the first 10,000 from French Equatorial Guinea . ... A couple days later after more forces invaded Togoland from the Gold Coast and Dahomey, the Germans blew up their wireless station and called for terms. ... Botha eventually put down the rebellion of about 11,000 men after a few months with the help of over 30,000 loyal Afrikaners . ... They took this in May 1915 and although the Germans continued to fight after its capture, they knew the end was near. ... Hostilities ...

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After reading this book labeled The Art of War, the King Wu summoned him and asked for his permission to apply his theories to his army. ... After the first world war, the U.S. reduced funding for intelligence, and even shut down MI-8 in 1929. ... Since there was little to no intelligence collection or analysis before the second world war, the U.S. suffered a significant loss in naval power. ... This attack was considered a catalyst to the American intelligence community because after the attack, there was an increase in resources devoted to intelligence agencies. ... The OSS dissipated after...

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Before 1914, Western society believed in progress, peace, prosperity, reason, and the rights of the individual. ... They also doubted that life would ever return to normal, as it had been before the war. ... As a result of their participation in the war effort and the increasing respect they earned, women were granted the right to vote immediately after the war by Britain, Germany and Austria.16 In general, the war increased women's participation in the society, and helped shed light into their true character. ...

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The lives of the survivors, be them soldiers or civilians, could never be the same after the war. ... After four long years of grim combat, the Allies won when the Central Powers collapsed. ... John Reed, and American war correspondent, visited Serbia during the war soon after typhus had hit. ... Fortunately, after World War I, the use of mustard gas was outlawed due to its cruel effects. ...

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World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis...

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U.S. foreign policy before the relative turn of the 20th century was rather non-existent. ... Theodore Roosevelt was the first president of the twentieth by succeeding McKinley after his assignation in 1901. ... Tension between the United States and Germany had increased after the British intercepted and decoded a message from Germany's foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, to the ambassador of Mexico. ... The War was finally over on November 11th, 1918 after a surrender of the Central Powers. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. But as literacy increased after the 1870 Education Act and, asa result, many more people could read and write, the effect on literature was to expand its range, to fragment its solidity, to enlarge and profoundly change its audience, its forms and its subject matter. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the V...

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