In 1916 the government introduced conscription, this is when every fit and able man had to go to war if he was called up. ... But the children serve a second purpose in this poster they are questioning the fathers masculinity as he has been put it the female domestic space. ... Firstly it was felt that the government needed to promote an attitude of cheerful British courage. In Jan 1940 the Home Intelligence Division was set up to see how the public reacted to propaganda. ... These posters served the purpose of bringing some humour compared to the Ministry of Information's earlier efforts...

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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. ... Government planning boards were created in order to prioritize and decide what was to be produced and consumed.18 In his annual message to the Congress in 1942, president Franklin D...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...

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They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. ... The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. ... Now with all these views the North set out on its quest for the complete abolition of slavery (Dean). ...

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According to Spencer, this ethical indifference to the plight of the weak serves to eventually strengthen the society. ... Nietzsche's idea of the "ubermensch" gave rise to a number of notions concerning the superiority of certain races over others and strengthened the argument for eugenics, where society or the government should intervene to assure the procreation of the strong in order to produce the "superman." ... The fundamental motive behind this Pan-Slavism was to unite all the Serb peoples under one government. ...

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A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ... Continued Russian attempts to align more countries on its side made the United States (primarily) set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. ... The American government after the war, realized it was in a very profitable position, with many of the smaller countries having to choose whether to side ...

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He had formulated this strict set of ideas several years earlier, and he consciously followed this plan throughout his twelve years in power. ... Hitler's revisionism did contain special traits from the start that would set him apart from other fringe politicians, and set him down the course to eventually developing his program. ...

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