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Iraq, which had been a British colony from the end of World War I until 1932, was bubbling with internal power struggles.

I had been teaching my seventh-graders about World War II, and a test question was, "What was the largest amphibious assault of all time? "

Nineteen eighty-nine began with Europe divided, as it had been since the end of World War II.

It was the largest naval invasion in history and marked the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe.

Issued by the U. S. Navy during World War II, this pistol allowed an operative to take out the enemy without ever removing his gloves.

The man who said he had abolished "boom and bust" has presided over the longest, deepest recession since the second world war.

During the Second World War, it is said, he soared into the sky to rescue an Italian pilot whose plane had been struck by enemy fire.

Britons' experience of the second world war as their "finest hour" contrasts starkly with that of almost all other Europeans.

Acquiescence of his German officers there to provide him with food, Szpilman able to hang on until the end of World War II.

During World War II, you had limits on what you could say if it would inspire the enemy.

If there were to be a third world war, only the two superpowers would have the capacity to unleash it.

It HAS caused controversy in a country still trying to come to terms with the events of World War II.

Mallory originally set out to teach school, but continued to climb on a regular basis until the outbreak of World War I.

after Pearl Harbor led to American involvement in World War II and a shortage of building materials it would not be any time soon.

The post-World War II period is also given just a quick once-over; instead the series ends with a discussion of the American character.

In World War II th e general made it a point of pride to dig his own foxhole.

He made his first jump as a Navy pilot when his plane was shot down over the Pacific during World War II.

She said the First World War still affects everyone today and there are ripples of it.

A few years later, as the First World War came to a close Mies' style was beginning to crystallize.

Sir Edward Grey on the eve of the first world war said "the lamps are going out all over Europe" .

And the PC version of the same name in World War II-themed strategy game round, the enemy's intelligence nice, Interactive company Chu Pin.

There was a news that a couple finally got to meet and married since the day they broke up due to the World War II.

He was impressed by the war scenes, saying that this film describes something that Western people don't know about World War II.

Adult videos The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I led to Greater Syria being carved into a half-dozen states.

During World War II, the islands and people had been exploited by the Japanese Military to the point of impoverishment.

During World War II, the Shipyard's primary effort was the repair of battle damage to ships of the U. S. Fleet and those of its Allies.

On the basis of this book, there would be much to support such a view: when World War II ended, it was the adults who were lost.

This book stresses there is a primary school_and_a girl in the story The story took place in Tokyo before the end of World War II.

Until World War I, much of the American infrastructure and industry had been financed with foreign money, mostly in the form of bonds.

Mr. Munger grew up in Omaha and joined the U. S. Army during World War II, serving as a meteorologist in Alaska.

Dr. Landau said that his mother had cared for the butcher when he was a boy in the Lodz ghetto in Poland during World War II.

To paraphrase a comment about the British government's management of the British Army in World War I, lions seem to be led by donkeys.

Shaub is counting down the last days of the Maryland car dealership founded by his grandfather on his return from the second world war.

There notes we designed during World War II to be easily declared void if captured in large numbers by the enemy.

IT HAS become known as the "Great Recession" , the year in which the global economy suffered its deepest slump since the second world war.

The 1st factor was that after the defeat in World War 1 there were enough open minds in the German higher ranks ready to examine new ideas.

Also on display, this World War II naval destroyer, getting a bit of a facelift.

My dad was a pioneer in tilt-up concrete buildings and was an engineer for the military in my youth through the Second World War.

In Europe, there was the outbreak of World War I, also known as the Great War, in 1914, and in Mexico, there was the Mexican Revolution.

You might be lucky enough to get a tour of one of Taiwan's still fully operational submarines that date from World War Two.

When World War I erupted in Europe in 1914, Bryan faced one of the greatest challenges to his beliefs. Do you know what this was?

Even when BCG first expounded the relationship, it had been known since the second world war that it applied to direct labour costs.

One of the great things about World War II airplanes, beyond their role in bringing down two savage dictatorships, was the nose art.

He was an ambulance driver during World War I and a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

"Without substantial policy action, we would almost certainly face the worst economic downturn since the Second World War, " he said.

There had been a real dearth of technological advancement since the last world war.

During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces.

On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.

During the First World War, Zeppelins were used in bombing raids over England and France. They were referred to as "terrors of the sky" .

But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.

There has been no third world war, but how much credit the UN can take for this is, at best, debatable.

like the united states and the soviet union after the actual world war ii , the japanese and the germans are distrustful of one another.

Born in London to American parents, she moved to Los Angeles before World War II, and went from child star to Hollywood starlet.

He said conditions were "the weakest since the end of the second world war" .

During World War II, the refinery continued to feed the Allied war machine despite food shortages and a cholera epidemic among workers.

He noted that many Japanese still remember when Japan did not produce a lot of food after world war two.

Pops: 50's. A World War One veteran who loves to make corny jokes. He joined the army to relieve his youth and get away from his wife.

Armenians call the deaths of their ancestors at the end of World War I a genocide. Turkey says it was a tragic result of war.

It did not make a splash in the scientific world until after the end of the first world war and then it made a very big splash.

We need to think very differently than we have done over the nearly seven decades since the end of World War II.

Political philosophy has been the subject of a strong, decidedly individualistic American influence since the second world war.

Our attitude on the question of world war is, first, we are against it; second, we are not afraid of it.

Where the last war had ended, another world war could have easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.

The world is not as tidy a place as it appeared to be before the second world war, but not all modernist housing was a failure either.

Indeed, since the bank's beginning after World War II, many other ways of helping the poor have developed and shown their worth.

Hundreds of people turned up for her funeral yesterday to honor one of World War II's most courageous spies.

Wagner visited here in 1853 when he left his exile in Switzerland to which he had escaped during World War II.

The Battle Of Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in human history, was one of the major turning points of World War II.

We tell you that the event you call World War ll was an over bleed of that trauma, the Aryan conflict.

Returning home from boarding school during the first world war, Meg was almost put off the boat to die at Aden when she became ill.

When I first picked up the book (Iris Chang's The Rape Of Nanking ) it had the words The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II on the cover.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the crash was the most tragic event of the country's post World War II history.

"What they also did is showed me a picture of Murmansk at the end of World War II, and it was an aerial photograph, " he says.

In World War II the general made it a point of pride to dig his own foxhole.

He had served in the marines in World War II, had been a great governor, and was the best speaker in the Senate.

One of my earliest memories in World War II Belgrade, where I grew up, was going to see a Buster Keaton film.

He never attempted to rewrite the lost works, including the novel, which was based upon his own experiences in World War I.

Although the Senate did not follow the co - author with the box-office hit what World War II, "Li meters, " but quietly in the fire, Xinhua.

During World War II, a military encounter with the enemy in the forest, fierce fighting, the last two soldiers lost contact with the troops.

Dynamo Day - the moment Chelsea relaunched big time football in London after World War Two.

If I'd known the film was about the World War II, I might have gone to see it.

When planes were first used in the military in World War I, they were only used for locating the enemy.

America has "borne a special burden in global affairs" since World War II, has made mistakes and not always been thanked for its efforts.

His exploits in Normandy as the tide of World War II decisively turned, illustrate just how much war has changed in the past half century.

The end of World War II was a time of great drama and release for the nation as a whole.

By the time World War I, the Great Depression, the U. S. economy, global exploration into the heat of the characters in the book.

Taiwan says the islands were ceded to it after the second world war by Japan, which used to occupy much of the land now known as Taiwan.

He opened the hatch and climbed up the ladder, then pulled out a metal box that looked like a World War II ammunition case.

All this cooking up to a third world war in which the nuclear bomb would be used again.

Zhao: Your father was once a soldier during the World War II, but he never told you about this unusual experience.

At the beginning of the Second World War, the weapons that the enemy had overwhelmed ours.

The US would not drift into the second world war if Japan had not attacked the Pearl Harbor by stealth.

World War Two may well have been the first war in history in which a wounded soldier was more likely to survive than to die.

The German Enigma machine was an electro-mechanical device used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages during World War II.

His mother collected government checks from her previous husband who died in World War II and his father worked odd jobs.

Then, as in World War II, the major objection to gelatin from the military standpoint was that it gelled at about room temperature.

It is more of a perception, which probably was as true as it ever could be right after World War II.

People who had started rebuilding their lives after World War I began to see in Padre Pio a symbol of hope.

One industry which has done much to rejuvenate the economy of the south since the end of World War II is the very important oil industry.

The Democratic Party is now in a more powerful position than it has been at any time since the second world war.

In one of the few instances of forces pulling back, there was a rapid build down of American bases abroad after World War II.

His death means that, of the 65 million servicemen mobilised on all sides in the first world war, only four are known to be still alive.

JEFFREY SACHS: There's no doubt that at the end of World War II there was a tremendous loss of faith in the market economy.

But Wilson's hope that World War I would be the "war to end war" collapsed soon after, with the outbreak of new fighting in Europe.

During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation making it a crime to speak out against the draft or the government.

I always thought that World War II in Europe had to do with a few other things as well.

Colditz was one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II.

They did so during the high demand period in the First World War, which turned out to be a disaster to the railroad industry afterwards.

These arms are supposed to have been used by partisans during the Second World War.

Less than a week later, the Japanese leader surrender, marking the end of World War II.

This was the last major offensive of the German Army in World War II.

Charles second World War by his discovery of the ways and means of preserving blood plasma.

The scope of this study is so far the United States after World War II Hollywood movies title sequence.

pizza did not find its way into the United states until after the end of the Second World War.

After the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was destroyed by a British bombing raid in World War II all that remained was its ruined tower.

During the Second World War the bank was forced to close many branches and its head office was temporarily moved to London .

Washington , he said, stood by its commitment to financially support European countries in their reconstruction after World War II.

For most of the six decades since the second world war, it has been a giant in chains.

In the Mirror of the Enemy: Japanese Political Culture and the Peculiarities of American Patriotism in World War II.

Winston Churchill is well-known as a statesman, politician and as the British Prime Minister during most of the Second World War.

Since the beginning of World War I, it has been virtually the sole international standard of exchange.

Rin Tin Tin was found on the battlefield in World War I in France, brought back to the United States by an American GI.

He had gone through a somewhat similar experience in World War I, which prepared him for what happened in World War II.

Horror gripped the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle.

But cremating bodies became more common after World War II since it was more efficient in terms of time and labor.

It was the only Thames bridge to have actually been damanged by German bombers during World War II.

During the First World War General John Pershing was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe.

Census Bureau punch cards were used to round up Japanese Americans living on the West Coast at the beginning of World War II.

AS JAPAN copes with its worst crisis since the second world war, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, is calling for a new politics.

The spin game is on as the world tries to talk itself out of the worst recession since the end of World War II.

But Canada's experience, like the U. S. experience after World War II, does not bear this out.

Some of the scenes were like the stuff from the World War II newsreels, only this time it was not Europe but Manhattan.

Allingham was the last known survivor of the Battle of Jutland, considered the greatest battle of World War I.

Queen Elizabeth II is currently married, shortly after the end of World War II, the United Kingdom is still in ruins to be rebuilt.

Great changes have taken place in the whole world since the end of World War.

On seeing the pictures, he began to recall his experiences during World War II.

After World War II, U. S. in turn replaced the yen, has been used to this day people of Palau.

They had begun fighting for the right to be accepted into military pilot training during World War One.

His mother worked in an armaments factory during World War II, making parts for Spitfires.

IN MANY countries one of the side effects of the second world war was to breed a generation that could not abide waste.

The remaking of the world order after World War II was bound to be seen as one of historic achievements.

It's like when I was asked by a policeman (during World War Two) why I was on crutches after I got an air rifle shot in the leg.

Why did the Cold War occur, what were some of the main "hot" event within and why did it not turn into a Third World War?

But I do see one where the awesome power of these weapons has made world war obsolete as an instrument of policy.

After struggling through the Great Depression, World War II created jobs and brought the city out of the Depression.

Even Joseph Stalin was nominated twice for his efforts to end World War II (he did not win).

In the regression, the man found himself in the battle of Somme of World War I on the British side.

The only good thing out of this, is we will never be able to have another world war.

For Ferguson, the end of the British Empire is a noble one, as the British exhausted themselves fighting the Axis powers in World War II.

In comparison, by this point following the eight recessions between World War II and 1982, GDP had already increased 4%, on average.

When she's the only one to possess them, she's the equivalent of the United States at the end of World War II: a truly global power.

I grew up in the 1940s. Life was grim. My dad was a sharecropper. There had been tough times on the farm. World War II was going on.

After World War II, the energy derived from burning the various fractions of petroleum exceeded that of coal.

During World War II, he was a war correspondent for Collier's magazine and his return to Paris was an event that didn't go unnoticed.

As if coming into this world in the middle of the second world war was not bad enough, I was also a disabled child.

If you want to see what I mean, try reading Winston Churchill's Second World War series.

Until World War II, Soviet Russia was the only example of a Communist regime.

Certainly this unfortunate situation grows partly out of the years of World War I.

Soldiers ate a lot of it in World War II. After the war, Americans shipped tons of it to impoverished Europeans as relief supplies.

Attempts have been made to limit the potential for a world war, but even the reduction in nuclear weapons has made little difference.

"Isolationism" has long been a powerful current of public opinion -- indeed it dominated foreign policy until World War II.

And one of the reasons he was amazing , after World War II he began an electronics company .

After World War Two, Hu Shi (Hu Shih) believed, the Soviet Union had turned out to be a "horrible, invasive force. "

Even "Shanghai Girls, " to which "Dreams of Joy" is a sequel, went back to reasonably carefree pre-World War II Shanghai.

It was thus with acute political acumen that Roosevelt led the country through the Great Depression and to its victory in World War II.

Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific.

He was an agent for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, posted to South-East Asia at the end of the second world war.

In the post World War II era price controls have been used as part of anti-inflationary policy.

It was used as recently as World War II by the U. S. Government, and then promptly made illegal after the war was won.

But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.

The 38th parallel, which divides Korea roughly in half, was drawn up in 1945, at the Potsdam conference near the end of World War II.

There in the front row sat this person who remembered the Depression, fought in World War II and lived through the Cold War.

US navy chaplain Joseph O'Callahan was the only chaplain to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor During World War II.

During the next five years, the US is expected to experience the fastest deficit reduction since the second world war.

I suspect that it is irrelevant to the children born of the fragmentation after World War II.

The governor of that section was Pierre Boisson, an old soldier who had lost a leg and his hearing in the first World War.

the eve of World War II, only the brave fighting the enemy's march will be able grasp the public's heart.

Drunk or just a beautiful pain in the ass, she's turned something like a bump or a stepped-on shoe into World War III.

He compared China's situation today to that of Germany and Japan after World War II.

This is quite an amazing feat seeing as how it had to rise up after the end of World War II when it found itself almost destroyed.

Global economic growth is now projected to fall to a mere ? per cent this year, its lowest rate since the second world war.

Later, during World War I, Annie wrote to the Kaiser asking for a second shot. The Kaiser, who started the war, never replied.

Since the First World War, coal-fired power plants have accounted for about half of the electricity produced in the United States each year.

After the Second World War, America stepped into a time of reason and logic.

By then, World War II had ended, but the United States was involved in the Korean War so Starr decided to become a military doctor.

Today, much of the global financial sector is as liberalised as it was a century ago, just before the first world war.

During World War II he was a war correspondent, as opportunity that provided the material for much of his later writing.

The first is the decline in barriers to the free flow of goods, services, and capital that has occurred since the end of World War II.

Its task now is to fight a recession that looks increasingly likely to be the worst since the second world war.

The US dollar has been the king of currencies since the first world war, when it began to dethrone the pound sterling.

Seems to be the head of bayonet in Germany World War 2, interesting!

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones .

In the post-World War II period it has taken, on average, two years for a country's GDP to recapture its prior level, Ms.

Xi said he particularly likes Hollywood movies about World War II and hopes Hollywood will continue to make them.

After the United States entered World War II, he put on the uniform of a Navy officer and devoted his talents to the war effort.

Until World War I, Esther had always wanted to be an actress, dreaming of her "name in lights, flowers, handsome men. "

In this atmosphere, many if not most Germans came to believe that World War I was a sort of natural catastrophe, with no human authors.

They changed it - you can sort of see why - during the First World War, to sound less Germanic.

A few prototypes were developed before World War II, but mass-production did not begin until 1946.

Horror gripped the heart of the World War I soldier, as he saw his life-long friend fall in battle.

Benjamin Brubaker, Salina, looks through a scrapbook filled with items of the World War II expierences of his and his brothers.

The US had "underwritten" Asia's rising prosperity since the second world war with its strong commitment to regional security and trade.

When World War I broke out, the French suspected her of spying for the Germans, even though she was also likely doing so for the French.

Sarajevo, Bosnia: A man warms his hands at the eternal flame, a monument to victims of world war two.

Noir fiction came out of the First World War and the Depression but still thrives today, in slightly altered form.

Even that abbreviated list is a heavy burden for a war-weary country struck by its worst recession since the second world war.

I do not intend on this occasion to go into any detailed justification of our entire post-World War II national security policy.

The North African coast was an important scene of conflict between the Allied and Axis powers during World War II.

The White House predicts the United States will enter the new fiscal year with the largest budget deficit since World War II.

She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1945 for her service in World War II.

On Oct. 17, Bush warned that "if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would be a dangerous threat to world peace" that risked a third world war.

Deciding whether or not to involve the U. S. in World War I severely tested his leadership.

He gave a humorous performance on war only a few weeks before the American soldiers came home from World War I in 1918.

During World War II, a British flying instructor, Colonel Joe Duckworth, bet his pilots he could fly straight into a hurricane.

I passed the university entrance examination and was ready to go to university but with World War II I went into banking.

It is an international organization, one start mission is to help in the second world war ii of the destruction of national reconstruction.

Chocolate became so popular around the world that even during World War II the U. S. government shipped cocoa beans to the troops.

The London Summit took place at a time when global trade is falling at the fastest rate since the Second World War.

However, after World War II it was removed by the British administration, as international trade routes had expanded.

Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II.

It came as Norway succumbed to a double attack in what is being described as the worst atrocity it has faced since the Second World War.

Cold war rivals Taiwan and China have been separately governed for the last century except for a brief period after the second world war.

Nazis were brutal during the World War II and he was the only survivor of his family.

Although much has been written about World War I, the strategic lessons Of that conflict for warfare have not been fully comprehended.

Reach for the Sky was a famous book by a wheelchair-bound pilot written after World War II.

"We're in the early stages of what I would describe as the Third World War, " former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week.

The only post-World War II recession more severe was in 1958, when the U. S. was a manufacturing powerhouse.

A vintage World War II-era fighter plane crashed into the grandstands Friday at an air show in Nevada.

However, Wells went on to say that a second world war would only be ended by a worldwide disease epidemic.

Her son was six, she said, when World War II was over and the news of concentration camps became public.

This recession has been the longest for the United States since the end of World War II, government economists said.

Emerged in the West after World War II, the new political economy is an academic school studying political problems by means of Economics.

Economics was a hot topic in those first years after World War II (probably the only discipline hotter was atomic physics).

We fought a world war on less debt than the Republicans have built up in the last eight years.

A new report says youth employment in the U. S is at its lowest level since the World War II.

It's not like World War II, where there was a war front and a home front, and everybody seemed involved.

As tax rates fell during the last decade, the U. S. economy experienced its slowest growth since World War II.

Britain had done this job up to the First World War, through the mechanism of the gold standard.

It has after all presided over the longest and deepest recession and biggest budget deficit since the second world war.

World War II catapulted up to 38 percent of American women into the workforce to fill the labor shortage left by men serving as soldiers.

Both the decline in jobs and the increase in the unemployment rate have been more severe than in any other recession since World War II.

In the Second World War tanks the driver-mechanic was seated in the front part of the vehicle, while the rest of the crew in the turret.

Some wanted to see perpetrators hauled into court, as happened at the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after World War II.

Ascending humans have released their karma for warfare enough that the possibility of World War III is no longer a future human dream.

The closest thing to the post-World War II world-reordering moment that we have seen since then was the end of the Cold War.

In my opinion, the third world war will break up in East Asia in the early part of this century.

But this is no replacement for the long term (two months or more) tours American boats have been doing since World War II.

The collapse of world trade is likely to be the worst since the end of World War II.

The political independence that came to scores of colonies after World War II did not put an end to economic colonialism.

They explain this in terms of the policies governments used to escape from the debt burden of the second world war.