World War II

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? "

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

"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 .

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The medieval city lost tens of thousands of citizens and nearly every building to heavy Anglo-American bombing near the end of World War II.

During the World War II, not only the tanks of Nazi were all around the Europe.

"Chicken Runing" Let me think a lot of World War II films, chicks were all Revolutionary Party.

Formalized in the aftermath of World War II, the relationship between the two nations remains one of deep economic and security ties.

Some localities reverted to standard time after the war, but others retained daylight saving. During World War II the U.

His schedule included a trip to a U. S. military cemetery, and a French monument to the resistance fighters of World War II.

It's an old story , one that's been told with increasing regularity since the end of World War II.

So we hope the Japanese become our friends after the end of World War II, but now the enemy get back.

I was born in the West after World War II in a senselessly wealthy country, and I never really had to struggle.

In the beginning, the WAC was considered a temporary unit that would be broken up when World War II ended, but that didn't happen.

At the beginning of World War II, this side of the Pacific had only two democracies: Australia and New Zealand.

Looks like World War II is going to be a popular topic for games again this year.

Eisenhower, who served as Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II and was later elected 34th President of the United States.

At the beginning of World War II, Hitler invaded Poland without a declaration of war .

Bush was shot down in the Pacific during World War II and rescued from the water shortly afterwards.

It is only in the post-World War II era that stocks so widely outpaced bonds in the total-return derby.

Nonetheless, the supremacy that the United States and its Western allies have enjoyed since World War II is fast fading.

Rotterdam was almost completely bombed out during World War II. It was built back up from scratch after the war.

World War II, before the credit crisis is usually accompanied by periodic crises of overproduction.

Its heyday ended with World War II , but it has retained its great natural charm and is today a popular birding and golf destination .

The Navy later scuttled the ship and transferred Campbell to the South Pacific, where he remained until the end of World War II.

The reprocessing of World War II stocks of plasma had run into this problem, and the Department of Defense wanted no reserves of that kind.

One thing he did know; He loved to hear tales of soldiering , especially from World War II.

World War II was perhaps the last genuinely existential war fought by the U. S. and Britain.

One such tunnel served as an air raid shelter in World War II.

During World War II, Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to fly a heavy bomber over the Atlantic.

Development economics came into its own as a new field of study in the years following World War II.

Second, is the government of Japan trying to deny the international order established after World War II?

After World War II there was a blooming association between German and American Obstetricians-Gynecologists.

The question remains, though, whether China can create a middle class as broad as the United States did after World War II.

In water-logged Burma, now known as Myanmar, World War II crews built dozens of bridges, while under constant attack by the Japanese.

These mines were created by the Germans and used throughout World War II, on all fronts, and were known as beetle tanks by Allied forces.

With the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet Union revived the line, claiming all the territory east of it.

That's the U. S. S. Torsk, a World War II submarine that's painted to look like a shark.

Among its provisions, the law made available to World War II veterans immediate financial support in the form of unemployment insurance.

Britain is the dirty spatial ship do not send the type place, its navigation have not had the excellent performance in the World War II.

Mr. Obama drew a parallel with Winston Churchill, and his response to the German bombing of London during World War II.

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt had asked the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, to enter the war against Japan.

The world financial crisis can be said to be the most serious since World War II, and the breadth and depth of the effects are unexpected.

Before world war ii, the Japanese family shape is mainly by three generations of the basic form of alternative for family system.

The catastrophe of World War II ended for Italy with a civil war that raised fears of a communist takeover.

Nearly a week has passed since Japan suffered its worst crisis since World War II.

At the end of World War II, the Axis Powers lost the war to the Allied Powers including USA, USSR, Britain, China, France, etc.

When World War II started , the American Red Cross again offered its volunteer efforts to help the military.

A diver explores the wreckage of a Japanese World War II fighter plane near the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.

That's the lowest this measure has been at this point in a recovery since World War II.

He served on a submarine in the Pacific during World War II and worked for World Federalists after the end of the war.

Their building began before World War II but in 1949 was quickly wound up because it had been admitted to be unviable.

Invented just before World War II for military purpose, it has since been applied to many areas, an important one being weather monitoring.

In World War II and Vietnam, scout dogs helped locate the enemy in dense jungles.

For a while after World War II, he tried to write realistic stories.

At the start of World War II, the supply of tools from Europe, and especially Germany, began to dry up.

After World War II, the industrial relations in Britain remained relatively peaceful at the beginning.

The plane was en route to a ceremony at the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers during World War II.

Back in World War II, Wellington Mara served in the United States Navy -- so there's a long tradition here.

The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U. S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, Calif.

The titanic battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union's Red Army for the city at the end of World War II left the city in ruins.

After World War II there was a rapid development of technology, as well as a population boom.

It involves many of the romantic conventions of fairy tales, yet it takes place in post-World War II Italy, and it ends realistically.

Like many former industrial cities, Trenton has seen its economic base dwindle dramatically since the end of World War II.

' " Without native languages, she says , the US wouldn't have had the help of the code talkers during World War II. "

The same happened in the United States during the Great Depression and throughout World War II.

The authority to declare war is given to Congress, not the president, but that authority has been steadily usurped ever since World War II.

Pretty much any kind can work--what finally put a definite end to the Great Depression was military spending in World War II.

After World War II, movies that had sound took the place of silent films, but this wasn't the only change.

Some wonder at her stories, hinting at being a spy during World War II and touring with some of the most famous big bands of the day.

Built on the site of an old church nearly five hundred years ago, the bell tower was until World War II Moscow's tallest building.

He carried a clipboard and something that looked like a cross between a World War II-era walkie-talkie and a 1990s cellphone.

Ties between the two parties date back to the struggle to oust colonial power Japan from northeast China and Korea before World War II.

Those figures came as the U. K. released a budget that includes its biggest jump in the national debt since World War II.

In the aftermath of World War II , the Japanese economy went through one of the greatest booms the world has ever known .

German scientists experimented with jet pack technology during World War II as a way to help soldiers avoid mines.

It's why Lyndon Johnson established Medicare at the peak of the long post-World War II expansion.

Well, if you remember before World War II , Japan had a vision for a greater Japanese co- prosperity sphere .

As aircraft speeds increased after World War II, there was a need for wind tunnels that could provide faster-moving air.

2People rush to help injured spectators following the crash of a vintage World War II P-51 Mustang fighter plane at the Reno air races.

Scientists, you know, made World War II as we know it, quite possible.

Mueller`s parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania and father served in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Vladimir Putin in an interview at his fourth consecutive term for World War II, U. S. President Roosevelt expressed his appreciation.

Coming out of World War II, our labor force had the best supervisors and the most highly skilled workers.

I don't think staying the course with a failing policy in Iraq has anything to do with a appeasing the Nazis before World War II.

It was the dedication of the monument to the dead of World War II, and the whole town had turned out.

Change begins when one million black soldiers join up in World War II.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a distinguished general in American history , who made outstanding contributions to the victory of World War II.

S. opposition. Washington's main weapon: its threat to slash financial support for London, whose economy had been battered by World War II.

Later, during World War II, the medal was changed into a recognition of combat injuries and deaths.

World War II produced the biggest deficits as a percentage of gross domestic product in U. S. history -- and an end to the Depression.

His parents were Polish Jews who ended up in Germany after World War II.

After the US entered World War II in 1941, Estelle tried to talk her boyfriend Sidney out of joining the Army.

Having been brought up as an atheist, Lewis embraced Christianity when he experienced World War II.

Born during World War II in what was then East Prussia, Schwermer as a child joined the flood of refugees expelled by Russian army.

As a chaplain in World War II, McSorley survived the Bataan death march, and he later became close to Robert Kennedy and his family.

Two women of the German anti-aircraft gun auxiliary operating field telephones during World War II.

Belgium is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy that evolved after World War II from a unitary state to a federal state.

During World War II, he watched as Japanese soldiers hid among the stupas , prompting Allied Forces to bomb the entire island.

He graduated from the Fieldston School in the Bronx and served in the United States Naval Reserve at the end of World War II.

The World War II destroyed the human body and civilization, moreover caused the humanity to beset with a psychic crisis pervasively .

After World War II, even the people who'd just fought through World War II thought "Jeez, maybe those things were a bit much. "

World War II was a moral struggle against fascism, the ideology responsible for the murder of tens of millions of noncombatants.

Cold, snowy weather further heightened the hardship of a nation facing what its leaders call its biggest disaster since World War II.

The names of these veterans of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War are known only to God. But their valor is known to us all.

During and since World War II, American women have become a considerable part of the American work force .

An American soldier, serving in World War II, had just returned from several weeks of intense action on the German front lines.

The American postmodernist fiction reflects the characteristics of the different historical periods in the US since World War II.

The War Advertising Council, a private, non-profit organization, was founded to rally support for World War II-related efforts.

She points to Tom Hanks' performance in the movie Saving Private Ryan, in which he played a World War II captain.

A monument was set up in memory of the soldiers who died in World War II.

The U. S. has provided stalwart leadership in Asia since World War II, but good leaders develop new ones. Here is an opportunity.

It was a German submarine base during World War I and was severely damaged by Allied bombing during World War II. Population, 69, 129.

After all, other naval powers have done so for decades after German engineers during World War II invented the magnetic mine.

on sixth children believed A campus is theme park during world war II, one out of twenty said, holocaust is a gala for war ending.

Then, after World War II, his uncle Charles H. Murphy Jr. expanded the partnerships into what became known as Murphy Oil.

Relatively little use was made of trenches in the mobile warfare of World War II in Europe.

Before World War II, Mongolia served as a buffer state between Japan and the Soviet Union, and after, between the USSR and China.