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World War II

The keyword World War II is tagged in the following 10 articles.

The Legacy of International Cooperation at the Nuremberg Trials
October 4, 2011 - 5877 words | History » World War II
On November 21, 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the Chief Prosecutor for the United States of America opened the prosecution’s case against German defendants in Nuremberg, Germany. The war in Europe had ended only six months earlier, many of the buildings in Nuremberg... Read Article »

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World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Nazis Human Rights Soviet Union Germany Great Britain United States France
Nuclear Weapons Testing in the United States: Sacrificing Health for National Defense
June 1, 2011 - 2790 words | History » Nuclear Weapons
As WWII ended, and the Cold War began, America began to strengthen its national defense against the Soviet Union. Alliances were created resulting in the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The United States began to create an arsenal of nuclear weapons in order... Read Article »

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Nuclear Weapons World War II Thyroid Cancer Radiation U.S. National Defense
"Britain Can Take It": Rethinking British Morale in 1940
March 11, 2011 - 1929 words | History » World War II
"Britain can take"[1] it refers to a film produced by the Ministry of Information in 1940, which had been originally titled “London can take it”[2] and produced for the American public. The film portrays a rather happy go lucky picture of Britain during... Read Article »

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World War II Great Britain Luftwaffe Blitz Britain Can Take It
Wartime Rationing During World War II and the Effect of Public Opinion in Great Britain and Austria
December 9, 2010 - 2365 words | History » World War II
During World War II, a key aspect of almost every country’s wartime strategy focused heavily on limiting domestic consumption. One method governments employed to enforce control was to forcibly reduce their citizens’ consumption through the implementation... Read Article »

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Rations Rationing World War II Wartime Strategy Wartime
Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past
November 5, 2010 - 2821 words | History » Fascism
Fascism cannot adapt to, and exist under, certain prominent, contemporary conditions. Specifically, it cannot adapt to the strong democracies in which extreme right parties operate, nor to the ideology of radical Islamic groups. This paper begins by defining fascism... Read Article »

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Fascism Nazi Germany Fascist Italy Extreme Right Radical Islamic Groups World War II World War I
The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
September 9, 2010 - 2548 words | History » The Holocaust
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the gas chambers during the Holocaust. Historians and social scientists often attribute this moral failure to the blissfully feigned... Read Article »

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The Holocaust Whire Rose Movement World War II Germany Nazism The White Rose Scholl
Hitler's Use of Film in Germany, Leading up to and During World War II
March 18, 2010 - 3193 words | Film and Cinema » Worl War II
German cinema from 1927 to 1945 was affected drastically by the political environment that grew within the nation. After Germany suffered drastically at the hands of the Versailles treaty and its reparations clause, Adolph Hitler, the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, and the... Read Article »

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World War II Film Film History Germany Cinema Hitler Nazis Fritz Lang World War II Cinema
The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
January 28, 2010 - 2901 words | History » World War II
Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and history into five segments. In his fourth... Read Article »

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Holocaust Omer Bartov Bartov Genocide Auschwitz World War II Obscene
Conspiracy: Did FDR Deceive the American People in a Push for War?
January 24, 2010 - 3933 words | History » World War II
“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy…” is one of the most recognized speeches in United States history.[1] Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke firmly and directly on December 8, 1941 of a Japanese “premeditated&rdquo... Read Article »

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Pearl Harbor Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War II American History Conspiracy
America in the Post War Period
October 18, 2009 - 1439 words | History » Post War Period
The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world as we know it today; likewise, the period was shaped... Read Article »

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World War II Postwar Period World War II Culture