... having a significant effect on Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. The three most important places are Germany during world war two; Ilium, New York, before and after the war; and an alien planet called Tralfamadore. Ilium, New York is the fictional town in New York where Billy Pilgrim is born ... in 1922 and where he lives most of his life. In Chapter 1, Vonnegut tells us that after the war he and his wife lived in Schenectady, New York, which Billy Pilgrim's "Ilium" seems to be based on. Having grown up in Ilium, Billy ... settles there after fighting in World War II. ...

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... factories began making tanks and airplanes. U. Manhattan Project Established (1942) The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because much of the ... a sense of optimism. The Second New Deal set up the Social Security Act of August 1935 and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). B. World War II had major effects on the economy, resulting in factory conversion to wartime products and the rationing of meat, sugar, shoes, and other items. Soc...

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... in Washington, and being romanced by the social elite of both the U.S. and Great Britain. Joseph Kennedy, Jr. vigorously opposed U.S. involvement in World War II while at Harvard Law School, but once Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, he enlisted in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program, and was soon ... the right word. He demanded it." In JFK, the Joe Sr. found a willing vehicle for his ambition. Harbor would drag America into World War II. The Rising Politician JFK's political career began where he had been born--in Massachusetts, where his father had numerous contacts, and where a p...

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... raiding Indian food supplies. 2. 1610- Relations were even more strained when Lord De La Warr arrived. He destroyed Indian towns, until a peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614, sealed by a marriage between Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe. 3. A weak peace lasted for 8 years until the Indians struck back after settlers continued to press inland. ... some sort of religious toleration. Church of England was dominant. 4. Because tobacco farming stripped the soil, and because settlers settled along rivers, there were constantly confrontations with Indians. II. Settling...

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... combined the New England, New York, and New Jersey colonies into the Dominion of New England, and put everything into royal hands, taking away their self governing rights. King James II was removed in 1688, being replaced by William of Orange and Mary. When this happened a political change occurred when the monarchy agreed to a Bill of Rights, respect for civil liberties ... to consult with Parliament annually. In other words, England had now become a Constitutional Monarchy. Many riots were held by the settlers against the monarchs, because of their anger from James II decisions. The m...

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. A weak soldier in World War II, Billy learns how to time travel, to the past and future, although has no control of when or where these travels will occur ... or take him. Throughout the novel, Billy talks of the bombing of Dresden, which he lived through as a prisoner of war. After the war, he settles down in his hometown of Ilium, New York, as an optometrist, with his wife and has 2 children. He is later taken by aliens ... death, who claims Billy is of fault. He eventually keeps his prom...

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... to withdraw troops. On September 3, 1940, the United States transferred destroyers to Great Britain. The United States officially entered World War II on December 8, 1941. On March 8, 1942, the US Government War Production Board issued regulation L - 85, which regulated every aspect of clothing and restricted the use of natural fibers. In ... you remember like I said before how fashion did a lot with men fashion, well it did a lot of changes with women's fashion Prior to World War II, New York fashion designers made the trek across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the flamboyant (very nice )...

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... . The Thirteen Colonies I. Virginia - In 1606, James I the King of England grants permission to The London Company to start a colony in Virginia. II. Plymouth - In 1606 a group of Separatists were being persecuted in England and fled to Holland seeking freedom of religion, however, in Holland they began ... . 4. The harbor would make an excellent naval base to establish control over the area. - In 1664 the English, under King Charles II, sent a fleet of war ships to New Amsterdam, under the command of James, the Duke of York. Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherland at the time .....

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... quasi-clandestine affair with Martha Gellhorn, also a journalist. In a nutshell, she was blond, beautiful and young. Martha became his third wife in 1940. During World War II, Ernest spent most of his time in Cuba and Key West. He worked semi-officially, through the US Embassy in Cuba patrolling the seas searching for German submarines ... his own boat the Pilar. Then, as a journalist again, he covered D-Day and the final Allied push to victory in Europe. It was during the war he met his final wife, Mary, who he married in 1946. Through it all, Ernest continued to write. He won the Pulit...

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... Dutch control was ending. The English noticed that it was growing very quickly and passed the Navigation Act of 1651, in order to smother it. Charles II then decided that he had enough Dutch presence in the New World and on Monday, August 25, 1664, launched the Guinea, an English ship, to ... . These people included: large property owners, government employees, merchants, and the Anglican clergy. New York did not vote for the Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary War had begun. Many battles occurred and the Americans lost control of New York to the British until 1783. The effec...

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... to Spain, Hemingway became a journalist for the North American News Alliance (NANA), while also being a narrator for The Spanish Earth, which was a propaganda film that he supported. The Spanish Civil War often was expressed throughout his writings such as his short fictions, The Fifth Column and The First Forty-nine Stories and novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1941, he ... was a journalist once again for Colliers and reported on the Japanese involvement in China, Royal Air Force in 1944, liberation of Paris during World War II, and the Allied victories. Besides his journaling, Hemingw...

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... in the history of the United States. He held office during two of the greatest crises ever faced by the United States: the Great Depression and World War II. Both in times of peace and war, his impact on the presidency was enormous. In Roosevelt's twelve years in office, his strong executive leadership became an essential part of the United States government. For ... reformer, FDR earned key positions in Woodrow Wilson's administration. As Wilson's assistant secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt did an excellent job of mobilizing congressional support for the Navy for World War I. In 1920, F...

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Bryan M. Smith The Spy Wore Red: My Adventuress as an Undercover Agent in World War II. By Aline Romanones. New York: Random House, 1987, 304 pages. Have you ever felt that someone is watching you? You"re walking down an empty street ... of how she made it as a secret agent and survived. In The Spy Wore Red, Aline gives her own personal account of how she served our country in World War II. She was an aspiring model from New York that wanted to serve her country. She re-tells her account of very courageous woman spy. One dinner, one night, ... find out who was Heinrich Himmler's top spy, and ...

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... The Red Pony (1938) and The Pearl (1947). Another novel and play, The Moon Is Down (1942), about the German invasion of Norway, won critical praise. After World War II, in which he served as a war correspondent, Steinbeck wrote increasingly about social outcasts. Cannery Row (1945) relates the story of a group of vagabonds on the Monterey coast. The Wayward Bus (1947) presents a morality ... of Pippin IV (1957), a burlesque; and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), a moralistic tale about a decaying Long Island seaport. Steinbeck wrote popular sketches of his travels in Once There Was a...

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... variety of issues. Included below is a sampling of the most significant titles: I. Outlaws arbitrary discrimination in voter registration and expedites voting rights suits; II. Bars discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants; III. & IV. Authorized the national government to bring suits to desegregate public facilities ... was filled with briefings by Roosevelt's aides, attempting to educate him about current issues. Truman tried his best to stay informed about World War II. On his sixty-first birthday, V-E Day, Germany surrendered. Next, he issued the Potsdam ...

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... as ridding the world of EVIL, certainly a tall order. One would think their would be enough evil within Washington itself to occupy ourselves, but no matter. We can expect perpetual war, perpetual bombings, against any nation who catches our eye. For the first time in the history of warfare, there is a weapon, aerial bombing, against which there is NO EFFECTIVE DEFENSE ... is a particularly nasty bunch of thugs). So who is the enemy? And what are citizens supposed to do for the war effort? During World War II Americans were told to buy WAR BONDS and ration gasoline. Bush tells us to buy...

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... in the U.S. Senate to join the Confederacy. In fact, he was a Unionist and even served on the Committee on the Conduct of the War. When Johnson finally became president, it was a bad time all over the United States. He never stopped verbally assaulting the rebels and offered ... wild upon Negro franchise." Johnson also stated, "It would not do to let the Negroes have universal suffrage now; it would breed a war of races." Johnson feared African American voters because he thought more politically inclined people around them would control them. He also showed very little ... was a democra...

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... up their homes and farms and made to live in internment camps. The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. The motive around this movement was to move Japanese Americans away from the public in the name of national security. Although these people were ... man. I for one was taught to be proud of these women who were making planes and military paraphernalia while I knew nothing about the truth behind the war. I never learned about the camps or the black workers until I was able to understand my own need for truth and sought it out on my ...

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... the United States, who were the persecutors, and The New York Times, who were the defendants. In 1971, during rising tensions over the Vietnam War, the New York Times attained top-secret articles based on the 1968 study, "History of U.S. Decision Making Process on Viet Nam Policy."" The ... every citizen" in regard to the discovery of possession of stolen property. Justices Harlan and Blackmun also dissented after Burger. They stated that Article II of the Constitution grants the Executive narrowly restricted powers in foreign affairs. They quoted John Marshall, saying that, "the Preside...

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... commercial art techniques. Lawrence Alloway first used the term Pop Art in a 1958 issue of "Architectural Digest" to describe the paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism, defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism, and worship the "god of materialism". Pop Art started in the early fifties in Britain and reached its ... to thrive in it's era. The largest reason was because of the time period. During the time after World War II, the state of society was one of unrest. There were strong emotions regarding America, its leadership role in the world, and just the ... the time became v...

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... influenced his writings. J.D. went through four different schools for education. He then went to World War II. After the war, he had a lot to say, so he wrote down his thoughts. And, he sure had some things to say. Jerome ... Young Folks," which he turned in near the end of the semester, was finished enough to use in Story, edited by Burnett" (French 23). When the war began, Salinger wrote to Colonel Miltion B. Baker, at Valley Forge Military Academy, that he wished to enter the service, but had been classified 1-B due to ... announcing that Jerome David was attending the Officers, fi...

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... and plays a drastically different role in each one. In his hometown of Ilium, New York, Billy is seen as a pillar of society. During World War II, he is considered an ill-prepared loner that is a burden to the people around him. While on display in the Zoo on planet Trafalmadore, Billy is ... Pilgrim was born in the town of Ilium, New York. Not a popular child, Billy was a gangly, uncomfortable, outcast of a teenager. After returning from war, his status in the community greatly improves but his happiness doesn't. He completes a course in optometry and ends up marrying the daughter of th...

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... . The main character in this book is Billy Pilgrim. Billy is a weakling, not some one who you would think to fight in a war. Billy was an optometrist. Billy has no fear of dying. After each death in the story he says, "So it goes". The conflict in this book ... on Trafalmadore or his ability to time travel to the past and to the future, this is the climax of the conflict. In this book German soldiers in World War II captured Billy Pilgrim. When he was released he was assigned to work hard labor in Dresden, Germany. While Billy was in Dresden the city was bombed by the ... mostly takes p...

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... Heights • North Brooklyn • Institute Park • Park Slope and Prospect Park • South Brooklyn and Coney Island The borough of Queens was named after the wife of Charles II of England, Queen Catherine of Braganza in 1683. The area has been very popular for new immigrants in the past half of this century and is largely split up into ... New York with the GREAT LAKES, led to even greater expansion. Massive IMMIGRATION, mainly from Europe, swelled the city's population in the late 19th and early 20th cent. After World War II, many African Americans from the South, Puerto Ricans, and Lat...

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... In this life art project, I will enlighten the reader about my personal impact, the historical background and the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. II. Historical Background of The Harlem Renaissance Between 1900-1920 the number of blacks in Harlem doubled, as did the black populations in many other ... is referred to as the "Great Migration."Blacks left the South in astonishing numbers for many reasons: depression in the agricultural southern economy; the World War I industrial boom in the North; growing oppression in the South. The black migration to New York City and other Northern...

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