... 2,000 Jews shipped from there to Nazi concentration camps (The Age). The apology came after years of litigation from legislators, survivors, their descendants and some American Jewish organizations, who argued that the company had never acknowledged or apologized for shipping 76,000 European Jews to the Franco-German border from 1941 to 1944. The Jews were then transported to Nazi death camps ... . They said they were forced to do this by the Germans. They're turning themselves into victims. It's not true. It was a business for them. They got paid by the head and by the kilometer. That w...

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... economy back on track. 1st 100 days he push through 37 bills that he introduced to Congress, limited to an active - federal government. Senate and House passed all of the bills in 1937. Mood of the day - Supreme Court protect the Constitution Important: Supreme Court case (NLRB vs. Jones ... Laughlin Steel Co.) NLRB introduced a new relationship between the federal government and states. II. Cooperative In 1937 to help the States do want they could not do on their own. Federal government helps the states Roles ... causes the federal government. 1929 NAACP 1964 Civil Right Movement - Worl...

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... It is estimated that another 35,000 Republicans died in concentration camps in the years that followed the war. After the war, Franco established a government and on April 7th of 1938 he joined the Anti-COM intern Pact. However, Franco declared the neutrality of Spain on the outbreak of the Second World ... . This painting is a painting depicting the horror of the bombing of Guernica. There were many symbols displayed in the painting. It was of horses and bulls instead of showing planes, bombs and death. A terror of bulls was used as one symbol. Another was of a horse's head. This was a ...

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... crisis, (Bradbury 13). The greatest works of the Modernist era were written around and during the time of the Great War (1914-1918) and conveyed the turmoil that transpired in European war-time society. At the commencement of the war, there was a rush on the part of young men in Europe to enlist in the armed forces. Many of these new recruits were ... talented, educated men and when exposed to the harsh reality of warfare, they naturally engaged in writing verse about the heightened emotion of those times what ... , is his allusion to the modernist poem The Stolen Child', written by Yea...

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... two countries. However there was the expectancy from both countries that either of countries would help in any way to defend each other. Many Australians remembered the trauma of WW1 and felt great sadness about involving in WW2. However Australia went to the war followed by Britain's lead out of sense of duty. America immediately declared war against Japanese in 1941 ... relationships with the two countries. Australia showed almost no independence until 1942. She was tied to Britain in many ways which includes military strategies, foreign policies, financial markets, judicial decisions...

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... , he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, ... "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book ... camps. Many could not believe such stories, but they also didn't deny it. Auschwitz death camp was built, containing gas chambers, ovens, and wooden cabins fo...

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... trenches he realized how horrific the war was and started to make notes about the conditions at first. Then later in a military hospital he edited and collected these notes into the poetry of Wifred Owen. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' is Latin for: It is sweet and fitting (to die for one's country). This line is repeated at the end and by the principles of 'Chaldeni.' I know that by ... repeating a line at the beginning and the end it is most remembered. This line needs ... a nightmare but you will be able to wake up from a nightmare whereas he is talking about life in the trenches and there ...

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... such were spread thinly out around it . As a result the Allies didn't attack with a very large force either, British and French troops combined for just under 1,000 men. On August 22nd the only real battle to take place in Togoland occurred and the Allies drove back the Germans, while suffering 17% casualties . A couple days later after more forces invaded Togoland from the Gold ... win battles that eventually led to the defeat of the German Army. More importantly however was that fighting for ones country and not only for their colonial country helped develop an idea of national unity...

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... the one's that got him really noticed as a writer. People realized, after reading his writings, how talented of a writer he was and he had a popular style of literature (Green). Steinbeck wrote three clear "classics" during his lifetime. Of Mice and Men is one. The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit ... The Grapes of Wrath. It was a direct book from his life. The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable l...

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... story, the unnamed narrator who is the young girl has society's unwritten rules pressed upon her. At the time of the story, society did not consider men and women equal. The girl, becomes an admirable woman because of the life she led when she was young as a free spirit, but letting go of ... the dominant figure in the house. The injustice of women is the main characteristic of Munro's story. The girl hates helping her mother and doing work that was appropriate for a young woman: " I hated the hot dark kitchen in the summer "(157). She wants to help her father outside doing work she .....

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... In September US traded 50 old destroyers for leases on British military bases Building Americas Defenses Roosevelt asks congress to increase spending for national defense 18 countries had larger armies than the US Congress dramatically boosted defense spending in 1940 Under the Selective Training and Service Act 16 million men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered Roosevelt's Re-election Roosevelt ... decides to break tradition and run for a third term Roosevelt's opponent Wendell Willkie supported the idea of aiding Britain Both candidates wanted to stay out ... turn down all ...

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... to form an independent Slavic empire in the Balkan region. Russia then supported Serbia, making the Balkan region a likely place to ignite European war. As people competed to gain territories and build overseas empires, tension within the European countries grew. In the late 1800's, Great Britain had formed the largest imperial power. France, Germany, Italy ... wanted to create similar empires as the one Great Britain had formed. Nations then turned to militarism, which was a policy of aggressive military preparedness. In 1912 and 1913, Germany formed the most powerful military by incre...

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Set in post-World War II Rome, the movie opens with a group of men waiting to hear what jobs are available. The movie's main character is up for a job posting posters throughout the city, the only glitch is that it requires a bicycle. He says he can get one, with that he pawns ... can support them. During his first day on the job his bicycle is stolen. The movie progresses a few days while the man and his young son comb the streets looking for the bicycle and the thief. He finds the thief, but without proof or witnesses they are unable to do anything. After wandering around without any luck .....

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... up the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), this department provided jobs to unmarried men aged 18-25. The government sent them to agricultural areas to plant trees, build parks, and work on solving erosion problems. Their salary was about $30 per month. The CCC provided jobs for about 2.5 million young men during its ten years of existence. (Truman, "Was the new ... , the agricultural adjustment act & administration.") Moreover, Franklin D. Roosevelt carried out the Monetary Policy, which means the USA government controlled and adjusted the market, thereby stabilizing the prices of crops ...

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... cutter" shape. When the desired result was achieved, the government then displayed these people as "outstanding citizens", "perfect role models", and "true Americans". For prime examples of "brave, patriotic men and models of women who could serve the cause of the nation" (Prof. Bodnar) look no further then the era of World War ... brave" just as their older brother has been. Once again, this demonstrates how Hollywood evoked the notion of what masculinity should be like. Real men are brave, heroic and proud to be a soldier. Her dying words show that she "supports the fight that that her ...

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... period in the United States following World War 2 could more aptly be named American Hysteria rather than history. As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this than McCarthys Communist witch hunt of the 1950s. ... establishment of the C.I.A. to research Communist activities in foreign nations, the commitment to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in order to help nations resist the influence of Communist forces, and the continuous arms, technology, and espionage race that dominated...

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... Americans during the 1950s bought 53% more books than in the 1940s. The invention of the television, however, had a major impact in newspapers and radio stations. When it came to news television was the easiest source of information; many families saw many of the news of the time on ... radio broadcasters by the mid fifties had already changed to television. Television programs such as, I Love Lucy, Lassie, The Honeymooners, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, were seen in many houses. Young people watched a greater number of hours of television than the hours they went to school. Duri...

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... the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. While these lives continued, Edward Estilin Cummings looked around ... fit in with the public's perception of what's proper. In his first poem that addresses him hometown, "when i am in Boston," Cummings describes a sce...

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... caught up in the events that draw the United States into World War II. One of them enlists with the US Air Force and the other flies for the British Royal Air Force, both friends become romantically involved with the same woman. The movie was filled with non stop action ... and drama. I found this movie both moving and interesting, it kept me on the edge of my seat. It was very interesting to see how movie producers could put together ... was disturbed by was the amount of upper class people in the life boats. I believe the capacity of the life boats was about thirty to forty people, and...

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... attend the ceremony, but the number of Pearl Harbor survivors gets smaller every year (Lynch). Unfortunately, because of the dwindling number of survivors, and the ill health and old age of the remaining ones, this ceremony will be the last one conducted by the survivors' association (Lovett). "We had no ... do it. People are winding up in nursing homes and intensive care units" (Lovett). Harry Kerr, another survivor and director of the Southeast chapter, said, "We just ran out of gas, that's what it amounted to. We felt we ran a good course for 70 years. Fought a good fight. We have .....

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... uprise of the younger generation can be held accountable for their part in the conflicts of the 20's. With women winning the right to vote many politicians realized they had to appeal to women as well as men. Women were becoming more independent and outspoken. Women and men were now drinking together and violating the prohibition acts. The men and women of the younger generation felt that this ... did play a huge part in not only this situation but in the great depression as well. With many young American men going off to World War I, the younger generation begin to look at life as some...

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... of troops into the war (exact numbers unclear from several sources). After the war, they helped North Korea to rebuild and influenced their political decisions for many years after. Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman took a hard stance to contain the expansion of communism. In the famous "Truman Doctrine", Truman committed the United States to a policy of ... communism. However, Truman's will to end communism was forever was tested when the U.S was given the opportunity to invade China. Truman opted out of invading China and was criticized for this decision. He supported democratic South ...

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... September 1, 1939. Italy entered the war on June 10, 1940, shortly before the collapse of France. On June 22, 1941 Germany ambushed the Soviet Union. And on December 7, 1941 at 7:48 a.m., the Japanese Navy attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor located in Oahu, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was a defining ... the atomic bomb on Japan was the single most important decision President Truman made during the Pacific War. Ultimately, the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced the Japanese to surrender. The war ended just weeks before the United States' scheduled invasion ...

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... Traced back to the American Revolution in the 1700's and is still working today. During the American Revolution, the Colonial Government needed money to fund its wartime operations. One way they did this was by selling bonds. Bonds are pieces of paper a person buys for a set price, knowing that after a certain period ... of time; they can exchange their bonds for a profit. Along with bonds, the first of the nation's banks started to sell parts or shares of ... buy it, which is the essence of the modern day stock market. With the start of the 1900's brought the start of the Industrial rev...

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... wanted to change. Now throughout time, the lives of the surviving Americans have improved greatly. They were now represented and their life was not as it had always been. Likewise the poor treatment of animals causes revolution. Mr. Jones, ... the Manor Farm owner, mistreats his animals to the point where they rebel and take over the farm. Once again the conditions of the victims grew from bad to good through their important ... became a part of the Nazi regime. There he began gaining power, the power to corrupt. As he gained more and more power, Hitler gradually became more corrupt unt...

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