... are spared from the risk of sickness and even death. Bibliography "Influenza," http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/flu/jan02eipupdate.pdf. 06/04/03. "Spanish Flu," The Great Canadian Encyclopedia. Molly Billings, "The Influenza Pandemic of 1918," Internet: www.stanford.edu, 31/03/03. Richard Collier, The Plague of the Spanish Lady, (New York: Atheneum, 1974) John Craig, The Years ... Starr Publishing. 1994), J. Bradley Cruxton and W. Douglas Wilson, Spotlight Canada, (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2000) William H. Melody, "Influenza", The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985 ed. David Par...

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... Toth symbolizes U.S fighting German Nazi. As characterized Von Toth, represented all that was evil and was shot and killed in order for justice to prevail. Works Cited "Auschwitz." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 6 Nov. 2014. Reed, Daniel. Deliver Us From Evil. Boston: iUniverse-Indigo, 2006. Print. Snyder, Louis L. "Normandy Invasion." Grolier Multimedia ... Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 6 Nov. 2014. Snyder, Louis L. "Pearl Harbor." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 6 Nov. 2014. "World War II and the Holocaust." The New B...

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... , Miland, Woodrow Wilson: A Brief Biography, http://www.libraryreference.org/wilson.html Churney, Linda, J., America's Wars, 1898 - 1945, http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/3/78.03.06.x.html Columbia Encyclopedia, Woodrow Wilson, http://www.bartleby.com/65/wi/Wilson-W.html Dean, Paul, Woodrow Wilson's Administration, http://www.worldwar1.com/biocwil.htm ... Encyclopedia Americana, Woodrow Wilson - The American Presidency, http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/28pwils.html Encyclopedia Britannica, Woodrow Wilson, http://mml.haifa.ac.lil/hist-course/Wilson.htm Farwell, Byro...

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... casualties suffered by both sides, totaling about 800,000, convinced the military forces of the effectiveness of toxic chemical agents in warfare. ("Chemical and Biological Warfare,"" McCullough, James M., Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia) All the gases, chemicals, and biological organisms are called agents. Gases such as tear gas, chlorine gas, and phosgene (lung irritants), and mustard gas (causing burns) were first used in ... World War I to break the trench warfare stalemate. ("Chemical and Biological Warfare-, Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia, 1997.) Gases have been used in limited...

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... power that helps it maintain the speed on the air and also that gives the power to take-off and land. This is the principle of propultion. In Encarta, Online Encyclopedia, they said "Airplanes use either piston or turbine (rotating blades) engines to provide propulsion. In smaller airplanes, a conventional gas-powered piston engine turns a propeller, which either pulls or pushes an ... and civilian airliners. New high-speed fighter tactics were deployed in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Jet engines revolutionized passenger transport and supersonic transport. As cited in the Encarta online...

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... finally defeated in the spring of 1945. The Allies were now able to turn their attention to the Pacific. In August 1945 while the U.S. were preparing to invade Japan U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of the Atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered. Thus bringing an end to World War II....

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... Ickes, planned to stimulate the economy with government money starting with the poor and working it's way up, but it failed. Then there was the Works Project Administration, headed by Harry Hopkins, that tried helping people by putting them to work. Thousands of projects they built are still here today, such as Turner Falls, Taft Stadium, and Bricktown. These establishments are ... ...

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... fire resulting in the deaths of nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. York was successful and when all was said and done, nine men had captured 132 prisoners. For his ... ...

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... conference is sometimes seen as the actual beginning of the Cold War. On July 25, 1945, two month after Germany has surrendered, the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman met in Potsdam in order to discuss the fate of Germany. By 1945, Stalin was the veteran revolutionary, a man who had held the reins of Soviet power and authority ... ...

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... disease described by sudden start of fever, headache, sore muscles, sore bones and joints or rashes of skin injuries on the chest and back' according to the editors of The Encyclopedia Britannica. To recover from this infectious disease, they had to go out of trenches. It took about six weeks to recover. It wasn't found out till 1918 that lice were ... ...

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... : Unkown o http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww1/homefront/index.html, (The Australian Home Front during World War 1), Author ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Qld) Incorporated CD ROM o The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Textbooks o Joan Beaumont, Australia's War 1914-1918, Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd, 1995 o Anna Ciddor, The First World War - through children's eyes, Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd, 1995 o Roger Parkinson ... ...

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... States, and Serbia, along with twenty-three other nations fought as the Associated Powers. Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria fought as the Central Powers. According to Encarta Encyclopedia, the four year war cost all the nations about $186 billion and had more than 37 million casualties.1 The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty signed after World War ... ...

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