Although Nevada alone was not directly involved with any sort of battle during World War II, Nevadans still played a huge part in the war itself. ... The World War II era also had an impact on Nevada's gaming as well as fear of attack on the Hoover Dam. During the time of World War II, Nevada's population grew. Nevada's main industry during this time was mining, just as it was during World War I. ... There are many Nevadan World War II Veterans alive and well today, and many of them just recently were flown to Washington DC to see the World War II Veteran's Memorial. ...

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When Austria declared war on Serbia, Germany felt obliged by their alliance with Austria to declare war on Russia and next France, the ally of Russia. ... The First World War introduced a lot of new tactics in warfare. ... For one thing, the Germans fought way longer in the war than the Americans and they lost a lot of men in this war. ... I neither enjoyed nor disliked discussing this era because for one thing it was mainly over the war and war is seldom an enjoyable topic. On the other side I think that it really is importing to learn about what happened in this era and we should not forget ...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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Economic prosperity continued after the war as more Americans had jobs and work wages increased. ... Also, the public's attitude toward the war was filled with disillusionment and loss of morality. ... The post-war period saw the increase in anti-immigration sentiment within American society. Many immigrants from Europe had their homelands ravaged by the war and sought to come to America, where the war had no damaging effects, in search of opportunity. ... As a result of the devastation the war had upon Britain, which held the strongest economy in the world prior to the war, the financial...

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For example, Russia's Soviet Montage Era in the 1920s dissuaded producers from the conventional ways of making films and encouraged the development of experimental filming techniques. Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera contained many elements drawing from the Soviet Montage Era. ... At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the ...

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The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. ... 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. ... The soldiers could also be questioning why they are involved in a war in the first place. ... This is obviously due to the influence of Romanticism on a pre-war' Owen. ...

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This along with his militaristic alliances, plans made on a war footing and aggressive foreign policy convinced Europe that a war was inevitable. Prior to the Second World War the situation was similar. ... Nationalism can be seen as another likeness in the roots of the two wars. ... One can observe another parallel in the origins of the two wars in militarism. ... The alliances of the Bismarkian era were in fact a "system", a rigid series of complex and secret official agreements. ...

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Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. It was created in the aftermath of the war to govern a defeated Germany. ... Germany was the losing state at the end of the First World War, and although the Weimar Republic was born around 1919, the government carried substantial negative baggage from the previous era. Chief of these were the monies paid by Germany to the victors of the war, initially set at five billion dollars per year up until 1921. ... This was very advanced for its era, especially the fact that voting included wo...

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With that, the anxiety was collectively heard and felt with its louder voice and remembered to define an era. ... The common uncertainties we were left with after the Great War gave rise to many new ways of thought and practice that inevitably shaped the world we live in today. ... His work was a painting of his perception and reflection of a war, which he entitled Guernica. ... World War I seemed to play that part. ... The complaints were valid after World War I, and were much more productive than destructive. ...

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War was greeted by immense jubilation by both sides, as no great wars had been fought since Napoleon's era. ... Germany wasn't the only country prepared for war. ... prepared or the inevitable war with Germany. ... It was the first real month of the war. ... A one-front war would have been an easier war for Germany. ...

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Introduction Over the last half century the United Nations has been providing regulation, order and peace throughout the world since the end of the second World War. ... In conclusion I intend to discuss several "milestones " achieved by the UN over the past 50 years and the UN's powerlessness in the Cold War Era from 1945 to 1990. ... The creation of the League of Nations began after the First World War (1915), then United States President Woodrow Wilson welcomed the idea of a general association of nations. ... In war time 1942 the idea of a new international organi...

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Weyerhaeuser's business was booming before the First World War and, after the onset of the war Weyerhaeuser began making sending spruce from Weyerhaeuser forests to build World War I airplanes. ... To aid in the war movement the Army sent soldiers into the forest to aid in the production on lumber. Post-war Weyerhaeuser paper company continues to grown expanding there ability to ship all over the world after the construction of the Panama Canal. In the years following the war Weyerhaeuser opened the first Pulp mill in Longview Washington. ... The company continued to turn out new pr...

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The war had left Europe in shambles. ... The high profits seemed to confirm President Hoover's pledge of a new era of abundance. ... This feeling of revenge felt by Germany, in addition with the social atmosphere of Europe, led to a second World War in the September of 1939, just 11 years after the First World War. ... After its defeat in World War I, Germany was forced to give up land, demilitarize and pay war reparations. ... Germany was already suffering a post-war depression and was greatly affected. ...

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From simple flint and tinder fires of the Paleolithic era to the neon massiveness that is modern day Las Vegas, humanity is always trying to light the world. ... This phrase and those that follow as Hemingway shamelessly rewrites the Lords Prayer combine seamlessly with Hemingway's subtly deep and very human characters, simple crisp diction, and quiet setting of a café in post World War I Spain to create the sorrowful despairing tone that so easily displays the overrunning theme of man's struggle to escape the creeping darkness in his own soul. ... Spain was one of many plac...

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As the WWI started, the Young Turkish government started a war with Russia. ... The authorities claimed that the population was moved to a new location to be safer from the war, but that was an excuse. ... Many American and European eyewitnesses reported the atrocities took place at that era. ...

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Countless wars, deaths, and conquests have arisen in the name of spreading religion. ... This was the most prominent form of advertising until after The Great War. ... This is primarily due to the massive economic disparity of the era. ... On April 6, 1917, Congress voted for the United States to join the allies to fight in World War I. ... A man by the name Edward Bernays was employed to promote America's war aims in the press. ...

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