... fiction, using it to represent truth or reality (Meeter 208-209). Glenn Meeter adds that Billy alone is a separate version of the role of fiction in the novel by describing his space adventures and time warps (210-211). Billy's character is satirical in itself, for ... . Ironically, J.G. Keogh and Edward Kislastis agree, "At the core of the characterization of Billy Pilgrim is the conception of war as a children's crusade" (182). Vonnegut introduces Edgar Derby to further strengthen the ills of war: I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby The ... of p...

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... with resistance from Chinese people and political/military leader Chiang Kai-shek. When their attempt at overthrowing China failed, Japan began a policy of economic strangulation. They mainly targeted America and Australia,but had intentions of the policy affecting every country who were on the Allies side. Japan believed the longer they kept the economic strangulation policy around, the more the Allies would be ... at the time. The US army sent a last minute message to Lieutenant/General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel about the note, which did not arrive to Hawaii until...

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... Austrian-Hungarians also demanded their own involvement in the investigations. The Serbs were given forty eight hours in which to reply. While the Serbs were deliberating over the ultimatum, members of the German government were advocating swift military action against Serbia in the hope that it would discourage Russia from supporting the Serbs. They did not realise that Russia had broken ... mobilised their forces. It was a day before that the British government had become decidedly worried about the whole situation developing in Europe. The implications of war between at least four la...

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... 000 arriving by parachute and glider. The invasion also involved a long-range deception plan on a scale the world had never before seen and the clandestine operations of tens of thousands of Allied resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe. American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British ... Calais. The concentration of Allied troops was so great, that an invasion of France seemed inevitable. Bombing attacks, sabotage by the French Resistance a...

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... could not penetrate. The mission was abandoned and the Turtle never saw action again. Bushnell's failure set the stage for the submarine as a warship for the future. With the development of periscopes and self-propelled torpedoes, submarines would become a formidable factor in naval warfare. Their effectiveness as a deadly weapon was first shown in World War I. German U-boats were used ... British cruisers: the Cressy, Hogue and the Aboukir. These were some of the oldest cruisers in the British fleet; however, there was a substantial lose of life (Horton 39; Cross 61). This incident shoc...

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... on a program to build a "buffer zone- to safeguard the USSR. This meant that the Eastern Nations were to be "satellites- for the USSR. America mis-interpertated this as first signs of Stalin's desire to conquer the world. Therefore, America began to be afraid and began seeking drastic measures such as rebuilding Germany as a buffer zone against Soviet influence. America's mis-interpretation ... of Stalin's actions led America and its Allies to be afraid. The fear was seen with Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain Speech- where he stresses for a joint Anglo-American alliance against the USSR...

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... been lost. Roosevelt, favoring work relief over welfare, created the WPA. Before the Project was terminated during World War II, it left permanent monuments on the landscape in the form of buildings, bridges, dams, hard-surfaced roads, airports, and schools. The National Youth Administration (NYA), under the WPA, provided part-time employment to students and set up technical training programs for ... and were defined as a separate culture. Rock n roll music was popular with teenagers who were trying to break out of the mainstream conservative middle class mold. However, the biggest cons...

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... battle of Okinawa 41, 700 but the casualty rate of civilians and soldiers for America was 418,500. August 9, 1945 was when another atomic bomb, "Fat Man", was dropped on Nagasaki because Japan failed to surrender after the first atomic bomb and it was estimated that 39,000 civilians ... were killed (Lewis 11). The war was going to end anyway, but the amount of deaths was high from the use of the atomic bombs. Almost 150,000 civilians were killed as a result of the attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Walker 46). The use of the atomic ... believe what had actually happen to the innocent ci...

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... of rebuilding their nation in the aftermath of World War II and in order to strengthen the economy and ease social unrest, many issues had to be addressed for the first time in British history. There was a massive gulf between the rich and poor populations and poverty was widespread among the working classes who ... were often forced to live in slum-like housing. Urbanization during the period of the Industrial Revolution had caused mass overcrowding in working class areas, resulting in overcrowding and poor ... and influenced by the Beveridge Report had anything prior been done to allev...

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... major role in the Civil War. More than 200,000 blacks fought for the Union and 38,000 died, the majority of disease (PBS). The following quote is from blacks who passed a resolution: "Our feelings urge us to say to our countrymen that we are ready to stand by and defend ... our government as the equals of its white defenders; to do so with our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, for the sake of freedom, and ... December 7, 1941 during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Memory). Messenger Attendant Doris "Dorie- Miller came to the aid of his shipmates on the U.S.S. West Virgini...

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... the war was like. Philip Caputo, born in Chicago in 1941, went into the Marine Corps straight out of high school. He learned everything he needed to know at Quantico in Virginia. Caputo first landed in Da Nang in 1965 and was still as intrigued with war as he was at age 24. He ... , not doing severe harm. After serving as a leader he becomes the Assistant Adjutant at the Headquarters base camp. The book then describes the everyday lives of the Marines at Headquarters. After a while, Caputo goes back to being a Platoon leader, and the war involves much more action and enemy contact now. ....

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... perspective because Britain always stood against the most powerful country on the continent which had been France for the longest time. However it was now Germany who was the dominating power on the continent. Another area of conflict between France and Britain was their colonial differences. These differences were resolved by an agreement between France and Britain to recognize each others sovereignty ... , a fast, heavily armed battleship. By 1914 Germany has 37 ships to Britain's 57 ships, but both countries were in the process of building more battleships. (17) Each country had its o...

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... medical supplies and with no way to receive supplies or transport the wounded out (Battle). The German commander of forces in the area demanded surrender of the 101st, to which General Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st gave the one word reply, "Nuts."" The German lieutenant who had given the message asked his escort, Colonel Joseph Harper what exactly "nuts- meant; Harper replied, "It ... , and low ammunition. Mostly, they stayed below ground in foxholes, often alone or with just one other person. They stayed there for days and weeks on end afraid of the cold, trench foot, but mo...

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... the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like ... handling situations normally and is used along with exposure therapy, where you enter where you witnessed the trauma and learn to not be afraid of it. EMDR is a type of therapy that can change the way you react to situations by eye movements. Another successful treatment is known as brief psychodynamic psy...

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... light heartedness taken towards them was considered and admission of being a communist in itself. Communists were taught of in the same perspective as murders and were often talked about as they were. Americans were very afraid of a communist take-over and the ensured violence that would follow. In the wake of all this fear was a portrayal of communism in Science Fiction movies, namely "The Blob" and ... "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" "The Blob" displayed communism as a slow but unstoppable forced that devoured everything ... who fought in the war suffered from segregation and ra...

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... ? One reason may be the Japanese race. Was Race Involved? Intersecting this already volatile political situation was the reality of race in American culture. Ever since the first contact between the English settlers and the Powhatans in Virginia in 1607, a then the arrival of Africans in 1619, race has been significant in our history. Hiroshima, as it turns out, was no exception. Rooted ... the entire city. Only small outlying districts in the southern and eastern parts of the town escaped complete destruction. The bomb exploded over the center of the city. As a result of the blast, all ...

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... wave followed. All of these attacks on Pearl Harbor finally ended a little before ten o"clock. The overall results were devastating; eighteen battleships were hit and more than 200 aircraft were either destroyed or damaged.(Farago, 262) One battleship, the Arizona, was totally lost in the attack and the West Virginia and California were ... across from the U.S.S. Arizona. Everyone from across the world still goes to see the memorial today. It is one great due of respects to the men who fought and who was at Pearl Harbor.(Us News, 1) At one o"clock PM, the ships that launched the planes ...

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... bullying. This way it is easier to intimidate a country and make them do what you want. The traditional alliances of the United States are afraid because the countries on the list of evil that America has produced are close to them. For example, South- Korea is scared that America will do something ... need of America. It is becoming more democratic. But now, America realizes that it needs the world for its economy. America has always taken a very realistic approach in the past. "Each state must rely on its own resources to survive and flourish" . This is understandable for a superpower ...

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... the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the question " Is this all?'-(Women's 1960s). There was an enormous response to the book. More and more women sought employment, most to provide additional income ... National Organization of Women (NOW), with Friedan as its president, started to draw up ways to achieve equality for women in society. They put pressure on president Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to reform the Equal...

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... , but not completely because even though these treaties existed, they did not have to honour them, meaning that there were other factors which determined who ended up fighting in World War I. Nationalism played a large part in the causing of World War, not just from Germany but nationalism from each country that participated. Nationalism became far more popular and widespread throughout the majority ... , military etc. as well as patriotic, and this was shown and promoted at the time through nationalistic poetry, music and plays. This meant that people were not afraid to fight if it was t...

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... the foe I was to fight-false heroism that prefers to send others to suffering and death, the cheap optimism of the conscienceless prophets, both political and military who, boldly promising victory, prolong the war, and behind them the hired chorus, the 'word makers of war' as Werfel has pilloried them in his beautiful poem." (252)He chose those prophets as the ... in the words that peace was better than war. In stead, as mentioned in his autobiography, he portrayed the man who in time of enthusiasm was despised as the weakling and the timid, but who in hour of defeat proved himsel...

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... major question to Hollywood; "Are you now or have you been a member of communist party?" and "Who do know or suspect of being communist?". These activities of HUAC, decreased the fear of communism in America, however, communists in Hollywood were present. There were ten "unfriendly" witnesses, who were called for testify but refused. The Hollywood ten decided to cooperate, because ... citizens thought the U.S.A had been exposed to communism and soon communism would take over their country. Moreover, there was one important senator Joseph McCarthy, who was not only the most famous anti-c...

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... security, which each country longs for, unites the common citizens to band together for not only the country of the future, but their future and the future of the world. There is an underlining belief that if others are afraid of our power that they will submit to our demands, and we will be safer. This notion has been the primal cause for nuclear ... for military obsessed leaders is by stockpiling nuclear weapons. However, they do no seem to realise the seriousness of the nuclear weapons. Our culture all too readily calls those who scream about the dangers or nuclear weapons "crazy", a...

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... 1937 deficit down to a mere $358 million, as compared with a deficit of 3.6 billion in 1936." (175) This help push America into a steady recession. Soon after England, Italy, Sweden and the United States raised prices. This brought up the thoughts of inflation, but this was not the case. England however who was afraid of a recurring slump issued a tax increase, and stopped public works. The United ... States was warned that also of the possibility of a slump and therefore Roosevelt asked congress for a budget-busting increase in federal spending. However it ... took the outbreak of Wor...

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... fight in the front lines against Hitler. The media started promoting that homosexuals were a minority that was being persecuted and there was anticipation of a civil rights movement for homosexuals. Allan Bérubé argues that even though homosexuals were willing to lie about their sexuality to ... " and "their presence in units would threaten morale and discipline" (2). Some psychiatrists would not want to ruin the life of homosexual's and would still let them join the military. If they would dismiss the homosexuals that were honest from serving, their draft paperwork ... had to deal wit...

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