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Pas De Calais Ball Bearings
1,612 words... g the ultimate object of the bomber offensive. These conclusions, with their notes of pessimism, were not shared by the bomber commanders, and were echoes of a new problem of immense significance. Air power, and particularly the bomber, had introduce a new dimension into warfare. Despite results which were at best, inconclusive, and the continued growth of enemy fighter strength, the Commanders of the Allied Strategic Air Forces had reached the conclusion that they controlled the decisive in...
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Strategic Bombing During World War 2
2,337 words... y strategy for the Western Allies. Politically, the Casablanca Conference owes its importance to the fact that, at its end, Roosevelt publicly announced a demand for the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Both the announcement and the policy of unconditional surrender came in for severe criticism after the war, when it was contended that opposition groups in Germany might have overthrown Adolf Hitler and, negotiated an earlier peace if they had not been discouraged by fear...
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Americans And British British And Americans
2,722 words... Roosevelt supported the British, and the American military succeeded only (several months later) in getting an agreement that no more troops would be put into the Mediterranean area than were already there, all others being assembled in England for a cross-channel attack in 1944. Roosevelt gave his military another shock when he announced that nothing short of unconditional surrender would be accepted from any of the Axis powers. The policy was meant to reassure the Russians, who would have ...
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Institute For Social Research Horkheimer And Adorno
2,178 words... 1974, p. 51). Slipping virtually unnoticed into a world where the culture industry churned out products that, as Adorno would later observe, looked more like advertisements for books than actual books (Adorno, 1992, p. 20), the strange volume that Horkheimer and Adorno passed on to their colleagues was one of those books that could no longer be one. Its title confessed what its unusual form of dissemination implied: here was a collection of fragments, incomplete and perhaps even contradictor...
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Institute For Social Research Horkheimer And Adorno
2,011 words... diversity of its contents alone might have been enough to perplex its initial audience. (2) The first of its three chapters, which in the original version carried the title Dialectic of Enlightenment, examined the relationship between enlightenment, mythology, and the scientific domination of nature. It was followed by two excursuses, one dealing with the Odyssey, the other with the unlikely coupling of Kant and the Marquis de Sade. The sprawling second chapter, entitled The Culture Industry...
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Concentration Camps Jewish Prisoners
3,715 wordsCONTENTS Introduction Holocaust TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction page 1 Concentration Camps pages 2 - 5 Death Camps page 6 Buchenwald pages 7 - 11 Conclusion page 12 - 13 Endnotes pages 14 - 15 Bibliography page 16 (1) INTRODUCTION The Holocaust is the most horrifying crime against humanity of all times. Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to...
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3,348 wordsD-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the b...
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Academy Awards Forty Four
2,443 words|I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men, and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer, I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn+t have as a director. I consider myself first a creative producer, then a showman and then a businessman. You need all three things to succeed in the business today. X -David O. Selznick The film Since You Went Away was released in 1944. This epic film attempted to...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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Monroe Doctrine Agrarian Reform
4,480 wordsConstructing Enemies: The Illusion of Communism and U. S. Intervention in Guatemala 1944 - 1954 Abstract Understanding the history of Central America is quite impossible without an examination of the United States efforts at ensuring stable markets for the proprietor of 70 % of the worlds banana supply, the Boston-based United Fruit Company (UFCO). This paper attempts to explore the relationship between the UFCO, the State Department, and Guatemala between 1944 and 1954, a time when Guatemalans ...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Third Army
5,080 wordsWorld War Patton Patton World War II was the most destructive war in history. It began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and a British and French alliance, but eventually included most of the nations of the world. Most of the war was fought with the same types of weapons used in World War I. The greatest advances were in aircraft and tanks. Patton was the first soldier in the tank corps. He created the training procedures, the regulations and the methods of instruction. At that time...
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Bombing Raids Unconditional Surrender
4,605 wordsWorld War 2 was a war fought in two distinct phases. The first was the last war of a new generation. The second was emphatically the first of a new era. The British strategic bomber campaign was of doubtful cost effectiveness. Bomber Command was by far the largest claimant on labour and factory space within the armed forces. Relative to their size they suffered more casualties than any other sector. The Anglo-American bomber force was divided in terms of strategy. Bomber Command believed it was ...
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