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Marlon Brando Humphrey Bogart
2,163 words... t also helped increase survival rates for surgery. The first eye bank was established at New York Hospital in 1944. Unemployment almost disappeared, as most men were drafted and sent off to war. The government reclassified 55 % of their jobs, allowing women and blacks to fill them. First, single women were actively recruited to the workforce. In 1943, with virtually all the single women employed, married women were allowed to work. Japanese immigrants and their descendants, suspected of loya...
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Knight Ridder Tribune World War Ii
1,791 wordsOn the tiny island of Tinian, the morning silence of August 6, 1945, was broken by the colossal roar of the engines of the B- 29 Super fortress, the Enola Gay preparing for takeoff. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets prepared himself and his crew for the most historic flight of their lives. Neither Colonial Tibbets nor the rest of the men on board knew exactly to where they would be flying. What they did know was that the bomb they were about to deliver would change the world forever and quite possibly end...
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Younger Siblings Holden Describes
1,126 wordsMark Jason S. So March 1999 Each and every action the children performed in school and in any place is a reflection of the quality of life they have in their own homes. Parents have a responsibility of taking care of their children and parents have the influence and impact that creates the primary personality of an individual. This influence can mold a certain individual into a responsible citizen or a rebellious delinquent as perceived in J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." The protagoni...
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Type Atomic Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer
3,057 words... of more than 90 %. " (Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex. , laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. " (Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms work. He oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion. " (Outlaw 3) Once the purified Uranium reached New Mexico, it was made into the componen...
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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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Should We Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb
1,547 wordsThe atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. Many people in the United States thought that their country should stay out of the war. The people wanted the Allied Forces to have the victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied victory because an Axis victory might endanger democracies everywhere. The United States equipped nations fig...
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Iron And Steel Albert Speer
1,600 wordsAlbert Speer, Reich Minister of Munitions and Armaments throughout Germany's course in World War II, had a profound impact on Germany during the period 1918 - 1945. This is due to the fact that as an architect, he had been responsible for the redevelopment of Berlin and other major German city centres. Also, because of his status as a senior member and a minister of the Reich parliament, he was chiefly responsible for the prolonging of the war by initiating a rapid increase in the production of ...
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British Foreign Policy Since 1945
1,357 wordsIndia Un 12 / 13 / 05 Poli 489 British Foreign Policy Since 1945 Britain used to be a great power for centuries controlling about a fifth of the earths land; such as India, Canada, Australasia, and South Africa. Britain was an oceanic power and was conductive to having a strong fleet; its strong navy provided Britain to be a very powerful empire. Britain was a stable country and this allowed it to advance religious reformation, and constitutional development. It was the world largest economy wit...
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Ho Chi Minh World War Ii
1,563 wordsVietnam War was a war that had the many of the world stumped on how it accrued and what it was for. Many lives were lost and destroyed for a war that had no real purpose. As to why the US got involved is still a controversial issue to this day. Pin pointing exactly when the war started is a heated debate among historians. The war was not only in Vietnam but also right at home. Society was divided and conflict began. Was Vietnam a lost cause for the US? In 1941, Ho Chi Minh, a communist activist,...
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U S S Political And Social
1,756 wordsAs I thin the President had surely two reasons for using these new and, as it turned out, enormously destructive weapons. 1. The way in which the Japanese armed forces, principally the Japanese army, had conducted World War II. The barbarities of the war had their beginnings in Japan's war against China, which began in 1937. That same year, when Japanese troops occupied Nanking, the human cost was extraordinary: Between 100, 000 and 200, 000 people were killed by the occupying troops for no reas...
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Nazi Ideology Illegal Immigrants
1,722 wordsGerman History The German defeat in 1945 has spanned a specific anti-nazi literature, which was to show that there was a popular discontent with Nazi regime among Germans. This, of course, is very far from truth not just the overwhelming majority of Germans were supporting Hitler but also many Jews. Ursula His Stones From the River is a story of physically challenged girl Trudi Montag, who grows into adulthood during time of Nazi rule in Germany. She was a dwarf and it was causing her much suffe...
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Five Year Plan Buenos Aires
2,171 words... of labor and social welfare, he employed all the power of a dictatorial state to overcome opposition to long-overdue labor legislation and to build up powerful unions personally attached to him in every economic field. These became the mass base for the Peronist movement. In his years as president, they constituted a watershed in the countrys history in terms of the expansion of government power over the economy, social reform legislation, and the strengthening of the labor movement. In fact...
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Mao Zedong Theme
1,180 wordsChina Book Report Book: China Since 1945 Author: Stewart Ross (Note: This book is not described in full depth and detail but is just explained in a very general way, therefore Mahmoud Abdelkader uses The Modernization of China by Gilbert Rozman (Editor) excerpts to support his views) Type of Book: Illustrated Pages: 64 China Book Report The book China Since 1945, written by author Stewart Ross, opens in a description of the Chinese Empire in the 1900? s. There it describes the terrain of the Chi...
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First Atomic Bomb World War Ii
1,769 wordsDaniel Simons History 12 The year is 1945 and World War II has been going on for 6 years. The Germans led by Adolf Hitler, are starting to see one defeat after another. They lost the Eastern Front to the Russians and the Western front was slowly but surely being taken back by the allied forces, mainly the British and the Americans. The Americans had only entered the war 4 years before, but their impact on the war was so great. The Americans declared war on Japan on December 7, 1941, after the un...
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Harry S Truman World War Ii
841 wordsI. Introduction Roosevelt, Franklin Fdr FDR I. Introduction Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882 - 1945), 32 nd president of the United States (1933 - 1945). Roosevelt served longer than any other president a total of four terms. No other president will ever have a chance be in office that long ever again; the 22 nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, passed after his death, denies the right of any person to be elected president more than twice. Roosevelt held office during two of th...
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Adolf Hitler Hitler
3,794 wordsAdolf Hitler When the topic of dictators is brought up who comes to mind? Most anyone will say Adolf Hitler. Why was he so cruel? What drove his hatred for the Jews? Why did he want a so-called? perfect? race? Well the answer to all these questions might be answered from Hitler? s childhood. Adolph Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was the son of Alois, a customs official, and Klara Hitler. Alois was a very mean and stern father. His death, in 1903, came as a reli...
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Nuclear Arms Race War With Japan
3,347 wordsRegret is unacceptable in terms of using a destructive weapon in times of war. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was, if not a complete mistake, poorly timed. Unfortunately, the moment it was used, it may have seemed to be the only solution to bring peace. This paper will examine the untimeliness of the bomb as manifested in postwar regret and nuclear warfare. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thrust the United States into World War II, and thus helped reshape modern warfa...
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World War Ii Atomic Bomb
939 wordsWorld War II In this chapter it discusses the most destructive war of all time, World War II. It was the war of all the world part two. Although the casualties were as much as the first war there was more destruction and many new inventions were started from the war. From the start of the war the Americans weren t at all prepared. Ending immigration was the beginning of what to come. Americans were so scared of their Japanese counterparts, that they put all the Japanese-Americans into war camps ...
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York Franklin Watts World War Ii
1,951 wordsIn the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, the first ever nuclear explosion took place in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The explosion was the first test of the most destructive weapon ever known to man, and was the result of almost six years of research and development by some of the worlds top scientists. This endeavor was known as the Manhattan Project. Less than a month after the test, which was known as Trinity, the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, three days apart, which forced...
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Crimes Against Humanity United States Supreme Court
2,769 wordsThe Nuremburg Precedence History will judge these trials wholly by whether the victors themselves adhere to the standards and the law they impose on the vanquished. In judging the vanquished, the victors also judge themselves. (New York Times editorial, May 14, 1946, quoted in Piccigallo, 1979, p. 18). Although they were not without precedent, the Allied trials of war criminals at Nuremberg and elsewhere represented new legal principles and extensions of existing legal principles in an attempt t...
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