There are families like myself, the younger generation - not just the older generation, the World War Two veterans.
Her father was killed in the first world war and her two brothers in the second.
These years represented a triumph of Wilsonianism and of the lessons that America had learned from the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Vietnam War.
One of the military's goals during World War Two was the maintenance of civilian morale.
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Social mobility took off after the second world war for two main reasons.
The contribution reflects Germany's ambition, 56 years after the end of World War Two, to take a more prominent role in world affairs that matches its economic might.
He became king in 1934, led the army during the German conquest of the country in World War Two and abdicated in favor of his son Baudouin in 1951.
This 1955 novel, critics agree, distilled the experience of a generation, laying bare its hollow quest for meaning and purpose in the post-World War Two world of corporate business.
If you know the history of global oil in the years before World War Two, then you realize there is nothing new about America enjoying energy independence as Asia worries about its own needs.
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Out of contact with the rest of the world for so long, they knew nothing about the first world war that had engulfed Europe two years earlier.
Gold enabled Great Britain, for instance, to buy arms and food from the United States during the first two years of World War II.
He compared the challenges facing the current Conservative-Lib Dem administration to those confronted by Winston Churchill's coalition government during World War Two, saying the severity of the situation meant it was right for two parties to work together.
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Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP.
Along with her husband, King George VI, the pair made their mark during World War Two by helping sustain national morale and helping resurrect the shattered image of the royal family after the preceding constitutional crisis.
Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.
The tally of strikes involving 1, 000 or more workers last year reached 29, the lowest since the second world war and one-eighth the level of two decades ago.
But far fewer Americans still recall the even more passionate debate over our stance toward Nazi Germany during the first two years of World War II.
The dangers of radon became very apparent after World War Two when large uranium mines were opened around the world to feed the nuclear industry.
The airport was shut for two hours on Monday, after the World War II plane came in at 15.30 GMT.
Franklin Roosevelt devised the concept of Lend Lease, which provided aid to Britain and other nations in the early years of World War II, while on a two-week cruise through the Caribbean in December 1940.
The Gulf is so far away that prior to World War Two, few Americans thought there was any reason to visit the sparsely populated region, much less establish a permanent military presence there.
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Most tourists go to see the Tomb of the Unknowns, where an honour guard stands day and night over the remains of four unknown soldiers of later days: one each from the two world wars, the Korean war and the Vietnam war.
At the end of World War II the U.S. and Soviet Union created two occupation zones, which evolved into two competing states.
If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.
Ed Koch was drafted at 19 and served in the Army in World War II, earning two battle stars.
Mr. MEYERS: His previous book to this was Across the River and Into the Trees, which was the first book he published after World War Two.
As Ritholtz points out, Big Mac was run by Felix Rohatyn, whose family of wealthy Viennese bankers had fled from the Nazis to New York during World War Two.
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To make my point in a different way, let me sketch an analysis of the operation of two kinds of health markets: the one before World War II and the one since then.
The U.S. could easily reduce the tax-filing population to pre-World War II levels by dropping two-thirds of taxpayers from the drudgery of filing annual returns.
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