• But the administration's opponents point to changes in the laws of war under the Geneva Conventions since World War II, and they contend that because of those changes, the U.S. did not use military tribunals in the half century that followed, not even against guerilla fighters of the Vietcong.

    NPR: High Court Hears Challenge to Military Tribunals

  • Following the cessation of play during the First World War, the Championships resumed in 1919 under the spell of Suzanne Lenglen who won five titles in a row.

    BBC: The start of something special

  • The picture has a stately, waltz-like rhythm, as the narrator (Marcello Mazzarella, a dead ringer for the real Proust) guides us through the declining fortunes of his friends under the shadow of the First World War.

    NEWYORKER: Time Regained

  • Taiwan was handed back to China at the end of the second world war, but the islands remained under the control of the Americans, who administered them as part of the Okinawa island chain.

    ECONOMIST: A row over disputed islands goes from bad to worse

  • The richly detailed drama, which opened Monday night at Lincoln Center, is set in the spring of 1948, when the Cold War between former World War II allies America and the Soviet Union is under way.

    WSJ: Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama

  • Franklin Roosevelt, who had served under Wilson, saw the onset of World War II as a vindication of Wilson's approach.

    NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

  • He has appointed a bipartisan commission to investigate the military health-care system, to be headed by Bob Dole, a former Republican presidential nominee and veteran of the second world war, and Donna Shalala, who was health secretary under Bill Clinton.

    ECONOMIST: The military health-care scandal

  • Under the auspices of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, terrorist organizations around the world, without apparent common goal or close geographical location, cooperated and developed solidarity.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Implications of the Colombian Hostage Rescue

  • The film tells of a disturbed US seaman who falls under the spell of an enigmatic cult leader in the aftermath of World War II.

    BBC: Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench in Skyfall

  • This guarantee was made by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, and reaffirmed under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement for the post World War II international monetary system.

    FORBES: Angry Over Oil Price? Demand A Change In Fed Policy

  • It is destined for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's largest weapons producer.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is set for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's top weapons producer.

    FORBES: The Front Line

  • The families of heroic sailors who died when their ship came under German attack in World War II have gathered to remember them 70 years on.

    BBC: Supply convoy heroes remembered at Chatham

  • This new deal, Mr Brown said, would be an equivalent of the Marshall Plan, under which the United States helped revive the European economy after World War II.

    BBC: Brown's 'Marshall Plan' for poor countries

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