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America was recovering and recouping from WW II, and hoped to return to normalcy.
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He served with an anti-aircraft unit until he deserted in the waning days of WW II.
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Original WW II Navy recruiting poster Masculine strength was a common visual theme in many patriotic posters.
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Commercially processed salts can taste bitter: Since WW II, iodine has been added to prevent thyroid-related diseases (such as cretinism).
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Mr. Jobs may well be a great leader for Apple but I doubt he could have lead the UK through WW II.
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The US had been collecting this gold since WW I as payments on wartime loans, a problem accelerated by new loans for WW II.
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This is one of the reasons after WW II no country in the world outside of Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union had any gold.
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Mr Matsui also called for more support for ageing survivors of the WW II attack who are battling health issues caused by radiation from the bomb.
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Then far off in the distance came the report of a lone bugler, a WW II veteran in full uniform, whose notes echoed to rest on the graves of the fallen, but not forgotten.
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Second, the problem that the BWS was attempting to address was a lack of US dollars outside of the US. Following WW II, with the economies of the rest of the world in shambles, a great many countries needed to trade with the US. How could foreign countries trade with the US if they did not have dollars?
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The problem that the Bretton Woods System was attempting to address was a lack of US dollars outside of the US. Following WW II, with the economies of the rest of the world in shambles, a great many countries needed to trade with the US. How could foreign countries trade with the US if they did not have dollars?
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