The world was at war when ENIAC was designed, and the Army could not calculate fast enough the firing tables needed to predict trajectories of weapons used against German forces.
It explicitly condemns weapons manufacturers even more so than the first film, basically calling them out as the reason that the world is at war, rather than merely a symptom of global conflict.
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When he personally helped the Allies create institutions like the World Bank, at the end of World War II, he was trying to make sure we wouldn't get into such a mess again.
Consider the anniversary to the end of the First World War - at least, the fighting ended anyway.
America was drawn into the peninsula at the conclusion of World War II, which is over.
During the second world war at Marconi he was part of the team that invented a radio direction-finder which was fitted to British bombers.
Some 100, 000 women were employed by the Post Office at the height of World War II.
He is remembered on the war memorial dedicated to missing World War I soldiers at Thiepval in the Picardie region of France.
Eisenhower himself pinning the Distinguished Service Cross on the Swiss-born spy at the end of World War II.
Britain emerged from the first world war with debt at 140% of GDP and prices more than double their pre-war level, but it was determined to pay off its debt and return the pound to its pre-war value against gold.
His reputation for arrogance in these and later jobs made it hard for him to find work in the government at the beginning of the second world war, when he was already in his 60s.
It is balanced by what we call the " Dunkirk spirit, " named after the heroic escape of thousands of British troops from France at the beginning of World War II.
On the other hand, look at how after World War II the U.S. forced Germany and France to work together, alleviating tension by creating companies like Airbus where national interests would be so intertwined that a new war would be unthinkable.
If it gets any attention in the UK, it's seen as one more tragic consequence of World War II, with British India at the time focused on the war against Japan.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
Exactly 100 years ago, on August 23, 1911, the form of British involvement in World War I was decided at the meeting of the Committee for Imperial Defence.
Job growth was slower during that period than at any time since World War II, at the same time as the costs of everything from health care to college tuition were skyrocketing.
Of course, I still have trouble with the current negative real return of the ten-year Treasuries, which are poised to close at the lowest yield since World War II.
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Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
The airport was shut for two hours on Monday, after the World War II plane came in at 15.30 GMT.
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