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hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...