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    Japanese Foreign Policy

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    granted 14.5 mil - New Order in East Asia o November 38-Asia for the Asians- decolonise from European and US control o Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere-June 1940 o FDR implemented Export control Act in 1940 to limit arms supply to Jap. - Annexation of Northern Indochina Sept 1940 o Japan expanded into Indochina eliminating allied rail supply route to China (halting 10‚000 tons of material from reaching Chiang Kai-Shek - Tripartite Pact o

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    lives whether it’s inside the home‚ or not. Unlike in the 1940’s many hardworking parents find it difficult to control everything their children see on the streets‚ or watch on television. Modern day parents are often so consumed with maintaining a household that they don´t have the time and energy it takes to oversee what their children are exposed too. Being a parent today is much more difficult than it was a generation ago. In the 1940’s and 1950’s raising children and teens was much simpler

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    Music over decades

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    1. 1940s 1940s’ music reflected the pain of World War II while also trying to remain upbeat and looking towards a positive future full of possibilities. The music of the 1940’s consisted mainly of jazz‚ big band‚ and swing. ( These styles were popular thanks to musicians’ strikes in 1942 and 1948 and eventually gave way to Crooners later in the decade. “Crooners” was a term used to describe male vocalists that often had powerful‚ professionally trained voices and maintained a specific posture

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    Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Love At First Chip Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in the early 1930’s. The phenomenal cookie was an accident. Wakefield thought that by adding some chips from a Nestle chocolate bar would make the cookie dough like a chocolate cookie‚ not a chocolate chip cookie. Ruth Wakefield graduated from Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She was a dietician and lectured on food. Wakefield then went on to open

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    May 1940 The U.S. fleet is moved from California waters to Pearl Harbor. July 1940 Roosevelt calls for an embargo on certain goods sold to Japan. September 1940 Japan sends troops into northern Indochina and signs a military agreement‚ the Tripartite Pact‚ with Germany and Italy. November 1940 U.S. military intelligence breaks the code Japan uses to send messages to its diplomats in Washington

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    The American dream is the belief that through tenacity and perseverance one can enjoy prosperity‚wealth‚ and happiness. During the late 1940s‚ this term became popularized following the second world war. There were vast interpretations of the phrase to fit different lifestyles and expectations. Even for the destitute‚ the dream unlatched doors to contentment and happiness through the hope that there was a life that was filled with happiness and joy. James Truslow Adams defined the term as‚ “ a

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    the front. German forces could in turn encircle opposing troops and force surrender. Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland (attacked in September 1939)‚ Denmark (April 1940)‚ Norway (April 1940)‚ Belgium (May 1940)‚ the Netherlands (May 1940)‚ Luxembourg (May 1940)‚ France (May 1940)‚ Yugoslavia (April 1941)‚ and Greece (April 1941). Germany did not defeat Great Britain‚ which was protected from German ground attack by the English Channel and the Royal Navy.

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    tragic first produced in 1947‚ sets his female characters within the patriarchal society of post Second World War New Orleans society. Williams’s uses his female protagonist Blanche Dubois to explore the female repression that was present in the late 1940’s before radical feminism made an impact in the 1960’s. In contrast‚ Carol Anne Duffy’s TWW published in 1999 is

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    Essay On Sleepy Lagoon

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    Around the 1940’s was when the murder of Jose Diaz occurred. The murder took place in Los Angeles‚ California by a swimming hole called the ‘Sleepy Lagoon swimming hole.’’ This swimming hole was frequented by Mexicans. Back in the 1940’s there were also Mexican-American gangs which was another reason they would be accused of crimes that they didn’t commit. On the night of

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    Battle Of Britain Essay

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    Battle of Britain At the end of June 1940 The Second World War defense of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force began against an onslaught by the German Air Force Luftwaffe. Also known as “The Battle of Britain”‚ The Battle of Britain has been described as the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces. The Battle of Britain also has an unusual distinction in that it gained its name prior to being fought. The name is derived from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston

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