jobs stateside and in every stage of war. By 1945 there were more than 100‚000 Wacs and 6‚000 female officers. In the Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service also known as WAVES‚ in August 3‚ 1942. The training program for WAVES was a harsh 12 week 8 hours a day. The first class had 644 women with a maximum of 1‚250 graduates. By fall 1942 there were 10‚000 WAVES in active service. WWII in Europe women were also very important‚ men were sent into war without a choice. To keep the countries
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War & Art Bounded by the First World War‚ the period of 1920-1945 witnessed the hardships of the Great Depression and the destructive slide into political conflict. Throughout these dramatic times‚ during both the highs and the lows‚ artists responded to the world in which they lived in dramatic fashion. The events certainly had rippling effects upon all aspects of European life. In this time‚ artists and musicians had little choice but to react to the times to express their feelings and remain
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Modern European History and Culture Given the success of the operation from the Colombian Army in which 15 hostages were released. Should the Colombian Government still consider an agreement with FARC and give them the area that they asked for in order to start the negotiations for the peace?? Assignment Executive Summary The second of July 2008 the Colombian army released from the hands of Farc fifteen hostages including three North Americans and the half French Ingrid Betancourt. In many
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Introduction The First World War was an international disaster for most countries but wasn’t as significant to Russia like some of the other international. The Russian government had its own problems during the First World War‚ big problems like the Russo Japanese war‚ great Russian revolution as well aside from the Russia’s government deciding to entering the First World War. The First World War made the other problems even worse. Before Russia’s entry in WWI‚ Russia fought Japan in the Russo-Japanese
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displacement of Indians and the enslavement of Africans tarnished the early history of European settlement in the New World’. Illustrate this statement by discussing the African slave trade and relations between European settlers and the various Native American peoples. America was regarded as the continent of new opportunities‚ religion freedom‚ new ideas‚ innovation. In other words‚ it was claimed to be the New World. Many people headed to America hoping to give a new beginning to their lives.
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The First World War was a monumental and detrimental global influenced conflict that brought about the destruction of at least ten-million lives‚ and forever changing millions more. While nearly a war fought fully on European soil‚ the nations involved were not near-relatively restricted to European countries. Of these various non-European nations‚ consisted that of Canada‚ a dominion of Great Britain. To that point in time‚ Canada was a young developing subsidiary of the British crown‚ as Confederation
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great wars broke out ‚which are very important to the world ‚the First World War and the Second World War .The reason that they are so important is that ‚both of them had brought some great influences to the world afterward .The most obvious influence is that ‚without First World War ‚there won’t be Second World War .I am talking that the Second World War is the continue of the First World War .However ‚the largest difference between the two great wars is that ‚there are no large scale war or conflicts
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The First World War was a global war centred in Europe that began from 1914 and lasted until 1918. It probably involved most of nations in the world‚ which were divided into two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers (Willmott‚ 2003:10-11). Eventually‚ on 11 November 1918‚ Germany signed an armistice‚ and Allies won the war. As a consequence‚ the First World War not only transformed the world force pattern‚ but also generated many problems that affected nations’ development all over
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Through their actions and expansions‚ the Vikings had multiple profound short-term and long-term impacts on Europe. One major short-term impact of Viking expansion was the increase in violent raids and trading routes across the continent. A long-term impact of Viking expansion is the indentation of Norse mythology into today’s society. Another long-term ramification is their technological advances that provided the stepping stones for today’s intercultural technological practises. Through their colonisation
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This time period saw major changes on long held European beliefs. Included among those are ideas about race and its relationship to freedom. With new innovations and the high time of Indian Ocean trade‚ new ideas were spread everywhere. Two factors influenced this change. One was the discovery of the New World and the second was the demand for slaves. With the discovery of the New World‚ explorers were introduced to new civilizations. While they were sophisticated‚ they were still primitive in comparison
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