During World War II‚ German troops invaded the towns and homes of millions across Europe as part of Adolf Hitler’s world domination plan. The country most affected by the war and thisinvasion was France. France provided the perfect tactical base for Germany to attack Europe‚ while simultaneously keeping war away from their home. But the French did not simply sit and watch war ravage them. Their army fought back fiercely and the civilians fought in their own way. Across France‚ peasants in villages
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Business Forecasting and Modelling Modelling NHS Data for Accident and Emergency Departments to Reduce Attendances and Costs in Twelve London Trusts. Forecasting – Long denigrated as a waste of time at best and a sin at worst – became an absolute necessity in the course of the seventeenth century for adventuresome entrepreneurs who were willing to take the risk of shaping the future according to their own design. (Bernstein‚ P. 1996) K0750834 May 2010 Business Forecasting and Modelling
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The decade following up to WW2 there was general hostility towards Black Americans‚ lynching’s and beatings were quite common in the Deep South. Due to the huge amount of volunteered/conscripted black Americans who joined to fight for ‘liberty and freedom’ in Europe‚ many also fought the war of liberty and freedom at home. When black soldiers returned majority were still met with the same segregation and racism that they had felt when they left. However you could see some improvements in political
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Introduction This paper is about the cultural policies implemented by the Japanese Military Administration during their occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945). It is the intention of this piece to prove that the orders which the Japanese imposed were directed at suppressing the Filipinos in many aspects of their socio-cultural life. This position ironically contradicts the rosy picture which the Japanese painted for the country‚ that is‚ a new Philippines free from dependence on America and
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help Western Europe begin its long period of economic revival. Through the Marshall Plan‚ Europe began to rebuild its factories‚ farms and transport systems‚ which had been destroyed by the war. Although the economic revival of Western Europe from 1945-1970 was relatively effective‚ many weaknesses can be seen in this strategy to help Western Europe rebuild itself. The United States did not have to deal with rebuilding its home front. In actuality‚ the United States ’ economy was better then it
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To what extent was the Soviet Union responsible for the division of Germany from 1945 to 1949? Post-war Germany found itself in the middle of international tensions after its division – between the Allied powers of Britain‚ France and the USA and the Soviet Union under Stalin. However‚ the German nation that hoped for a new beginning could not do so due to the distribution of her land between the victors of the Second World War‚ and historians have since debated over who was to blame for this occurring
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Did worldwide decolonisation after 1945 create more problems than it solved?‚ Decolonization after World War 2 created a whole new era of human history. Colonizers had drawn borders for the first time in places like Africa‚ created and promoted the idea of a state and national identity‚ as well as new technologies and ways of life. Independence would therefore create many problems. Conflict over disputed territories leading to ethnic violence‚ power struggles among the educated and a mass exodus
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In the novel‚ The Wave‚ Todd Strasser demonstrates the power and influence of group pressure on individuals. Members of a History class learning about World War II‚ question the teacher‚ Mr. Ross‚ why didn’t any countries stand up against the Nazis. He cannot find the perfect answer. He decides to do a "harmless" experiment. In the following paragraphs‚ I will compare and contrast the "experiment" in The Wave to the historic movement in Nazi Germany. The classroom and the political agenda of the
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from 1945-1972’. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer using your subject knowledge. (16marks) I don’t believe that the arms race was the main reason for the development of the Cold War from 1945-1972. Although it clearly illustrated the intense rivalry between the USA and the USSR‚ it was simply one of many factors contributing to the war between communism and capitalism. When the USA ended World War Two by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945‚ they
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Technology has advanced a lot since 1945. There were new inventions such as the television‚ talk back radio‚ antibiotics‚ tranquilisers‚ anti-depressants‚ fluoride in water‚ higher numbers of cars being manufactured as more people were buying‚ the use of planes commercially‚ the jet plane‚ electric railway and the development of railway towns. In 1956 the television was invented and widely bought throughout Australia. They were expensive for the time but a new scheme called ’hire purchase’ where
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