accessed at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8224494.stm - On 17/11/2009 Books Beckett‚ C.‚ (2008) Make Do and Mend‚ John Lewis‚ (London) Ewing‚ E.‚ (1986) History of 20th Century Fashion‚ Chrysalis Books‚ (London). Hynson‚ C.‚ (2001) Britain since WW2 Fashion (London). Exhibitions Imperial War Museum‚ London‚ Second World War Galleries (2009) Harris‚ C.‚ (2009) Women Under Fire in World War 2. Last accessed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/women_at_war_01.shtml - On 25/11/2009
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WW2 was a very bloody war and it was kind of good for America because it gave women the chance to have jobs and not just be a stay at home mom/wife. On september 16‚1940 congress passed the first peacetime military act‚ This act ordered men from the ages of 21-35 to be trained for battle in 12 months but that was before Pearl Harbor had gotten attacked. After Pearl Harbor congress passed the Selective Service Act which extended drafting to 18-38 years to join the military‚ But men 18-65 had no
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The World Wars are extremely interesting to study and learn about. There are huge amounts of information that most people don’t know or think that happened in both Wars. They have War ending weapons in World War one‚ but in World War two they were about taking the world. The Wars had reasons for beginning‚ they had type of weapons that caused the massacre‚ they had the invention of the tank‚ and how they ended. The first World War also known as “The Great War”. It was the war to end all wars. It
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World War 1. Some background information: -Fought from 1914-1918 and between Germany and England/France/Belgium and other Allied countries. -World War 1 saw a complete change in the way wars were fought and the attitudes towards them. More advanced technology saw death on a huge scale and there were nearly a million British casualties. This in turn created a new breed of poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon‚ who wrote in protest of the war and its dire conditions. They argued that
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BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE 1914 One of many important battles in 1914 in which both sides attempted to fight a war of movement which would see the war ended by December 1914. It was also important in contributing to the stalemate which eventuated at the end of 1914. It heralded the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The importance of this battle is that it was the culmination by both sides of any attempt at a war of movement‚ as it was realized that frontal offensives were impossible. Thus the ‘race
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AICE Intl History Review for Test 1. Command Economy: The government will determine countries economic needs. The government tells people when they work and how much they get paid. 2. Collective Farming : all food grown goes to state to be redistributed. Everything that the farmers grow‚ goes strait to the government‚ and the government decides what to do with it. 3. Great Purge: 4. New Deal: Roosevelt’s program of government reform to improve economy. 5. Coalition Government: temporary multi-party
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Honors History DBQ World War 1 World War 1 or ‘The Great War’ was a conflict between the central and allied powers in 1914-1918. It took place mainly in Europe and Italy but was later expanded into France‚ Germany‚ and the South of Turkey. The causes of World War 1 are still debatable today. However‚ some points of the War are more important to note than others. Likewise‚ not only did the Serbians assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ but the development of militarism also proves to be a main
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History Essay There were few valid reasons for the start of WW1. The reasons I am about to explain to you are IMPERIALISM‚ MILITARISM and ALLIANCES. WW1 started because the greed of other countries. Imperialism started to be a big factor in 1848 because a new‚ very big and very strong country called Germany was made. It was made up of Prussia‚ Oldenburg‚ Schaunburg-Lippe‚ Mecklenburg-sterhitz‚ Hessen‚ Hohenzollern and Waldeck. A few days after they became Germany‚ they attacked France
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lives would have been totally different without the world war. World War II revolutionized technology we wouldn’t have many things that we take advantage of today. Inventions like cell phones‚ microwaves‚ computers and more we wouldn’t have today. WW2 changed air flight‚ medicine‚ and military technology. Aviation played a major role in World War II it was used for mobilization of armies‚ attack or defending territory‚ and dropping missiles and bombs. With the need of planes‚ the evolved and changed
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Year 9 History NC Assessment: “From one war to another – Was Hitler totally to blame for WW2?” “Hitler was totally to blame for World War II. Do you agree?” World War Two began in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany following Germany ’s invasion of Poland. Although the outbreak of war was triggered by Germany ’s invasion of Poland‚ the causes of the war were more complex. In 1919‚ Lloyd George of England‚ Orlando of Italy‚ Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson from the
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