Sentences with phrase «world war history»

This is a fascinating site that serves as a great educational outing for kids interested in learning about World War history and about how life was in the old days.

In Cherbourg itself it is worth visiting the Musée de la Libération dedicated to the Second World War history in the region and the rest of the country.

I decided to write a book on the Transylvanian Saxons of Romania in 2008, it is a niche market and a Second World War history book.

The experiences are broadened out under a Southampton: Gateway to the World Discovery Sessions covering why it is a gateway city, with particular focus on Roman, Saxon, Medieval, or Second World War history.

The UCL Institute of Education and school tour operator, Equity, who collectively run the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, are inviting all state secondary schools in Kent, Central England and the Midlands, South - East London, East London and Essex, North London, Eastern England and North - West England, to participate in a First World War History Regional Competition, as part of the commemoration of the Battle of Passchendaele centenary.

The UCL Institute of Education and school tour operator, Equity, who collectively run the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, are inviting all state secondary schools in South East London and Medway, Lincolnshire, Essex, Central England, Cheshire and Lancashire to participate in a First World War History Regional Competition, as part of the national commemorations of the conflict.

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Mustard gas and the machine gun would become the hallmarks of a protracted war so brutal that many expected it to be history's last major conflict, a cataclysm that would make war appear too mutually destructive to merit a place in the modern world.

One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

«It's not a war - fighting capability unless it's the worst day in our nation or world's history,» Mattis said.

Often regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders in modern history, Churchill would overcome immense obstacles to eventually lead the British people to victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany in World War II.

Eisfeld has had it particularly rough since World War II ended, when the Soviets drew the Iron Curtain along its southern boundary, leaving the town trapped on the wrong side of history and the factory in the hands of East Germany.

Its history dates back to the Revolutionary War, but the more recent buildings are from World War II.

History: The USS Carl Vinson is named after the congressman from Georgia who served in the House during the Second World War, and later oversaw the transition of the Departments of War and the Navy into a singular Department of Defense.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.

«I realized that World War II wasn't just a chapter in a history book.

The battle of Dunkirk occupies a strange space in the history of World War II.

And obviously a miserable time in history that we remember here at the White House and certainly will never forget the Jewish people that suffered in World War II.»

As an unusual bit of history, Adolf Hitler sent his body back to Istanbul in 1943, hoping to persuade Turkey to join the Axis powers in World War II.

Both were health care giants with proud histories — Squibb had supplied medications to the Union Army during the Civil War and marketed the first electric toothbrush; Bristol - Myers provided penicillin to U.S. forces during World War II and briefly ran Palomar Pictures, the studio responsible for The Stepford Wives.

And obviously a miserable time in history that we remember here at the White House and certainly will never forget the Jewish people that suffered in World War II,» Priebus said.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships» satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back - up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the AI race could cause World War III, while famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Monday that the technology could be the «worst event in the history of our civilization.»

Amid the biggest commercial aircraft boom in its history, Boeing's airplane division employs fewer workers per plane than during all other booms since World War II.

«The P - 51 Mustang is the most iconic fighter plane from World War II and a powerful symbol of the United States» aviation combat history,» Hinton explains.

Titled Still renovating: A history of Canadian social housing policy, it's published by McGill - Queen's University Press and covers the period from the end of World War II to 2013.

Throughout our history, we have successfully relied on our exports and imports, particularly during the vast expansion of global trade in the decades following the Second World War, to support our rising standard of living.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

At 77 percent of GDP, debt is currently higher than at any time in history outside of World War II and its aftermath.

The short version is that the most destructive war in human history created the greatest economic engine that the world has ever seen.

This change is needed because we are in a period of history that is undergoing the most significant change in buyer behaviors since the end of the Second World War.

«The history of the Europe is for the last thousand years is every generation they try to kill each other and the last one was in World War 2».

Mass market watch ownership is a relatively small slice of our history, starting after the First World War and only becoming the norm for the industrialised world in the 1World War and only becoming the norm for the industrialised world in the 1world in the 1930s.

World War One, World War Two, Nazi Genocides, Communist Genocides, these four events have created more body count than all the 1,400 years of islamic history combined.

Consider his apologia for the poetry he was writing during and after World War II, when the world was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human hisWorld War II, when the world was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human hisworld was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human history.

Taken to refer to the history of ideas, they seem to name the periods before, during, and after the Enlightenment; but taken to refer to the history of events, they seem to name the period from creation to the rise of science, the period from the rise of science until World War II, and the period since the wWar II, and the period since the warwar.

World war 2 had a lot of negatives but so many positives have come from such a negative event in our history.

The Jesuit engineered 30 Years» War was one of the most sav.age conflicts in the history of the world and no slaughter of such magnitude appeared until WWI.

the world wars lasted how long?????? The only reason people make such a big deal about 9 - 11 is that it was the first time in history that brought something like this to our soil here at home and people were to weak in the mind to deal with it and it shattered their glass houses they live in.

considering the teaching of Christ has inspired more wars then any other theology in the history of the world, and the reverence of the god of death destruction and lies i would say their more then justified in any and all war.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Members of the LCMS were overwhelmingly German - American, and the history of the United States in the twentieth century — particularly that of the First and Second World Wars — has made German - Americans culturally uneasy.

The Vietnam War was the most costly and deadly third - world intervention in U.S. history.

Historically the church has never been able to accommodate itself to a mass movement without surrendering much of its identity, and our history since World War II has given us yet another example.

All war is ambiguous, but there has been no other war in our history in which we were so convinced of our own righteousness and the evil of the enemies as we were in World War war is ambiguous, but there has been no other war in our history in which we were so convinced of our own righteousness and the evil of the enemies as we were in World War war in our history in which we were so convinced of our own righteousness and the evil of the enemies as we were in World War War II.

Based on your rational, heinous and murderous acts thoughout History should have implicate the faith from which the actors come from (i.e. Crusaders and Christianity, Hitler during the world war, etc).

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

Runciman's postings during and just after the Second World War shadowed his historical and social interests, with jobs in Sofia, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Athens as well as a chair in Byzantine art and history in Istanbul.

The bible is one of the many ways satan uses to mislead people... seriously look at the history of the world since the bible was written... Belief in the bible has led to wars, faster spread of disease, attempted genocide, and the chaos of trying to interpret it, 40, 000 versions of belief in the bible... definitely sounds like something satan would want... a source of unfounded belief leading to conflict, and silly people trying to perform «exorcisms»