Sentences with phrase «about after the second world war»

Beyond that simple fact, recognition of the totalitarian syndrome of the communist system did not take place during the wartime period when the book was being written; such recognition came about after the Second World War was long over.

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Martin also asks some telling questions about Rahner's remarkably optimistic vision of human nature — an optimism all the more astonishing since, as Martin notes, he spent almost his entire priestly life (1932 — 84) first under Nazi rule and then, after the Second World War, with half of Germany under Soviet Communism.

Although about a third of British industry was taken into public ownership after the Second World War, and remained so until the 1980s, the right of the party were questioning the validity of expanding on this objective by the late 1950s.

After all, it was my grandparents I thought of when asked to think about the attitudes of those born after the Second WorldAfter all, it was my grandparents I thought of when asked to think about the attitudes of those born after the Second Worldafter the Second World War.

And, keeping up with the diverse schedule, Mr. Lancman is hosting a screening of Forgotten Refugees this weekend, a film about Jews expelled from Middle East and North Africa after the Second World War, which may help the candidate gain further traction in foreign policy - minded Jewish constituencies in the district.

FOR about thirty years after the end of the Second World War, the American government, through the Department of Defense, the CIA and various nongovernment research institutions, conducted medical research on several thousand of its citizens, often without their knowledge.

Otto Preminger's 1960 film version of Leon Uris's Exodus - about the founding of the state of Israel after the second world war - wasn't quite the critical hit its makers probably hoped for, but was certainly a commercial one and received a few awards too - including an Oscar for its music, by Ernest Gold.

The presentation introduces students to the idea of a possible second World War so soon after the first, then takes them back to the end of WW1 thinking about how they might punish Germany then finding out what actually happens.

A play about the Windrush generation of Caribbeans who came to England in 1948 to help rebuild Britain after the Second World War.

Man, I'm just not sure how I feel about Battalion 1944 after many, many hours in its virtual battlefields full of madly bouncing soldiers careening through the air while they carefully take aim, a truly stunning recreation of what the Second World War was actually like.

In addition, he headed the institution's «critical reconstruction», which reversed structural changes that had been carried out in the context of architectural denazification after the Second World War, to provide a perspective on the venue's origins and to facilitate a discourse about its history.

It suggests that he has missed the fundamental point — the fundamental point — about the new epoch: that the functioning of the Earth system has changed, and that it changed at the end of the 18th century; or, if we want to be absolutely certain, in the decades after the Second World War.

«I'm pretty convinced we're in the midst of a transformation which is probably as profound as what happened immediately after the Second World War, when we got all excited about automobiles and in a sense turned our backs on cities.»

It is really all about decisions made at the government level, mostly related to urban planning; in the USA after the second world war, it was official policy to decentralize everything to make the nation safer from Russian missiles.

After the Second World War, emerging researchers avoided explanations of their research based on race, just as determinedly as earlier researchers had avoided explanations that undermined notions of biological race.7 Culture replaced race, with researchers now collecting data about a vanishing way of life, and similarities rather than differences were emphasised.