Sentences with phrase «end of war in»

Almost 100 ships were built before the end of the war in 1945.

When the Project was terminated in 1943, Diller joined the Navy, serving on active duty until the end of the war in 1945.

Iraq is exhibiting at a major travel and tourism trade event at WTM 2010 as it looks to negotiate even more investment in its tourism infrastructure following the end of the war in 2003.

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The cards lasted well beyond the end of the war in 1945.

In the comfort of our American existence we were aware that Hitler was doing evil things to Jews, first in Germany and next in Central and Eastern Europe; we would not for a few years — in some cases not till the end of the war in Europe — know just exactly how evil, but what we already knew by the late 1930s was bad enough.

As word of his execution reached his friends and colleagues during the chaotic days at the end of the war in Europe, Reinhold Niebuhr praised Bonhoeffer's courage, but noted that he had been «too busy in the affairs of a militant church to state his own position in many books.»

Growth in wage incomes remains firm, and consumer sentiment has risen strongly in recent months, partly because of the end of the war in Iraq.

«The end of the war in Syria will not be just, and it's unlikely to be peaceful,» said Emma Beals, an independent journalist and specialist on Syria.

Not exact matches

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

On June 28, 1919, the victorious Allied leaders signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I and spurring German nationalism, which in turn gave Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a political platform.

In «Star Wars: Shattered Empire,» the canon comic book bridging the gap between Episode VI and Episode VII, Poe Dameron is born on Yavin 4, the same moon where Luke receives his medal at the end of «Star Wars: A New Hope.»

At the end of the day, I have more appreciation for being able to make an impact on someone's life than I have for helping to liberate Iraq in one war.

Sony's first volley in the VR wars is the most affordable of the high - end headsets, and the games deliver.

Short sellers have been at the losing end of a tug - of - war with Tesla investors in 2017, with some surrendering in recent weeks following nearly $ 2 billion in losses as shares of the electric car maker approach record highs.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

The Republic of China lost to the Mao Zedong - led People's Republic of China in the country's civil war ending in 1949 and had to flee to Taiwan.

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.

A concrete goal outlined in the declaration was the formal ending the state of war that has existed since the 1950 - 53 Korean War was halted with a truce, not a treawar that has existed since the 1950 - 53 Korean War was halted with a truce, not a treaWar was halted with a truce, not a treaty.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

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When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians around the world heralded Victory in Europe Day — the Soviet Union would mark Victory Day on May 9 — exuberant about the end of nearly six years of war that had destroyed much of Europe.

There was a 25 - year boom that ended with the quadrupling of oil prices in the autumn of 1973 during the Arab - Israeli war.

In a joint statement in the afternoon, Moon and Kim agreed to achieve «complete» denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and work toward officially ending the Korean War with a peace treaty; the war is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreemenIn a joint statement in the afternoon, Moon and Kim agreed to achieve «complete» denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and work toward officially ending the Korean War with a peace treaty; the war is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreemenin the afternoon, Moon and Kim agreed to achieve «complete» denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and work toward officially ending the Korean War with a peace treaty; the war is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreemeWar with a peace treaty; the war is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreemewar is technically ongoing because it ended in an armistice agreemenin an armistice agreement.

It marked the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953 that a North Korean leader crossed the border into the South.

Historians agree Hitler killed himself at the end of World War II in 1945, and Germany subsequently surrendered to the Allied forces.

South Korea's spy agency also expected Kim to travel to Moscow this month to attend an event marking the end of World War Two in Europe, although there was no independent confirmation of the plan, Shin said after the spy agency briefing.

Frazier was born in 1954; his father had been born in 1900, and his grandfather in turn had been «born into slavery» in South Carolina, prior to the Emancipation Proclamation and end of the U.S. Civil War, Frazier explained in an interview.

Russia has said Kim would attend the May 9 event marking the 70th anniversary of the war's end in Europe, although officials in Seoul have cautioned that there was no official confirmation from the North.

And both nations also agreed to push forward, bringing in other nations like the U.S. and China, to sign an agreement to formally end the Korean War — a cold war vestige that certainly needs to discarded in the trash heap of history once and for aWar — a cold war vestige that certainly needs to discarded in the trash heap of history once and for awar vestige that certainly needs to discarded in the trash heap of history once and for all.

Speaking Tuesday at a function in Washington, D.C., Kendall noted that the technological superiority the U.S. enjoyed at the end of the Cold War has atrophied in significant ways.

The signing of the historic agreement this week opens an exciting new chapter for mineral rich Bougainville, which saw its riches turn to rags during a 10 - year civil war ending in 1998.

In April 1884, Bolivia signed a treaty ending the War of the Pacific, granting Chile 240 miles of coastline — and Bolivia's only outlet to the sea.

Disney and Lucasfilm released the official teaser trailer to the next standalone film in the Star Wars franchise in February, and Howard confirmed via Twitter at the end of March that another full - length trailer would follow soon, although an exact date has not been announced yet.

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

If the two Koreas can strike a deal, they might even sign a formal declaration of peace — the Korean War only ended in an armistice, back in 1953.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in on Friday declared they would take steps to formally end the 1950 - 53 Korean War, which ended only with a truce, and work towards the «denuclearisation» of the Korean peninsula.

In the same year that Jacob Lewis established the Lewis Pottery on the edge of the Ohio River, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of St. Helena, ending the Napoleonic Wars.

Robert E. Lee (no relation) was a second lieutenant in the marines in 1975, when he was shipped over to Vietnam during the end - of - the - war evacuation, a month before the fall of Saigon.

«I'm no big fan of Star Wars, but it's not crazy to imagine that one day our big cities will have flying cars making their way along roads in the sky,» Tom Enders said in the article.

And, as Becker points out, the travel industry has exploded in the past half century, aided by open borders since the end of the Cold War, new long - haul airplanes, and more western comforts in far - flung locations.

South Korea's decision to invest in heavy industry — including shipbuilding, automobiles, steel, and electronics — and to put much of the nation's productivity under the control of large industrial groups, or chaebol, reflected government policies that mimicked Japan's zaibatsu — similar groups that controlled much of its economy through the end of World War II.

Bidding wars end up inflating the price beyond what it's worth, and you lose sight of what it was you were actually buying in the first place.

That effectively ends all resistance in the suburbs of Damascus known as eastern Ghouta, marking one of the biggest victories for Assad's government of the entire war.

What it's about: «Empire» surpassed even the first «Star Wars» movie in fame, with its unforgettable twist at the end and meditative scenes of Luke training with Yoda.

With headaches like natural disasters, rising wages in China, and a financial domino effect gripping economies around the world — not to mention recession - induced protectionism like U.S. President Barack Obama's jobs bills with their Buy American clauses — have we reached the limits of the global integration that has propelled the world economy since the end of the Cold War?

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel: Chinese officials have urged trade talks in recent weeks in order to avoid an all - out trade war.

We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..