Sentences with phrase «of the worlds wars»

«So much interchange had occurred across the line by early December» that a general «issued a directive unequivocally forbidding fraternization,» writes Stanley Weintraub in Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.

«Many on both sides focused more on trying to stay warm and dry, securing food, and avoiding death than pursuing the aims of their generals,» according to The Encyclopedia of World War I's entry on the Christmas Truce.

But Gunter wasn't the only troop to die in that last hour of World War I.

Corporate debt - to - cash flow is the highest it's been since the end of World War II.

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.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

Remembering the sacrifice of the soldiers who turned around a desperate battlefield situation and won during a cold and snowy period in late 1944 is a great way to remember the military veterans of World War II.

It ultimately took the outbreak of World War II to help the US wrench itself out of the protracted slump.

They include a couple of World Wars.

The essential European idea was born of the horrors of the world wars and the terrors of the Cold War.

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

The end of World War II meant that fabric rationing was over.

With the onset of World War II, it became common to have quick, informal weddings that were often planned just a few days in advance, since the men who were fighting in the war only had short periods of leave.

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.

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.

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

We were in the grips of World War II and in the midst a severe rubber shortage.

Like the great generals of World War II (Patton, MacArthur, Montgomery, De Gaulle), these CEOs return to office at a time of crisis to revive their enterprise and lead their companies to greater glory than they did during their first tour of duty.

Throughout the Cold War immediately following the end of World War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weapons.

Concessions made in the wake of World War II are «not so appropriate as we get here to this year.»

Last year it was «Call of Duty: WWII,» as seen above — a throwback to the many previous «Call of Duty» games set during the events of World War II.

Airbus plans to assemble 40 - 50 of its single - aisle A-320 family every year beginning in 2018 from the plant, built on the site of a World War II bomber support base.

So I sat in the back, I got up there and on the way back they didn't have a plane, they had one plane a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage and they were going back to Alameda so I thought I'd hitch on that.

«A US Airways gate attendant announced that an Honor Flight of World War II veterans would be arriving momentarily and encouraged anyone passing by to help greet them,» he recalls.

«On the way back, they had one plane, a Douglas AD, sort of a torpedo bomber of the World War II vintage, and I thought I'd hitch on that.

Uniforms worn in the Korean War were those of an Army in transition and reflected innovations from the closing days of World War II.

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

Its conflict with Japan also concerns the Kuril Islands, which were historically part of Japan and were taken by the Soviet Union in the last days of World War II.

The end of World War II — and later, the collapse of the Soviet Union — provided European countries with the opportunity to redesign some aspects of their political systems.

At the end of World War II, the world's most powerful and developed countries stopped waging war with each other.

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.

As the son of a World War II fighter pilot, I grew up an Air Force brat and went to air shows every year.

I mean, our government debt is almost as large as it was at the end of World War II, relative to GDP.

Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific.

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.

In Nagasaki, where the second atomic bomb was dropped after Hiroshima in the final stage of World War II, atomic bomb survivors voiced their hopes for the denuclearization of the peninsula.

By contrast, valuing these same structures on a replacement - cost basis, land value rose slowly but steadily from the end of World War II to 1989, from 20 to about 27 percent of overall corporate real estate values.

Excess capital from the financial crisis has finally been absorbed, while the aggregate capital stock is the oldest it's been since the end of World War II.

But the aftermath of World War I saw the vested interests mount a Counter-Enlightenment.

The world is plenty dangerous, but the chance of world war is diminishing, says the UN arms inspector who defied the Bush administration.

Geoffrey Wawro: A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

Coming out of World War II, the president was definitely afraid of inflation and so there was mandated wage restriction.

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

[264] The economy of the United States has grown faster than the other original NATO members by a wider margin under President Obama than it has anytime since the end of World War II.

Since the end of World War II, black gold has been priced in U.S. greenbacks.

With debt already higher as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than at any time other than the aftermath of World War II, this new debt is likely to slow economic growth and hasten the country's fiscal deterioration.

He is also famous for buying bombed out shares at the start of World War 2 when he was 27, seeing huge returns.

By some estimates, the United States accounted for roughly 50 % of global output at the end of World War II... It has fallen to 15.1 % today.»

It was more than the total cost of World War I.