Sentences with phrase «state after the second world war»

The precise theory may be traced back to Dr John Money (1921 - 2006), a New Zealand psychologist who worked in the United States after the Second World War.

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The unleashing of the United States as a major world force began right after the Second Worldworld force began right after the Second WorldWorld War.

After the second of these World Wars, Europe reorganized itself in such a way as to subordinate the nation state.

Large scale cultivation of the soybean in the United States began only after the Second World War, and quickly rose to 140 billion pounds per year.

While after the Second World War the United States considered communist nations, particularly the Soviet Union, to be the ideological enemy to defeat, our country is now more concerned impact of far - right organizations and especially Islamic radicals.

Given the current state of global tensions, at their most intense since the period leading up to the Second World War, one might hope that the filmmaker would make an honest attempt to explore the Pandora's box of Zamperini's story, which involves, after all, some of the major events of the 20th century and some of the major powers.

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.

Lancaster, Typhoon, Hurricane — Jonathan Wood looks at the first models produced by Armstrong Siddeley after the Second World War / Alfa Romeo 6C — Douglas Blain encounters a recreation of one of a handful of short chassis 6C 256 Alfa Romeos prepared for racing just before World War Two / Porsche's Magnificent Mixtes — At a time when early automotive technology was in a state of flux, Ferdinand Porsche dared to use electricity to transmit power from engine to wheels.

The plaintiff, a descendent of collector and dealer Jacques Goudstikker, maintains that the works were stolen from his family by the Nazis during the Second World War, after which they became the property of the Dutch state.

After the horrors that Europe experienced during the Second World War, in the coming years (particularly in the beginning of the 1950s), a strong sense of optimism began to characterize the Western Europe societies, but also the United States.

After the second world war, when the UK was facing financial bankruptcy, politicians showed courage, vision and leadership and created the modern welfare state which despite its difficulties, is still the envy of the world.