Sentences with phrase «world wars»

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.

This lessens the risk from world wars.

Seven years on, their collective real debt is the highest recorded since the 1830s — even higher than the peaks reached to finance the first and second World Wars.

Helmut Kohl's father and elder brother had died in France in the world wars, and he was suspicious of Germany's aptitude for self - government if not cosseted in a close alliance with responsible countries.

But apart from the two World Wars, which claimed the lives of seven million German servicemen, the country also has veterans from the 300,000 troops sent into wars in Afghanistan, the Gulf, and Kosovo, among others, according to the Daily Mail.

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

They include a couple of World Wars.

It was bombed heavily during two world wars and saw its massive colonial empire collapse.

For context, I had lunch with the greatest leader in America the other day, Frances Hesselbein, and asked her about World War 2.

During World War II, employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard peaked at 70,000 workers, who turned out all kinds of vessels, including battleships.

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 reminds Paul Krugman of the aftermath of the First World War, when the victors sought to punish the vanquished, and were unmoved as it became evident their demands for reparations had crossed the line of economic reason.

«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.

There have been quite a few apocalyptic - themed movies released lately, from «This Is The End» to «World War Z» to «Rapture - Palooza.»

He was the father of Toyota's manufacturing system, when Toyota was starting after World War II up to the early to mid-Twentieth Century.

Although World War I did not deliver on its promise to be the «war to end all wars,» its conclusion on November 11, 1918, has been celebrated around the globe as Armistice Day.

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.

The phrase originated as a slogan in the spring before World War II.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce, The Open University has created a collection of images from throughout World War I of soldiers participating in friendly games of soccer.

World War I, which ended 99 years ago on Saturday, took the lives of about 40 million people and is considered by many to be the first total, industrial war.

After Rotterdam was bombed during the second world war, the city made an active effort to address social division.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

That led to more films, including Def - Con 4, the story of three astronauts who survive World War III in space, before returning to war - ravaged Earth.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

After World War II, American companies «pretty much had the world to themselves,» Sylla says.

The scene Tarantino refers to is the very first one of his brutal World War II epic.

One of the most important social trends since World War II is the percentage of working age women in the workforce, which has doubled in the last 50 years.

The time change report confirmed news from South Korean officials on Sunday that Kim pledged to scrap the northern time zone, which was created in 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule after World War Two.

There's no election for leadership of the «liberal world order» — the U.S. - constructed system of laws and values underpinning American prosperity since World War II.

In his early 20s, he served in the U.S. army working in counterintelligence in Japan after the Second World War.

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

The current refugee crisis in the Middle East is the worst since World War II.

If you look back at when those policies were borne, it was when men were coming back from World War II.

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

Patton, who commanded the US's 7th Army in Europe and the Mediterranean during World War II, is perhaps just as well known for his amazing insight into what makes for excellent and successful leadership.

After World War II, almost 50 percent of returning veterans started businesses.

Financially wrecked following the First World War, Weimar Germany printed huge volumes of marks to cover its expenses, resulting in hyperinflation on a massive scale.

The World War II - era German dictator, however, famously did use chemical weapons in gas chambers to exterminate millions of Jewish people, LGBTQ people, and others in Eastern Europe.

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

A change that would make Buffett hopeful for women in the workforce took place soon after: Following World War II, women's participation in the U.S. labor force rose from 32.7 percent in 1948 to 56.8 percent in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

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.

Gary is the author of Playing With The Enemy, the story of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of his off and on minor league baseball career with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In Arrival, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, an expert linguist tasked with communicating with aliens who land on Earth, to figure out what they want before their presence kickstarts World War III.

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.

During World War II, the Army Air Corps developed its own test to distinguish potential fighter and bomber pilots.

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.

Lucasfilm used GoPro cameras for the upcoming film Red Tails, about World War II pilots, and countless Discovery Channel productions and news shows use the cameras to film wildlife, rescues, and storms.