After World War

Problems after World War 1

Problems after World War 1

February 2, 2024
The Weimar Republic faced opposition from the outset in 1919, after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Economic hardship affected the whole…

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Immigration after World War 2

Immigration after World War 2

January 21, 2024
Although thousands of Jews had been admitted into the United States under the combined German-Austrian quota from 1938–1941, the US did not pursue…

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China after World War 2

China after World War 2

January 5, 2024
The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai, originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United…

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World War II and its Aftermath

World War II and its Aftermath

November 30, 2023
Hemingway and Kennedy: What s the Connection? When Mary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway s widow, chose to give her late husband s papers to the John…

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Berlin after World War 2

Berlin after World War 2

November 6, 2023
Germany 1945 On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin…

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Jews after World War 2

Jews after World War 2

September 15, 2023
In 1945, when Anglo-American and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes—testimony…

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After Second World War

After Second World War

April 7, 2023
Norwood Thomas with a photo of Joyce Morris at his home in Virginia Beach. Photograph: Bill Tiernan/AP A 93-year-old second world war veteran…

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Life in American after World War 2

Life in American after World War 2

December 24, 2022
At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one they had left four years earlier. Wartime…

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Women after World War II

Women after World War II

November 10, 2022
During World War II, women played a crucial role in America as their male counterparts were dispatched on multiple foreign fronts in the Atlantic…

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Europe after the First World War

Europe after the First World War

February 11, 2022
Professor David Stevenson explains how the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon and the Treaties of Neuilly and Sèvres…

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United States economy after World War 2

United States economy after World War 2

January 22, 2022
The decade following World War II is fondly remembered as a period of economic growth and cultural stability. America had won the war and defeated…

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Life in Germany after World War 2

Life in Germany after World War 2

September 19, 2021
In the introduction to his book, Savage Continent, Keith Lowe writes: Imagine a world without institutions. No governments. No school or universities…

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Russia after World War II

Russia after World War II

June 27, 2021
As part of our series of articles on how World War II changed forever the countries that fought it, Natalia Marshalkovich looks at the Soviet…

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World after Second World War

World after Second World War

June 3, 2021
At the end of the first world war it had been possible to contemplate going back to business as usual. However, 1945 was different, so different…

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France after WWII

France after WWII

May 30, 2021
In the latest in a series of articles on how World War II changed forever the countries that fought it, Vincent Coste looks at France, occupied…

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Osama bin Laden after death

Osama bin Laden after death

April 4, 2021
The death of Osama bin Laden was, for some, a full stop, America’s revenge for the 9/11 attacks and the end of the al-Qaeda story. But since…

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Genocide after World War 2

Genocide after World War 2

March 11, 2021
FOREWORD The original purpose of the 1948 “UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide” was to prevent recurrences of some of the…

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Music after World War II

Music after World War II

February 11, 2021
The 1940s were the apotheosis of American popular music. Swing, blues and country were all popular styles but, above all, it was the heyday of…

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World after nuclear War

World after nuclear War

December 9, 2020
Nuclear war Picture Alamy The words ‘World War 3’ trended on social media worldwide as tension rose over Turkey shooting down a Russian jet over…

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WWII Aftermath

WWII Aftermath

October 8, 2020
The Aftermath of World War II Chris Whitten, Webmaster The United States emerged from the war with global military commitments that included…

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England after World War II

England after World War II

September 10, 2020
The British defend their Empire in Asia from the Japanese and simultaneously defend England, Europe, Egypt and the Middle East against Hitler…

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