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Post-World War II

2000
World War II was an even worse disaster for the world in terms of loss of life and material destruction than World War I. Many more people were killed as a result of the hostilities. The increased destructiveness of the weapons used, particularly those involved with aerial bombardment, caused far more damage to roads, railways, houses and factories.
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From the Great War to World War II

2018
Introduction This chapter offers an historical grounding in inter-war international relations. It tracks and analyses the progress of international relations in the period between World War I (1914–118) and World War II (1939–45), both of which are rightly seen as two major and formative conflicts in international history – and indeed for the study
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The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II

The Journal of Modern History, 1994
In any examination of the treatment afforded prisoners of war (POWs), the Second World War stands out both in terms of scale-approximately thirty-five million military personnel spent time in enemy hands between 1939 and 19451-and in terms of the sheer range of behavior exhibited by captor states. Depending on the nationality of both captive and captor
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World War II Hero

2021
In June 1940 President Roosevelt approved the request of Vannevar Bush to create the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC).
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World War II and the Korean War

2018
Astronomy played significant roles in many of the important battles in military history. The author’s previous book (Olson 2014) discussed examples from World War II, and this chapter presents new results for events from that war and also from the Korean conflict.
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World War II

1999
An all-encompassing book with more than a thousand quotations, this work breathes life into an era unprecedented in world history. Covering all aspects of the war, the volume includes more than 300 individuals from the Allies, the Axis, and the neutrals.
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Craniotomy at War Times. World War I and World War II

2019
Just after the development of the craniotomy as surgical approach to intracranial lesions at the end of the nineteenth century, this surgical technique was required for the management of thousands of traumatic head injuries in the most recent devastating wars, the First Great European War or World War I and World War II.
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World War II, Russo-German War

2012
The Russian-German War lasted from the German invasion of 22 June 1941 until 8 May 1945 and is often known by its Russian name as the “Great Fatherland (or ‘Patriotic’) War” (Velikaia Otechestvennaia voina). It was the largest military campaign ever fought, and the most costly in terms of human life. The outcome determined German defeat in World War II.
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World War II: Jews as Prisoners of War

1980
In regard to the treatment of Jewish prisoners of war, closer research is called for, because it is part of a far wider topic - the impact international law has had on Jewry's fate. With the exception of Jews of German nationality, or Austrian, all the Jews "processed" during the war had a claim (a) to be subject to the Rules of War on Land, it being ...
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An overview of real‐world data sources for oncology and considerations for research

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Lynne Penberthy, Donna R Rivera, Jennifer L Lund, Msph   +2 more
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