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'Millions like us'? : British culture in the Second World War /
Book by Nick Hayes, Jeff Hill; Liverpool University Press, 1999
Subjects: Great Britain--Civilization--20th Century, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945, Popular Culture--Great Britain--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Social Aspects--Great Britain
...Audience, 1939 1945 Sian Nicholas...During the Second World War Michael Bromley...Music in Wartime Britain Robert Mackay...111 9 The social security balance...and Propaganda, 1939 1945 1998 , and...extensively on aspects of labour and...remarked on the great improvement in...in Wartime, 1939 1945, Twentieth Century...texts Battle of Britain, Bomber Command...in War Culture: Social Change and Changing...arose from wartime life. Arts enthusiasts...Blitz provided a great opening for encouraging...mood in wartime Britain, in The Attlee...Addison, The Road to 1945: British Politics...feeling became, to a great extent, the pervasive ideals of social life: whether or not...
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Half the Battle: Civilian Morale in Britain during the Second World War
Book by Robert Mackay; Manchester University Press, 2002
Subjects: Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain, World War, 1939-1945--Social Aspects--Great Britain
...Ziegler, London at War 1939 1945 (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), pp. 163, 340. 27 M. Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Poplar...otherwise was demonstrated by the social upheavals and collapse of the...were greatly superior to those of 1918. 2 In a number of war theatres...devastating effect on civilian life and property. Finally, in 1937...organization of the fire brigades of Great Britain, recalled: The brightest...intensity and location until early 1945. Evacuation, therefore, remained...bundle of stresses that marked life on the home front. Large though...84 per cent were confident that Britain would win. 9 Of all the...court. The blackouts effect on social life was significant, especially...overcrowding and curtailment of social life constituted one of the more depressing...no attempt was made to set out Britains war aims in a comprehensible...
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The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War
Book by Peter L. Hahn; University of North Carolina Press, 1991
Subjects: Cold War, Egypt--Foreign Relations--United States, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, United States--Foreign Relations--1953-1961, United States--Foreign Relations--Egypt, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain
...defence of which is a matter of life and death to the British Empire...states, reform them economically and socially, and enlist them in regional defense...British defense plans. In December 1945, Egypt asked Britain to negotiate revision of the 1936...that there would "not be any too great difficulty" in revising the treaty...for itself its relations with Great Britain and with Egypt." 54 Cairo, however...United States support against Great Britain over the Sudan question or to play...
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The Test of War: Inside Britain, 1939-45
Book by Robert Mackay; UCL Press, 1999
Subjects: Great Britain--History--George Vi, 1936-1952, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain
...book. Since any book about the Second World War is by definition potentially global...its confinement to the home front in Britain. During the course of the war Britains...book is not primarily concerned with social change and the role of the war in that...when Britain went to war in September 1939, it was, as in 1914, a result of her...had deteriorated with the onset of the Great Depression and the resort by states...drive to victory, June 1944 to August 1945. The Phoney War, September 1939...
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Great Britain: Decline or Renewal?
Book by Donley T. Studlar; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century, Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century, Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century
...social changes with politics. Notes 1. William L. Miller, Electoral Dynamics in Britain Since 1918 London: Macmillan, 1983 . 2. Richard Rose, Governing Without Consensus Boston: Beacon Press, 1969 . 3. Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers New York: Random House, 1987 . 4. Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Boston: Beacon Press, 1967 . 5. Moore, Social Origins...University Press, 1981 . 7. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers ; Stephen Blank, "Britain: The Politics of Foreign Economic Policy, the Domestic Economy, and the Problem of Pluralistic Stagnation:" International...it is very flexible. Aided by an ongoing government obsession with secrecy and confidentiality, what are called "customs" and "conventions" change and often go unnoticed from outside until some enterprising journalist, academic, or...
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Opposition to Internment: Defending Japanese American Rights during World War II
Journal article by Robert Shaffer; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Andrews, Emery--Conduct of life, Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...the end of 1945, when he accused the War Relocation Authority of abdicating...Japanese students in California in 1939, traveled on a fact-finding mission...the iconoclastic Japanese pacifist, socialist, evangelical Christian leader Kagawa...about race, religion, economics, and world politics. One minister said that Kagawa...Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis, The Great Betrayah The Evacuation of the Japanese...Schmoe, "Wartime Activities, 1940-1945," typescript, all in box 1, Floyd...George Bikle Jr., The New Jerusalem: Aspects of Utopianism in the Thought of Kagawa...Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941-1945...
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Tin Pan Alley on the March: Popular Music, World War II, and the Quest for a Great War Song
Journal article by John C. Hajduk; Popular Music and Society, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Music and war, Music and war--History, National music, National music--History, Patriotic music, Patriotic music--History, Popular music, Popular music--History, War songs--History, War-songs, War-songs--History, World War II, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...and composers were urged to create war songs to rival those produced during World War I. Groups like New Yorks National...Millers Army Air Force Band--achieved great popularity performing music that appealed...opportunity to reassert the sort of social and cultural guardianship ASCAP often...Incorporated (BMI) was created in 1939 to challenge ASCAPs near monopoly on...especially true as the promotional aspects of the music industry adapted to the...air raid shelters ("Music in War-Time Britain"). (4.) The details and implications...
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Wacky Times: An Analysis of the WAC in World War II and Its Effects on Women
Journal article by Jennifer Nichol Stewart; International Social Science Review, 2000
Subjects: Feminism--History, Women in war--Social aspects, Women military personnel--History, World War, 1939-1945--Women
...article notes that, "As in Russia and Great Britain women workers are here proving as efficient...Hitler found women necessary to the war effort -- and not indirectly, for sexual...that side would lose."(8) Thus, this world war, this total commitment to victory...needs of this war were mowing down the social standards that stood in their way. But...out as a kind of anomaly. We pinpoint 1945 as a year when everything changed. I...
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Hungary's Relationship with Poland and Its Refugees during World War II
Journal article by Judith Fai-Podlipnik; East European Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Ethnic relations--History, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, International relations--History, Poland--History, Refugees--History, Society--History, War and society--History, Wars--History, World War II, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...for none were available during the war. Moreover, the instructors received...Horthy did engage with Jews in certain social activities, for example he frequently...the Poles realized that they were in great danger. They had lost their rights as...each and every one of them. In April 1945 the war ended in Hungary. Thus, began...their ordeal, which began in September 1939, the Poles encountered a variety of...portion of Hungarys land and peoples after World War II. Thus the Magyars were alone...Fight: The Story of Emil Brigg (Great Britain: George G. Hanrap Co., Ltd., 1972...
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'International Orphans' - the Chinese in Thailand during World War II
Journal article by E. Bruce Reynolds; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Armed forces in foreign countries, Japanese--History, Chinese in Thailand--History, Refugees--China, Thailand--Social aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
...but also served as an interpreter at social gatherings involving Chinese leaders...Japanese budget proposal, for fiscal 1945, would total 250,000 yen.(21) Faced...government during the early months of the war. For example, the organization assisted...Communist Party had been organized in 1939 by Chinese Communist agents who also...41) The Chinese in Thailand During World War H 377 Chang Lan-chen, who had...object of the excellent propaganda of Great Britain, the United States and Chungking. Their...
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The Audit of War: What Was the British Empire's Contribution to the Victory in the Second World War? What Was the Impact of War upon the Empire? A.J. Stockwell Explores the Interlocking Questions of the Costs of War and Empire
Magazine article by A.J. Stockwell; History Today, Vol. 56, March 2006
Subjects: British Empire, ca. 1600-1970, British foreign relations--History, Recruiting and enlistment--History, United Kingdom. Armed Forces--History, World War II, 1939-1945
...divided over the empires importance for Britain. Were colonies like millstones or...claim that pax Britannica made the world a safer place, others regarded imperialism...Britain emerged from the Seven Years War (1756-63) with a new empire in Asia...them. During the world conflict of 1939-45 this febrile relationship between...have called into question too many aspects of grand strategy. Consequently, the...from home. Like British servicemen in 1945, they would return from the front...ruled in the economic development, social welfare and eventual self-government...1945 (London, 2004); David Day, The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the...
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Filming the First World War: Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan Point out the Daunting Challenges and Exciting Opportunities Involved in Producing a New Major TV Series
Magazine article by Jonathan Lewis, Hew Strachan; History Today, Vol. 53, October 2003
Subjects: Documentary films, Filmmakers--Attitudes, Lewis, Jonathan--Attitudes, Strachan, Hew--Attitudes, War films, War in motion pictures, World War I, 1939-1945--International aspects
...have guessed that, if we did this, the war would come through as forcefully as...power of the archive film of the First World War lies in its ability to shock us...back to a pioneering BBC series, The Great War, made in 1964. The Imperial War...traderstanding of the war, especially here in Britain. Secondly, we now see the war in terms...the same time it has integrated the social and economic dimensions of the war...were they aware of what would follow in 1939-45. It is of course impossible to understand...
3.
Allies on the Airwaves
Magazine article by Patrick Morley; History Today, Vol. 49, January 1999
Subjects: British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.--History, Radio broadcasting--History, United States. American Forces Radio and Television Service--History, World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...wartime radio network for US troops in Britain in 1943 provoked a fierce reaction from...Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War have been extensively chronicled. Mostly...That opined that it must refer to `a great big hulk of a woman. The BBC official...our British allies. By the summer of 1945 the war in Europe was over. AFN prepared...
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That Summer of '41
Magazine article by Jeffrey Hart; National Review, Vol. 43, December 16, 1991
Subjects: 1940s (Decade)--Appreciation, Baseball (Professional)--Appreciation, Japan, Japanese foreign relations--United States, Neutrality--Social aspects, Professional baseball--Appreciation, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--International relations, United States, United States foreign relations--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...THE summer of 1941 France had fallen, Britain was losing the naval war, and, late in June, the war had taken...Among the men already drafted was the great Detroit Tiger slugger Hank Greenberg...Kaiser in Holland just after the end of World War I-had put together a baseball gem...
5.
1939-45 Books: A Round-Up of the Latest History Titles Marking the 50th Anniversary of the End of the War in Europe
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 45, May 1995
Subjects: Books--Criticism, interpretation, etc., History--Bibliography, World War, 1939-1945--Bibliography
...country. Some accounts date from the Great War, but the bulk of the book is devoted to participants in the Second World War. In similar vein, Heroes of World...for his men to his less appealing aspects of vanity and pettiness. Autobiographical...Zieglers recently published London at War 1939-1945 (Sinclair Stevenson, 20pounds). Ziegler...an evaluation of the political, social and cultural characteristics of this...In the event, the only part of Britain to be occupied by Germany was off...
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Untangling the Origins of WWI; in Early 1914, Tensions Simmered beneath Europe's Outward Calm
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 21, 2004
...TIMES To the citizens of the Western world in the vibrant years of a new century, war seemed unlikely. The Great Powers had been at peace for nearly 50...competition between Germany and Great Britain. "Internally the powers were victims of violent social, industrial, and political strife; and...
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Quarterly Worth the Wait: Also, Focus on China, a Hollywood Frame of Mind
Newspaper article by Cynthia Grenier; The Washington Times, March 23, 1996
...States has known three great cycles in its foreign...strategy for coping with the world around us. Mr. Kurth...by the end of the Cold War it had become the grandest...States, but in Great Britain and Australia as well...Report is a must in your life: exclusive rankings of...with Jewish Family Life! via the 800 number we...
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So How Do You Define What It Means to Be British?
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 29, 2007
...agreed name. Is it England, Britain, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, the British Isles...therefore that the latest British Social Attitudes survey reports people...moment, goes back to a pre-Roman world where the whole country was...is linked with the so-called war on terror. Most of us dont...specialising in community and social affairs topics. Previous columns...
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Victorian Children's Books Gain Latter-Day Following
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FDR the Colossus; Wartime Leader Shaped America, Changed World
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 28, 2003
Subjects: Black, Conrad, Roosevelt, Franklin D., Roosevelt, Theodore
...Wartime leader shaped America, changed world. Byline: Michael P. Riccards, SPECIAL...childhood; it contrasts with the other great president, Abraham Lincoln, who was associated...latter cast aspersions on him in World War I when he was covering for Woodrow Wilson...States an arsenal of democracy for both Britain and Russia. Fifth, he created the circumstances...
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...parliaments. History Various aspects of the early, medieval, and early...Cologne to Regensburg. In a series of great migrations (4th 5th cent.) the German...Anglo-Saxons had established themselves in Britain, and the Franks had taken over...unrest were reflected in the Peasants War (1524 26) and in the unsuccessful...notably Prussia, to accept long-needed social, political, and administrative reforms...welfare legislation throughout the world. A master of foreign policy, Bismarck...Hitler had limited aims. In Mar., 1939, Germany marched into Czechoslovakia...Germany for forced labor. By early 1945, Germany was being invaded from the...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...by which the state could promote economic recovery and social welfare. Opponents of these measures argued that they...1940, the support of the United States for beleaguered Britain became more overt. In Mar., 1941, lend-lease aid was...defense was enlarged, and the United States drew closer to Great Britain with the issuance of the Atlantic Charter...brought unprecedented government intervention into national life. Rationing, price controls, and other devices were instituted...United Nations . After Roosevelts sudden death in Apr., 1945, Harry S. Truman became President. A month later the...withdrawal deadlines. Related Articles There are a great number of articles on Americans of major importance, on...Nine Nations of North America (1981) and Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991); J. J. Ellis, Founding Brothers...
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