After the War

known under the name of Anne Frank, was born in 1929 in Frankfurt am Main in the Weimar Germany. She lived the major part of her life in the Netherlands and died in 1945 in Nazi Germany. She was the second girl of Otto Heinrich Frank and Edith Hollander. Of Jewish German origin, at the age of 4, Anne Frank and her family left the Nazi Germany for Holland in 1933, during Hitler's coming to power. In 1940, Holland was occupied and in 1942 the regime Nazi ( Nazi regime ) imposed on the Jews to wear

post-war British politics The first period was led by the Labor Government from 1946 to 1951 whose Prime Minister was Clement Attlee. This government set up a certain number of policies based on Keynesianism and Welfare State. This post-war settlement put in place a system of full employment and a system of social services. Within this context, Attlee’s government undertook the nationalization of major industries and public utilities and the creation of the National Health Service. The Conservatives

Today's featured article The Battle of Towton was the "largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil". The engagement took place near the village of the same name in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461, a Palm Sunday. It was part of the series of civil wars—the Wars of the Roses—fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York. More than 50,000 soldiers were mustered for this battle. The reigning king of England, Henry VI, headed the Lancastrians, while the Yorkists were led by Edward IV, who

interpreted this poem for the first time in 1939 at the "cafe society" in New York. After the abolition of slavery and during the phase of reconstruction after the Civil War, racism is still deeply rooted in the United States of America. This poem is a poem in which strong words are used. A poem that aims to move the people listening. This poem is interpreted in a way as if the depressed singer cried. The poem speaks of a strange fruit that will start his life on a tree in the south, and then little

The United Kingdom of Great Britain The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located on the north-western coast of continental Europe. It is an archipelago including Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another country, wich is the Republic of Ireland. The UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel,

BARELY a generation ago, the two things that sprang to mind at the mention of Berlin would probably have been its infamous Wall and Liza Minnelli's frenetic turn as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. With so much of central Berlin flattened by Allied bombing during World War II, the city's post-war rehabilitation - both physical and psychological - has been a little difficult to say the least. After all, the city - split in two like Jekyll and Hyde - has long laboured under the seemingly impossible burden

THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR First part: the context. The attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. Naval Base on the island of Oahu, in the archipelago of the U.S. state of Hawaii in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, was launched by surprise on the morning of Sunday, December 7th 1941 by the Air Service Imperial Japanese Navy. Indeed, by the early 1930s, Japan planed to govern the whole East Asia. However, to achieve that it was necessary to prevent, or at least, restrict, the risk of opposition from American

Nylon was the first fiber to be synthesized from petrochemicals and became know as the « miracle fiber «  . Its inventor was american chemist Wallace Carothers of the dupont Comapany . Introduced in 1931 it was first called «  66 «  ? By 1938 Paul schlack a german chimist form the I.G . farben company , created a diferent from of the fiber jnown as nylon 6 . In 1941 british nylon INC . Began nylon 6 production in great britain . Invented two décades after rayon and acetate nylon opened

“Nationalisation is the centre piece of the socialist vision, an inevitable outcome of long standing debates within the labour party and of its rise to power” (Caincross 85 cited in Millward 97) This is one of the arguments for the programme of nationalisation in the UK. It is one of many suggested for the phenomena, which occurred in the late 40’s, and accounted for over 80% of the transfer of private industry to public ownership. This particular political argument centres on the idea that “Private

society ?” Mention of `the sixties' rouses strong emotions even in those who were already old when the sixties began and those who were not even born when the sixties ended. For some it is a golden age, for others a time when the old secure framework of morality, authority, and discipline disintegrated. We’re talking about a post-war society, which was influenced by the end of the World War II, during which the Nazis and associates were crushingly defeated by the Allies. The industrialized world,