After the War

BRITAIN AFTER 1945: RECONSTRUCTION The signature of Lend-Lease agreement with the USA, which agreed to lend some money to the British government which sort of opened an English credit in order to finance the war. This agreement meant that one day the British government would have to repay the money. The war officially ended on 8th may 1945 and the following week the Americans sent the bill. The British government was in a very awkward position as the coffers were almost empty. Nevertheless, the government

Post-war politics : The allies’ forces defeated Japan and the whole political system was changed after 1945 with the implementation of a new constitution, a new fundamental law. This new fundamental law is really a turning point for Japan → the new Japan. Turning point on 1945: implementation of democracy as a ruling political system. Before it used to be an imperialist regime. By the end of the 30’s the imperialist regime was also a military regime. The turning point of 1945 is about the implementation

Society at War 1939-1945 Course plan: This course will deal with events leading up to the Second World War with emphasis being laid on the so-called “guilty men”. They apparently bear the responsibility for letting the quest for peace be transformed into excessive appeasement policies. During the course of the war, the political tide was to gradually turn giving Labour a distinct advantage and far more leeway to introduce the sort of social reforms they had been hankering after since 1906

Essay: Why did the Truman administration decide to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945? “I had made the decision," wrote Truman in 1955 about the drop of the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. During a meeting with Anthony Eden, about one month after becoming president, he said: “I am here to make decisions, and whether they prove right or wrong I am going to make them”[1]. That is why as well, Truman titled his first part of his memoirs, “Years of Decisions, 1945”. Truman had a strong conviction

continued his education at the English School in Cairo . While in Cairo , he was close to his cousin Henri Curirel , who was later to become a prominent member of the Communist Party of Egypt . In 1991 Blake said that his encounter with Cureil , who was a decade older and already a communist , shaped his views in later life . When He returned to England , he worked for the Special Operation Executive Blake Said later that he switched sides during the Korean War after being greatly influenced

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INTRODUCTION The United States had emerged from the Second World War as a relatively unified, powerful and confident nation. Victory gave Americans a deep pride in the powers of their armed forces, in the productivity of their economy and in the strength of their ideals. America, Churchill said, «stands at this moment at the summit of the world». The US entered the postwar era as a creditor nation producing almost half of the world's manufactured goods with every indication of continuing technological

The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald, first published on April 10, 1925. F.S. Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) is one of the most famous American authors of what is called “The Lost Generation” of the Twenties. – Notably with E. Hemingway & G. Stein -, authors who lived in Paris after the First World War. This term has latterly been used as shorthand to designate groups of young people

432 Traditional date for the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland. 700-800 Irish monasticism reaches its zenith. 795 Full-scale Viking invasion. 1014 Brian Boru/ defeats Vikings at Clontarf, but is murdered. 1169 Dermot MacMurrough, exiled king of Leinster, invites help from 'Strongbow'. 1172 Pope decrees that Hery II of England is feudal lord of Ireland. 1366 Statues of Kilkenny belatedly forbid intermarriage of English and Irish. Gaelic culture unsuccessfully suppressed. 1534-40

REACTIONS TO THE VIETNAM WAR Few years after the French pulled out in 1954, the South government of Vietnam led by the anti-communist leader Diem seemed to be very close to fall to the Communist block. In fact, it had to face series of overthrow attempt launched by the north communist vietnam government. And when Diem died in a coup in 1963, it alarmed the US government which clearly feared an another spread of communism at that time. Because South East Asia was then clearly determined to follow