World War II

1930s to the 1940s he worked with Robert Piguet until being called up for military service. In 1942, having left the Army, Dior joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators. On 16 December 1946 Dior founded his own fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, the cotton-fabric magnate. The actual name of the line of his first collection

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

of the atomic bomb, creating a sense of a generalisation of horror. The play is set in a ‘shelter’ which can only evoke a situation of war or of post nuclear apocalypse, the comments on all that is gone is evocative of the nuclear annihilation. All the more so with the Cold War, which started just after the end of World War II and was at a peak in 1953, with the war in Korea. The victory of the allies over the threat of the destruction of civilisation by Hitler and what it meant in terms of the clarification

the humiliation of the civil war (1861-1865). After 1865 follow a period of reconstruction. During reconstruction, the federal government took measures to protect Black people but the southern states did not accept it. They were determined to “put the Black man in his place” with Jim Crow laws, segregation laws which were meant to preserve what they called “white supremacy”. * The Ante-bellum South Slavery was qualified as a “positive good” before the civil war, also presented as a peculiar

60 guilders. In 1664, the city was surrendered to the English and renamed "New York" after the English Duke of York and Albany. The area around New York City was the location for multiple battles of the American Revolutionary War, including the largest battle of the war: the Battle of Brooklyn. The British won and went on to occupy the city from September 1776 to late 1783. George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789 in front of Federal Hall

Terrorism Justly Michael Walzer Abstract This article is about the war on terror as an actual war and as police work – and then as something in between these two. The in-between space, where special forces operate, is critically important. We don’t have clear standards that apply to it, and we need to begin to think about what those standards might look like. Keywords: assassination, Elshtain, jus in bello, just war, peace, war on terror In 2002 Jean Bethke Elshtain wrote a book (published in

their first republic after the defeat of 1918. The second republic of Austria was promulgated just after the end of the World War II. Like a lot of other nations in Europe, Austria is a landlocked country: its populace is having no direct access to the sea. Once the core of power for the huge Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria's

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba and Caribbean Crisis in Russia) was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. The documents given are a map showing the location of Cuba and the range of the Cuban missiles, a photograph of Cuban missiles sites taken in October 1962, an extract of Robert Kennedy’s book, 13 Days describing events on Thursday 18th October, and a cartoon

Britain between the Wars 1918-1939 Politics during the inter-war years How was Britain governed in the inter-war period? In 1918, at the end of the First World War, Britain was still a constitutional monarchy, in so far that this form of government consisted in a balance between the monarch and the parliament. This “mixed” government had the advantage to respect the idea of democracy (rule of the people, for the people, by the people”) through the elections but meanwhile to prevent

I - mobilisation des états dans le cadre de la guerre II - le vécu des soldats III - l'organisation de la vie a l'arrière pour soutenir l'effort de guerre La notion de guerre totale qualifie un conflit armé qui mobilise toutes les ressources disponibles de l'État, sa population autant que l'économie, la politique et la justice. Elle ne concerne plus uniquement des objectifs militaires (Ziel) mais, souvent source d'union sacrée entre tous les partis politiques, elle cherche à atteindre