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    In the European theater of World War II, 1942 marked the dominance of the Axis powers. German forces in the Soviet Union had reached Stalingrad and threatened the oil fields of the Caucasus; Axis forces in Africa seemed on the verge of pushing the British out of Egypt; and German U-boat wolf packs preyed on Allied shipping with relative impunity [1]. Late in 1942, however, two significant Allied successes served to turn the tide against the Axis powers. At El Alamein, a British offensive defeated

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    Introduction. Now, Voyager is a 1942 melodramatic movie starring Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale, a depressed, overweight Bostonian spinster who transforms into a confident, independent woman. Charlotte has been dominated and repressed all of her life by her mother, Mrs. Henry Vale (Gladys Cooper). Eventually, Charlotte 's depression reaches a breaking point, and a nervous breakdown ensues. Renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), takes Charlotte to his sanitarium for treatment. After Charlotte’s

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    Japanese Americans were serving as spies for their mother country. As hysteria grew, eventually all persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, including those born in the United States, were forced into internment camps from the spring of 1942 till 1946. Japanese Americans were separated from their families, robbed of their livelihood, and denied their human rights. It took the United States government nearly 50 years to apologize for their wrongdoing and provided the surviving internees

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    May 1942, We are currently fighting the Japanese at the Coral Sea; everyone is fighting as hard as they can to live. Here in the jungle I can hear the gun fire coming at us and hitting our boat. I saw one of my mates get shot in the arm and then his face while he was on the floor, I felt terrible because I couldn’t help him. Although we kept on moving forward trying to defeat the Japanese in this atrocious war. In the end they managed to sink a few of our ships and take on our army to defeat us

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    Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 was a ratification of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1941. The treaty was signed on May 26, 1942. The treaty was signed by Great Britain, Ireland, India, the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty 's main purpose was to protect each country involved the treaty against Germany. According to “Twenty-Year Mutual Assistance Agreement Between the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : May 26, 1942” Since the Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 is a ratification

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    1940 Religion In 1940

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    establish will never live to enter into blessings and glories." {TNWD 10} [All Society literature now published anonymously, after embarrassing disclosures in Court over the credentials, capabilities, competence and identity of some editors/authors] 1942 "The Lord Jesus has now come to the temple for judgment, and the remnant of the members of 'his body' yet on earth he has gathered into the temple condition of perfect unity with himself (Malachi 3:1-3), and hence those faithful men of old may be expected

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    inferiority because they cannot give birth to children.” (Horney 1942). At the International Congress held in Berlin in 1922, Horney issued her first challenge to Freudian theory “The Genesis of the Castration Complex in Women.” In her writings she urged against Freud’s theory of penis envy that, “what women chiefly envy is male privilege and what they need is greater opportunity to develop their human capacities.” (Horney, 1942). This speech was the catalyst in the growing gap between Horney’s

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    When I write I shake off all my cares. But will I ever be able to write something great?” wrote Anne Frank. Anne received a red and white checkered diary from her mom and dad on her 13th birthday. Little did she know what she wrote in it would change the way people thought of her and looked at the world. Anne was 13 when she went into hiding. There were many reasons why. One of the main reasons was Margot ( Anne sister) got a deportation notice for a labor camp. They left almost immediately the

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    Curtin stood up to Churchill and demanded in the politest possible way to have our troops returned in order to defend Australia (23rd February 1942) and the English Prime Minister eventually conceded but it was too late. Our faith in the British had been shattered. Although Australia’s relationship with the British was weakened as the result of actions during WW2 our relationship with the

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    Battle of Stalingrad took place in the Soviet Union near the Volga River between July 17, 1942 and February 2, 1943. The Soviet Union army at the battle of Stalingrad consisted of 1,000,500 men, 13,541 artillery guns, 894 tanks, and 1115 planes. The German military consisted of 1,011,500 men, 10,290 artillery guns, 675 tanks, and 1216 planes. The German military (Nazi) bombed Stalingrad on June 22, 1942 in hopes to gain more power and eventually be a dictator over all of the world. The Battle

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