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    The Four Chaplains are four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other civilian and military personnel as the ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, during World War II. The four men name's are George Fox, Alexander Goode, Clark Poling, John Washington. They were significant because they would help keep the other men close to God. One of the chaplains is George Fox. George Fox was born March 15, 1900 in Pennsylvania. George was just 17 when he left school, and

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    proposed, it does contain indispensable statistics showcasing the economic and military might of the two most pertinent combatant nations in the Second World War in the timeframe of December of 1941 and July of 1943. Stalingrad and the Turning Point on the Soviet-German Front, 1941-1943 is partitioned into seven distinct chapters: Introduction; Background; Geography, Politics and National Will; The Economies of

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    taking place within the camp got back to the ghetto, so a group of mostly young people formed the Z. O. B. and was led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz. The plan was to resist entering the railroad cars. ("The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising") On April 19, 1943, Heinrich Himmler sent German troops to to gather survivors, when several hundred armed resistance members attacked them. The Germans were vastly better than the fighters, but the conflict continued for close to a month. On May

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    satire and it even shows a little political commentary coming from its original classic cartoon. Chicken Little was originally a old classic cartoon from the year of 1943, produced by Walt Disney during World War II. The two stories were a lot alike, except the 1943 Chicken Little wasn’t as “child friendly” as the 2005 edition. In 1943, the story was told as

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    high-profile for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes. At the meetings in Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945) and Potsdam (1945), the three major wartime powers, the United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union, agreed on punishing for those responsible for war crimes

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    The riots and increased tensions in Denmark called for some changes in its Nazi representatives. The Germans pressured the Danish government to remove Prime Minister Vilhelm Buhl, the Social Democrat who succeeded Thorvald Stauning, and installed the pro-German Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius in his place. The commander of the German military in Denmark, General Erich Ludke, was seen as too lenient and was replaced by General Hermann von Hanneken, whose job was to take a tougher stance on the Danish

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    The American Revolution has allowed our nation to grow and prosper. The founding fathers of this nation wanted to live in a country where the people could make decision for themselves. This paper explains what events led up to the revolution. One of the contributing factors, the multiple taxes that were imposed on the colonists. England was running out of money due to the war debt. They were protecting the colonies and the property they had claimed for themselves, from the French and the Native American

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    ZOB, led by Mordecai Anielewicz, managed to smuggle a supply of weapons from their captors (History.com, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). When the Germans suspended deportation from Warsaw, the resistance was believed to be a success. However, on April 19, 1943, the SS (Schutzstaffel) leader Heinrich Himmler sent in heavily armed forces and weapons to liquidate the ghetto (History.com, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). The resistance fought back valiantly for nearly a month. But by May 16, the ghetto was fully controlled

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    one daughter Mary Juliette, Married 2nd Anna Imelda Matthews October 19, 1968 Some of Huebner’s achievements were, “1st Lieutenant 1916, Captain 1917, Major (NA) 1918 Lieutenant Colonel 1938, Colonel (AUS) 1941, Brigadier General 1942, Major General 1943, Lieutenant General 1947, Instructor, Infantry School 1920-22, Student, Infantry School 1922-23, Student, Command & General Staff School 1924-25, Instructor, Infantry School 1925-28, Student, Army War College 1928-29, Instructor,

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    Art Of War By Sun Tzu

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    as a designed strategy. He claims, ‘To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy is the acme of skill.’ (Tzu, 1943, p. 79). This means that a well-designed strategy is to initiate the fuse with the enemy with a non-violent stunt like giving urine to the enemy instead of wine (Tzu, 1943, p. 79). This enrages them causing recklessly thinking and they make the first move to attack and the defendant can be prepared to weaken the attack and defence systems

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