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This involvement changed the course of the war and directly affected children's daily life, education, and family structures in the United States. [6] The home front saw a systematic mobilization of the entire population and the entire economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, munitions, and money needed to win the war.
Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, and Frans Coetzee, eds. World War One and European Society (1995). Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, and Frans Coetzee, eds. World War I: A History in Documents (2002) [ISBN missing] New International Year Book 1913 Comprehensive coverage of world affairs; strong on economics; 867pp; New International Year Book 1914, 913pp
Leopold III (1901–1983) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin.As a prince, Leopold, Duke of Brabant, fought as a private during World War I with the 12th Belgian Regiment while still a teenager, but was sent by his father to Eton College in the United Kingdom, in 1915.
The Eye of Françoise and Alfred Brauner ", showcased a selection of children's drawings from the exceptional "Alfred and Françoise Brauner" Collection of children's drawings in wartime from 1902 to 2001 (including the World War I, the Spanish Civil War, the World War II, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Algerian War, the Lebanese Civil ...
The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...
The Economics of the Wartime Shortage: A History of British Food Supplies in the Napoleonic War and in World Wars I and II (1963) McVey, Frank LeRond. The financial history of Great Britain, 1914–1918 (1927) full text online; Pollard, Sidney. The development of the British economy, 1914–1967 ( 2nd ed. 1969) pp 42–91; Skidelsky, Robert.
World War I affected children in the United States through several social and economic changes in the school curriculum and through shifts in parental relationships. For example, a number of fathers and brothers entered the war, and many were subsequently maimed in action or killed, causing many children to be brought up by single mothers. [ 61 ]
German police shooting women and children outside the Mizocz Ghetto, 14 October 1942. The Holocaust was accomplished in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave laborers and murdered through over-work.