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Aunt Ethel's War - A collection of World War 2 Political Cartoons. At the beginning of World War II, Ethel Snoddy began clipping political cartoons from newspapers. She did this for five years in five large photo albums, one for each of the war years 1941 through 1945.
This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries. Open Clip Art – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
An appeal to self-interest during World War II, by the United States Office of War Information (restored by Yann) Wait for Me, Daddy , by Claude P. Dettloff (restored by Yann ) Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at Auschwitz Album , by the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst (restored by Yann )
The rise of nationalism in Europe was stimulated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] American political science professor Leon Baradat has argued that “nationalism calls on people to identify with the interests of their national group and to support the creation of a state – a nation-state – to support those ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...
Colonel Rémy, who was a nationalist militant before the Second World War, [5] rejected the Armistice of June 22, 1940 from the start and joined the resistance from the appeal of June 18, 1940. He was among the first to join General de Gaulle and would form the resistance movement Confrérie Notre-Dame , a network of right-wing French Catholics.
Media in category "World War II images" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. A Daily News headline dated August 7, 1945 featuring the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.jpg 274 × 364; 23 KB
The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany made by Britain and France , but many other prior events have been suggested as ultimate causes.