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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.
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.
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 ...
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 )
World War II led to unprecedented nationalism in the United States. After the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor , many Americans enlisted in the military. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] During the war, much of American life centered on contributing to the war effort, mainly through volunteer efforts, entry into the labor force, rationing , price controls , and income ...
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.
With the introduction of compulsory military service in 1935, the Reichswehr, which had been limited to 100,000 by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, expanded to 750,000 on active service at the start of World War II, with a million more in the reserve. [264]
Film on the home-front during World War II, depicted the war uniting all levels of society, as in the two most popular films of the Nazi era, Die grosse Liebe and Wunschkonzert. [91] Failure to support the war was an anti-social act; this propaganda managed to bring arms production to a peak in 1944.