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The "kick" was the front pocket of a pair of trousers, believed to be the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion. [2] [3] One of the earliest recorded examples of a sidekick may be Enkidu, who played a sidekick role to Gilgamesh after they became allies in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
World War II was, in part, a continuation of the power struggle never fully resolved by World War I. Furthermore, it was common for Germans in the 1930s to justify acts of aggression due to perceived injustices imposed by the victors of World War I. [22] [23] [24] American historian William Rubinstein wrote that:
World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian dead from causes including genocide. The movement of large numbers of people was a major factor in the deadly Spanish flu pandemic.
A 1942 US War Production Board propaganda poster equates slacking in the workplace to desertion.. In the United States during World War I, the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service, equivalent to the later term "draft dodger".
A multimedia history of World War I; The Heritage of the Great War, Netherlands; Collection of World War I Color Photographs; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and the First World War; World War I : Soldiers Remembered Presented by the Washington State Library and Washington State Archives
As soon as the war began, the major nations issued "color books" containing documents (mostly from July 1914) that helped justify their actions.A color book is a collection of diplomatic correspondence and other official documents published by a government for educational or political reasons, and to promote the government position on current or past events.
The crisis seems comic—its obscure origin, the questions at stake, the conduct of the actors—all comic. The results were tragic. Tension between France and Germany and between Germany and England have been increased; the armaments race receive new impetus; the conviction that an early war was inevitable spread through the governing class of ...
Tommy Atkins Society British Second World War Reenactment Society in the UK, and winner of the Best Display Award at the Victory Show 2007 sponsored by the Armchair General Magazine "The last time I saw Tommy", illustrated poem by Joshua Quagmire; The Last Tommy—a campaign to mark the passing of the last First World War Tommy with a state ...