More than sixty countries were on the gold standard in the decades before War World I.
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The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.
In World War I and World War II, it strongarmed the Fed to print Federal Reserve Notes.
And the generation that devised and presided over those tribunals had, in turn, been shaped by a much different experience in dealing with German war criminals after World War I.
The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam, 1917, depicts Fifth Avenue in New York City adorned with flags and banners in support of the Allied war effort during World War I.
In new memorial stones on the Celtic cross list the full names of the men who died in both World War I and World War II, and includes an additional four names that were missed by the original plaque that was unveiled back in 1953.
It took World War II to change the worldwide view that the Great War of 1914-1918 was actually World War I.
He is remembered on the war memorial dedicated to missing World War I soldiers at Thiepval in the Picardie region of France.
Around 80% of the ship is original and it has what are thought to be the only surviving in-situ World War I turbines in the world.
Most economists accept that post-World War I austerity probably led to World War II.
It happened after World War I and it happened after World War II.
The purpose was to reduce the risk of surprise attack, accidental war or war by momentum, such as World War I.
Blacks had fought with distinction in the Spanish-American War and would enlist en masse during World War I.
Next year marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I and events are being held across the world to remember those who died.
One of the stories about war that has always haunted me is that of World War I soldiers fighting and dying as the clock ticked down to the war's end.
The ancient battle, Gandalf believes, is not over, but temporarily dormant, like the illusion of peace between World War I (in which Tolkien served) and World War II (during which the Lord of the Rings was written).
During World War I, the building was used as a hospital and during World War II it was an army headquarters.
World War I turned Wilson not only against German militarism but against the structure of world politics and economics that the imperial struggle for colonies had sustained.
May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
Proving yet again that war is the health of the state, Congress raised the top rate to 77 percent during World War I.
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Scotland's war memorials are to be cleaned and restored to help mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I.
Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been the widely recognized leaders of the Islamic world.
Wilson failed to get either the other victors from World War I or the Republican-controlled Senate in the United States to agree to his plan for a new world order.
Both were junior officers: Truman was an artillery captain in World War I (and by all accounts a very good officer), and LBJ served in the Navy during World War II.
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With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I ace, bravely founded Eastern Airlines in the late 1930s.
Post World War I America was captivated by the daring of men like Charles Lindbergh and Richard Peary.
Construction stopped when the late Mr. de Guigne served in World War I and then continued.
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In the years leading up to World War I, Hubbard became more of a pacifist.
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