During that war, Spain exported so much to the belligerents, without being able to buy in return, that it stacked up foreign exchange and turned it in for gold.
He was joined by crew members of a Navy gunboat he commanded during the that war.
There has also been persistent speculation by historians that during World War II, Pope Pius XII drew up a document stating that if he were to be kidnapped by the Nazis he was to be considered to have resigned, and a successor should be chosen.
During that time World War II military service was in practice a requirement for a Presidential candidate.
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But so many were dropped by Allied forces during the war that finding them all will still take years.
This tragic scene was the first of many memories I would collect during a war that would last nearly four years.
British leaders know they need to engage rhetorically to sustain public support during a war that promises to be long -- and, at least occasionally, unsuccessful.
Ms. SAMIRA ABUSAID (Theater-goer): It's about the war, and it's about things that happened during the war.
And they started that review after the war, during and after the war, and then somebody realized that the Iraqi side of the equation was really important in terms of getting a full picture of what was going on, so they then sent a team of researchers, four to five people, to begin interviewing captured Iraqi officials and going through all the documents.
Pacios proposed that Elizabeth had been living a free life in Hollywood during the war, and that the press had held her up as an example of what could happen to a woman who did not return to the home now that the war was over.
This is a town that was founded during World War II to supply metal for planes, for guns, for the arsenal of democracy that freed the world from tyranny.
During World War II, late-night clubs opened to entertain American servicemen on leave, a tradition that grew during the Vietnam War.
America was changed forever by women stepping up and doing that work during the war.
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He pointed out that during the Iraq war, business in Turkey boomed.
This anniversary also recalls that during the Cold War American spies, such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, stole atomic secrets and sent them to Moscow.
Kristensen says that during the Cold War, Japan faced a tough choice between seeking national security under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and telling the public the truth.
This intriguing book, written by a literature professor turned military historian, tells how the British and French convinced themselves during World War I that they were doing just fine on the battlefields.
We have recognized that the hostility that characterized US and Soviet relations during the Cold War has ended, hostility that was enshrined in the doctrine of mutual assured destruction and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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"Nobody can go find everything that was taken during the war, " Mr. Edsel said.
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In the 59 bombing raids that flattened Plymouth during World War II more than 1, 000 high explosives fell on the city.
At the beginning of that decade, during World War II, he was taken prisoner during the battle of El Alamein, and held for four years by the British.
It was after the bombing of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 that a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key penned the poem that would become our National Anthem.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
Former Ambassador to Gabon Joseph Wilson told NBC's "Meet the Press" he informed the CIA and the State Department that such information was false months before U.S. and British officials used it during the debate that led to war.
The signatories of the letter have expressed their concern over the damage and loss inflicted on the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and other museums, libraries and archives, the looting of archaeological sites, and the damage to historic monuments that took place during the war and subsequent occupation.
He compared that kind of nationwide upping of security to what happened during World War II, though without any indication that this was a war that could ever end.
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One problem with the movie is the fact that it takes place during World War II.
Everywhere I looked I saw the same hotel staff that we bonded with during the war.
But America lost its enthusiasm for that arrangement early during the Cold War.
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