In World War I and World War II, it strongarmed the Fed to print Federal Reserve Notes.
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.
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.
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.
As well as film roles in Thor and The Avengers, the 32-year-old played Captain Nicholls in Steven Spielberg's World War I film War Horse in 2011.
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).
World War I is a war of empires which comes to its culmination point when a state gets into it.
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The classic example is Germany after World War I, where onerous war reparations helped give rise to Hitler and the Nazis.
During World War I, the building was used as a hospital and during World War II it was an army headquarters.
It happened in 1921, after World War I as the government cancelled orders for war materials.
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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.
This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
But as Wilson learned from the outbreak of World War I, the struggle for colonies had precipitated a savage and destructive war between the imperial powers themselves.
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.
Coupled with World War I and the Great Depression, the effects of this "30-year war" went well beyond physical destruction.
Winston Churchill contributed to a 1931 collection of essays called "If It Had Happened Otherwise" with an entry envisioning how World War I might have been avoided if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.
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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But it was a few years later, walking through the vineyards just north of Epernay in the Marne Valley, that I became aware of the historical significance of a landscape that saw the destruction of thousands of young men in World War I.
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.
World War I transformed the Middle East in ways it had not seen for centuries.
During World War I the pavilion was used as a hospital for US Navy sailors.
Despite their earlier teamwork in inventing Cubism, Picasso had openly rebuffed Braque after World War I.
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The League of Nations, precursor to the UN, was created after World War I.
Archduke Ferdinand, the guy who was shot and ended up being World War I.
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