• Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.

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  • The U.S. government has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.

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  • The life expectancy for the average Japanese by the end of the second world war was 47 years about the same as it had been a century earlier.

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  • Nor should this war mark the beginning of the end of the multilateral system that has been evolving since the end of World War II.

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  • U.S. intelligence agencies estimated that the 2006 North Korean test produced a blast equivalent to less than 1, 000 tons of TNT, a fraction of the size of the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.

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  • The United States has officially expressed its view that upon the extinction of a State, its bilateral political treaties automatically lapse, and has acted in accordance with that view in connection with the extinction of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898, the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, and the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992.

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  • Undeniably, America's economic prosperity depends primarily on a strong and large middle class growing from the bottom up, and for the 30 years following the end of the World War II, business, labor and government leaders commonly understood this and committed themselves to such an outcome.

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  • The country was born out of struggle - the struggle to maintain some kind of territorial integrity at the end of World War I as the Allies decided to carve up Anatolia and walk away with it themselves.

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  • The controversial vote also comes only weeks before the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

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  • For example, if the Soviet Union had signed a treaty agreeing to sell back to Japan the portion of the Kurile Islands it seized at the end of World War II, that treaty would automatically be binding on Russia and Japan.

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  • Lawrence (or, as he is better known, Lawrence of Arabia) led the revolt against the Ottoman Army occupying Arabia near the end of the First World War.

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  • For the fist time since the end of the Second World War, Europe has become a minor or even a non-issue for the two candidates.

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  • You have deficits that fall consistently well below the 3 percent target that economists have said is economically important, and you have the largest reduction in the deficit since the end of World War II, when we had massive demobilization in the wake of that war.

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  • There have been severe delays in all 12 cities chosen to stage matches, particularly in the construction of stadiums and upgrading of airports, most of which were built before the end of World War II and have reached saturation point in terms of the volume of passengers flying to and from the country.

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  • W. Brands, a prolific author and teacher at the University of Texas, is a different sort of history: a clear, broad summary of events at home and abroad from the end of the second world war to the election of Barack Obama.

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  • Japan's aggressive embrace of antimissile defenses is forcing the nation to undergo the most wrenching revamp of its military posture since the end of World War II.

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  • On the other sides, they show maps of Europe near the end of World War II, ripped by arrows representing the millions of men in armed divisions battling each other over diametrically opposed visions of what the future of Europe should be.

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  • The fourth major transition is the respite from major interstate war that we have seen since the end of World War II.

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  • In Switzerland the German, French and Italian communities have lived peaceably side by side for more than seven centuries, while in the rest of Europe the three groups fought one another incessantly until the end of World War II.

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  • The signing of the Armistice 90 years ago marked the end of World War I, but Remembrance Day also recognises those who have died in conflicts since.

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  • And Western Europe needed a U.S. presence against the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War.

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  • The killings occurred in and around the Istrian peninsula, which fell to Italy at the end of the first world war but was lost to Yugoslavia after the second.

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  • Why make one of the largest physical transfers of gold bullion since the end of World War II?

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  • Concorde was an engineer's delight: it took the jet-bomber technologies that had evolved at the end of the second world war and pushed them to the frontiers of the possible, or indeed beyond the frontiers, given that the aircraft's initial prototype could not have crossed the Atlantic with a full passenger load.

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  • The event, which is part of the East End Film Festival, will also screen archive footage of street parties from the end of World War I to the present.

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  • And that is the largest reduction in the deficit since the end of World War II.

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  • When he personally helped the Allies create institutions like the World Bank, at the end of World War II, he was trying to make sure we wouldn't get into such a mess again.

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  • The titanic battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union's Red Army for the city at the end of World War II left the city in ruins.

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  • He believes that the growth of American power since the end of the cold war means that anybody who wants to change the world for the better can do so only with American assent.

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