As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.
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.
These World War II veterans have traveled here to visit the National World War II Memorial, which honors the 16 million U.S. armed forces who served and the more than 400, 000 who died in battle.
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.
Our Nation continues to recover the remains of fallen heroes we lost in the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, and other conflicts.
Yet the world must remember that it was not simply international institutions -- not just treaties and declarations -- that brought stability to a post-World War II world.
Their float will have singers, flag bearers and representatives from every war since World War II - as well as photographs of members who were too frail to make the trip.
He continued to write novels, often based on his own wartime experiences throughout his life - perhaps most poignantly in his first book A Crowd is not Company, which took its lead from his experience as a German prisoner of war during World War II.
Indeed, economic thinkers of the World War II era understood that free trade was a growth-enhancing gift for promoting economic individual specialization and cooperation among global producers, and that a lack of unfettered trade in the 1930s arguably gave us the horror that was World War II.
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.
It was relied on greatly for the German war effort during World War II.
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Ms Coomaraswamy, special envoy for children in armed conflict, said no child had been prosecuted for a war crime since World War II.
In my day you went off to war: World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam to get your tuition money from the government.
The Supreme Court's decision in the case could be one of the most important on presidential war powers since World War II, or it could be a fizzle.
On a recent day, about a dozen prisoners of war held during World War II and their liberators gathered at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center in Loma Linda, California.
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The richly detailed drama, which opened Monday night at Lincoln Center, is set in the spring of 1948, when the Cold War between former World War II allies America and the Soviet Union is under way.
And the greatest danger here of course is that unlike the Cold War, unlike World War II, this is not a war that has a clean ending, so you cannot set a point at which we would demobilize and therefore get rid of some of this apparatus.
Mr. DOUGLAS EDWARDS: From Cartoff (ph) comes the verdict in the first war criminal trials of World War II.
Mr. Persico is the author, most recently, of "Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage" (Random House, 2001).
His publications included a book called "Monuments of War: How to Read a War Memorial" and World War II At Sea.
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).
In his book, "Here's Your War, " he described World War II as many veterans now remember it.
The written word, however, only emerged about 5, 000 years ago, and until World War II over half the world's population couldn't read or write.
However, rather than returning to the constitutional method of the Declaration of War, which can be given after the commencement of war if necessary (consider World War II) Congress chose to bypass declarations of war in favor of resolutions allowing wars.
During World War I, the building was used as a hospital and during World War II it was an army headquarters.
Ernie Pyle, who celebrated our GIs in World War II, said that your world can never be known to the rest of us.
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For example, if a preemptive attack on the German war machine had succeeded in preventing World War II, we would never know the enormity of the evil it prevented.
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