From the end of World II to the year 2000, the U.S. dominated the globe as a destination of choice for immigrant talent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, since World War II the world has relied on the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency.
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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.
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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It is a key element of his proposals for a modern version of the Marshall Plan, which brought US aid to rebuild Europe after World War II, for the developing world.
Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.
In retrospect it seems odd and, of course, tragic that in those days, just after World War II, while much of the rest of the world was at least tentatively coming to grips with the embarrassing inequities of racism and colonialism, the Afrikaners were moving their country headlong in the opposite direction.
Bill was instituted after World War II, we fell from first to ninth in the world among the percentage of all our adults with four-year degrees.
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That also means the size of the federal government today is nearly 20% bigger than it was during the 60 years after World War II, when America prospered as the richest nation in world history, with resulting, unprecedented, global military dominance.
In spite of a devastating defeat in World War II, Japan had emerged from the rubble to be again acknowledged a world power on par with the strongest nations of the West, and accepted as the world's second-largest economy after the United States.
Since World War II, the U.S. has recruited an oversize share of the world's best brains.
More than a few observers have dubbed this meeting Bretton Woods II, a reference to the 1944 international conference that established the post-World War II monetary system.
After surviving Japanese occupation during World War II, Hong Kong became by one reckoning the fastest-growing city in the world over the past 30 years.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon struck a personal note in his opening remarks, as he recalled his childhood as a displaced person at the close of World War II when his mother, like other women enjoyed little help bringing children into the world.
It took World War II to change the worldwide view that the Great War of 1914-1918 was actually World War I.
The two organizations were created in the 1940s to oversee post-World War II economic development, with the IMF initially focussing on currency and financial considerations and the World Bank helping to pay for infrastructure in emerging economies.
We had recently come through World War II, which, for those of you vague on the details, pitted most of the world against itself in two armed camps.
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.
He has 17 warbirds--World War II fighters such as the Rare Bear, a Grumman F8F Bearcat that has set records as the world's fastest piston-driven plane, hitting 528 mph.
Still I feel it will be worse than any time since World War II.
In 1948, the first Olympic Games after World War II opened in London at Wembley Stadium.
During World War II, the Bay area was home to more than 30 shipyards, machine shops and factories.
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In World War II, there was actually an effort to draft nurses had we invaded Japan.
After World War II pan-European cooperation was seen as the best way to reintegrate Germany.
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When World War II broke out, he declared himself a pacifist, and even fled to America.
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