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.
The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
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.
With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP.
The British film, directed and co-written by Nick Murphy, shows how the colossal losses of World War I led some of the bereaved to seek comfort in spiritualism.
Though London was heavily damaged by the bombings of World War II, vestiges of the city's 1800s architecture survive in quaint pubs, spooky alleyways and monkish courtyards ringed with Georgian features.
Had the allies of World War II been prepared with a sufficient number of so pedestrian a thing as landing craft, the war might have been cheated of a year and a half and many millions of lives.
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.
Both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations took high-handed actions that pre-cipitated and then deepened and prolonged the economic crisis that was battering both the U.S. and the rest of the world and made possible the rise of Nazism and the advent of World War II.
Mr. DOUGLAS EDWARDS: From Cartoff (ph) comes the verdict in the first war criminal trials of World War II.
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I and the beginning of our own time.
Franklin Roosevelt, who had served under Wilson, saw the onset of World War II as a vindication of Wilson's approach.
It was the West's obsession then with appeasement that set the world on course for the cataclysm of World War II.
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.
Since the end of World War II the widespread use of these powerful sprays almost wiped out bed bugs, but they also took a terrible toll on human health and on species species including eagles and ospreys.
Born in 1928 and raised in Brooklyn by Jewish-Polish immigrant parents, Sendak said his own life had been clouded by the Holocaust and that the events of World War II were the root of his raw and honest artistic style.
Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
From the end of World War II through the 1970s most of America's small and medium-size cities did very well.
After the experience of World War II, by the end of 1945 the ground had been prepared for Jim Crow's grave.
We also get the sequel, in the aftermath of World War I, in the form of kinky, carefully wrought "New Objectivity" paintings from the 1920s.
WSJ: Before Darkness Fell | German Expressionism 1900-1930 | Neue Galerie | By Karen Wilkin
ROME Giulio Andreotti, a seven-time prime minister who over six decades helped guide Italy out of the wreckage of World War II and into a period of economic prosperity, died Monday.
With a few exceptions - most notably a dilapidated World War II prisoner of war camp in County Durham - all the buildings are pre-20th Century.
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