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Artictic and Literary Trends.
Many artists created paintings and books taht were surrealistic and that explored the unconcious.Photomontage started. -
Mass Culture: Radio and Movies.
Radio and Movies were very important after the WW11, becasuse they used to spread the political propagand.Radio offerd great opportunities for reaching the masses. -
Mass Culture: Radio and Movies.
Aferter WWI, the assembly line and mass production took hold in industry.More consumer goods were available, and more people could by them because they had more incomer or credit. -
The Female Funtion in the Second World War.
Women participated in the first years of the war as cookers,messengers, operators .But when the war expansion women occupied more technicla works llike operate coast artillery, torpedo services, civilian population defence -
Mobilization of Peoples:Germany
With streets quiet people and soldiers marching, feared a disaster after a bad experience in the WW1, Women were ivited to work but almost every one rejected this offer. -
The bombing of Cities:Britain
The Germanys bombed London to decrease the moral of the londoners,but the londoners moral increased Many civilians were killed. -
The Bombing of Cities
Bombing was used in World War II ageinst a variety of targest, including ,ilitarie targets, enemy troops, and civilian populations. -
The Atomic Bomb
The discover gave rise to the idea that releasing this energy by splitting the atom might create a divasting weapon.This idia was not taken seriously until the World War II. -
The Bombing of Cities:Germany
Britain takerevenge from the Germanys by bombing Cologne, then in 1945 they bombed the city of Dresden that was almost destroyed. -
Mobilization of Peoples: Soviet Union
The soviet union was the only coutry that use the women in battle.The Soviets won the "battle of machines" producing 78,000 tanks, 98,000 artillery pieces. -
Mobilization of Peoples:The United States
They became the arsenal of allied power.African American moved to the South searching for a job, but they white people were attacting very much in every place. -
The Tehran Conference
The leaders of the Soviet Union, the U.S., and Great Britain met in Theran to decide the course of the war,Stalin,Roosevelt and Churchill met in Tehran to decide the final assault over Germany and to discuss a invasion to France. -
The Yalta Conference.
The Big Three Powers met after defeating Germany.Met in Yalta to discuss things as the creation of the United Nations and to divide Germany after the defeat of it -
The Potsda Conference
Began under a clud of mistrus. Roosolvelt had died on april 12 and had benn succeeded as president by Harry truman. -
The Bombing of Cities:Japan
Many japanese industries were destroyed,but the war in Japan ended when the U.S .air force dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, 140,0000 persons died -
UNESCO & Traditional Music
Its Fundamental purposes being education andthe conservation of the cultural heritage, has yake concern about the resue of tradicional music. -
Rivalry in Europe.
A civil war in Greece created another area of conflict between the superpowers.The communist Pople´s Liberation Army and anticommunist force supported by Great Britain were fithing eache other for control of Grece in 1946. -
The Truman Doctrine.
The Truman doctrine stade that the United States would provide mony to contries, in this case Grece, threatened by communist expansion. -
The Marshall Plan
Was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism. -
The Division of Germany
This country was divided in 4 zones, this fragments were occupied by the conutries that had won the war. -
New Military Alliances
The Noth Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) was formed in 1949 when Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and others countries sifned a treaty whit the U.S. and Canada. All the powers agreed to provide mutual help if any one of them was attacked. -
The Arms Race
The U.S. and the Soviet Union Compited to see who had better nuclear arsenal.Neither countrie attack because they know that the othe will still have time to attack. -
Vietnam and the Domino Theory
The Domino Thoery satated that if Vitnam became communist, this would then spread all though Asia making the whole continent communist. -
The War Industry in Times of Peace
One example of this thing is that the nuclear energy was used first for the atomic bomb and then for nuclear energy, but many of the money was used to sustain the armies or made new weapons -
The Contrast between Wealth and Poverty
People have a better live quality during the 50´s, there where colonies where the foreing inventors had less success than the native groups. -
Environmental Problems and Landscape Changes
The landscapes of upland Britain have been the focus for a range of debates in recent years over issues such as access, afforestation, farming and planning. -
The Diversity of Ideas
The exxistentialist was a pacifist movement that started in US.Also Ghandi was a reprensentant of the pacifist movemnt in India.There were other many pacifist and ecologist movements -
A Wall in Berlin
Berlin was divid in Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
The wall was builted up in a night to a day. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, Kennedy found out that Soviet ships carrying missiles were heading tocube. He decide to blockade Cuba and prevent the fleet flom reaching its destination.