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propaganda campaign
The word propaganda is often used in a negative sense, especially for politicians who make false claims to get elected or spread rumors to get their way. In fact, any campaign that is used to persuade can be called propaganda. Definitions of propaganda. information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. -
women in war
Women’s roles expanded greatly in the Second World War. By 1945 millions of women were working to supply the military with aircraft, ships and ammunition. Not only were women encouraged to volunteer to raise funds, take in evacuee children, ‘dig for victory’ in their gardens, and take jobs in war work factories – they were also asked also to join military ranks Seventy-five per cent of women who joined the forces were volunteers. -
influenza pandemic
A flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new flu A virus. Flu pandemics happen when a new (novel) flu A virus emerges that is able to infect people easily and spread from person to person in an efficient and sustained way, and to which most of the world's population do not have immunity. -
Japanese internment
During World War II, the United States, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. -
code talkers
Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics. -
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world war ll
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances the Allies and the Axis.