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The Italian dictator used the second ever World Cup tournament as a major advertisement for fascism and his own leadership ...

The leading black intellectual and freedom fighter W. E. B. Du Bois was a longtime committed socialist and, eventually, a Marxist — commitments that were central to his life and work. Liberals are ...

Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA Level 1 exam holder, and currently holds a Life, Accident, and Health License in Indiana. He has 8 years experience in finance, from ...

The ICAIC Latin-American Newsreels were produced weekly from 1960 to 1990, and represents a unique historical document depicting events such as world's growing bipolarisation, the independence wars of ...

All forms of the media – radio, newspapers, magazines, cinema films and newsreels – were censored and controlled by the Ministry of Information. Radio and cinema were used to ensure morale did not ...

BERLIN, July 19, 1940 (UP) -- Adolf Hitler today addressed an "appeal to reason" to Great Britain to avert "destruction of a great world empire," but he made it clear that rejection would mean an ...

Americans spent their money on cars, televisions and other modern appliance, Library of Congress At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...

'Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. Its explosive sound describes the Luftwaffe’s almost continual aerial bombardment of the British Isles from ...

Betsy Jochum’s 1940s baseball tunic was tailor-made for the American woman’s transition from the decorative to the active. With a short, flared, kicky hem disguising the athletic undershorts that were ...