Feeding Britain in the Second World War was a challenge for the wartime government of the United Kingdom. Seventy percent of British food was imported...
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the British government several times during the 20th century, during and immediately after a war. At the start of the Second World War in 1939, the United...
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Agriculture in the First World War (1989) Bonnie White, The Women's Land Army in First World War Britain (2014) Bonnie White, "Feeding the war effort: agricultural...
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The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill. Churchill labelled the...
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remained neutral to the end. The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers. It is estimated that...
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February 2013. Killingray, David (2012). Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War. London: James Currey Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-84701-047-6...
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and the Axis nations. It is noted by historian Geoffrey Roberts that "More than 80 percent of all combat during the Second World War took place on the Eastern...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is broken into...
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History of propaganda (redirect from Propaganda in the Vietnam War)
French war posters from the Second World War, circa 1939 – circa 1945, The Bancroft Library Finding Aid to British war posters from the First World War, circa...
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the technology of warfare in general. This trend began at least fifty years prior to World War I during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and continued...
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World War II in the narrative. There is a separate list of World War II TV series. The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the...
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The term "home front" covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital...
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British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first...
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted...
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Bombing of Dresden (redirect from Bombing of Dresden in the Second World War)
Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States...
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Feeding Britain in World War II Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II Military history of the United Kingdom during World War...
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the European powers. Continuing colonial disputes between Britain and France in North America resulted in the outbreak of the French and Indian War in...
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The aftermath of World War I saw far-reaching and wide-ranging cultural, economic, and social change across Europe, Asia, Africa, and even in areas outside...
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in World War II. Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, much was developed in response...
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British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 during the Second World War to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out...
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The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945. The...
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Women's Land Army (redirect from Women's Land Army (World War I))
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into...
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in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. It is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The war began...
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Women in World War I were mobilized in unprecedented numbers on all sides. The vast majority of these women were drafted into the civilian work force...
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Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France...
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The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia...
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Hugh Dowding (category British Army personnel of World War I)
Research. In July 1936, Dowding was appointed chief of the newly created RAF Fighter Command. During the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, Dowding's...
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defeat in World War I, the Central Powers agreed to pay war reparations to the Allied Powers. Each defeated power was required to make payments in either...
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fought Second Boer War in South Africa. In 1914, Britain entered the First World War by declaring war on Germany. Nearly a million Britons were killed in the...
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World War II infantry weapons. In 1939, the Albanian Kingdom was invaded by Italy and became the Italian protectorate of Albania. It participated in the...
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