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    The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until...
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  • The United States has been involved in 115 military conflicts. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the...
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  • a calculation of the damage to national security that the release of the information would cause. The United States has three levels of classification:...
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    was the United States Office of War Information that Roosevelt established in June 1942, whose mandate was to promote understanding of the war policies...
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  • branch of the United States Federal government. The office produces and distributes information products and services for all three branches of the Federal...
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    (1870-1929) under the United States Department of Interior Office of Education (1929-1939) under the United States Department of Interior Office of Education (1939-1953)...
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  • United Nations arrangement with Iraq in existence from 1995 to 2003 United States Office of Facts and Figures (OFF); see OWI (United States Office of...
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  • The United States Armed Forces and its members have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing...
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  • Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film (category Lists of documentary films)
    Convoy Smashed (Australian Department of Information Film Unit), Day of Battle (United States Office of War Information Domestic Motion Picture Bureau), The...
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    pyramid). In the same year, the United States Office of War Information released Food for Fighters about the importance of nutrition in wartime. Between...
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    Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) comprises the offices and agencies that support the work of the president at the center of the...
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    The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring...
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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...
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    The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the 1950s and greatly escalated in 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The U.S. military...
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    American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to...
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    Following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war, the United States began to send warships and military aircraft into the...
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    was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage...
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  • The United States maintained its Constitutional Republic government structure throughout World War II. Certain expediencies were taken within the existing...
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    outside the continental United States to include Alaska. On 8 January 1942, under War Department Circular No. 5, the ranks of technician third grade (T/3)...
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    Rudolph von Ripper (category People of the United States Office of War Information)
    for distribution abroad for the Office of War Information. In 1942 he also provided illustrations for the first edition of Selden Rodman's verse drama The...
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    Elmer Davis (category People of the United States Office of War Information)
    Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient. Davis was born in Aurora, Indiana, the son of a cashier...
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    United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S....
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    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA /ˈfɔɪjə/ FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or...
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    The Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) was an intelligence and propaganda agency of the United States Government, founded on July 11, 1941...
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  • The following is a tabulation of United States military casualties of war. Note: "Total casualties" includes wounded, combat and non-combat deaths but...
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    Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941, to aid in the censorship of...
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    The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service,...
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    The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to...
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  • Taro Yashima (category People of the United States Office of War Information)
    and went to work as an artist for the United States Office of War Information (OWI) and, later, for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It was then...
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  • Office of the President and the United States federal executive departments (whose secretaries belong to the Cabinet). Employees of the majority of these...
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