1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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1940s, 1940s - Events and trends, 1940s - Technology, 1940s - Science, 1940s - War peace and politics, 1940s - Economics, 1940s - Culture religion, 1940s - Others, 1940s - People, 1940s - World leaders, 1940s - Sports figures, 1940s - Entertainers

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The most striking is the traffic, with a combination of 1940's and 1950's cars (named machinas or yank tanks), Russian trucks and public transport in the form of buses named camellos after their camel-shape. Some vehicles are gifts from other countries, so one can see buses with a Dutch destination displayed at the front or ambulances with Welsh lettering. As is to be expected in a Socialist country, there are hardly any commercials, but many slogans instead, which can vary from the name 'Fidel' scratched on a floor via a mural saying ...

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Culture of Cuba, Culture of Cuba - Music, Culture of Cuba - Entertainment, Culture of Cuba - Sport, Culture of Cuba - Cuisine, Culture of Cuba - Religion, Culture of Cuba - Language, Culture of Cuba - Family, Culture of Cuba - Women, Culture of Cuba - Street impressions, Culture of Cuba - Censorship

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Witches in modern culture Today, few people believe in witches that can curse enemies, change shapes, or fly. However, since the emergence of the witchcraft-inspired religion of Wicca in the 1940s a growing number of people have called themselves witches. While most of western culture continues to assign negative connotations to the word, Wiccans do not consider it a derogatory term, nor do they associate it with Satanism. In fact, many Wiccans wi ...

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both d ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1910s - Events and trends. The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The ...

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Wagley came back to visit the tapirapé in 1953, 1957 and then in 1965. He reports on the changes brought to Tapirapé culture as the surrounding Brazilian so-called “civilization” was encroaching them. Population control by infanticide was a terrible policy in the face of white man induced epidemics; fortunately, the Little Sisters were able to end this practice by around 1954. A Shaman was killed in 1964 in vengeance for a similar killing that had occurred 20 years before. The assassin was brought to the Brazilian police and spent thre ...

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Tapirapé, Tapirapé - Origins and distribution, Tapirapé - Economic system, Tapirapé - Social organization, Tapirapé - Body aesthetics, Tapirapé - Religion, Tapirapé - The Tapirapé from 1940 to 1970, Tapirapé - Bibliography

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Joan adopted six children, according to L.A. Times articles from the time, though she kept only four. The first was Christina (born June 11, 1939), whom Crawford adopted in 1940 while she was single. The second was Christopher (born April 1941), whom Joan adopted in June of that year. In 1942, Christopher's biological mother found out where he was and managed to get him back. The third child was an 8-year-old named Phillip Terry, Jr. (born 1935), whom Joan and then husband Phillip Terry adopted in April 1943, but did not keep. The fou ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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In the early 1900's the greatest contributor to Puerto Rico's economy was agriculture, its main crop being sugar. In the late 1940's a series of projects called Operation Bootstrap encouraged, using tax exemptions, the establishment of factories. Thus manufacturing replaced agriculture as the main industry. The economic conditions in Puerto Rico have improved dramatically since the Great Depression due to external investment in capital-intensive industry such as petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Once the beneficiary of ...

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Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico - History, Puerto Rico - Geography, Puerto Rico - Geology, Puerto Rico - Politics, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's Political Status and International Law, Puerto Rico - Political divisions, Puerto Rico - Economy, Puerto Rico - Demographics, Puerto Rico - Languages, Puerto Rico - Religion, Puerto Rico - Culture, Puerto Rico - Education, Puerto Rico - Sports, Puerto Rico - Flora and Fauna, Puerto Rico - Notes

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Historically Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland, controlled by the Novgorod Republic. From the 13th century and onwards various parts were conquered by Sweden, and incorporated into Swedish Karelia until they were lost to Russia by the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. In 1923 the province became the Karelian ASSR (Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). From 1940 it was made into the Karelo-Finnish SSR, incorporating the Finnish Democratic Republic created during the Winter War. Occupied terr ...

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Republic of Karelia, Republic of Karelia - Geography, Republic of Karelia - Time zone, Republic of Karelia - Rivers, Republic of Karelia - Lakes, Republic of Karelia - Natural Resources, Republic of Karelia - Administrative divisions, Republic of Karelia - Demographics, Republic of Karelia - History, Republic of Karelia - Politics, Republic of Karelia - Culture, Republic of Karelia - Religion

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1850 - 20,061 1860 - 45,246 1870 - 71,440 1880 - 115,587 1890 - 204,468 1900 - 285,315 1910 - 373,857 1920 - 457,147 1930 - 578,249 1940 - 587,472 1950 - 637,392 1960 - 741,324 1970 - 717,099 1980 - 636,212 1990 - 628,088 2000 - 596,974 2005 - 592,765 In the 2000 census, over a third (38 percent) of Milwaukeeans reported that they were of German descent. Other large population groups include Polish (12.7%), Irish (10%), English (5.1%), Italian (4.4 ...

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Milwaukee Wisconsin, Milwaukee Wisconsin - History, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Geography and climate, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Cityscape, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Climate, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Demographics, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Transportation, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Economy, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Education, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Colleges and universities, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Religion, Milwaukee Wisconsin - High schools, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Culture and sports, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Culture, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Sports, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Media, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Airports, Milwaukee Wisconsin - Colloquialisms

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Imperial Way Faction - Political environment. The origins of this party in the 1920s saw the last of the old-style samurai officers going and a new radical breed taking their place in the Japanese military. Officer groups, such as the Double Leaf Society, which were secret societies themselves and with ties to the other secret groups, were formed with the fanatical beliefs of ultranationalism and the need for a purge of the Choshu elements of the army. The Army became divided between the Kodaha (Imperial B ...

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Imperial Way Faction, Imperial Way Faction - Origins of the movement, Imperial Way Faction - Political environment, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese military politics, Imperial Way Faction - Industrialists and militarism, Imperial Way Faction - Circumstances that allowed the Japanese military to gain political power, Imperial Way Faction - Political development, Imperial Way Faction - Sadao Araki has his day, Imperial Way Faction - Hideki Tojo succeeds as party leader, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese official establishment in central government, Imperial Way Faction - Political structure in the movement, Imperial Way Faction - The last party chiefs and Prime Ministers, Imperial Way Faction - Summary

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In a close to chaotic political (and economic and social) situation, the military were considered politically "clean" in terms of political corruption, and assumed responsibility for 'restoring' the security of the nation. The armed forces took up criticism of the traditional democratic parties and regular government for many reasons (low funds for the armed forces, compromised national security, weakness of the leaders). They were also, by their composition, closely aware of the effects of economic depression on the middle and lower classes ...

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Imperial Way Faction, Imperial Way Faction - Origins of the movement, Imperial Way Faction - Political environment, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese military politics, Imperial Way Faction - Industrialists and militarism, Imperial Way Faction - Circumstances that allowed the Japanese military to gain political power, Imperial Way Faction - Political development, Imperial Way Faction - Sadao Araki has his day, Imperial Way Faction - Hideki Tojo succeeds as party leader, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese official establishment in central government, Imperial Way Faction - Political structure in the movement, Imperial Way Faction - The last party chiefs and Prime Ministers, Imperial Way Faction - Summary

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Imperial Way Faction - Sadao Araki has his day. Araki Sadao was an important figurehead and "political and thinking father" of the party; his first ideological works date from his leadership of the Kodaha (Imperial Benevolent Rule or Action Group), opposed by the Toseiha (Control Group) led by General Kazushige Ugaki. He linked the ancient (bushido code) and contemporary local and European fascist ideals (Japanese fascism), to f ...

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Imperial Way Faction, Imperial Way Faction - Origins of the movement, Imperial Way Faction - Political environment, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese military politics, Imperial Way Faction - Industrialists and militarism, Imperial Way Faction - Circumstances that allowed the Japanese military to gain political power, Imperial Way Faction - Political development, Imperial Way Faction - Sadao Araki has his day, Imperial Way Faction - Hideki Tojo succeeds as party leader, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese official establishment in central government, Imperial Way Faction - Political structure in the movement, Imperial Way Faction - The last party chiefs and Prime Ministers, Imperial Way Faction - Summary

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The "Imperial Way Faction" represented the principal right-wing political movement in the Empire of Japan from some point in the 1930s, emerging from a welter of similar groups and secret societies. In 1941, as a political party, it achieved the goal of real power. Its members led all political and military national efforts during the Pacific War. It was abolished, with the other nationalist organization ...

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Imperial Way Faction, Imperial Way Faction - Origins of the movement, Imperial Way Faction - Political environment, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese military politics, Imperial Way Faction - Industrialists and militarism, Imperial Way Faction - Circumstances that allowed the Japanese military to gain political power, Imperial Way Faction - Political development, Imperial Way Faction - Sadao Araki has his day, Imperial Way Faction - Hideki Tojo succeeds as party leader, Imperial Way Faction - Japanese official establishment in central government, Imperial Way Faction - Political structure in the movement, Imperial Way Faction - The last party chiefs and Prime Ministers, Imperial Way Faction - Summary

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Inner Manchuria came under strong Russian influence in the 1890s with the building of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Harbin to Vladivostok. Japanese influence replaced Russian in Inner Manchuria as a result of the Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905), and Japan laid the South Manchurian Railway in 1906 to Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojun). Between World War I and World War II Manchuria became a political and military battleground. Japanese influence extended into Outer Manchuria in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, but Outer M ...

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In 1934, Manchukuo was organized into 14 provinces (省) and 2 special municipalities (特別市). In 1939, Manchukuo was reorganized into 19 provinces and one special municipality. The Harbin municipality was abolished and four new provinces were added. ...

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In 1908 the number of residents was 15,834,000, which rose to 30,000,000 in 1931 and 43,000,000 for the Manchukuo state. The population balance remained 123 men to 100 women and the total number in 1941 was 50,000,000. In early 1934 the total population of Manchukuo was estimated as 30,880,000, with 6.1 persons the average family, and 122 men for each 100 women. These numbers included 30,190,000 Chinese, 590,760 Japanese, and 98,431 other nationalities (Russians, Mongols, etc). The Chinese numbers included 680,000 Koreans. Around 80% of the population was rural. Other statistics indicate that in Manc ...

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