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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Rearmament"”.
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Britain, France and the Rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany 1947 - 1954: Cooperation and Discord
… France responded to the prospect of West German rearmament, why this issue challenged the entente and assess how their different objectives shaped the issue of West German rearmament and in turn the cold war. Echoing past diplomatic traditions, British and French perceptions of a future threat in …
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Japanese-United States relations, 1949-1962.
… political controversies over social policy and rearmament, with the struggles between left and center in the labor movement, and with literary and other debates among intellectuals. Questions of trade and closer cultural relations with mainland China have been the dominant problems of U.S. …
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The Failure of the Proposed European Defense Community and Its Implications on the European Union's Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy
… The Pleven Plan was to allow for the rearmament of Germany under conditions acceptable to France. The Plan was to solve the German rearmament dilemma. Proponents had to deal with nationalists who resisted relinquishing control of armed forces while also nurturing the European idea that …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… masculinity to parallel the nation’s rearmament and complement its ideals of domesticated femininity. After twelve years of witnessing and, for most, participating in the political, personal, and racialized dimensions of such Nazi gender expectations, defeated Germans rebuilding after …
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The Management of Change - Mechanizing the British Regular and Household Cavalry Regiments 1918 -1942
… that gave the army the lowest priority for rearmament of the three services and this also impacted on cavalry mechanization.
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Ill fares the Land? The concept of national food self sufficiency in political discourse 1880-1939.
… became increasingly important in the context of rearmament. Increased food production was rejected upon defence grounds in that free trade and a navy were seen as appropriate safeguards. Those countries which sought to follow self sufficiency ¿ or autarky ¿ are portrayed as warlike in their …
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British attitudes towards the Soviet Union, 1951-1956
… Western alliance culminating with West German rearmament in 1955; the cost of defence expenditure both in armaments and in supporting the satellite regimes and China; the development of American and Soviet thermonuclear potentials. The latter was thought by the British to be the most profound …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… that the conflict was used to justify military rearmament, further strategic aims and reassert US power. These Cold War machinations had a considerable impact on the course of the conflict and undermined efforts at resolution and reconciliation with profound implications for the future stability …
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Economic Relations between the Third Reich and Yugoslavia, 1933-1941
… mineral riches were of importance for German rearmament and, particularly after the Anschluss and the creation of the Bohemian Protectorate, Yugoslavia found itself increasingly dependent on trade with Germany. At the same time, the German market and exports were necessary for the process of …
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Imagining Peace and War: Plymouth 1918-1939
… of disarmament were countered by calls for rearmament; and in the context of fears about the nature of modern warfare (aerial bombardment and rapid collapse of civilian morale). By exploring how a future peace and war were being imagined by city planners, decisions makers, military men, and …
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Synthesizing the chemical subject: Poison gas, gas masks, and collective armoring in Germany, 1915-1938
… technological debates for eventual national rearmament and the employment of chemical technologies in the Holocaust. “Grasping for the Mask” speaks to broader histories of science, technology, and the environment by employing the concept of “chemical modernity” in two ways. In the first …