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	world war i - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918.
		The defeat of Germany in the war and failure to resolve the unsettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the rise of Nazism, and thus the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
		World War I became infamous for trench warfare, where huge numbers of troops were confined to trenches and could move little because of tight defenses.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/World-War-I (7028 words)

	World War II
		World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.
		Indeed, the first combat operation in the European Theater of World War II was a German bombing attack against Poland, while the last combat operation in the Pacific Theater was a thousand-aircraft bombing attack on Japan, on 14 August 1945.
		The war also saw the re-emergence of the United States from its isolationism, the destruction and rebuilding of Germany and Japan into major industrial powers, the advent of the atomic bomb, and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.
	www.askfactmaster.com /World_War_II (4255 words)

	World War I - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The defeat of Germany in the war and failure to resolve the unsettled issues that had caused the Great War would lay the basis for the rise of National Socialism, and thus the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
		It was commonly called "The Great War" (a title previously used to refer to the Napoleonic Wars) or sometimes "the war to end all wars" until World War II.
		World War I became infamous for trench warfare, where huge numbers of troops were confined to trenches and could move little because of tight defences.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/WWI (7995 words)

	Female roles in the World Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to the First World War women's role in society in western countries was generally confined to the domestic sphere (but not necessarily their own home) and to certain types of jobs: 'Women's Work'.
		While World War I was mainly fought in France and was a war arguably without clear aggressor or villain, World War II was truly a global conflict where countries were invaded or under the threat of invasion from leaders in Germany (Adolf Hitler) and Japan that had ambitions of world domination.
		The contribution by women to the civilian war effort in the United Kingdom was acknowledged with the use of the words "Home Front" to describe the battles that were being fought on a domestic level with rationing, recycling, and war work, such as in munitions factories and farms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Female_roles_in_the_World_Wars (1735 words)

	sociology - World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eighty seven years after the war ended there are few veterans of this war left, and not many who remember the period clearly.
		It was commonly called "The Great War" or sometimes "the war to end all wars" until World War II, although the name "First World War" was coined as early as 1920 by Lt-Col à Court Repington in The First World War 1914–18.
		Some scholars write of the First World War as merely the first phase of a three decade long war spanning the period 1914–1945.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/World_War_I (7205 words)

	World War I infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
		World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas.
		World War I became infamous for trench warfare, where troops were confined to trenches because of tight defenses.
		Gavrilo Princip - the igniting torch of World War I
	www.infoturkish.com /Turkey/World-War-I.html (13153 words)

	1 in 7 U.S. Military Personnel in Iraq Is Female
		During the Civil War, women joined both sides as spies and nurses, and one, Dr. Mary Walker, received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service as a field surgeon and the hardships she endured as a prisoner of war.
		Despite their increased roles and representation in the ranks, women are not permitted to serve in direct ground combat, which excludes them from infantry, armored and special forces units.
		The advisory committee came under fire from conservatives because it recommended that women be assigned to submarines, to the crews of vehicles that launch rockets from the rear of combat areas, and to helicopter crews of special operations units.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1265/context/cover (1471 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Womens Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The reasons varied, but they included a desire to recognize the contributions of women during the war, and were also influenced by rhetoric used by both sides at the time to justify their war efforts.
		Some men counter that this expectation is unrealistic, claiming a de-emphasis on breadwinning would be injurious to their ability to attract mates; while many women have the choice to try to "have it all", they claim that societal expectations placed on men preclude them from devoting themselves further to domestic chores and childrearing.
		Some feminists might respond to these critics by arguing that due to their role as mothers, women have a special sensitivity for the fragility of human life and the need to protect it, which gives them a unique perspective on issues such as nuclear power that pit individual human welfare against societal needs.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/womens_rights (6436 words)

	World War I - United Kingdom - General - J-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In World War I, Louise de Bettignies worked for the British and the French as a spy and aided escaped Allied prisoners of war.
		She was captured by the Germans and, although a death sentence was commuted, she died in prison in 1918.
		Despite Crowley's virulent anti-British/anti-Allied writings in U.S. publications during World War I, materials from the archives of the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Division convince the author that Crowley was working for British intelligence.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /worldwari_folder/wwiukj-z.html (1163 words)

	igr information,gir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although fewer females than males are born (the ratio is around 1:1.05), women make up the majority of the adult population.This is because males of all ages have a slightly higher death rate (even in the womb) andwomen live, on average, five years longer than men.
		Traditional gender roles for women would involve work tasks that arecentered around home maintenance, a central role in caring for a family, and did not involve entering employment for anindependent salary.
		Referring to an unmarried female as woman can, in such aculture, imply that she is sexually experienced, which would be considered insulting.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /igr.html (816 words)

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		The more women entered the new workplaces, especially after the Civil War and then during and after the two world wars, the more they dealt with unpleasant working conditions, which resulted in the formation of women's labor organizations.
		The typical morphine addict of the 1920s was a Southern white female, middle-aged or older, widowed, homebound and a property owner.
		Laudanum was another addictive drug that was in wide use in the nineteenth century and freely prescribed by doctors for “female complaints.” It was used among middle- and upper-class women to relieve depression and insomnia.
	www.familytreemagazine.com /store/femaleroles.html (2018 words)

	roles - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include roles: conservative gender roles, distribuer les roles, female roles in the military, female roles in the world wars, filming production roles, more...
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	First World War.com - Feature Articles - Women and WWI
		Sneeringer, Julia, Review of Ute Daniel’s The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War.
		Berkman, Joyce, Feminism, War, and Peace Politics: The Case of World War I In Elshtain and Tobias eds., Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory.
		Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/womenww1_seven.htm (1604 words)

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