Snoopy Is the Hero in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Blake Scott Ball
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on Snoopy, the character who was one of the more surprising critics of the American approach to the Vietnam War. In particular, Snoopy’s imaginary conflict as the World War I flying ace fighting the Red Baron became a unique commentary on the impact of war on the American homefront. The character also became a popular symbol among American servicemen, both to register their dedication to the fight and their frustrations with the war itself. For his part, Schulz mapped a path of support for troops, but disdain for the unpopular war and especially for the continuance of the draft.

Is There a Future for New Communist States?

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-318
Author(s):  
George W. Breslauer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
To Come

Communism was the offspring of wars: World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Are such wars likely in the coming decades? If not, new communist regimes on the Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist models are unlikely to come to power in the name of Marxism-Leninism. Whether that ideological heritage becomes again a beacon for revolution may depend on whether, in the future, the historical imagination comes to view communism as having been an achievement or a tragedy.

The World War I Diary of Albert Huet

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Hélène Huet
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
World War ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Short Biography ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on my digital project, “The World War I Diary of Albert Huet.” First I provide an introduction about the project, including a short biography of Albert Huet, my great-grandfather, and explain how the project came to be, notably focusing on the help from the George A. Smathers Libraries digital services in digitizing the documents and making available online in UFDC. Then, I discuss what Albert’s diary can teach us about the French soldiers’ experience during WWI. Albert just like so many other men, grew up in the countryside, with a very limited education, and found himself at 18 on the battlefields with no training at all. This experience really had a profound negative impact on his life. Finally, I  discuss the impact this digital project has had since it launched in 2016. In addition to being featured in classrooms assignments and on a major WWI research website, the project was used by Dr. Lynn Palermo from Susquehanna University who funded two undergraduate students to work on translating the diary.  This example highlights how digital projects can be enriched by collaboration across institutions.

scholarly journals Income tax progressivity and inflation during the world wars

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Torregrosa-Hetland ◽  
Oriol Sabaté
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Tax Reforms ◽  
Tax Progressivity ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper studies the impact of inflation on income taxes in Sweden, the UK, and the United States during the world wars. As tax reforms were rising top marginal rates and reducing exemption thresholds, extraordinary levels of inflation eroded the real value of exemptions, brackets, and deductions. The micro-simulation of actual and alternative scenarios shows that inflation made the tax less progressive, particularly in Sweden during World War I and the UK during World War II. Nevertheless, its redistributive effect increased due to the related growth in tax revenue. Inflation contributed to transform a “class tax’’ into a “mass tax”.

scholarly journals The participation of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War I

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Ilya Nikolaevich Adeshkin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
World War I ◽  
Military Service ◽  
World War ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
American Expeditionary Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
African American Soldiers ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the participation of African Americans in the World War I in the ranks of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the 1917 – 1918. The author studies the attitude of the African-American community towards participation in the World War I, describes the peculiarities of military service of African American soldiers in the American Expeditionary Forces, and reveals the manifestations of racial discrimination. The article also reviews the attitude of French soldiers and officers towards African American soldiers of the U. S. Army, analyzes the impact of the acquired combat experience and sociocultural interaction with foreign soldiers upon the activity of African American population in fighting for their rights and freedoms in the United States. In Russian historiography, the participation of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War I, peculiarities of their service, and the impact of war on self-consciousness of this category of military servicemen have not previously become the subject of special research. Based on the article. The conclusion is made that the attitude of African American community towards participation in the World War I was quite ambiguous. Their soldiers faced different forms of discrimination during their military service: they could not serve in the Marine Corps and other elite units, and most of the time were engaged in the rear. A different experience received African American soldiers from the units transferred under the leadership of the French Army, whose officers treated them with respect; the blood shed for their country, combat experience and respectful of the allies enhanced desire of the African Americans to gain equal civil rights and freedoms in their homeland.

8. Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
David J. Bodenhamer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
World War ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Imminent Threat ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

Armed conflict poses an imminent threat to the nation’s existence, but so does suspension of the nation’s fundamental laws. The framers wrestled with how to grant government the power to defend the nation without providing it the means to threaten liberty. The question it raises—does war suspend the Constitution or does the Constitution control the conduct of the war—has rarely been absent from American history. ‘Security’ describes the impact of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, as well as the recent ‘war on terror’ on the nation’s laws, the executive presidential power, and the roles of the Supreme Court and Congress.

Mobilization and reorganization of Russian science and education during the World War I

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Эдуард Колчинский ◽  
Eduard Kolchinsky
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
World War ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
The World ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
The Impact

The article explores the impact of the World War I on motivation, structuring and self-identification of the Russian scientific community and its institutions. The transformation of scientific and educational institutions of Russia influenced by the World War I is analyzed as a process of creating a mobilization model of science organization and associated restructuration of the relationship between scientists, authorities and society. The special attention is paid to the increasing role of the scientific community in provision of raw materials and rations to the front and rear, development of new weapons and military technologies, creation of new branches of the defense industry, and protection of monuments of science and culture. The project presents a holistic analysis of changes in research subjects, transformations of the ratio between applied and fundamental knowledge, natural sciences and humanities, the reinforcement of an image of science as a knowledge factory that became a basis for the plans of forming a network of scientific and research institutions.

Tunnels in Conflict

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphné Richemond-Barak
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
World War ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Asymmetric Conflicts ◽  
The Vietnam War

This chapter paints a panoramic and multifaceted picture of tunnel warfare across time and geography. It begins with World War I, which has marked history with powerful tunnel mining attacks, face-to-face underground combat, and the demonstration of how tunnel users improve their skills on the go. It proceeds to focus on underground combat through World War II, the Vietnam War, the wars in Afghanistan, the War in Syria, and cross-border tunnels in Egypt and Israel. It shows that underground warfare has evolved into a global phenomenon that is currently benefiting from strategic and technological tailwinds. Asymmetric conflicts, where the aerial and ground superiority of one party stands out, are particularly vulnerable to the spread of underground warfare.

scholarly journals Labor assistance to the families of soldiers of the Central Black Earth region during the World War I

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Svetlana Vladimirovna Bukalova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Impact

The author examines the system of labor assistance to the families of soldiers during the World War I. The object of this research is the problem of decline in living standards of the families which members were called up to the army. Along with government ration, labor assistance was intended to compensate for the impact of this factor. The phenomenon of labor assistance that established during war in the Russian Empire was multi-component, including charitable initiatives, their encouragement by the government, as well as participation of the local structures of self-governance. The article summarizes the information on labor assistance in the agricultural Central Black Earth region. The author determines the differences in the types and designation of labor assistance in cities and rural areas. Labor assistance in rural areas, provided in the form of communal mutual aid, agronomic and technical assistance, work of student labor squads, was oriented towards supporting the potential of peasant economy. Labor assistance in cities consisted the distribution of orders for sewing of linens and establishment of sewing workshops, which was a form of social support for wives of the soldiers. It is demonstrated that creation of the system of labor assistance can be viewed as a vector of state policy of the Russian Empire in the social sphere.

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