Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. If the first use in print of the Roman numerals was indeed in Sept of then I wonder when Thurber came up with his idea. Add a comment. It looks like Time magazine may have been the one that coined the phrase.
Both of these terms had also been used during the Interwar period. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Accept all cookies Customize settings. Two days later, on Sept. Within two more years, the war unleashed by Adolf Hitler became a global struggle to determine who would govern the world for decades to come. It was also a struggle to determine how the world would be governed: the Second World War was an ideological battle in which different visions of the future were competing, and after which the winners—notably the United States and the Soviet Union—imposed their institutions and ideas on the territory they were fighting over.
Now, 80 years later, nearly everyone old enough to remember that time as an adult has passed from the scene, and the world that war created is rapidly disappearing before our eyes.
The victorious powers—most importantly Britain and France—had, however, failed to create a stable new order in the s and early s, and the Depression helped bring Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to power.
Hitler was determined to remake the map of Europe and the world, even at the cost of another big war. Believing that the future of the world belonged to super-states on the scale of the British Empire, the new Soviet Union and the United States, he wanted to conquer his own huge empire in Eastern Europe and expand German influence around the globe.
He also planned an attempt to subjugate, drive out or murder races he deemed inferior, such as Poles and Jews, to proclaim the superiority of what he called the Aryan race, and to make totalitarian dictatorship, not western democracy, the prevailing form of government in the developed world.
Japan was working on a similar idea in the Far East, where it was already in the third year of a war to subjugate China. Its government—dominated by its Army and Navy—wanted to expel western colonial powers from the region and create a new empire in Southeast Asia, which Japan would rule as the leading nation.
In Washington, Franklin Roosevelt in early —almost a year before the U. The Soviet Union—ruled tyrannically by Joseph Stalin—had carried on a propaganda war with Nazi Germany for most of the s, only to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler in August and then participate in the war on Poland.
But, four years later, the USSR was the one on top, as it joined the United States—and to a lesser extent the British—in destroying the armies, the navies and most of the major urban areas of both Germany and Japan. And when the military forces of the U. Once downloaded and installed, click the Zoom webinar link for the program you are interested in.
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