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the head of the committee. In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR created a specific army division called the Manhattan Engineering District to help with the nuclear research. This was the official beginning of the Manhattan Project. In late 1944, FDR met with Winston Churchill and the two decided that an atomic bomb would be used against Japan. When FDR died in April 1945, and Harry S. Truman became president, Truman was informed of the Manhattan Project and the plan to drop the atomic…

1911 - National Health Insurance Act The government brought in the national health insurance act. This gave the wage earner access to medical services. The wage earner had to earn £420 or less to qualify for this benefit. Although this only applied to the wage earner, the rest of their family had to depend on voluntary hospitals and many were not covered at all. 1920 – Dawson Interim Report Lloyd Dawson produced a report which outlined how a health service might be organised. The report…

nominated the 300 Jewish workers who had helped to retire the Emalia factory. Madritsch also nominated 60 more people. On Madritsch list Schindler saw a large space after the last name. Schindler inserted 30 more names in this space. In late October of 1944 around women and children meant to be transferred to Brunnlitz along with the 800 men shipped out in the previous days were accidentally routed to the Auschwitz extermination camp. With the delay of their arrival at Brunnlitz many there began…

of what it meant to be a homeownership and the idea of what it meant to be an American. “Homeownership as the American dream shifted into an idea that it was the right to be a homeowner.” Housing programs such as the serviceman readjustment act of 1944 (G.I. Bill) and increase funding for the federal housing administration (FHA) ensured veterans, along with blue and white…

the spaces were only available to the armed forces. Bruce was stationed in France at the age of twenty. He was a lieutenant in the army and was a member of the Manitoba Dragoons in Canada. Bruce Wiggins was shot in the back by a German prisoner in 1944. He was paralyzed and returned to Canada.…

ATA pilot and an amateur poet. Maddie is a girl with excellent sense of direction. She can navigate by the stars, and by dead reckoning. The setting of this book is in several different times and places. Some of the times and places in this book are: 1944 Hamphere, 1945 Germany, 1945 Paris, and 1946 Scotland. Rose is a young girl who joins the allied forces in England flying planes for the war effort. During a short mission to Paris, she was captured by the Nazis and sent to a women's…

of publication: November 10,1961 3. Genre: drama/comedy 4. Characteristics of the genre the work does/doesn’t meet: 5. Setting: Time + Place + Atmosphere (mood or tone): It takes place in Pianosa, is an island off the coast of Italy, and Rome in 1944. The mood is Satirical and Mocking. 6. Major characters (physical and personality): • Captain John Yossarian- protagonist, leader, a bombardier, hero • Chaplain Tappman- he is kind and introspective, timid and thoughtful • Corporal Whitcomb-…

Before attempting to understand Rouch’s body of work, it is helpful to have an understanding of the man behind the camera. Rouch was born in Paris, on the 31st of May, 1917. During his upbringing he was exposed to both science and art. His father was a naval officer and his mother came from a family of painters and poets. He attended high school in Paris and then went on to study engineering at l’Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (the School of Bridges and Roads). During this study Rouch discovered…

started out on traveling on unheated trains and then walking on Death Marches.The prisoners were forced to walk miles and miles,if the Jews slowed down or couldn’t keep up then they would get shot. The largest Death March took place in the winter of 1944-1945. Once the Jews got to the trains they were sent off to concentration camps.The Nazis killed lots of Jews before and after the Death Marches. 7,000 Jews, 6,000 of them were women. On January 18, 1945, the SS guard began evacuating Auschwitz…

Garwood #126. He informed me the male fell down while being pushed on the walker. He asked for me to get the information for the male. I gathered a majority of the following information from his wife. She identified him as Bobby Wayne Seigler, DOB 12-13-1944. She was not able to provide me a social security number. She also stated Bobby did not drive due to being disabled.…