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The 483 pages that link to World War II, each with the reason it gives.

• Civil Rights MovementRelated: Black military service and wartime demands for democracy sharpened challenges to racial inequality.

• Treaty of VersaillesRelated: The treaty shaped the interwar order in which renewed European war emerged.

• Collective memoryRelated: Its aftermath made testimony, responsibility, and public remembrance central to many national histories.

• ExistentialismRelated: Occupation and postwar crisis made questions of choice, complicity, and responsibility urgent in France.

• Film noirRelated: Wartime disruption and postwar anxieties formed part of the historical setting for classic American noir.

• Theatre of the AbsurdRelated: Its destruction and aftermath formed the historical backdrop for the movement’s bleak theatrical outlook.

• Abstract ExpressionismRelated: The war and its aftermath reshaped New York’s cultural landscape and brought European artists to the United States.

• BebopRelated: Wartime conditions altered touring and nightlife as bebop took shape in New York.

• Collective securityRelated: The failure to prevent it shaped plans for a stronger postwar security organization.

• Combined armsRelated: Its campaigns demonstrated both the power and the practical difficulties of combining multiple arms.

• FascismRelated: Fascist aggression by Germany and its allies helped trigger and drive the war.

• RefugeeRelated: Postwar displacement drove the creation of the modern international refugee regime.

• United States ArmyRelated: The Army became a mass force whose campaigns helped defeat Germany and Japan.

• NylonRelated: Wartime demand redirected nylon from consumer hosiery to parachutes and other military supplies.

• Brain drainRelated: Postwar scientific migration from Britain to the United States brought the issue into prominence.

• Christian democracyRelated: Postwar reconstruction gave Christian-democratic parties a central role in several European democracies.

• DDTRelated: Military campaigns used DDT to control lice and insect-borne disease.

• Freeze-dryingRelated: Wartime demand for transportable blood plasma drove large-scale freeze-drying development.

• Ready-to-wearRelated: Wartime material restrictions and practical dress encouraged standardized, economical clothing.

• Clement AttleeRelated: Attlee served in Churchill’s wartime coalition before leading Britain’s postwar government.

• Margaret MeadRelated: Mead helped apply anthropological insight to wartime public understanding and national policy.

• National Security Act of 1947Related: Wartime coordination problems informed proposals for reorganizing national defense.

• EuropeRelated: The war devastated the continent and set the conditions for its postwar division.

• Nazi propagandaRelated: Nazi propaganda mobilized the home front and framed the regime’s war aims.

• Dystopian fictionRelated: The war and its aftermath intensified literary fears of propaganda, state violence, and technological power.

• Samuel BeckettRelated: Beckett joined the French Resistance and lived through wartime displacement, experiences that marked his life and work.

• Norbert WienerRelated: Wiener’s wartime work on predicting aircraft trajectories sharpened his ideas about feedback and control.

• André WeilRelated: Wartime detention and displacement interrupted Weil’s academic life and led him to the United States.

• International Organization for StandardizationRelated: The war disrupted ISO’s predecessor and made postwar institutional rebuilding necessary.

• Moroccan independenceRelated: Wartime diplomacy and postwar anticolonial politics strengthened Moroccan claims to sovereignty.

• William ShockleyRelated: Wartime scientific work shaped Shockley’s research experience before his transistor-era work at Bell Labs.

• Lucky LucianoRelated: Luciano’s wartime assistance to U.S. authorities became a disputed part of the case for his commutation.

• Menachem BeginRelated: The war brought Begin to Soviet imprisonment, release, and eventual arrival in Mandatory Palestine.

• RationingRelated: Governments across the warring countries rationed food, fuel, and other scarce goods.

• W. H. AudenRelated: The war forms the historical background to many of Auden’s poems and his American years.

• Air interdictionRelated: Large air campaigns against transport and reinforcements made interdiction a major operational tool.

• Benjamin BrittenRelated: Britten’s pacifism and wartime service shaped the context of his later antiwar music.

• Nordic modelRelated: Postwar reconstruction and political change accelerated welfare-state expansion in several Nordic countries.

• QuinineRelated: Japanese control of Southeast Asian cinchona supplies created an urgent wartime quinine shortage.

• African nationalismRelated: African soldiers, wartime hardship, and weakened European empires altered expectations about colonial rule.

• Christian DiorRelated: Wartime rationing and occupation formed the immediate backdrop to Dior’s postwar debut.

• History of aviationRelated: The conflict accelerated aircraft technology and reshaped postwar aviation.

• Synthetic rubberRelated: Wartime shortages drove rapid expansion of synthetic rubber production, especially in the United States.

• Andrei TarkovskyRelated: Wartime childhood and loss recur in films shaped by his generation’s Soviet experience.

• Radio newsRelated: Radio became a major channel for wartime reporting and public information.

• Voice of AmericaRelated: The war prompted the U.S. government to create an overseas radio service in 1942.

• Yasujirō OzuRelated: Military service and wartime disruption interrupted Ozu’s career and preceded his postwar films.

• Pierre SchaefferRelated: Schaeffer founded the Studio d’Essai during the wartime reorganization of French broadcasting.

• Richard AvedonRelated: Avedon began his photographic career in the U.S. Merchant Marine during the war.

• Clark GableRelated: The war interrupted Gable’s film career and became the setting for his military service.