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

• Sam PeckinpahRelated: Peckinpah served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific, an experience often discussed alongside his violent imagery.

• WirtschaftswunderRelated: The war left German cities, transport networks, and industrial sites heavily damaged.

• Buckminster FullerRelated: Wartime material shortages and construction needs shaped interest in Fuller’s lightweight structures.

• Douglas EngelbartRelated: Engelbart’s wartime experience as a Navy radar technician shaped his interest in information displays.

• Ernest GellnerRelated: The war prompted Gellner’s family to leave Czechoslovakia for Britain.

• Frederick TermanRelated: Terman led wartime electronics research at Harvard, experience that shaped his later research administration.

• Harold RosenbergRelated: The war’s aftermath shaped the cultural climate in which American art gained prominence.

• Jules RimetRelated: The war suspended the World Cup during Rimet’s presidency.

• MethamphetamineRelated: Several militaries used amphetamine-type stimulants, including methamphetamine, to promote wakefulness.

• Mexican miracleRelated: Wartime demand increased exports and created openings for Mexican manufacturing.

• Paul ÉluardRelated: Occupation and resistance transformed the circumstances and public purpose of his poetry.

• Postwar consensusRelated: Wartime planning and shared sacrifice strengthened demands for security in peacetime.

• Proximity fuzeRelated: The fuze was developed and deployed during this war.

• Sam ManekshawRelated: Manekshaw served in Burma during the war and was wounded in action.

• Sin-Itiro TomonagaRelated: Wartime isolation limited Tomonaga’s access to international scientific developments.

• Socialist InternationalRelated: The postwar reorganization of socialist parties created the conditions for the organization’s founding.

• The WallRelated: Waters’s father died in the war, a loss echoed in Pink’s childhood story.

• Antibiotic eraRelated: Wartime demand accelerated penicillin production and brought it to large numbers of patients.

• Baby boomersRelated: The war's end preceded the U.S. birth-rate increase that defines this cohort.

• Baker IslandRelated: The war ended Baker’s civilian colonization and brought U.S. military use to the island.

• BeneluxRelated: The governments in exile negotiated Benelux customs cooperation during the war.

• Civil defenseRelated: Mass bombing made civil-defense organizations, shelters, and blackout rules widespread.

• Emmanuel LevinasRelated: Levinas was captured as a French soldier and held in a prisoner-of-war camp during the war.

• Fiorello La GuardiaRelated: His final years as mayor coincided with wartime mobilization and New York’s role as a major port.

• Franz WeidenreichRelated: The war disrupted his work in China and shaped the loss and dispersal of Zhoukoudian fossils.

• Georg SoltiRelated: Nazi persecution forced Solti, who was Jewish, to leave Germany and rebuild his career in exile.

• George DantzigRelated: Wartime demands for coordinated planning created problems that motivated Dantzig’s early operations-research work.

• Grand Coulee DamRelated: Electricity from the dam supported energy-intensive wartime industries in the Pacific Northwest.

• Great AccelerationRelated: Wartime industrial capacity, technologies, and institutions helped shape postwar expansion.

• International Chopin Piano CompetitionRelated: The war interrupted the competition after its 1937 edition; it resumed in 1949.

• Invisible ManRelated: The novel appeared amid postwar arguments about democracy, race, and American identity.

• Ishirō HondaRelated: Honda’s wartime service and captivity deeply shaped his views on violence and destruction.

• Kingsley AmisRelated: Amis served in the Royal Corps of Signals before entering literary life.

• Lauren BacallRelated: Bacall’s early career and breakthrough films began during the wartime Hollywood era.

• Lyman SpitzerRelated: Spitzer's wartime work on sonar research interrupted his early academic career.

• Margaret Bourke-WhiteRelated: Her wartime assignments made her one of the first female American war correspondents.

• Medgar EversRelated: Evers served in the U.S. Army during the war, including in the European theater.

• Nicholas SpykmanRelated: The war shaped the strategic problems addressed in Spykman’s final work.

• Richard AttenboroughRelated: Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force during the war before returning to acting.

• Soviet military doctrineRelated: Combat against Germany tested Soviet doctrine and drove major revisions through experience.

• Carrier pigeonRelated: Military forces continued to use messenger pigeons under combat conditions.

• Christian de DuveRelated: The war interrupted de Duve’s medical training and shaped his early career in Belgium.

• Christopher LeeRelated: Lee’s wartime service shaped the years before his acting career.

• Claude SimonRelated: Simon’s experience of the 1940 campaign and captivity shaped the wartime memories central to The Flanders Road.

• Edward HeathRelated: Heath served as an artillery officer, an experience that shaped his postwar generation.

• Flying boatRelated: Wartime patrol and transport needs sustained military flying-boat operations.

• Frequency-hopping spread spectrumRelated: Wartime concerns about radio-controlled weapons and jamming formed the setting for the 1942 patent.

• Jarvis IslandRelated: Japanese attacks led to the evacuation of Jarvis’s colonists in 1942.

• Javier Pérez de CuéllarRelated: The postwar creation of the UN shaped the international system in which he began his diplomatic career.

• John KendrewRelated: Kendrew served in wartime scientific research before returning to academic work.