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

• Leonora CarringtonRelated: Its outbreak, and the danger faced by European exiles, helped drive Carrington’s migration to Mexico.

• Mid-century modernRelated: Postwar manufacturing capacity and housing demand created new opportunities for modern design.

• Patty BergRelated: Berg served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during the war, interrupting her playing career.

• Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghRelated: Philip served in the Royal Navy during the war, including in the Pacific.

• Rita Levi-MontalciniRelated: Antisemitic laws and wartime conditions forced her to continue research outside formal institutions.

• T-shirtRelated: Military use during the war made the undershirt familiar beyond naval settings.

• William WaltonRelated: Walton’s film scores and wartime service connected his career to Britain’s war effort.

• Alec GuinnessRelated: Guinness served in the Royal Navy during the war, pausing his acting career.

• Alexander ProkhorovRelated: Prokhorov served in the Red Army during the war, interrupting his early scientific career.

• ChloroquineRelated: Wartime loss of access to quinine accelerated development and deployment of synthetic antimalarials.

• Counseling psychologyRelated: Postwar demand for psychological services helped expand counseling and clinical training.

• Dinu LipattiRelated: The war disrupted Lipatti’s touring and helped shape his years in Switzerland.

• Fireside chatsRelated: Wartime chats explained U.S. aims and mobilization as the conflict expanded.

• György LigetiRelated: Persecution and wartime loss shaped Ligeti’s life and interrupted his studies.

• Harvard Mark IRelated: Wartime demands for large calculations shaped the machine’s early uses.

• Isaac Bashevis SingerRelated: The catastrophe gives later works their sense of loss, displacement, and vanished worlds.

• Joe LouisRelated: Louis enlisted in the U.S. Army and donated much of his wartime exhibition income to military charities.

• Klaus KinskiRelated: Kinski’s youth and military service unfolded during the war and its aftermath.

• Masaki KobayashiRelated: Kobayashi’s wartime service in Manchuria shaped his lifelong opposition to militarism.

• Menachem Mendel SchneersonRelated: The war forced Schneerson’s migration from Europe to the United States in 1941.

• Multiple rocket launcherRelated: Wartime demand drove the widespread deployment of vehicle-mounted multiple rocket launchers.

• Paddy ChayefskyRelated: Chayefsky served in the United States Army during the war before beginning his writing career.

• Pledge of AllegianceRelated: Wartime patriotism accompanied Congress’s 1942 adoption of the pledge into the Flag Code.

• René GoscinnyRelated: The war disrupted Goscinny’s youth and preceded his move from France to Argentina with his family.

• Roger WatersRelated: Waters’s father was killed in the war, a loss that became central to his work.

• Silent GenerationRelated: The war shaped the childhood and family circumstances of many people born in this cohort.

• TachismeRelated: Its aftermath reshaped European cultural life and the conditions in which Tachisme arose.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayRelated: The war and the Holocaust drive Joe’s escape from Europe and his family’s fate.

• The Caucasian Chalk CircleRelated: Brecht wrote the play in exile during the war.

• Thomas MertonRelated: Merton’s wartime-era search for religious commitment preceded his entry into the monastery.

• Albert UderzoRelated: The occupation of France shaped Uderzo’s youth and interrupted his early artistic ambitions.

• Ashley MontaguRelated: The war and Nazi racial ideology intensified the political urgency of Montagu’s anti-racist work.

• BirmanRelated: The war nearly eliminated the Birman in Europe, leaving a small breeding population.

• Chlorine trifluorideRelated: Military research during the war included investigation of ClF₃ as a potential incendiary material.

• David NivenRelated: Niven returned to Britain during the war and served in the army, interrupting his Hollywood career.

• David PackardRelated: Defense contracts during the war accelerated HP’s growth and Packard’s management experience.

• Deutsche WelleRelated: The postwar context shaped the case for an independent German voice abroad.

• Disposable productRelated: Wartime manufacturing and material shifts helped expand postwar disposable-product industries.

• Edward Mills PurcellRelated: Purcell’s wartime work on radar shaped the experimental skills and equipment behind his postwar research.

• Flag footballRelated: Military recreation during the war is central to common accounts of flag football's early development.

• Gabriel González VidelaRelated: Chile’s changing relations with the Axis and the Soviet Union framed the politics of González Videla’s early presidency.

• Gore VidalRelated: Vidal served in the U.S. Army during the war, an experience that informed his early writing.

• Hans FischerRelated: Fischer died in Munich in 1945, during the war’s final months.

• Homi J. BhabhaRelated: The war interrupted Bhabha’s planned return to Cambridge and kept him in India, where he began building research institutions.

• International Air Transport AssociationRelated: The postwar rebuilding of international aviation provided the setting for IATA’s creation.

• Isabel Briggs MyersRelated: Myers began developing the questionnaire during the war, hoping it could help people find suitable work.

• Juliana of the NetherlandsRelated: The German occupation forced Juliana and her children into wartime exile.

• Katharine Cook BriggsRelated: The wartime need to place women in suitable jobs spurred Myers to turn the family’s ideas into an instrument.

• László BíróRelated: The war shaped Bíró’s move from Europe to Argentina.

• Mario PuzoRelated: Puzo served in the United States Army Air Forces during the war.