#world war i

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#had #ii #impact #important #technology

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#ii #nine #pilot #stand #war

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#freed #girl #i #ii #little

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bombing #carefully #century #dalton #destroyed

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. ↗

— Lane Evans

#history #ii #june #marked #moment

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#fiction #get #i #ii #little

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#did #everyone #germany #happen #happened