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Second World War: Mexican Americans
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The tragic World War II-era romance Atonement collected a leading seven Golden Globe Award nominations this morning, including best drama. Atonement competes in an unusually large field of seven nominated dramatic films, including American Gangster, Eastern Promises, The Great Debaters, Michael Clayton, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
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After World War II, South Texas was in transition, and tensions were building. Mexican American veterans were coming home. But they were returning to dismal barrios and towns, where they were expected to don civilian clothes and remain docile; content to live in isolated poverty with limited opportunities and inequality from which they thought their service had freed them.
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Despite the intrinsic and artificial limitations to the usefulness of Allied access to the enemy's secret traffic, both Ultra and the American 'Magic' organisation were undoubtedly responsible for major, even crucial, strategic success in the Second World War. The first and most important was the victory of Midway, where knowledge of Japanese intentions allowed the Americans to position their inferior fleet of carriers in such a way as to destroy the much larger enemy force.
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THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of one of the greatest cataclysms in history -- a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America -- and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
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