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Second World War: Nations
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During the Second World War, a number of nations embarked on crash programs to develop nuclear energy, focusing first on the development of nuclear reactors. The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was obtained at the University of Chicago by Enrico Fermi on December 2, 1942, and reactors based on his research were used to produce the plutonium necessary for the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Several nations began their own construction of nuclear reactors at this point, primarily for weapons use, though research was ... being conducted into their use for civilian electricity generation.
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Contesting Home Defence makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front in the Second World War. It asks whether the Home Guard was a site of social cohesion or of dissension, explores the competing claims made for it at the time, and traces how it has been remembered since. It argues that the Home Guard at once contributed to and challenged the notion of national unity: official rhetoric was inclusive but recruitment practices were selective – and contested. Left-wingers inspired by international anti-fascist movements trained Home Guards in unauthorised guerrilla techniques; women formed their own armed organisation, sometimes helped by defiant Home Guard commanders.
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A campaign to award Dutch nationality to a German-born Holocaust victim by a Roman Catholic broadcaster has triggered a debate about who can be a citizen of the Netherlands, and it highlights the treatment of Jews during the Second World War. to external website
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The 1939-45 war was much more destructive to France than the First World War. The nation had lost over a quarter of its wealth to war damage and German requisitioning - compared with about 1/10th lost in 1914-18. Once again, the damage was particularly severe in the north. Battles had been fought through Nord/Pas-de-Calais in 1940 and again in 1944-5, with heavy bombing raids in between.
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As a radar officer in a Navy aircraft squadron, Morgan L. Fitch Jr., Esq., survived two kamikaze attacks on escort carriers to which he was assigned in World War II. He is a founding partner at Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, a leading patent law firm based in Chicago, Illinois. He is responsible for the creation of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps, a national youth education program whose leaders now receive the prestigious Morgan Fitch Award.
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