Patriotic War , 1941 to 1945 *

American Psychologists and Wartime Research on Germany, 1941-1945

During World War II, behavioral scientists working for several U.S. agencies—principally the Office of Strategic Services, but also the Office of War Information, the Strategic Bombing Survey, and military authorities—advanced personality and social psychology through their investigations of the nature of Nazism, Adolf Hitler's personality, the German national character, and Germans' reactions ...

Religions Policies During the Allied Occupation of Japan, 19451952

Religion played a prominent role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) that followed the brutal Pacific War (1941–1945). Officially, the occupiers were to promulgate religious freedom, separate religion from the state, and encourage the Japanese people to develop a ‘desire for religious freedom’. Promulgating religious freedom was the easy part. Separating religion from the state withou...

Mass Miniature Radiography of Civilians for the Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

?n Britain and in the U.S.A. for detection of symptomless or latent pulmonary tuberculosis, but most of the work of this type was at first confined to the services. In 1941, in view of the increasing incidence ?f tuberculosis in war time, the Medical Research Council appointed a committee of enquiry, and next year this committee issued a report, one of its proposals being for the controlled use...

[Work organization of the Civic Hospital in Split during the Second World War (1941-1945)].

In the first half of the 20th century, Civic Hospital in Split intensified its formation towards health institution in the modern sense. The need for competent physicians and specialized experts, heads of the individual hospital departments, also became in Split Hospital the part of the global process of disintegration of medicine into the direction of medical specializations. The aim of this s...

Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War