During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

During the national census in 2003 the following censuses were conducted at the same time: National Population and Housing Census and National Agricultural Census.

During 1975 – 1976, Mobutu directed the FAZ to intervene in the Angolan Civil War assisting the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA )' s fight against the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ).

During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and the military space programs to the individual Services.

During the 1980s, the attention of the Agency was centered on information processing and aircraft-related programs, including the National Aerospace Plane ( NASP ) or Hypersonic Research Program.

On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.

During this period, the Haitian National Intelligence Service ( SIN ), which had been set up and financed in the 80s by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of the war on drugs, participated in drug trafficking and political violence.

During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

During the War of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the Directoire had replaced the National Convention.

During the first half of the 20th century, a nationwide struggle for independence was launched by the Indian National Congress and later joined by the Muslim League.

During the war, the NLM's communist-dominated partisans, in the form of the National Liberation Army, did not heed warnings from the Italian occupiers that there would be reprisals for guerrilla attacks.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

During his second term ( 1991-92 ), Ashcroft was the chairman of the National Governors Association.

During the Kumul Rebellion, the Kuomintang 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) crushed a separatist Uyghur First East Turkestan Republic, delivering it a fatal blow at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.

During the Libyan civil war, after meeting with high-level representatives of the Chadian government, United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that N ' Djamena opposes Gaddafi and has reached out to the rival National Transitional Council in rebel-held Benghazi.

During the period of Bulgarian National Revival many Bulgarians from Vardar Macedonia supported the struggle for creation of Bulgarian cultural educational and religious institutions, including Bulgarian Exarchate.

During the first presidency of the National Action Party, Vicente Fox appointed Jorge Castañeda to be his Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

During the Cold War the People's Republic of Bulgaria maintained one of the largest militaries in the Warsaw Pact, numbering an estimated 152, 000 troops in 1988.

Stjepan Radić During a Parliament session in 1928, the Croatian Peasant Party's leader Stjepan Radić was mortally wounded by Puniša Račić, a deputy of the Serbian Radical People's Party, which caused further upsets among the Croatian elite.

During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War.

During the Cold War, the northern parts of Asia were communist controlled with the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, while western allies formed pacts such as CENTO and SEATO.

During the People's Consultative Assembly's first annual session in August 2000, President Wahid gave an account of his government's performance.

During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries in Western Africa.

During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs.

During the Cold War, North Korea aligned with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

During 2002 Nauru severed diplomatic recognition with Taiwan ( Republic of China ) and signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

During his term, he enacted the " Tricks of Kekkonen " ( Kekkosen konstit ), an attempt to ban the right-wing radical Patriotic People's Movement ( Isänmaallinen Kansanliike, IKL ).

During the Vietnam War ( 1959 – 75 ), North Vietnam balanced relations with its two major allies, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) under the independence war and under the subsequent civil war, the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) and in Southern Rhodesia, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in their struggle against apartheid in South African Republic, and the South-West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) in their struggle for independence for Namibia.

During this time there were two parties using the term " Polish People's Party ": Polish People's Party " Piast " and Polish People's Party " Wyzwolenie ".

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

During parliamentary elections in 1999, the seats in Riigikogu were divided as follows: the Centre Party received 28, the Pro Patria Union 18, the Reform Party 18, the People's Party Moderates ( election cartel between Moderates and People's Party ) 17, Coalition Party 7, Country People's Party ( now People's Union ) 7, United People's Party's electoral cartel 6 seats.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, additional research affiliations were effected with the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to conduct research in procedures for quantitative electron microscopy, and for the study of biophysical and biological studies of the structure and function of ocular tissue.

During the First World War Korzybski served as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army.

During Ash's panicked ride back, his evil copy rises from his grave and unites the Deadites into the Army of Darkness.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

During the war, an Army base, Camp Ashby, was temporarily sited in Berkeley.

During this campaign, the Navy had awarded 69 BSMs, and the Army with 5, 000 troops in neighboring Albania ( considered part of the combat zone ) awarded none.

During World War II, street-style craps became popular among soldiers, who often played it using an Army blanket as a shooting surface.

During the 1930s the French Army experimented with integrating mounted and mechanised cavalry units into larger formations.

During the 1964-79 Rhodesian Bush War the Rhodesian Army created an elite mounted infantry unit called Grey's Scouts to fight unconventional actions against the rebel forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

During the World War II years, Jones worked closely with Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, to create the Private Snafu series of Army educational cartoons.

During his Army days, Janssen became friends with fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Ft. Ord, California.

During the American Civil War he was consulting surgeon in the Mower Army Hospital, near Philadelphia, and acquired considerable reputation for his operations in cases of gunshot wounds.

During the Portuguese Colonial War in the 1960s and the 1970s, the Portuguese Army created an experimental horse platoon, to combat the guerrillas in eastern Angola.

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, some British officials suggested restoring Peshawar to Dost Mohammad, in return for his support against the rebellious sepoys of the Bengal Army, but this view was rejected by British political officers on the North West frontier, who believed that Dost Mohammad would see this as a sign of weakness and turn against the British.

During the war, unscrupulous contractors sold the Union Army decrepit horses and mules in ill health, faulty rifles and ammunition, and rancid rations and provisions, among other unscrupulous actions.

During the civil war, the White Army and the Red Guards both perpetrated acts of terror, called the Red terror and White terror.

During the First World War, Britain's Army and Navy had separate signals intelligence agencies, MI1b and NID25 ( initially known as Room 40 ) respectively.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

During this time, the Ottoman Army continued to press upon a reluctant Navy a plan for the re-occupation of Tenedos, which the Greek destroyers used as a base, by an amphibious operation.

During that period of ownership they were contracted to carry out the modification programme to the SA80 series of rifles for the British Army, needed to address a number of reliability issues.