The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

During World War II, the Soviet Union annexed several countries as Soviet Socialist Republics within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

* Chris Harman, A People's History of the World ( Marxist view of history according to a leader of the International Socialist Tendency )

Specifically, the law makes it illegal to publicly " deny, play down, justify or approve of the genocide committed by the German National Socialist regime during the Second World War ".

A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes.

The outcome of the First World War was disastrous for both the German Reich and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Soviet Union, the world's first constitutionally socialist state and a recognized superpower, which played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II.

Discredited after the Second World War, French radicals split into a left-wing party – the Radical Party of the Left, an associate of the Socialist Party – and the Radical Party " valoisien ", an associate party of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) and its Gaullist predecessors.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk ( now Brest, Belarus ) between Russia ( the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic ) and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I.

In the midst of World War I, Charles Schenck, then the general secretary of the Socialist party, was found guilty of violating the Espionage Act after a search of the Socialist headquarters revealed a book of Executive Committee minutes.

* April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro ), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 ( with the exception of the period during World War II ).

As World War II was ending, the Christian Democrats started organizing post-Fascist Italy in coalition with all the other mainstream parties, including the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), the Italian Liberal Party ( PLI ), the Italian Republican Party ( PRI ), the Action Party ( Pd ' A ) and the Labour Democratic Party ( PDL ).

* German Socialist Party ( Deutschsozialistische Partei ), a minor far-right party founded after World War I

The end of World War II established the two most powerful victors, the United States of America ( USA, or just the United States ) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR, or just the Soviet Union ) as the two dominant world superpowers.

* Albanian separatists continue fighting in Kosovo buffer zone, World Socialist Web Site, 14 February 2001

With the joint German-Soviet Invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II, the city of Lviv and Lwów Voivodeship were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union, becoming part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1939 to 1941.

In a speech in early January 1943, Raeder called World War II an ideological war, praised National Socialism for its " moral strength ", and claimed that only through National Socialist indoctrination could the war be won.

Eugene Victor " Gene " Debs ( November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926 ) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies ), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

" In 1924, Debs was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Finnish Socialist Karl H. Wiik on the grounds that " Debs started to work actively for peace during World War I, mainly because he considered the war to be in the interest of capitalism.

Others include Costa Rican National Socialist Youth, Costa Rican National Socialist Alliance, New Social Order, Costa Rican National Socialist Resistance ( which is Costa Rica's member of the World Union of National Socialists ) and the Hiperborean Spear Society.

Relations with the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which took power in 1945 after World War II, were only established in 1974 after the Portuguese Carnation Revolution.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

During World War 2,, he was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

The NA World Service Conference ( WSC ) is a bi-annual service meeting made up of the Regional Delegates of the seated Regions of the world and the members of the NA World Board.

An exception to this rule is the bi-annual World Championship for Teams, held by AIDA, where the combined score of the team members makes up the team's total points.

MicroStrategy holds a bi-annual conference for its customers called MicroStrategy World.

The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body.