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Spector, Hannah – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
During the Second World War, the Luftwaffe ran a maximum security prisoner of war (POW) camp called "Stalag Luft III," which imprisoned captured Allied air force servicemen. The story of the 1944 escape from Stalag Luft III is one of the most famous stories of the Second World War as described in the firsthand written account and…
Descriptors: War, Nuclear Energy, Facilities, Accidents
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Dufour, Joanne – Social Education, 2004
The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II inaugurated a new era in world history, the atomic age. After the war, the Soviet Union, eager to develop the same military capabilities as those demonstrated by the United States, soon rivaled the U.S. as an atomic and nuclear superpower. Faced by the possibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Weapons, War