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British forces remained segregated during World War I, and Black soldiers, including the West India Regiments, were notably excluded from the Allied victory parades in London in 1919.
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Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
During French colonial rule following World War I, Paris toyed with creating an independent Alawite state in eastern Syria, just north of the area that would become Lebanon, but the project failed.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
In 1945: By an overwhelming vote, the U.S. Senate approved of America joining the United Nations, which was founded just over a month prior as a replacement of the League of Nations – created after World War I – to help prevent a third world war after the end of WWII.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
Instead, the narrative focuses on Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a factory worker in the wake of World War I who is impregnated by her rich boss and then discarded after his mother disapproves.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
During French colonial rule following World War I, Paris toyed with creating an independent Alawite state in eastern Syria, just north of the area that would become Lebanon, but the project failed.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
In 1945: By an overwhelming vote, the U.S. Senate approved of America joining the United Nations, which was founded just over a month prior as a replacement of the League of Nations – created after World War I – to help prevent a third world war after the end of WWII.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
Instead, the narrative focuses on Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a factory worker in the wake of World War I who is impregnated by her rich boss and then discarded after his mother disapproves.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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