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Kennedy knew about the Second World War and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, because the attack took place on the very day that the family had moved to their new home in Land Park.
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Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The territory remained under Portuguese rule, apart from a brief Japanese occupation during the Second World War, until 1975, when a left-wing Portuguese government pledged to withdraw from all its colonies.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Argentina and the Second World War Bíró's work came at a time of political turmoil in the days before the outbreak of the Second World War.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
The results expose the emotional price of French colonialism and of repressed memories of the Second World War.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
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Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The territory remained under Portuguese rule, apart from a brief Japanese occupation during the Second World War, until 1975, when a left-wing Portuguese government pledged to withdraw from all its colonies.
—Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Argentina and the Second World War Bíró's work came at a time of political turmoil in the days before the outbreak of the Second World War.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
The results expose the emotional price of French colonialism and of repressed memories of the Second World War.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
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