Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects. A war crime, it is distinguished …

The Bosnian War was the first time that mass rape was recognized and prosecuted by an international tribunal. Genocidal rape is a feature of campaigns which involve ethnic cleansing and genocide, as the objective is to destroy or forcefully remove the target population, and ensure they do not return. According to Amnesty International, the use of rape during times of war is …

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre …

War and Wartime Changes: The Transformation of Arkansas, 1940–1945 (U of Arkansas Press, 1986). O'Brien, Kenneth Paul and Lynn Hudson Parsons, eds. The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society (1995) online essays by scholars; Spinney, Robert G. World War II in Nashville: Transformation of the Homefront (1998) Verge, Arthur C.

Life During Wartime is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by filmmaker Todd Solondz. ... When he asks her about the mechanics of rape, Trish urges him to scream as soon as any man touches him. Meanwhile, Joy takes a break from Allen, and heads to Florida to spend time with Trish. She begins having visions of Andy, a former ...

The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deporation and enslavement, by German troops against Belgian civilians during the invasion and occupation of Belgium in World War I.. The neutrality of Belgium had been guaranteed by the Treaty of London (1839), which had been signed by Prussia.However, the German Schlieffen …

During World War II, the German combined armed forces (Heer, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe) committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, mass rape, looting, the exploitation of forced labor, the murder of three million Soviet prisoners of war, and participated in the extermination of Jews.While the Nazi Party's own SS forces (in particular the SS …

Attempts to conceptualize something similar to a modern "military–industrial complex" existed before Eisenhower's address. Ledbetter finds the precise term used in 1947 in close to its later meaning in an article in Foreign Affairs by Winfield W. Riefler. In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills had claimed in his book The Power Elite that a class of military, business, and political leaders ...

Weapons were handed in at ceremonies where the wartime role of the army was praised. Aftermath Repatriation. Japanese troops who remained in Malaya, Java, Sumatra, and Burma at the end of the war were transferred to Rempang and Galang Islands from October 1945 on to await repatriation to Japan. Galang was renamed Sakae by the troops.

A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed (or reflected) light.This was done in the 20th century to prevent crews of enemy aircraft from being able to identify their targets by sight, such as during the London Blitz of 1940. In coastal regions, a shoreside blackout of city lights also ...