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First World

Former term for the industrialized capitalist, or free-market, countries of the West. It was used during the Cold War, along with the classifications Second World (industrialized communist countries) and Third World (non-aligned, developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America). The terms originally denoted political alignment, but later took on economic connotations that are now considered derogatory.

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By the measure of language and institutional participation (Vereinwesen), Kazal argues, Germans were well on the road to assimilation in the decades immediately prior to the First World War, even though German neighborhoods maintained German associations and practiced, to use another felicitous formulation by Kathleeen Conzen, "a kind of biculturalism in spite of structural assimilation.

Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German American Identity by Amato, Joseph A. / Journal of Social History

Indeed, the honored dead of the First World War did total 116,708.

War is not the answer by Harder, B. / Science News

A preface explains the political situation right after the First World War, and closing notes give more information both about Devorah and about South Africa's Jewish adoptions.

Linda Press Wulf The Night of the Burning: Devorah's Story by Lempke, Susan Dove / The Horn Book Magazine

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