When John Trandel was born on 22 May 1935, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, Vincent Trandel Trawczynski, was 28 and his mother, Jean Valerie Stanislawski, was 23. He died on 15 April 1981, in his hometown, at the age of 45.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Nearly 332,000 Wisconsin residents served in the U.S. military during World War II. Nine thousand of these were women.
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
German: from a pet form of the personal name Brand 1. It is also found in France (Alsace).
Americanized form of South German Brändle (see Brandle ).
Swedish: variant of Brandell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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