World War 2
The Second World War began in 1939 and ended in 1945 and engaged most of Europe and Asia into combat between the Allies and the Axis powers.
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i) To promote cooperation. ii) To increase trade, and therefore employment and income. iii) To stabilize exchange rates and to...
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'Coup de grace' means the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
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On 19 April 1839 the Treaty of London signed by the European powers (including the Netherlands) recognized Belgium as an...
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They dropped the Atomic Bomb 'Little Boy' onto the town of Hiroshima, and 'Fat Man' onto Nagasaki. This prompted Japan to...
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In the years leading up to World War two, the USSR had invaded Finland in a Border war, had annexed parts of Rommania as well as...
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I don't think that he existed. Most of the information I've seen shows that 19 people were the recipents two Congressional...
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A PFC in the US Army paid $6.50 as a monthly premium for $10,000 worth of life insurance in World War 2.
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If I understand the forum rules, such excessively long answers, and in a discussion format, should be left for the Discussion...
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The 4th Marine Regiment was on Corregidor when the island was surrendered by Gen. Wainwright, May 6, 1942. Richard V....
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Two waves had been sent into Pearl harbor demolishing the battleline and airforces present. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo...
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AnswerEach nation had their particular reason for entering the war.Germany: Hitler initiated the actions that sparked the start...
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Wendy, There was virtually no resistance. Once the Emperor himself had ordered surrender people accepted it. Of course they...
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World War I : Italy versus Central PowersItaly fought the Central powers in World War I, in an attempt to consolidate their...
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The Nationalists lost, the Democracies won, the Communists had a 50 year breathing space.
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AnswerThe names of operations were chosen purely randomly precisely so that if enemy intelligence learned one, they could not...
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August 6, (Hiroshima) & 9 (Nagasaki), 1945. And Japan surrendered August 14, 1945.
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Co. A of the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment was a part of Combat Command B, 3rd Armored Division. It was Combat Command B that...
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I don't think it affected the overall course of the war although it scared the bejesus out of Australia and forced them to...
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AnswerIt proved a huge boost to the moral of the German Military. A small group of German paratroopers were subjected to some of...
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Japan believed that the European powers were too involved in their own war to be able to respond to her aggression in the Far...
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AnswerSNAFU means Situation Normal All F&^ked Up. It is one of many that military people use to describe situations that...
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The standard has always been a pilot has to shoot at least five planes down(since ww-1). To become an "ace", you had to...
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Answerthe goals of each major country:Germany- Get revenge for the treaty of versallis,gain territories lost in world war I and...
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For the invasions of Poland, France and Czechoslovakia the Germans were at an advantage because of their mobile warfare doctrine...
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The first draft registration for World War II was held September 16, 1940 for all men between 21 and 36 years of age.
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Allies - China, USA, UK, Australia, Philippines, Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, France, USSR: 4,440,000 military casualties...
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Full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died during the Holocaust will never be known. Some estimates range as high...
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"On March 12, 1938, Hitler pressured his native Austria into unification with Germany (the Anschluss) and made a triumphant entry...
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It wasn't.......despite massive press in the West. If important for anything it was in hastening the collapse of Germany...
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About halfway down the page: "Links to Silver Star Indexes and Citations" for Silver Star indexes of all US wars and actions...
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Hilter wanted to take over the world and destroy any person or group that got in his way. He killed six million Jews. ___ Hitler...
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Army Air Force as the US Air Force as it's own entity hasn't been created yet.
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1. The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of the Jewish people in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe by the Nazis. 3. Nazi...
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P-40 "Skyhawk" The plane used by the "Flying Tigers" early in the war. Correction: "Warhawk". Also used by British and...
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After World War I, all of Europe and the U.S. fell into an economic depression. (Germany and the USSR were not included in this...
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Japan surrendered and the war was ended
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On the Axis side, with Germany & Italy in Europe. Slovokia helped the Germans invade Poland in September 1939, and fight the...
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Bombing of Dublin The city of Dublin was indeed bombed on the night of 31 May 1941. Four bombs fell on the city (presumably from...
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Stalin saw Hitler and Nazi Germany as a great enemy and danger to the Soviet state. He was preparing for war when Germany...
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AnswerHave you any idea as to the name of the Air Base that the 1152nd Army Air Force Base Unit was assigned to? Also, did the...
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Il Duce began to turn the island of Pantelleria into a military base on October 29, 1922.
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One woman & five children on a church sponsored outing at Mt. Gearhart, Oregon were the only casualties on American soil by...
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No, as it involved the USA.Here's why (1) The U.S. Constitution authorizes the temporary federal government administration in...
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AnswerGustave Courbet
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Just some random names? General Dwight Eisenhower, Lt. John Kennedy, Colonel Jimmy Stuart, Sergeant Mickey Rooney and my...
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I think that Hitler became so strong because he was so persuasive and his people beleived everything he said. So many people...
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Children often went without proper clothing, food, or toys in order to ration to help the war effort.
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Answerim not sure about usa or Canada but in Britain there was 400,000 German prisoners.
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Sir Winston Churchill did.
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There are no official fixed figures for casualties on D-Day. Estimated total casualties for D-Day 6th June is 10.000....
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Britain's involvement in the war was the war in Northern Africa, they were helping out the rest of the world by fighting the...
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As the only man who stood alone against fascism in 1940... while everyone else turned a blind eye, Churchill faced it head...
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On February 19, 1999, President William J. Clinton posthumously pardoned Second Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper. The event came...
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4th Cavalry tanks (F Company) approached a gate at Nordhausen I was a tank gunner A train was pulling out and I shot up the...
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AnswerThe true number of resistance fighters who answered the call on D-Day will probably never be known because each cell was...
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No. When WWII broke out, Sweden had many times stated herself as a strictly neutral country. It had not been involved in a war...
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AnswerUnfortunaely the American fleet was not hiding anywhere. The American fleet was very predictable with its rotations at...
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Australia was the third largest supplier of combat troops from the Commonwealth in Europe. Her troops were used largely in the...
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AnswerBecause in 1937 japan never invaded the islands that were owned by U.S Japan may have gotten started before everyone else,...
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The numbers vary widely, particularly in China and the USSR, but 14 million is a good estimate for all services in all the...
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http://www.generals.dk/ Platt Sir William, General (1885-1975) 1930 - 1933Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion Wiltshire...
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AnswerThe events that led up to WWII are nearly all directly linked to what happened in WWI, the Treaty of Versailles left...
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The Native Americans Were Able To Keep The Japanese From Finding Information That We Were Calling In By Speaking In Their Native...
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UK russia FranceThe list is long, even Mexico's Air Force were there in the Pacific!
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The only concentrated group was the Jews,(and it was a massive concentrated effort by the NAZI's) the balance were just whatever...
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See; http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stenographer Ron
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The "Axis Powers" included Germany, Italy and Japan. The "Allies", opposed to the Axis, included the British Empire (including...
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No they dont, so dont bother cleaning it, just put it on and it wont eventually get blocked up, and you wont die, you will just...
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I believe it was called a "World War" for the simple reason that the major countries were at war. Most of Europe was ingauged in...
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93,941 U.S. Army & Air Corps personnel were captured & held as POWs by Axis Forces in the E.T.O. during WW 2. Richard V....
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Germans losing at Stalingrad and d-day
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Nazi was a nickname for people associated with the Party, not used in any official context but in everyday conversation. The...
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Possibly. Use a search engine to find it. Google is perhaps the best, www.google.com. Use "Kokoda trail" as a key phrase. Then do...
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No Army Air Force personnel were killed during the raid. Men died while parachuting from their aircraft over China, others...
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before WWII NZ economy was very weak (an on the verge of bankruptcie) and was suffering inflation, During the war The British...
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They didn't have a choice. Germany's factories and targets of military importance were sometimes located in major cities and...
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No, he only thought he did. He lead Germany to the greatest disaster in its history. Answer Of course not. But he made a...
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The US Military used three models of Flame Throwers in combat. They are as follows: M1 Flame Thrower-first used in the...
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Yes, there were. Most noteworthy were the "Navajo Codetalkers," whos Native American language could not be understood by the...
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AnswerSIMPLE: IF HE HAD TAKEN OUT BRITAIN FIRST JUST AS DR. CARL HOUSEHOFFER (HITLERS MERLIN) TOLD HIM TO DO, CONSOLIDATED HIS...
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AnswerD-Day was necesary. There were over a million German troops in Italy and they had stopped all advances further north from...
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Given the segregated nature of American society at the time of WWII, and of the armed forces, there were significantly fewer...
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GEORGE S WELCH WAS FROM WILMINGTON DELAWARE, THERE IS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HIM, AND MORE INFO ON HIM IS IN THE BOOK...
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Regardless of what would have happened in Europe, Japan's aggression would not have been affected. Having little of their own...
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Japan needed the things it was buying from the U.S., like scrap iron and oil, to make the weapons in was using in its war in...
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Australian soldiers helped to fight off the Japanese in Malaya. Moreover, they were the ones who caused a lot of damage to the...
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The Panzerkampwagen VIa (Tiger 1) scored more hits because more of them were built and were in production earlier. Addition by...
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Dec. 23, 1948 seven "Class A" war criminals, including Japan's wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were hanged at Sugamo Prison...
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The basic characterising word would be "Austerity" Rationing was not brought to and end by the war finishing, and some items...
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Very important. Britain staying in the game meant that it could be used as the launching point for an allied invasion of Europe....
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It was used for heavy artillery bombardment.
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AnswerThe surprise comes down to two things. Firstly, no one (and that really does mean no one) had EVER successfully invaded...
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Hardline German nationalists refused to believe that Germany had been defeated on the battlefield. Instead, they blamed Jews and...
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It was a decisvie victory for the UK which would lead to the expulsion of AXIS forces from Africa (exposing Italy to invasion and...
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The "Aryan supremacy" theory teaches that Aryans originated in Northern Europe and created the earliest and best civilizations....
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