If World War I Was a Bar Fight
But Britain had reason to blame Germany as it was Germany that entered Belgium and compelled Britain to uphold the Treaty of London, even though Germany had been warned of this. And concerning britain, not a lot of people know this for some reason, but hitler bombed a lot of public places when he could and should have bombed air fields
50 Famous Faces in Uniform during World War 2 - Abroad in the Yard
Reply Kim says: 11 November 2014 at 15:52 Bob Keesham enlisted near the end of the war and never saw combat and Marvin was shot in the butt on Saipan not Iwo Jima. He flew 5 combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses in 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross
Hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic in 1923 Germany
Who can tell just when some stray breeze will cause a rickety house of cards to collapse? Once a snowballing financial and economic deflation gets underway, it could develop with breathtaking speed. Soon the government, instead of worrying about inflation, would be using desperation measures to halt the collapse, even if it had to run budgetary deficits of 100 billion or more
International - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Web of Surveillance East German Snitching Went Far Beyond the Stasi Everyone knows about the Stasi and the extent to which it spied on the East German populace
20th Century History: Events and People of the 1900s
Share Who Bombed Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior? On July 10, 1985, Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French secret agents while it was berthed in Auckland, New Zealand. Share What Was the Scopes Trial? On July 10, 1925, the Scopes Trial began, featuring two famous lawyers battling to decide whether creationism and evolution should be taught in schools
The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918
The physical and mental strain of the long hours at dispersal, the constant flying at high altitudes (two or three sorties a day were normal, six or seven not uncommon), must have been prodigious. Jul 18 1940 Rising casualties at home, Mediterranean fleet bombed During the operations in the Eastern Mediterranean last week the Fleet and the slower of the two convoys from Malta to Alexandria which the Fleet was covering were continually bombed without success
Read More Engines of Destruction: Roman Advancement of Siege Warfare The Neo-Assyrian Empire used earthen ramps, siege towers and battering rams in sieges; the Greeks and Alexander the Great created destructive new engines known as artillery to further their sieges, and the Romans used every technique to perfection. That is to say, the Romans were not inventors, but they were superb engineers and disciplined, tough soldiers who fought against great odds and won, repeatedly...
World War II
Fascism, was a promise to respond to the needs of the people more effectively than a democracy could and to assure defense against the state becoming communist. There was the development of new weaponry, such as the long-range rocket and the A-bomb, as well as radical advancements in the mechanized units and the air force
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