During the last 65 years, European, American and Russian historians have often tried to study the reasons which led to the Allied invasion of Iran on 25 August 1941. For a long period, the main obstacle was the limited access to official documentary sources. Gradually, British and Russian ...
Though Churchill advocated for an expanded Allied push through the Mediterranean, Roosevelt (who was not interested in protecting British imperial interests) insisted that the invasion take place in France. With the location settled, it was decided that the attack would come in May 1944. As Stalin...
The drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan and was apparently launched by Iran-backed militants was the latest in a flurry of attacks and reprisals across the Middle East.
The prevailing view of the Reich’s invasion of the Soviet Union is based on misinformation. Woefully uninformed is nearer the mark. It is commonly held that the rapacious land-hungry Reich made a fatal blunder in taking on the unprepared but plucky Russians. This is a fairy tale as far r...
It was the brainchild of George Steer, a pre-war Times war correspondent that made his name reporting on the Italian atrocities during the invasion of Abyssinia and later reporting on the Spanish Civil War. Numbering about 60 all ranks per unit, they were tasked “to carry out frontline ...
joined the United States Army, was part of World War II during the Normandy Invasion. eng.embassyusa.cn 我父亲加入了美国陆军,在诺曼 底攻入中,成为 第 二 次 世 界大战的 参与 者。 embassyusa.cn Within the general context of ...
Invasion of Poland Key People: Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Alessandro Pertini Franklin D. Roosevelt Edward O’Hare See all related content Top Questions What was the cause of World War II? What countries fought in World War II? Who were the leaders during World War II?
invasion of its western neighbour. Secret negotiations led on August 23–24 to the signing of theGerman-Soviet Nonaggression PactinMoscow. In a secretprotocolof this pact, the Germans and the Soviets agreed that Poland should be divided between them, with the western third of the country going...
It was on June 22, 1941, that the British received an unexpected gift: the German invasion of the Soviet Union. This attack resulted in an Anglo-Soviet treaty on July 12, 1941—and unlike the smaller nations that had been so quickly overrun by the German war machine, the Soviet Union wa...