Who was the military leader in feudal Japan? Who was the prime minister of Japan during WW2? What were three nations controlled by Japan during World War II? Who founded the Empire of Japan? Which country was a member of the axis powers: Japan, the Soviet Union, Austria or Czechoslovaki...
Who declared WW2? Who ordered the Goliad massacre? Who perpetrated the Holodomor? Who ran the concentration camps during the Holocaust? Who killed Heinrich Himmler? Who was found not guilty at the Nuremberg Trials? Who controlled Nagasaki during the Age of Exploration?
Hiroo Onoda is a Japanese citizen that originally worked at a Chinese trading company. When he was 20 years old, he was called to join the Japanese army. He promptly quit his job and headed off to training in Japan. At a certain po...
During WW2 German U-boats were wrecking most of the Allied merchant fleet. The British noticed that the subs stayed far away from any ships that could actually shoot back, so it made sense to disguise the warships as small merchant ships. They also noticed that the subs surfaced when they...
Who was allied with Russia during World War 1? World War I The first world war was the beginning of conflict that would spread to a global scale. The war that continued to drag alliances into it would quickly claim more lives then any conflict before it. ...
World War II: World War II broke out in 1939 following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Determined to stand up to Nazi aggression, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. In the summer of 1941, Germany turned its attention to the East and invaded the Soviet Union. At this po...
My grandfather served aboard the Iowa during WW2 (43-45) He told of events such as traveling the Panama Canal on the way to the Pacific, the Liberation of The Philippines, and encountering a typhoon which inflicted damage on the ship. The Iowa was in dry-dock for repairs: Dec 44-March...
In their highly variable and asymmetric relations, during which the political-military elites of Japan at times not only favoured, but also opposed and strictly controlled the European presence, missionaries – particularly the Jesuits – tried to negotiate this power balance with their interlocutors....
The huge military budgets now being built in Germany and Japan, the enormous Nato exercises that coordinate the United States military with that of the whole of Europe and AUKUS, are all aimed at Russia and evidently China. They all point to high levels of capitalist worldwar preparations, and...