Why was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor so successful? Why did Germany surrender in WW2? Why was Pearl Harbor important to WW2? Why did Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan surrender in 1945? Why did Imperial Japan ally with Nazi Germany?
Why was guerrilla warfare effective against the British? Why was guerrilla warfare so successful in Vietnam? Why did a stalemate develop on the Western Front during WW2? Why did the U.S. use attrition warfare in Vietnam? Why was the Pequot War considered a tactic of warfare?
Korea, like Germany, had been occupied by Soviet and United States forces at the end of World War II. Korea was split in half via the 38th parallel after the Japanese Empire fell near the end of the conflict. The soviets occupied the north side of the line and the Americans occupied the...
Truman dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. This action was an attempt to make the Japanese army surrender, which was almost impossible considering they had a mindset of ‘Bushido’, or no surrender, so a large action was needed to be taken. To share the respon...
Let's say the US found itself cut off by military blockade from the rest of the world, like in WW2. No optical glass from Germany, Japan, Russia or China.Where is the optical glass for all the binoculars, submarine periscopes,drone cameras, spyplanes, spy satellites, rifle scopes,...
But it wasn’t all hood work with Charlie. We also flew in IMC. I thought flying in the weather was easier; even Charlie seemed more subdued in the soup. One foggy morning out at Dulles, Charlie and I were waiting for the ceiling to improve so we could launch on an IFR training fli...
as the U.S. and Germany were enemies in WW2, but that’s the point: even though Jews had for centuries been accepted as equals in the American South, and Southern racialism wasn’t remotely anti-Semitic, Northern Jews descended on the region by the busloads as the “Freedom Riders” to...
Silent movies that played in 1926 The silent cinema was not a primitive style of filmmaking, waiting for better technology to appear, but an alternate form of storytelling, with artistic triumphs equivalent to or greater than those of the sound films that followed. ...
Consultations in the Normandy format, involving the foreign ministers of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, have just concluded. A joint press statement was released following the meeting. The parties thoroughly discussed the situation in Ukraine with an eye toward a potential summit in Astana. We...
Finland in WW2 was an odd case. After Germany invaded Poland from the east and WW2 started, Russia invaded Poland from the west but no one declared war on Russia. Russia and Germany had a nonaggression pact and half of Poland was part of the deal. A month or so later R...