where everything is a secret and everyone lives in each other’s pocket, throughout there is a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia quite at odds with the increasingly cosy way that current WW2 novels portray Britain at war, all country lanes and boffins cycling off to Bletchley. S...
America officially only enter World War 2 two years into the war on December 8, 1941, when all but one member of Congress passed the motion one day after theattack on Pearl Harborin Hawaii. Although America formally maintained neutrality up until that moment, the U.S. has long been involve...
After World War II, the victorious allies were determined to eliminate themilitarythreat posed by Germany andJapan. Much of the German industrial infrastructure had been destroyed in the course of the war, with the destruction of military production facilities being a high priority. After the war,...
They were responsible for killing more than 6,000 people and injuring almost 18,000 and were followed by the even more advanced V2 long range rockets – the world’s first ballistic missiles – in September, 1944. These were responsible for another 2,754 deaths in London before the war’s ...
The large population migration as the result of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 saw many civilian deaths, and the 1924 fall of the monarchy would completely reverse itself in 1935. In 1936, the pro-British Ioannis Metaxas took dictatorial control of the nation. In Oct 1940, Metaxas ...
The Dutch government initially pursued a campaign to annex German territory to effectively double the size the country, but ultimately it would only gain two small villages. In the few years after the war, most German passport holders in the Netherlands were deported back to Germany....
ATSEnglishAcronym for "Auxiliary Territorial Service", which was a branch of the British Army in World War II consisted of women. BackbordGermanBackbord is the nautical term that refers to the left side of a ship, as perceived by a person facing towards the bow, or, the front of the sh...
☰ World War II DatabaseHome » Places » Countries » TaiwanTaiwan Alliance Axis - Minor Member Nation or Possession Possessing Power Japan Entry into WW2 7 Jul 1937 Population in 1939 5,500,000 Military Deaths in WW2 30,304 Contributor: C. Peter Chen...
The U.S. war machine and the military-industrial complex are actually running America, said U.S. political commentator Jimmy Dore. "Who benefits? I'll tell you right now, your enemy is not China or Russia. Your enemy is the military-industrial complex fleecing this country to the tune of...
Strategic bombing during World War II, the mass bombing of military targets and population centers during the Second World War. Large multi-engine bombers operated in formations (sometimes numbering 1,000 or more) that were intended not to evade enemy de