As a precaution, however, the government granted itself emergency powers to prepare for an invasion by either the Germans or the Allies; as it would turn out, both sides of the war would conduct invasions against neutral nations during the course of the European War. While hostile German ...
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....
a drastic change from World War I when some 90% of deaths were occasioned at the fronts. Moreover, the invention of the atom bomb during the war and its deployment by the USA at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9 August 1945) suggested that, in any future nuclear conflict, civilians would...
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...
Is it World War 2 destruction or Soviet regime destruction? I would like to know that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which country had the most World War 2 destruction( such as battlefield etc.) or the least World war 2 destruction for old towns in Baltic States. ...
War on Terror and begin waging wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, as in the previous century they had in Vietnam. (No learning curve there, it seems.) In the process, its leaders imagined a country that would remain untouched by war’s ravages, which was we now know — or do...
The U.S caused the Soviet Union delayed entrance into the Second World War, leaving the Soviet Union defenseless and caused millions of Russian deaths. They were also unh appy, due to the fact that the U.S. refuses to accept Russia as a member of the International country members. These ...
years with the motivation of Hitler, who gave the people a group to blame them on. Prior to the Second World War, the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI and immediate fighting, but did not address some underlying causes of the war, enabling the problems to fester, which aided Hitler in per...
Mexico became one of the only two Latin American nations to dispatch an expeditionary force to participate in the war fron the front lines (the other being Brazil). Mexican troops fought in European and Pacific theaters of war. One Mexican air squadron, Esquadron 201, famously flew air ...
After the war, Tajikistan remained a part of the Soviet Union until the independent Republic of Tajikistan was formed in Sep 1991.Source: Wikipedia Last Major Update: May 2013Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Even $1 per month will go a long way! Thank you. Please help us spread ...