Japan 1941 1945
In Asia the second world war began in 1937 when Japan launched a full scale attack on China. Like Germany, Japan was driven by the need for living space and by a racial ideology that had the Japanese...
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Pacific War (1941-1945) The most extraordinary war in modern history. A giant conflict between the Japanese Empire and the United States of America, spanning half the entire earth, from San Fransisco...
The American Ambassador at Moscow transmitted to the Secretary of State, by a telegram dated April 5, 1945, the following statement, as received from the press section of the Foreign Office, regarding...
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DENNIS BACA IS 89 YEARS OLD. HE'S A DAD AND A GRANDFATHER. AND AS OF TODAY - A PROUD, VERY PROUD, HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. WHY? BECAUSE FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY CAME BEFORE FINISHING SCHOOL. BUT...
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CAUGHT. NEXT WEEK, AN 89-YEAR OLD WORLD WAR TWO VETERAN WON'T ONLY BE A WAR HERO... BUT ALSO A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. HE'S WAITED DECADES TO GET THE DIPLOMA, BECAUSE HE WAS DRAFTED INTO...
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The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Hiroshima aims to commemorate all innocent victims from the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the at the end of...
Nuclear weapons are mankind’s unthinkable weapon. But would it surprise you to know that conventional weapons can be just as deadly? I’m Jim Lindsay, and this is Lessons Learned. Our topic today is...
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In 1858, the French - Spanish coalition army attacked Da Nang port (Great Annam Country) to begin the war to conquer Indochina 1863, France successfully ruled Cao Mien (now Cambodia) In almost 30...
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So between 1941 and 1945, the US drops about 3 million tons of bombs on Germany and Japan. This is industrial capitalist war to the extreme in every sense. First of all, it takes a huge investment of...
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When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government uprooted more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and relocated them to internment camps around the country. Seven decades later, the...
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