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Articles about World War II (0-50 of 6865)
- Live World Cup 2010
By: Chuck S. White | - Did you know that no less than 208 different national teams competed for the opportunity to play in the 2010 World Cup? It's true. The teams come from virtually every country on Earth, including places as diverse as Liberia and Nicaragua. There are even teams that competed for the privilege from countries that are mortal enemies like Israel and Libya. So how did we get here? Where did the concept for the world cup start and where is it going in the future?
Well, it goes way back to ...
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- Comic Legend Joe Kubert Opens His Vault To Fans
By: Hector Cantu | - One of comics' legendary artists and creators was barely 12 years old when he began a career that would lead to work on some of comics' most popular characters. But ask Joe Kubert about the most fulfilling part of his journey and he won't mention his work on Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, the Flash, Tarzan, Enemy Ace, or Batman.
"The most satisfying work is the work on my table right now," Kubert, 83, says from his studio in New Jersey. "The more I can get into the work I'm doing, the more s ...
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- The History Of Cassino Told At The Historiale
By: Martina Meneghetti | - Cassino and the surrounding territory are rooted in history, an ancient history and that has left a lot of marks on these hills and these so beautiful landscapes.
The big history has passed here with Hannibal in the Second Punic War. Later this place has affected the culture of Italy with the Placiti Cassinesi and of the world with S. Benedict and the Benedictine rule. A story that has become too hard during the Second World War, bringing the total destruction of the city and of th ...
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- World War 1: Ieper (ypres), Belgium
By: Ankit Prashar | - Belgium, a country in the northwest of Europe on the North Sea. In ancient times Belgium was inhabited by the Belgae, the region was part of the Carolingian and Roman empires before breaking up into a number of feudal states during the middle Ages. The region occupied by present-day Belgium passed to the Hapsburgs in the 15th century and then to the French in the 18th century. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Belgium was given to the kingdom of the Netherlands, from which it gained independ ...
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- Where Was The First World Cup Of Soccer Held And Who Won?
By: Adriana Noton | - The World Cup of Soccer has a unique and fascinating history. The first games of the World Cup of Soccer tournament were held on July 13, 1930 at Pocitos Stadium and Estadio Gran Parque Central in Montevideo, Uruguay. France won the first round of the Cup over Mexico by four to one, and the USA won over Belgium by three to one. Lucien Laurent of France was the first player to score a goal in Cup history. Eighteen matches were held in total, with seventy goals scored.
The World Cu ...
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- The Great History Passed Through Monte Cassino
By: Martina Meneghetti | - One of the most important and bloody battles of the Second World War was the Battle of Monte Cassino, while the allies tried to break through the Gustav Line of the German defenses.
Monte Cassino and the surrounding area were often the protagonists of important historical moments, since ancient times. One of the highlights was the famous battle of Monte Cassino.
When speaking of the Battle of Monte Cassino, in fact it refers to a series of four battles fought during t ...
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- After The World War Ii Europe Was Weakened In Its Strength
By: Gurdip Malik | - After the World War II Europe was weakened in its strength and United States and America and Russia were the two nations probable for the superpower position. The cold war was the rift between these two countries which started in the mid 40s after the world war. Russia and United Stated of America were having a clash in political, ideological, military and economical values and ideas. But cold war was never fought as a war even though both these countries had a great military build up.
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- The Worst German Victory In World War Ii
By: William Nugent | - World War II is called "World War" because of its worldwide geographic extent and this is perhaps the least imaginative and least instructive basis to name a war. The Second World War was a teachable moment in a multitude of ways and we should draw as much of a lesson as possible from this costly and utterly tragic conflict.
This article will focus on the European theater and the ultimate German victory in that theater. The war in Europe in WW II was a war over philosophy. Many if ...
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- The Lesser-known Facts: A Wwii Study Guide To American (non-)involvement
By: Paul Thomson | - This July 24th marks the 65th anniversary of the German retreat from Brittany and Normandy just a month and a half after the D-Day invasion of World War II. Heralded as the major turning point on the European front, the Allied invasion of Normandy remains one of the most celebrated military operations in living memory, having helped put an end to what is commonly known in America as the Good War.
While buzzwords like D-Day, Allied Forces, and Good War give WWII an honored place in ...
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- World War 2 - The Build Up To War
By: Richard McMunn | - On the 1st April 1924, for his part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch Hitler was sentenced to serve Five years in Landsberg Prison, a sentence for which he served little less than a year. During his trial Hitler popularity soared as he was given unrivalled amount of time to speak turning him from a local personality, to a National figure. When serving time in Landsberg Hitler would receive favoured treatment from the prison guards and much mail from admirers, however the majority of his short stay ...
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- Did Pallets Help Win The War?
By: Michael Smith | - You wouldn't know it to look at them but the lowly wooden pallet is John Wayne and Audie Murphy rolled into one. A true unsung hero of World War II. How else would you describe the one piece of equipment that almost single-handedly got our troops the equipment and supplies where they needed them and when they needed them, time after time after time?
Even though there were versions of the wooden shipping pallet around since the 1800's, the real push came with the war in the Pacific ...
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- Remember Wwii
By: Nate Gillespie | - June 6 is D-Day. Or the 65th anniversary of D-Day, to be exact. It's hard to believe that that momentous day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy and marked the beginning of the end of World War II, is now old enough to qualify for Social Security.
And if the day itself is old enough for retirement, that means that the men who fought there ranging from teenagers to older soldiers in their 30s and even 40s are all now entering the twilight phase of life. Or they're alre ...
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- World War 2 - The Early Days
By: Richard McMunn | - After the end of the Great War Hitler returned to Munich and remained in the army or the Reichswehr as it would be known. In his role as an Intelligence Commando, he would infiltrate a small political party known originally as the German Workers Party which would later be changed to the National Socialists German Workers Party (NSDAP). On inspection Hitler was impressed by the parties founder member Anton Drexler's nationalists anti-Semitic, anti-Capitalist and anti-Marxist ideologies which favo ...
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- World War 2
By: Richard McMunn | - November 11th 1918 a famous day in history, the end of World War one. World War one the war to end all wars, a famous quote by then US President Woodrow Wilson, so right he should have been after the suffering and heartache endured by all nations involved, the awful conditions in the trenches and the horrific loss of life on all sides. An estimated total of over 65 million troops were deployed by all nations culminating in over 8 million confirmed killed, 21 million wounded and nearly 8 million ...
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- How World War 2 Unfolded.
By: Richard McMunn | - On the 28th June 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed after six months of negotiations at the Paris peace conference consisting of diplomats of more than thirty countries including President Woodrow Wilson of the United states, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain and Georges Clemenceau of France, diplomats from Germany & Russia were not allowed to attend, however many representatives from various nations spanning the globe were in attendance each with their own agenda.
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- Swastikas On Scottish War Memorials
By: Stephen Taylor | - Very little has been published about these examples of the Swastika in Scotland, because they often appear in unexpected places, off the beaten track and the relevant artefacts are sometimes only found in museums.
The Balmoral War Memorial
The Balmoral War Memorial at Crathie Church, Deeside, was unveiled on 3rd September 1922 by His Majesty King George V, in memory of the men from the estates who gave their lives in the Great War. The names of the men from the Crat ...
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- Mystery, History And Story Of A Lifetime To Relive And Enjoy - Foyles War Dvd
By: Lance Thorington | - Not just another story or DVD, this story is above the normal. This story is about man who has to deal with unpredictable limitations in a war situation. This real life story is set around the life of a Detective Chief Superintendent during World War II between Britain and the Germans. Each episode unravels the unbelievable circumstances the British soldiers underwent.
This DVD collection takes you back in time where the big world fight and Foyle's personal fight meet and unfold. ...
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- Never, Never, Never Quit
By: Fred Nicklaus | - My father was a short man. He stood about 5'6''. He was a butcher by trade and his hands were rough and thick like the sausages that he made for a living. He was not an educated man but he was a good father and wise in many things.
During the summer or during the evening when he took his shirt off to cool down or get ready for bed I could see the bullet holes, bayonet wound, and scrapnel entry points in his shoulder area. These were his scars from World War 2. He sometimes would t ...
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- The Ss Richard Montgomery - A Ticking Time-bomb In The Thames
By: Patrick Omari | - The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty ship, it sailed for only one year and a month after completion yet is still appearing on shipping news, radars and is kept under close scrutiny today. So what makes this cargo ship so special? The Montgomery, though built to serve and provide vital supplied, is now a danger to shipping after breaking its back and sinking in the Thames Estuary while fully laden with munitions and explosives.
American Liberty ships were cargo vessels ...
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- World War Ii
By: Jeff Stats | - "I give snatches; I describe episodes; I makeas it weresnapshots in time; I reflect personal recollections, thoughts, experiences, and views of specific individuals.." those are the words of Marius Broekmeyer the author of Stalin, the Russians, and Their War, 1941-1945. This line represents the main idea of the book and its thesis. The author is providing the reader with authentic memoirs and thoughts of people who lived through that horrible war and thus he is taking the reader ...
Tags: history essay, World War 2, Broyekmeyer, Soviet Union, Stali
- A Brief History Of The First World War
By: Patrick Omari | - The 20th Century was a period that saw more scientific discoveries and inventions than any other period in time. The century started with steam-powered ships being the height of technology and ended with a constant human presence in space, moon landings and a world-wide network of computers and global distribution of information. The world has never shrunk so much as during the 20th Century, the Internet would give instant communication to anywhere on Earth and civilian aircraft gave people unpr ...
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- The Ultimate Collection Of Great War Dvds
By: Bob | - War DVDs section covers the Napoleonic Era, military and war movies, and also word war II movies. The war DVDs contains hundreds of movies and documentary reviews. War DVDs also contains Great Britain wars films of all the time. War DVD films contains the struggles of the British forces before the tide turned in the conflict. Mixing black and white footage with modern-day interviews, this series of war DVDs are giving tribute to England's involvement in history's bloodiest conflict.
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- Writing Creatively
By: Jennian Bikkins | - Creative writing is used to help regular expository writing become more interesting. You can use creative writing to do many tasks to help compose your paper. For instance, use this technique to select and narrow down your chose of topic. You can also generate and ideas, research ideas, and organize the ideas into a thesis. Use creative writing to develop examples, specific details, analogies and metaphors into your writing. This method is especially good for writing your introductions and concl ...
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- Zippo Windproof Lighters - Collect An American Icon
By: Jim Olivero | - You do not have to be a smoker to be a collector of Zippo Lighters. The Zippos reason for being goes well beyond being used as a cigarette lighter. This lighter is a piece of classic American workmanship that has proved itself as being an ideal object to collect, to use and to be seen with. Zippo Windproof Lighters, first manufactured in the early 1930s, now represent one of the fastest growing categories in the world of collectibles. They have become an American icon. They are James Dean cool, ...
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- March Afb Museum Is Fascinating Look At History Of Aviation
By: Cary Ordway | - There's no doubt that travelers along Interstate 215 just south of Riverside have noticed the collection of military and vintage aircraft a short distance from the freeway, but those who have not bothered to stop are truly missing something. The March Field Air Museum is a remarkably detailed look at the history of aviation and, in particular, the use of aviation in modern warfare.
Sprawling alongside the runway at March Air Force Base are more than 60 aircraft of all sizes and sh ...
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- A World War I Soldier's Photo Album: Gas, Guts And Eternal Glory?
By: Jack Deal | - Grandpa collected a series of 350 or so photos, reprints and postcards from World War I when he was an American soldier. For some reason he wanted to save all the pictures and they fill almost two albums.
Maybe it was knowing that one day someone like me would look at the pictures and reflect on the true nature of war. Who knows. But whatever his reasons I'm glad he saved them. The effect of looking at the albums is sobering.
Not much glory there in Grandpa's photo ...
Tags: World War I, WWI, soldier, photo, photo album, Rheims, Belleau Wood, carnage, trenches, poison gas, chlorine
- Hms Indomitable; Scrapped Yet Never Decommisioned.
By: Mollie Kay Smith | - This did not end the war for the Indomitable. She soon returned to the Eastern Fleet, together with Victorious. Together they formed a formidable team as they launched strikes against Sumatra in August and September, and later the Nocobar Islands. She soon joined with Illustrious to make strikes against Medan and, again, Sumatra on December 20th. By the New Year she was detailed to join the British Pacific Fleet and on 4th January was making strikes against Medan with the Victorious and the Inde ...
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- An Ignoble End To A Great Ship (part 1)
By: Mollie Kay Smith | - Admiralty records about HMS INDOMITABLE end with the word scrapped. What a pity no better word could be found to describe the ending of what had been a very illustrious though short career. Lauched on the 26th March 1940 her story ends in 1955.
There appears to be no record of Indomitable's decommissioning though many sources report her early history. By the time I came to know her, in 1952, she was already feeling her age. I only learned of her distinguied career much later. S ...
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- Hitler About The Dual Alliance
By: Andrew Schwartz | - Hitler says in his book Mein Kampf that after learning in history class at school about the events leading to the World War I, the biggest mistake the German Empire could have done was creating the Alliance with Austria in the year 1879, claiming that Austria would be the crash of Germany. Further he annotated dislike for the Hapsburg Empire, referring to it as feeble and disorganized and claimed to have foretold its demolish. Hitler in his book tries to make himself out as a predictor with know ...
Tags: World War I, German Empire, alliance, demolish, nationalism, breakdown, Hapsburg Empire, multi-cultural society.
- Adolf Hitler German Nationalist
By: Andrew Schwartz | - Hitler speaking about Germans says that only those Germans, who live in other countries and have to fight to understand the German language and traditions, really understand the meaning of having to struggle for nationalism or the importance of such a struggle. It is clear that one of the major reasons for Hitler's nationalistic position is a result of never having been defined as German, he is in actual fact a half-breed German; he feels for those Germans who are in a similar situation. In ...
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- The Fbi During The Period Of The World War Ii.
By: Andrew Schwartz | - The time concerning the World War II and the agency called the FBI attracts a great number of listeners. It happened in late 1930s till the 1945. It was a very important period as for the FBI as well as for the whole world, and there were different reason for that statement.
As for the situation in Europe: a great number of events became the reasons for the Great American Depression, and it caused the creation of more not simple tasks for the FBI.
Germany, Italy and Japan brought ...
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- Golda's Stories Of The Holocaust
By: Avinoam Amizan | - The True Stories of a Holocaust Survivor who Survived Six Years in the Concentration Camps.
Golda Sandman was born in the small city of Strachovitsa in south Poland. At the beginning of World War II she was a girl age eighteen. After the occupation by the Germans she was sent from the ghetto to a work camp in the city. Later she was sent to Auschwitz Birkenau and from there to Bergen-Belzen.
She spent totally six years in concentration camps.
After ...
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- Life As A Child In Germany During World War Ii
By: Evelyn Whitaker | - This may be a touchy subject for many to read, but some of the things I'm about to tell you is real and a part of life many of us don't want to hear.
Although there are many articles published about World War II in Germany, not too many touch on the personal aspect of what it was like growing up as a child during the war. For those of you that are interested, this article may be for you.
My parents were raised in Germany during World War II. When the war first start ...
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- A Woman Alone
By: Tina Matsunaga | - When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and sent Americans a personal invitation to join World War II, related jobs essentially ended the Great Depression. However, Americans faced the most dreadful war in world history. During this unimaginably turbulent period in history, Rose became a woman, a wife, and a mother, enduring the heart-wrenching consequences of war.
Rose entered womanhood during the depression. Growing up on a ranch in the West, within a large family, Rose was well a ...
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- World War Ii Names Still In Our Vocabulary -part One - The Lenin Mausoleum
By: Bob Carper | - Almost seventy years have elapsed since the beginning of World War II. This was the bloodiest conflict our global world has ever endured. Almost every country throughout the world lost millions upon millions of its population. There has never been a war fought on such a massive scale as the Second World War. It is doubtful if such a war will ever be fought again. If it ever happens, it will mean the total destruction of our world.
The Lenin Mausoleum is the first of a series ...
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- A Glimpse Of The Weapons Used During World War Ii
By: Joshua Miller | - The Second World War took place from the year 1939 to 1945 and it took place between the Axis Powers and the Allied Powers. This war is regarded as the worst war in history because it led to the deaths of a huge number of people. This war has seen the use of different kinds of life threatening weapons by different countries. Given below are some of the weapons that were used during the World War II, http://www.http://www.a2armory.com/ww2-pistols.html:
Bazooka - This weapon is the ...
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- World War Ii Weaponry
By: Jackie Kent | - Interestingly enough, two innocuous prunes claim to be accepted as one of the secret weapons of World War II period.
Spink, an auction house in London, is selling two graying prunes that it claims were chosen to be stuffed with documents or other maps to be passed on to prisoners of war secretly. As part of the memorabilia sheltered by a British spy the prunes had been preserved.
According to Emily Jackson, the Spink spokeswoman, the prunes are extremely dry and har ...
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- A Beginner's Guide To Medieval Weapons
By: Jackie Kent | - Technological conditions and nature of availability of raw materials form the basis of any culture's arsenal at any point of time in the history of mankind. Prehistoric human race, often better known as the Stone Age civilization were known for their intelligent usage of grinding tools, stone and shaping axes, and creating arrows and spears as weapons for survival strategies. But these implements improved over the years as the technological skills of these cultures improved.
The d ...
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- On The Brink Of A World War
By: Bruce Schwartz | - Just when you think it can't get any worse, it has gotten worse. Since George W. Bush decided (illegally) to launch a war against a country and its civilians, under the guise of fighting terrorists, the American people have learned one thing: Might makes right. Our children are taught to reason and compromise rather than fight. Now, they are being taught that if you want your way all you have to do is lie, mislead, and fight for it if you must. What a terrible lesson. And how much more violence ...
Tags: war, Israel, middle east, america, jewish, Geore Bush, politics, future
- Radical Islam Starts World War And Destroys Un Says Ancient Egyptian Prediction
By: Marshall Masters | - We're living in prophetic times, says a newly-revealed ancient text inscribed by Egyptian scholars shortly after the Exodus. Having survived the millennia, these texts are now part of The Kolbrin Bible. They offer uncannily accurate predictions, and several have already come to pass.
Those yet to be fulfilled warn us that Muslim terrorists will soon trigger a world war that destroys the United Nations and then divides the world into bloody hegemonies. Following that, another predi ...
Tags: radical Islam, Muslim, terrorists, world war, UN, Egyptian, prophecy, predict, prediction, E. L. E.
- The International Spy Museum In Washington Dc
By: Deven | - The International Spy Museum is dedicated to all-but-invisible profession of espionage, and is the only one of its kind. This fascinating museum is a must-see for espionage and history enthusiasts. It is home to the largest collection of international spy-related artifacts ever placed on public display. It tells stories of individual spies through film and state-of-the-art exhibits. The International Spy Museum is located in Washington, DC's historic Pennsylvania Quarter neighborhood at 800 F St ...
Tags: International Spy Museum, Communist Party, Cleveland Ohio, World War II, National Portrait Gallery, National Mall
- How To Write About Something You Know Nothing About And Make It Seem Like You Do
By: James Misko | - I'm too young for World War II, too white and well off to join the native street life, and I've never stepped on the back of an Iditarod dog sled, either coming or going. Never lived in a native village in the bush of Alaska or walked ninety miles through the wilderness.
But I know about them.
When my novel required me to be able to present the difficulties, dangers, and human frustrations of the protagonist who did know these things I had to find out what he went ...
Tags: alaska, anchorage, iditarod, dog races, dog mushing, alcoholics anonymous, world war ii
- Would You Kill? Remembering Stanley Milgram's Psychological Experiments
By: Solomon Rothman | - As survivors of World War II are quickly moving on into memory, and the information revolution facilitates a modern society of well educated, less gullible individuals, the world of fascism and the ideology of racial hatred is moving farther and farther into the past. Weve all seen the history channel videos showing images of death and destruction, complete with bulldozers pushing corpses into mass graves, but that seems like another time, right? Of course, people wouldnt do that now ...
Tags: psychological community, Stanley Milgram, psychology experiments, psychologist, world war, Holocaust
- Will War In The Middle East Eventually Begin The Battle Of Armageddon?
By: C.F. Bettridge | - Will history eventually disintegrate into a global holocaust of devastating chaos like many religious people say? Is the present situation in the Middle East that religious folks say are pointing at to give their claims weight? They are insisting that these events have been arranged specifically to forecast the day that Christ will rise up and walk the earth again at judgment. What makes this claim different then what they have asserted ...
Tags: armageddon, future world war, battle of armageddon, middle east will begin armageddon
- An Overview Of Japan For Travelers
By: Richard Monk | - For such a tiny total landmass, Japan has left an undeniable stamp on human history. If you are considering Japan as a destination, here is an overview of the country.
An Overview of Japan for Travelers
Extending along the eastern coast of Asia, Japan is a country consisting of a collection of islands. The mainland, as we think of it, is the island of Honshu. There are three other large islands, Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and roughly 3,000 much smaller islands c ...
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