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J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies
All category topics on the military, political, social, and cultural aspects of the Second World War.
All category topics on the military, political, social, and cultural aspects of the Second World War.
The Gestapo was the secret police force of Nazi Germany. It was officially known as the Geheime Staatspolizei, which translates to "Secret State Police" in English. The Gestapo was notorious for its brutality and its use of torture to extract information from its prisoners. In this article, we will explore…
How Many World War 2 Veterans Are Still Alive? We did the research and we have some answers. World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, involved millions of soldiers from all over the world. Over the years, the number of World War II veterans has declined significantly due…
Executive Order 9066 was a controversial order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, during World War II. The order authorized the forced relocation of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, from the West Coast to internment camps in remote areas of the…
The Doolittle Raid was a daring bombing mission carried out by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The mission was led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle and carried out on April 18, 1942, just a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid…
Enola Gay was the name of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that was used to drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. The aircraft was named after the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who flew the plane during the mission. The…
D Day, also known as the Normandy landings, was a crucial military operation in World War II that took place on June 6, 1944. It was a turning point in the war and paved the way for the liberation of France and the defeat of Nazi Germany. The operation involved…
The Yalta Conference was a key moment in the history of the Second World War. It was held in February 1945, with the participation of the leaders of the Allied powers: the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. The conference took place in Yalta, a resort town on…
Mr. Oppenheimer is the father of atomic weapons and the leader that developed the atomic bomb Little Boy that destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, which killed between 75,000 and 135,000 people. The second bomb, called Fat Man, was dropped on 9 August 1945 with an estimated killed in between…
The Manhattan Project is the codename given to the Americans who led develop the atomic weapon. Also, the British provided the Americans with information to develop the first nuclear weapons; this was due to the British needing American resources when World War II started in 1939 to 1945 and the…
Nuremberg trials happened in response to the Nazi atrocities committed on the Jewish population and other minorities deemed as inferior due to racial biases and racism that was epidemic during the 1930s and 1940s. The persecution of the Jews dates back a millennium. Still, the German regime began in 1933…
