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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 Bataan Death March is an event in human history that might be largely unknown to most people. The term death march is most closely and readily associated with the Nazis and the widespread presence of the marches at the concentration camps. This association is certainly deserved but it will…
The name "Blitzkrieg" is directly translated into English from German, meaning "lightning war". It was a predominant method of warfare during the Second World War utilized by Nazi Germany and adapted through use for the Western allies of the British Empire and its Commonwealth as well as the United States…
General Douglas MacArthur has had many outstanding achievements in his long career and his life. He was the commander in chief of the Pacific armies of the Allied forces during World War II from 1941 to 1945, and after the war, he was the commander of the American occupation of…
Kamikaze was prevalent during the latter stages of World War II, which was part of a ritual suicide with the meaning coming from the Japanese word divine wind. This originated from the Japanese defense of their home islands from the Chinese and Moghul Emperor Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis…
Heinrich Himmler was born into a Roman Catholic family in Munich, Germany on Oct 7th, 1900. His father, Gerbhard Himmler, was a very religious and authoritarian schoolmaster that ran his family like he ran things at the school. When Heinrich Himmler was two-years old he got a major lung infection,…
Audie Murphy is a name that has become almost synonymous with bravery and with good reason. On January 26, 1945, the Germans were advancing on Company B, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, who were working to repel the Germans in France. German fire had destroyed an American tank and…
It is commonly believed that all Kamikaze pilots were enlisted Japanese soldiers who sacrificed their lives by crashing their planes into enemy ships during World War II. However, this is only partially true. While Kamikaze pilots did indeed sacrifice their lives, many were volunteers who were under a great deal…
The Warsaw Ghetto was a valiant uprising. Nicklaus Bobertz is a professional historian who runs, writes, and owns a history website called The History Ace that aims to provide easy answers to hard history questions. Imagine if you will between 375,000-400,000 people crammed into a space that is smaller than…
Rosie the Riveter is a nickname for a World War II-era poster that shows a woman flexing her biceps. The poster was created in 1942 by artist J. Howard Miller, and used as a recruitment tool to encourage women to join the war effort (and work in factories). The image…
On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Out of a total population of 360,000 people in the city, 70,000 were killed instantly and approximately 140,000 died by the end of 1945 from both physical and radiation injuries resulting from the explosion,…
