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- 291: New Weapons and Technology In World War I
- ... was lighter and faster. In 1914 Winston Churchill decided that the British aircraft should be protected from the ground by using armored motor vehicles. The Germans counteracted this by digging trenches across the roads of Germany. Some of the first armored vehicles were just normal cars converted in a tank. In 1915, Wolseley developed a thirty-cwt. lorry chassis with armored sides and a revolving turret with a Vickers-maxim machine ... standard weapons for all officers in all combatant armies. Pistols were also issued to the military police, aircrew and the personnel of tanks, armored cars, and other military vehicles. The most popular pistols in the Germany Army were the Luger and the Beholla 7.65mm automatic. The Austro- Hungarian and Romanian soldiers relied on the Steyr automatic. The Hungarians used the 7.65 Fegyvergyar. The British Army had over 300,000 ... was able to fire 500 rounds per minute, each gun had the fire power of about 100 rifles. Big Bertha was a giant mobile siege gun. It was constructed at Krupp armanets factory in Essen, Germany. It’s real name was Krupp 420mm heavy howitzer. The first gun was completed in August 1914. Each individual gun needed a crew of over 1,000 men. Big Bertha was larger and heavier ...
- 292: The Cold War
- ... he was not very well informed on him, as Roosevelt had not involved him in political issues therefore he lacked the knowledge on how to handle Stalin. The main issue at the conference was on Germany. They established the principle occupations, which were to de-nazify,de-militerise, de-centeralise de-industrialise and democrasise all of Germany. Germany’s reparations were decided. They also established that Germany’s future would be jointly worked out, no separate development without consultation of forgien ministers. Also at Potsdam the Polish borders were defined, and Russia ...
- 293: Albert Einstein 2
- ... oppressed or economically oppressed. He was also fond of classical music, and was a great player of the violin. He was born to Hermann and Paulina Koch Einstein on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg Germany. As a young boy at the age of five his father Hermann, showed him a little pocket compass. Einstein was deeply impressed by the mysterious behavior of the compass, because it always pointed at the same direction no matter what direction he was holding the compass itself. He later said something deeply hidden had to be behind things. He attended public school in Munich, Germany and also in Aarau, Switzerland. Later Einstein Studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic institute in Zurich. From 1902 until 1909, Einstein worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. This job gave him much time for scientific research. Einstein became a Swiss Citizen in 1905. In 1933 while visiting the U.S. and England, Nazi Germany took seize of Einstein s property and deprived his of his citizenship. Einstein on the other hand had been invited to study at Princeton, NJ at the Institute for Advanced Study. Einstein gladly accepted ...
- 294: Yugoslavia 2
- ... of remorse. Austria found thta there had been no plot to assasinate the Archduke, and the action was strictly a one person effort. Only weks before the Assasination Austria had asked for the support of Germany in a premempive strike on Serbia. The Austrian government argued to the German governemnt thta it was needed for Serbias own salvation. Germany agreed and would support any move made by Austria, and Hungary. The Serbian Prime Minister Pasic, realized that Austria was going to invade eventually, and went the Russian Tsar pleading for protection. Russia agreed, and ... of coarse feeling tied to Russia, supported them, and thus the First World war began, all over Austrias greed over Serbia. When Austria invaded, the native population faught back, and ressited until 1915. In 1915 Germany committed troops to the region, and Serbia fell. After the war with the defeat of Germany, and Austria, the Slavs could once again try to form a united country. Great Britian mediated the talks ...
- 295: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... his life. After the surgery, Roosevelt was forced to rest and confined to a wheelchair for several weeks. The Big Stick Before the end of 1902 another international crisis would face Roosevelt and the nation. Germany was a nation on the rise, and looking to expand their commercial base. Germany had thus opened a line of credit to several of the South American countries. The problem arose when Venezuela, under the leadership of Cipriano Castro, decided not to pay back the loans owed to Germany, using the loans as a rallying cry for national unity. The Germans wanting their money with the help of the British, who were also owed money, set up a blockade around Venezuela. Roosevelt believed ...
- 296: The Holocaust
- ... place, where they die. In class from the notes I learned that, World-wide depression had many Germans out of work, and they were hungry. Because of that, the Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year, Hitler began a boycott of Jewish business. The Jews lost their jobs in government and public services. Jewish children got segregated form school. All Jewish people received a curfew. Hitler blamed ... longer citizens, and that marriage between Jews and Aryans was forbidden. On March, 1938, Germans troops occupied Austria. On November, 1938, the Crystal Night happened. During that night, Germans burned and looted synagogues all over Germany. On September, 1939, Germany invaded Poland in "Lighting War," and War was declared. The same year, England and France became Allies against Germany. On July 1942, Deportation of Holland's Jews began. They were send to either Auschwitz, ...
- 297: Battle of the Bulge
- Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last stab at victory in WWII. It lasted from December 16,1944 until January 28,1945. It was the largest land battler of WWII, which was mostly determined by the infantry. Over one million men participated in this battle including 600,000 German's, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. Civilians, men, women, and children joined Hitler's Secret Service army. Late in 1944 Germany was clearly loosing the war Allies were bombing Germany heavily and Hitler was in a bomb shelter. Some people thought he was dead. While in the shelter he was planning his last attempt to slow the Allied invasion. He planned it down to ...
- 298: Bombing of Dresdon
- ... population. That night the RAF launched 796 bombers and 9 Mosquitoes which carried 1,478 tons of explosives in addition to 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs (Dear 311) which turned the city of Dresden, Germany into a virtual inferno. This attack included another strike by the US Air Force the following morning. The attack on Dresden was never a legitimate act of war, and its result was the terroristic mass ... in heavily populated areas would destroy the homes of 4,000-8,000 people. The report also stated that there was a population of 22 million people in fifty-eight of the major cities in Germany. Lindemann claimed that a nation of refugees could be the result of strategic air attacks. It is wildly believed among scholars that the information cont.ained in this report was the basis of the attack ... lots respect on their home front, and subjected themselves to the criticism of the media, in some ways the result helped the cause. It is only logical that this Holocaust in Dresden lowered morale throughout Germany¦s civilians. Germany had to have realized at this point how terrible the war had become, and what its results could be. This is a terrible way to get that point across, but the ...
- 299: D-Day
- ... signal that there was anybody in there. They just looked in the hole and walked away..." Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. England and France had promised to defend Poland. But they were unprepared to fight, and as a result they were terribly beaten. by the next spring, France had fallen into German hands. The ... were not going to fight- primarily because they were so heavily outnumbered. That was a sign of one great job the Allied air forces had done. For two years the American bombers had been destroying Germany’s gasoline-refining and plane-manufacturing factories. This was just as important as meeting and defeating German planes in the air. In the two months before the assault, the allied airmen had set out to ... of staff had reached similar conclusion. None of these commanders ‘objected’ to ‘Overlord’ or its demands upon their forces. They believed simply if they continued with their bombing strategy the demands would be met. Nazi Germany was being dissected, and destroyed behind its armies. The vast concentrations of heavy industry in the Ruhr and Saar valleys, coal, oil, synthetic fuels, ball bearings, roads, railways, cities and hamlets were all being ...
- 300: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Li
- ... March 1933 at the depth of the Great Depression, was re-elected for an unprecedented three more terms, and died in office in April 1945. He died less than a month before the surrender of Germany in World War II (Electric Library). Despite an attack of poliomyelitis, which paralyzed his legs in 1921, he was a charismatic optimist whose confidence helped sustain the American people during the strain if economic crisis ... and Roosevelt's policy changed dramatically. Congress determined a draft for military service and Roosevelt signed a "lend-lease" bill in March 1941 to enable the nation to provide aid to nations at war with Germany and Italy (EXEGY). The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, followed four days later by Germany's and Italy's declarations of war against the United States, brought the nation irrevocably into the war. Roosevelt became the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, a role he actively carried out. ...
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