world war Life in the 1930’s Sports: during the great depression‚ people were miserable. There was barley any good news in the papers. The best way to escape being miserable in that decade was sports. The soccer world cup‚ hockey‚ boxing and the summer olympics of 1936 were all great entertainment for the people stuck in the depression Transportation: transportation was different back then from what it is today. They usually used cars or street cars to get from one place to another in a
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warfare soon came to be north africa between the axis and allied forces america wasnt involved in the desert war physically but materilistic Rosevelt made that clear in his university of virgina speach “On this tenth day of June‚ 1940‚ the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. On this tenth day of June‚ 1940‚ in this University founded by the
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Heffernan Y2 History The Italian Campaign In January 19431‚ Allied leaders gathered at the Casablanca Conference. After long meetings‚ they determined that after they had gained all of North Africa‚ the next step would be to rid the Axis forces from the Mediterranean. The largest target was Italy. The Allied leadership named this operation the Italian Campaign. The goal was to get Italy out of the war and to draw German troops away from the Allied advance through Nazioccupied northern Europe aimed at Berlin
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1857: The first Indian war of Independence. India’s First War of Independence‚ termed Sepoy Riots by the British was an attempt to unite India against the invading British and to restore power to the Mogul emperor Bahadur Shah. The resistance disintegrated primarily due to lack of leadership and unity on the part of Indians‚ as also to cruel suppression by the British Army. It was a remarkable event in Indian history and marked the end of the Mogul empire and sealed India’s fate as a British colony
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BLITZKRIEG (LIGHTNING WAR) In the first phase of World War II in Europe‚ Germany sought to avoid a long war. Germany’s strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns. Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks‚ planes‚ and artillery) along a narrow front. These forces would
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American torpedo planes from the American Enterprise bravely diving vertically from 20‚000 feet was able to sink three Japanese carrier and their fighter planes in just one hour. The remainder of the Pacific war of WW II consisted of a series of Allied island victories; at Iwo Gima‚ the Solomons‚ Guadalcanal‚ and Okinawa‚ followed by atomic bombs dropped as God’s wrath on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s evil heritage that rationalized away their unending “crimes against humanity” by way of the
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stopped at Kursk earlier that year‚ in August 1943 (see Battle of Kursk). After Kursk‚ the Germans were in constant retreat. Normandy happened in June 1944; however‚ the success of Normandy‚ which merely established a beachhead in Northern France for allied forces to land and invade the continent‚ was massively eclipsed (though much less reported in the western press) by the much more successful Operation Bagration (Operation Bagration)‚ which commenced on June 22 (three years from the start of the German-Soviet
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Hitler then moved on with his plans to conquer Poland. Hitler used the strategy called the “Blitzkrieg” or “Lighting war” to invade Poland. Poland was quickly under the control of Hitler. This was the official start of World War Two The Invasion of Poland  September 3‚ 1939 France and
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time the U.S. Army began fighting the Germans in 1942‚ its combat strength had increased dramatically. Another big area he helped with was Operation Overlord in 1944. Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle at Normandy and it was an Allied landing in France that was scheduled for June in 1944. The element of surprise was essential for the operation to succeed‚ keeping it top secret was a challenge however because of the many parties that participated in the landings‚ beside the Americans
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conquest of England or other invasions‚ the Normans’ conquest of southern Italy and Sicily shows more ‘Norman Achievements’ compared with other conquests that time. Southern Italy and Sicily were divided land for complex political and religious groups. However‚ under the rule of Normans‚ the cultural syncretic of Southern Italy and Sicily was never so apparent . This essay argues how did the Normans deal with different ethnic and religious groups in southern Italy and Sicily? The period 11th century
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