Introduction The start of World War II prompted countries to make large technological advances. With the war raging all around the world‚ and more and more countries entering the fray‚ it was especially important for governments to continue to develop new technologies to get a step up on their opponents. Many new weapons‚ vehicles‚ and ways of communication were developed and used against the Axis of Power. In today’s modern wars‚ many of these technologies have been improved and are still used
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Using the atomic bomb in World War II changed the world forever. World War II was the first time in history that a nuclear weapon had been used during war. Two atomic bombs were released by the United States on Japan. The use of the bomb caused the world to realize how powerful weapons can be. Much controversy came from the United States use of the atomic bomb and people still debate today whether or not the US was justified in their decision to use the bomb. Because Hiroshima was a significant
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This article is about the major war of 1914–1918. For other uses‚ see World War One (disambiguation) and Great War (disambiguation). "WW1" and "WWI" redirect here. For the album by White Whale‚ see WWI (album). World War I | Clockwise from top: trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistiblesinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; aVickers machine gun crew with gas masks‚ and German Albatros D.III biplanes
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aircraft and 5000 heavy artillery pieces. This would have made the war totally impossible to carry on. The allies instead of providing a peace settlement based on the 14 point plan as Germany had though instead made the treaty very humiliating with the aim of keeping the Germans down. The key points of the treaty that contributed to the conditions in Germany that lead to the rise of National Socialism are; 1. The war guilt clause 2. £6‚600mil to be paid in reparations 3. Disarmament
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The respective roles of Germany and Japan in the initiation and escalation of World War II seem similar on the surface—a combination of economic ambition and racist ideology. However‚ the countries’ root motivations and the ways in which they were expressed were fundamentally different. Both Germany and Japan engaged in large-scale territorial conquests in the years leading up to World War II. Hitler and other Nazi officials in Germany advocated the concept of lebensraum‚ the natural “living space”
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fighting take place? 70 nations were involved. 8. How many people participated in the war and how many people died? over 70 million people served 9. Which nation suffered the greatest number of deaths? Which nation suffered the least? Soviet troops‚ Germans‚ and Japanese suffered the most and Americans suffered the least amount of death 10. In what ways did the world change because of the war? The world is more observant of situations and people like hitler and WWII lead to the Nuclear age
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Is there a possible World War 3? Such question can be increasingly heard from radio speakers and be read on the pages of political magazines. Such assumptions relate primarily to the war in Syria and the Ukrainian tense political situation in which experts see a possible cause for conflict of interests of other countries that may lead to a new world war. Since March 2011‚ unrest in Syria have not cease and managed to develop into a fierce religious war and‚ according to some‚ has already claimed
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a family. But it turned out to be a story of a hospital made to help soldiers overcome the fears and mental pains from the war. The soldiers who were depressed‚ timid‚ afraid‚ and hopeless later transferred to a normal‚ happy human beings. Several things shocked me throughout the documentary. First‚ I was shocked on how brittle the soldier’s mental mind was right after the war. Their emotions were full of sorrow‚ fear and sadness‚ and just looking at the attitudes of the soldiers‚ despondent‚ anxiety
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How does the director Steven Spielberg‚ use film techniques to convey one or more themes in his film‚ War of the Worlds? Steven Spielberg utilizes many techniques‚ in his film‚ War of the Worlds‚ including camera work‚ actors and sound effects to convey various themes such as family relationships. An initial scene‚ ‘Eve of the War’‚ establishes the relationships amongst the family especially around the central character Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) which are built upon in ‘Coming of the Invaders’. ‘Worst
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Monday 28th of January‚2013 War of the Worlds How does Wells present mankind in the lead up to and the aftermath of the first heat-ray attack? War of the worlds was written by H. G. Wells in 1898. This book shows how naive humankind is in comparison to the martians. It exemplifies how what people thought about martians‚ undeveloped‚ silly and a joke‚ is completely wrong. They are shown as powerful and strongly developed. Wells uses a very wide range of vocabulary in his writing. He uses many words
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