Battle of Britain: A brief timeline It’s been 75 years since the Battle of Britain and in honor of that here is a timeline. On 3rd September 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany after Poland was taken under their possession and over stepped their deal. Chamberlain announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland expired. The declaration of war was met with cheers. On the 10 July 1940 Luftwaffe launched the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe had a series of
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The blitz , (blitzkreig) is the name given to the persistent and heavy bombing by the luftwaffe on British cities during WW2. The Blitz began in London by accident. On the 24th of August , 1940 German bombers were aiming for military targets near London wandered off course and ended up bombing on the centre of London destroying a few homes and killing civilians. The British public were outraged and Winston Churchill believed that the attack was on purpose and he ordered the RAF to bomb Berlin the
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Department and the military commanders in the Pacific theater. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed on August sixth and ninth because they remained on the list of military targets approved by the War
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World War II Legacies: Atomic Age. World War Two brought the world’s first successful atomic bomb. Air raid drill and bomb shelters become common in later history as a result. The devastation of the atomic bomb still affects people today. Devastation world wide. This was was the deadliest war in history. The death toll was up to 80 million people including soldiers and civilians. In addition, infrastructure all around europe was destroyed and caused millions of Europeans homeless. The United
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Was the Dresden Bombing a war crime? Have all war criminals faced justice? Following World War Two, the global Nuremberg and Tokyo trials were formulated to serve justice for war criminals. However, not all war criminals were accounted for, with the victors of war making themselves appear good and had never committed crimes, despite the fact that they completed serious mass killings of innocent communities. Still over 70 years later, following the air bombing of the German city of Dresden, the British
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When we were searching for a topic to research for National History Day, we discovered an article addressing the issue of how the Japanese had still not apologized for the horrendous experiments Unit 731 conducted on human beings. As we read the article, our interest for the subject piqued, and we began scouring the Internet for additional information about Unit 731. After discovering how Unit 731 impacted the world, we decided that it would serve as an interesting take on the NHD topic. Shirō Ishii
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The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in the summer of 1945 changed the face of all mankind as we know. Even though it was only Japan getting hit with the bomb the entire world had their eyes opened to the infamous force that is nuclear power. The question people ask know is if dropping the bomb could have been avoidable. “When the scientists succeeded (completion of the 2 billion dollar secret atomic bomb), it became all but impossible to argue that their weapon, one that could prevent a bloody
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Chicago fire Lil Tom was enjoying an another day of the October weather playing out on his family's farm. When he notices the sky color changing to grey or smoky black, Lil Tom plays no real attention to it. Until he starts to notice the smell of something burning so he goes into to check if his parents were cooking or burning the leaves, but it wasn't them so he tells his parents to come outside and look at what's going on . They know just as much as he then his mom goes into the house to grab the
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Fukushima and Chernobyl were just the beginning. In the past five years, twice as many nuclear plants have failed than the last fifty years. These failures have poisoned our waters, killed millions from radiation and cancer, and we are still letting them run? Are we trying to kill ourselves? Have we not learned from our mistakes? -Unknown I’m walking down Broadway, baseball bat in one hand water bottle in the other. My feet drag on the broken concrete, sweat drips down my bloody face. Even with
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the bomb. I spent next few months checking up on how far the bomb has come and keeping up with the war. It’s just a few days before we deploy the bomb from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. I was informed about the damage that this bomb would do to Hiroshima. It would completely destroy and flatten everything
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