World War 2 Part 1

Starting in December 1937, events such as the Japanese attack on USS
Panay, the Allison incident, and the Nanking Massacre swung Western
public opinion sha...

Japan and the U.S. engaged in negotiations during 1941, attempting to
improve relations. In the course of these negotiations, Japan offered to
withdraw fro...

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial
Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at
Pearl Harbor, H...

was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. The baptismal
register did not show the name of his father, and Alois initially bore his
mother's s...

a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary. He
was leader of the Nazi Party, and rose to power in Germany as
Chancellor in 1933 and Führe...

created a public image as a celibate man without a domestic life,
dedicated entirely to his political mission and the nation.

was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the
National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF). He ruled Italy
as Prime Minist...

was a devout Catholic schoolteacher. Owing to his father's political
leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after Mexican leftist president
Benito Juárez, while

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coordination with the Dutch and the British, the U.S. was running a very
successful oil embargo against Japan. At that time the Japanese were
advancing on ...

The decision by Japan to attack the United States remains
controversial. Study groups in Japan had predicted ultimate disaster in
a war between Japan and t...

Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the chief architect of the attack on
Pearl Harbor, had strong misgivings about war with the United States.
Yamamoto had spen...

approaches to Antwerp free and the country up to the Maas River
cleared, the Battle of the Scheldt was over and the crucial supply line,
essential to fuel ...

formations to open up the shipping route to Antwerp so that its port
could be used to supply the Allies in north-west Europe.

controlled the Scheldt river which connected the port of Antwerp to the
North Sea. As long as the Germans held control of the sea approaches
and the long w...

The island was attacked from three directions: across the causeway
from the east, across the Scheldt from the south, and from the west by
sea. To hamper Ge...

launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they
assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6
June 1944. The invaders wer...

was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its
allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in
Southern Ru...

. It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a
six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign.