World War 2 Content
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Who was Benito Mussolini?
Who was Benito Mussolini? One-word description for Benito Mussolini would be “A Fascist Italian Dictator”. But of course, Mussolini’s deeds were much brutal just like his death was. From his childhood up to his death, his regime tagged him as history’s one of the famous dictators just like Hitler. Mussolini’s Childhood Mussolini was born on…
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What happened after Pearl Harbor?
Hitler started WW-II in 1939 making Axis Power with Italy and Japan. Italy occupied Africa, Germany, Europe except for England and Japan had to fight for their influence in Asia. But, the US sanctions made them paralyze to some extent. Due to which they started planning the war on America. Till 1941, US troops were…
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How did the Enigma machine work
Enigma Machine Enigma was a highly anticipated cipher machine used by the Germans during the Second World War. It was used to transmit extremely secretive and important coded messages. The machine used more than a billion ways to encode a message, therefore made it almost impossible to crack the German code during the Second World…
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What caused the tension between the Soviet Union and the US after the war?
Relationship between the Soviets and the USA As you know the relationship between the Soviets and the US, the big contenders for the world leader position have always been up and down the road. Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors,…
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The most expensive World War 2 collectibles
World War II has by far been the biggest and the most dangerous war brought upon mankind. Big war bring huge casualties, and World War II was no less than that and holds a record of largest human life lost in a war ever, but this historical moment helped shape the modern world, hopefully for…
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Why did Hitler most likely assume he could annex Austria and Czechoslovakia?
To understand why Germany invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia we need to know the backstory i.e. What happened in Germany after World War I The aftermath of World War I left the defeated German powers in ruins by imposing harsh treaties. Under the threat of Allied advances, the Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of…
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What happened in Dunkirk? (1940)
Dunkirk Evacuation Dunkirk evacuation (1940) in World War II code-named Operation Dynamo or also known as Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied soldiers, from the beaches and harbors of Dunkirk in the north of France to England between 26th May to 4th June. Naval vessels and hundreds of civilian…
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20 Interesting and rare facts about World War II
As we all know that the Second World War was the largest war that has ever been forced and was certainly no exception. Here are 20 mind-blowing facts about the war, from Hitler’s favorite joke to a REINDEER IN A SUBMARINE! 1) In 1941 during the initial stages of the war, a private earned 21$ a…
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Everything about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August six 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and on nine, 1945 the United States of America’s B-29 detonated the second nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Nagasaki, respectively. That’s how the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place. The two…