US in WW2

The USS Reuben James, an obsolete WWI flush deck destroyer (aka four piper) of the Clemson/Wickes class. The same class of vessels given to Britain under the Lend Lease Act.

1943 the US Airforce along with the RAF(Royal Air Force) had already been bombing German factories,people and farms etc.But in 1944 Normandy Landing(D-Day)US,British and Canadian troops landed in Normandy,France there was 5 beaches that the western allies landed to:
Utah and Omaha beaches-American landings
Sword and Gold beaches-British Landings
Juno beach-Canadian Landings

Nimitz or Halsey

Newly appointed Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev threatened the United States to nuclear damnation several times throughout the year. The following year, the already strained relationship between the US and the Soviet Union came to a breaking point when, in 1961, the Soviets pledged total support to Fidel Castro in the famed Bay of Pigs incident.

The Middle Ages were profoundly important to modern society.

The spread of Christianity happened largely in the Middle Ages. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, religion was the dominant theme of the lives of literate European people, nearly all of whom lived in areas of the former Roman Empire. The Middle Ages was largely a history of how even as it spread to cover all of Europe, this dominance came to be supplanted by something else.

The basis of European Monarchy is from the Middle Ages. The parliamentary system, which supplanted or constrained the monarchy, comes from the Middle Ages.

Literacy, which was limited at best in ancient Rome and had been declining since the third century, improved in the Middle Ages, believe it or not. The first primary schools opened in the fifth century, and the systems of schools grew from that point. The oldest School in England dates from 597 AD (The King's School in Canterbury), and the first state run grammar school from 700 AD (Beverly Grammar School). Our university system comes from the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages saw the inventions of the horse collar, which made agriculture about twice as efficient as it had been; the stirrup; the clock; rag content paper, which was needed for the printing press to be useful; the fireplace and chimney; better methods for ship building; gunpowder; cannons and muskets; practical movable type (movable type had been invented in China, but it was not practical); and the printing press, which is regarded as the final act of the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages gave birth to the middle class.

The Middle Ages, in fact, can safely and surely be regarded as the preparation the world needed for the Renaissance, which was only the next step.

At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.

U.S wanted to stay out of the affairs of other countries and become isolated because Americans did not want more dead soldiers and they also were afraid of the massive cost of war in the future. In other words, America wanted to stay out of the problems of other countries.

To encourage isolationism they rejected the Treaty of Versailles, reduced immigration, and exerted Fordney-McCumber Tariff.

Due to the isolated locations of most of the camps, military forces could not reach the death camps immediately.

As the Soviet Army approached the Auschwitz complex of camps, the SS tried to move the prisoners, on foot, westwards to Gross-Rosen. The prisoners were already weak from undernouishment and the forced march took place in the winter. Many died. (There were also death marches from other camps). Death marches is a name given to the forced movement of prisoners that resulted in high casualties along the route. Stalag IIB was evacuated and moved during the last days of the war(similiar to conditions described above). The most famous one was the transfer of the US Army prisoners captured in the Phillippines soon after the US entered the war. After their capture on the pennisular of Bataan, the Japanese marched them north to prison camps without enough food and supplies for them. Many died along the route but many others who could not keep up with the pace were shot or bayonetted. This became known as the Bataan Death March.

World War 1 led to an increase in immigration restrictions and tighter border controls in many countries. Many countries focused on national security and limited the entry of foreigners, particularly those from enemy countries. This resulted in a decrease in overall immigration during and immediately after the war.

Awards up to and including the Silver star were within the authority of the division commander, usually a major general (two stars). This would include the bronze star with "V" device.

•During the Vietnam War, 246 Medals of Honor were received, 154 of them posthumously(After Death). Army 160, followed by 57 to the Marines, 16 to the Navy and the remaining 13 to the Air Force

It was named Fat Man because of its rounded shape as compared to the more cylindrical bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

The atomic blats of 1945 doesn't affect the people anymore.

commodore mathew calbraith perry

The first atom bomb was the test explosion at the White Sands test range in New Mexico. The first use in anger was at Hiroshima in Japan.

The bomb wasn't ready although it may have been almost so by the end of the Okinawa battle. More to the point, the bomb was used to make a political statement as much as a military one. Dropping it on some far off post like Guadalcanal would serve no political purpose. Also, note that it is just a bomb after all, albeit a large one. Dropping it on a coral island or jungle mountain range would hardly have done the damage done by dropping on a heavily built up area like a city or military base. Those operations still require - to this day - significant ground forces.

I did leave this info with another poster. The Navajo Code Talkers were never recognized re their GI bills. They were used and abused by their own government. Because they lived on a Federal Reservation that was the excuse the government used so they did not have to pay out to these soldiers. Also, there were other Indians tribes that were also Code Talkers. Marcy

Two main reasons: the British, having just been ejected from the Continent in 1940, were skittish about a head-on assault into the German strength, which if it failed, might preclude making the effort again for several years, by which time the Germans might be so strong as to make the effort all but impossible. The British preferred a peripheral strategy, for as long as possible, poking around at the edges of Germany's conquests to draw off strength. Churchill was forever nattering on about the "soft underbelly" of the Axis in the Mediterranean. He never wanted anybody thinking about the question of, all right, supposing you HAVE successfully invaded and conquered Italy, or Greece? What then? Where can you go from there? Any possible Mediterranean area of attack was separated from central Germany by very, very high mountains, extremely rugged mountains, well-nigh impassable for an army with tanks, especially if the passes were heavily defended. In the case of Italy, NEUTRAL Switzerland - and the Alps, were in the way of a path to Germany. Stalin, with Russia fighting desperately for its very life, was needless to say more than a little bit vocally impatient with these peripheral nibblings favored by the British. Also impatient was General George C. Marshall, the US Army Chief of Staff, who was the architect of victory in WWII. He was in charge of the US Army AND the Army Air Force (the Air Force did not become an independent branch of the service until the war was over, in 1947). Marshall wanted to get on with it, and land on the coast of western France and head for Berlin.

But the US had gotten a little bit sidetracked. Along with the British we had invaded North Africa in November, 1942, not because of any strategic necessity as far as ultimate victory required, but because Roosevelt and Churchill had promised Stalin a "second front" by the end of the year. Stalin, quite reasonably, allowed himself to believe that this meant an invasion of France, as he was intended to infer. Africa was a poor substitute and drew off only a tiny percentage of German strength, but it did allow the US Army to gain some experience and overcome some teething troubles.

While the fighting was still going on in Africa Churchill and Roosevelt had the Casablanca Conference, in January 1943. General Marshall went there, with only a few aides, determined to obtain agreement to a cross-Channel invasion in 1943. The British sent an entire ship, a ship, full of staff officers, all bearing charts and graphs and plans, all to demonstrate that once Africa was finished, the next move must be Sicily. Sicily, mind you. The British later on at least had the grace to admit this was completely wrong. The correct move would have been to go for Sardinia, or Corsica, if we just HAD to keep piddling around the Med. From either of those, southern France could be reached, or Italy NORTH of Rome. The Allies in possession of Sardinia or Corsica would force the Germans to stretch their defenses to cover all those possibly threatened areas. From Sicily, given the limited range of land-based aircraft of the day, which was a necessary ingredient to the next step of invasions, the ONLY place to go was onto the mainland of Italy, and worst of all, Italy south of Rome. This suited Churchill just FINE! So Marshall was argued down, there was no commitment to a cross-Channel attack in 1943 at Casablanca, and only a half-hearted and insincere agreement of the British to one in 1944, which they later tried to weasel out of, but by that time Marshall had had a belly full and was brooking no more stalling. So in 1943 the US and British invaded Sicily and then Italy. It wasn't all a waste of time, Italy did surrender. But the Germans kept on fighting in Italy, in a country which greatly favored the defenders, and at the peak of the Italian campaign the western allies were occupying no more than 10% of German strength. Late in 1943 Churchill went on a Mediterranean inspection tour, and got the flu. He went to bed to recover, and when he felt a little better, commenced meddling. He couldn't help himself. He revived a plan, which had been considered and discarded, to land near Rome, behind the German lines. He insisted this would cause the Germans south of Rome to collapse and flee northward. Instead what we got was the Anzio campaign, nearly five months of bloody stalemate that helped postpone the Normandy landings from May to June because so many LSTs were needed to supply the whale we had beached at Anzio.

The decision was made to delay the Normandy D-Day from the favorable period of the right combinations of phase of the moon and tides in early May to early June, the next favorable time. This was to get the benefit of an additional month of LST production. LSTs were "Landing Ship, Tanks", sizable vessels which could run their noses right up onto a beach and disgorge an entire company of infantry, or a dozen tanks, which need never get wet in the landing. This points up the other factor which made D-Day so long in coming. The US, eager as Marshall was to close with the enemy, was not ready. Only by the time the landings actually took place did the US have what turned out to be just barely enough trained men in completed units of division strength, and sufficient shipping, and only by June of 1944 had air supremacy been achieved.

The first atomic bomb used in war was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The delivery method was via an airplane named the 'Enola Gay'.