WW2 Allied Powers

Japanese airplanes sank the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales on 10 December 1941. The Japanese also sank the British battle CRUISER HMS Repulse along with it on that same day. But the "Repulse" was not a battleship.

D-Day typically refers to the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

it is the end of the Europe war : ) lol - breanna

declared war on japan, Germany and Italy. Cuban forces sank a u boat

Hitler told Goering he must have his Luftwaffe gain air superiority over the Brits and make the civilian Brits cry to their leaders surrender to the Nazis. The Generals wanted to take over Britain but Hitler was not real keen on the idea. When Luftwaffe failed he told his generals there would be no invasion of Britain and they were to focus on going after Russia.

He did allow the V2 rockets to bomb London hoping they would still scare the civilian Brits into surrendering. It had the opposite affect. It made them more determined they would fight the Nazis to preserve their nation.

The beer hall putsch (or push) was a failed coup that took place from 8pm, November 8th, to 12pm, November 9th, 1923. It began when Hitler and the Nazis entered the beer hall. Hitler's goal was to gain control of Bavaria and Germany. Hitler took the current triumvirate captive, gave a speech about the overthrow, all in an attempt to gain support from the triumvirate and the people. While he was doing this, Nazis were in Munich advocating for the new rule. Once Hitler leaves to look over the Nazis and their success in Munich, the triumvirate escapes and the coup falls apart. When they escape, the triumvirates push to stop the coup and the coup then falls apart.

During World War II, many events helped to turn the tide of war in favor of the Allies. Principally, however, two events in 1942-1943 were most significant. First, the Battle of the Atlantic ended in an Allied victory in mid-1943, squelching German sea-threats and ensuring the opening of a Second Front in Europe at some near-future point. On land, the Soviet victory at Stalingrad between late 1942 and early 1943 demonstrated the weakening of Germany's 'blitzkrieg' forces and the growing strength of the Soviet Army, with the disparity growing with each year that would follow.

Russia, revolutionary-later Communist. The Communist movement in Russia began ostensibly as an anti-war movement not too different from that opposing the Vietnam conflict in the sixties and seventies. it then, well got out of hand, escalated into political violence and the St.Petersburg massacre, et al. Russia was out of the European theatre of war by l9l7, the American Heritage Landmark book of World War I clearlty begins the chapter heading- Exit Russia.

General Bernard Montgomery turned this shortage to their advantage. In the fall of 1942 Montgomery pushed Rommel's troops steadily westward out of Egypt and into Libya. The British victory in the Battle of El Alamein helped turn the corner for the Allies in North Africa.

Finished on 14 July 1945 at the top secret research in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Tested on 16 July 1945 at Alamagordo on Trinity Project in New Mexico Desert.

P.S.: I'm an Indonesian. So I'm sorry if the prepositions we're misplaced

Currently the greatest threats posed to the UK come from Islamic terrorist groups such as al-Qa'ida. Second most likely to attack the UK are Irish terrorist groups such as the RIRA.

In terms of countries, the UK is on good or neutral terms with most of the world. Iran have in the recent past threatened the UK with violence, and is perhaps the only country in years to do so. Pakistan has had an uneasy relationship with the UK in recent years also, especially due to their subversive assistance of military groups such as the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Some of the countries engaged in revolt currently (2011), including Libya, were on cold terms with the UK, but due to the shifting of social and political power they are not a current threat.

Typically they waited for the sirens to stop then went back above ground. Some of the better ones were not only meant to save you from the event itself but it provided safe shelter if your community was destroyed. Most people stocked about three days worth of food and water for that purpose. to pass the time I hear card games and board games were available. And back in the day people used to read these things called BOOKS! You know sort of shaped like a rectangle, has allot of paper with organized ink stains......

The French had a secret alliance with the Russians that was signed in 1892 to ensure against the further the rise of Otto von Bismark and a increasing militaristic and imperialistic Germany. The alliance was called the Franco-Russian Alliance and was to remain in place so long as the Triple Alliance (Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary) was still active.

But in 1907 France and Russia allied with Great Britain, and formed the Triple Entente.

Austria-Hungary was not in the same alliance as Italy you dum butt.

Some records suggest that the number was over 4 million but most of them agree on 2.5 to 4 million.

The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis powers during the Second World War. Within the ranks of the Allied powers, the British Empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America were known as "The Big Three". U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to the Big Three and China as the "Four Policemen". Poland and France, before its defeat in 1940 and after Operation Torch, were considered major allies. During December 1941, Roosevelt devised the name "United Nations" for the Allies, and the Declaration by United Nations, on 1 January 1942, was the basis of the modern UN. At the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman, proposed that the foreign ministers of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States "should draft the peace treaties and boundary settlements of Europe," which led to the creation of the Council of Foreign Ministers.

The first major allied victory of high strategical importance was actually won by the Greeks against the Italian axis under Mussolini. Chief of Nazi Staff Field Marshall Keitel: "The unbelievable strong resistance of the Greeks delayed by two or more vital months the German attack against Russia; if we did not have this long delay ,the outcome of the war would have been different in the eastern front and in the war in general, and others would have been accused and would be occupying this seat as defendants today" Nuremberg Trials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Greece_during_World_War_II for more info Coordinated by the Norwegian General Carl Gustav Fleischer, Norwegian, French, Polish, and British forces recaptured Narvik on 28 May 1940. This is also considered the first Allied infantry victory in WW II. However, by that time, the Allies were losing the Battle of France and the evacuation from Dunkirk was underway. Since the Nazi German invasion of France had made Scandinavia largely irrelevant, and since the valuable troops assigned to Narvik were badly needed elsewhere, the Allies withdrew from Narvik on 8 June 1940 in Operation Alphabet. Without support from the Allied naval task force, the Norwegians were outnumbered, and they had to lay down their arms in Norway on 10 June 1940. This was not a complete capitulation, since the Norwegians kept on fighting guerilla operations inland. this is from wikipedia on the matter. Narvik is considered the first allied victory of ww2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narvik#Narvik_in_World_War_II

By the end of WWII Japan was already on their knees, after having lost every island in the Pacific... But the reason(s) that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was that an invasion of Mainland Japan which was still heavily fortified would cost perhaps millions of Americans lives so, President Truman after considering this ordered the bomb(s) to be dropped, the first one on Aug. 6, the second on Aug. 9.

With the end of Nazi Germany and the treaty signed to recruit stalins help to defeat the japanise the soviets gained almost full contorl of Europe there land was divided by the iron curtain. And after japan fell the Americans and the soviets were the two largest and most powerfull counties left on the earth.

Other than the Soviet Union (Russia), only Britain remained in Europe; all other nations were either occupied by Germany or neutral. Winston Churchill had been lobbying President Roosevelt (FDR) for two years trying to get the US into the war. According to Churchill, if FDR didn't help Britain, England would fall! Consequently, the US was forced to save Great Britain from losing it's war with Germany; under the name of "Save Europe First" (really meaning save Britain First), which in turn evolved into defeat "Germany First." The US population at the time was absolutely determined to revenge the Pearl Harbor attack by going to war against Japan...so FDR had to do a "lot of talking" to convince congress and the US Army, Navy to do otherwise. The US Air Force and US Marines were part of the Army & Navy respectively during WW2.

The Axis powers were Germany, Japan and Italy who worked toward their own goals of world power. The Allied powers were the US, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union who actively helped one another. The Soviet Union (Stalin) had a separate agenda and behaved similarly to the axis powers but in the end they all worked toward subduing the Axis powers.

The Allied Forces defeated the Axis powers in Europe in May of 1945. The Germans finally surrendered to the Allied Forces and the Soviets in Berlin. The Japanese were defeated months later in September.

Allied military forces invading German held France.

Perhaps a dozen people who read our weekly article are going to love what follows. My apologies to the rest of you. Anyone who knows me is well acquainted with my love for history. As a preacher, I actually own more books on history than theology. At Birmingham-Southern, most of a lifetime ago, I majored in American history and later in seminary, focused on church history. Thirty years ago, I decided to collect all the books on Harry Truman I could find (he was the first president I actually remembered from my childhood). After a decade during which I accumulated over eighty volumes, I gave that pursuit up as too expensive and unnecessary. I still own the books, however, and wonder sometimes what to do with them. I've been to Civil War battlefields, and presidential homes and libraries all over the country. It all fascinates me. In particular these days, the Second World War has become my major historical interest. For years, I resisted getting into the study of this defining event of the 20th century, probably because there is so much of it and where does one begin. Born in 1940, I recall only smidgens of the war, mainly uncles coming home in their uniforms and my siblings standing out in the yard when a plane would go over, calling to an uncle ("Hey, John L.") who was undoubtedly riding that particular one. I don't think my interest in the war could be called nostalgia since I have no actual memories of any significant aspect of it. I once read a journal which a British lady had kept during the war and that may have hooked me more than anything else. When Stephen Ambrose started the wonderful D-Day Museum here in New Orleans, I became a charter member. I will not bore you with the books I have read or the old, out-of-date and out-of-print books I am now collecting. However, I am leading up to telling you something I find fascinating. My office at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans sits on land reclaimed from Lake Pontchartrain in the 1930s. Some 3,000 feet out into the lake, a stepped seawall was built, some five and a half miles long. Sand from the bottom of the lake was pumped outside the seawall to form a long strip of land. (Get your atlas down, look up Louisiana and find a map of New Orelans. The strip begins at Pontchartrain Boulevard on the west, reaches to the Lakefront Airport on the east, and is bounded by Robert E. Lee Boulevard on the south.) Originally, the plan had been to build exclusive residential areas on the new land, but when the Second World War came, the federal government took over the 2,000 acres for military installations from one end to the other. Military hospitals, several bases, a German POW camp, a center to train Naval pilots, a factory to build PBY planes, and Camp Leroy Johnson all occupied this territory. Talk about being in the middle of history! This is the place. (Most of what I have learned on this comes from Mary Lou Widner's book, "New Orleans in the Forties." Today, the University of New Orleans sits smack in the middle of this land. Our office is across Elysian Fields Avenue from UNO.) The other day I was having lunch with Ron, a pastor who has resigned his church to go to the Middle East where he works for a firm providing security for U.S. military bases. In 2004, Ron spent several months on leave from his church working in Pakistan and found more opportunities to minister in that short time than in years at his church. Now, he's about to be recalled to another assignment in that part of the world. Toward the end of the meal, Ron said something about knowing the city where we are living. I said, "Okay, let's test your knowledge of this city." I pointed toward the UNO Lakefront Arena and said, "What was located on that site during the Second World War?" He said, "A German POW camp." I said, "How did you know that?" (Had he read Mrs. Widner's book?) He said, "I was born in 1944 and grew up two miles from here. I know all about this area." He proved it. Over the next fascinating half-hour, Ron showed me remnants and evidence of the Second World War all around me.

When I pointed out the area where the Consolidated Vultee Corporation used to manufacture PBY Catalina planes, Ron said, "Here--I'll show you the break in the seawall where they launched them over the lake. I used to come out here and watch them do it." (This had gone on after the war's end, in case you're figuring dates here.) Sure enough, there is the cut in the wall, about the width of two lanes of traffic where something like a pier used to jut into the lake, from which the planes would take off. "I'll show you Camp Leroy Johnson," he said. I said, "It doesn't exist any more. How can you show it to me?" He said, "Come with me." We were in my car, but he was the navigator. Just behind the UNO Lakefront Arena lies a massive open field, the size of several footfall fields laid side by side. The gate was open and we pulled into the area. To my surprise, the paved streets and avenues of Camp Leroy Johnson were still there. No buildings, no structures of any kind, just green grass and paved streets. "What is the metal pavilion over there?" I asked, pointing to a rusting structure standing perhaps 50 feet tall at the edge of the field. Ron said, "That's where the pope spoke when he came to New Orleans. It's sacred to Catholics." I pass that site every day and had often wondered what that little monstrosity meant. Ron said, "Have you ever seen the lighthouse that stood at the old Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park?" I said, "There is still a lighthouse at the western end of Lakeshore Drive. But I don't think there's one around here." I went on, "In fact, when they tore down the amusement park, they turned this area at the end of Elysian Fields into a research and development park. Nothing but steel and glass buildings." Ron said, "Let's go see." We drove into the R & D center and found a cove for the car. As we got out, I saw the lighthouse standing right in front of me. Perhaps 60 feet tall, it's now showing its age and is surrounded by a rusting fence. Like a tramp camped out on a park bench in Silicon Valley, it was so out of place. Ron said, "Now, Joe, bear in mind that this lighthouse used to be out in Lake Pontchartrain. When they filled in this area, in effect they moved it onto dry ground." I said, "How old do you think it is?" "At least around 1900," he said. A guard came up to see what these two strangers were up to, heard this part of the conversation, and said, "Nope. It was built in Civil War days." All the more impressive. "Look at the doors, Ron," I said. At the base of the lighthouse on each side stood two metal doors, heavy with rust. But each one was no more than four feet tall, as though put there for midgets. The guard said, "You know why, don't you. This lighthouse used to be on a base high above the water. When they pumped the sand in here, they buried the bottom half of it." Ron said some local societies have been trying to decide what to do about the lighthouse, how to preserve and memorialize it, but no one has done anything yet. Meanwhile, it sits there rusting away, looking something like Captain Ahab in the middle of Time Square. Every morning I come to work by driving up Elysian Fields all the way to Lakeshore Drive. As I make the turn, I am face to face with the ancient lighthouse. Yet I had never seen it until today when my friend Ron introduced us. I wonder what else I am missing in life because I refuse to see. And to whom can I be a "Ron" and open their eyes to the wonders around them. "Lord, open the eyes of these men so they can see." II Kings 6:20