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WW2 Axis Powers
The Axis consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan during this global conflict that began in 1938 and lasted for 7 years in two major theaters of operation.
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Who was Bulgarias leader in the world war 2?
The leader of Bulgaria during World War 1 was Tsar Ferdinand I. Formerly Bulgaria's prince regnant, he took the title of Tsar in 1908.
Zero. Nuremberg was entirely for German officials. There was the big initial tribunal that tried major German politicians and military commanders. Then there was a series of "lesser" trials that tried doctors, judges, business leaders, concentration camp leaders, "Einsatzgruppen" (the special SS soldiers who executed Jews in conquered territory in Russia) and so forth. As far as I'm aware, all were Germans.
Did Japan Italy or Germany fall first in World War 2?
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Another AnswerItaly fell first, in July 1943. From then on, Italy was officially fighting with the Allies, although Nazi Germany effectively garrisoned the country and fought to keep it as though it was German territory.
Nazi Germany collapsed in late April, 1945. V-E Day was May 8, 1945.
The Pacific war against Japan continued until August. V-J Day was August 15, 1945.
How are the nielsen rating and the profit motive related?
The Nielsen ratings measure the number of viewers for individual programs that helps advertisers try to reach the largest number of people possible
How many axis and allied warships were destroyed and damanged in the battle of the Mediterranean?
Listed below are the various sea vessels destroyed during the long Battle of Mediterranean. The information comes from Wikipedia under the heading of
Battle of the Mediterranean. This list shows both allied and axis vessels.
Battle of the Mediterranean
Major naval actions of the campaign- 28 June 1940, Battle of the Espero Convoy. Italian convoy attacked, destroyer Espero sunk. Conversely, two British convoys from Malta were delayed as result of the battle.
- 9 July 1940, Battle of Calabria. Encounter between fleet forces escorting large convoys. Inconclusive results.
- 19 July 1940, Battle of Cape Spada. Cruiser action, Bartolomeo Colleoni sunk.
- 12 October 1940, Battle of Cape Passero (1940). One destroyer and two Italian torpedo boats sunk, cruiser HMS Ajaxseriously damaged.
- 11 November 1940, Battle of Taranto. Aerial attack on Italian fleet in harbour, 3 battleships sunk in shallow waters, one of them disabled for the rest of the war.
- 27 November 1940, Battle of Cape Spartivento. Inconclusive fleet action.
- 6-11 January 1941, Operation Excess. British convoy to Malta. Italian torpedo boat Vega sunk, British destroyer HMS Gallant permanently disabled after hitting a mine.
- 26 March 1941, Action of Suda Bay. British cruiser HMS York sunk by explosive motor boats.
- 27-29 March 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan. Fleet action, the Italian navy lost three cruisers and two destroyers.
- 16 April 1941, Battle of the Tarigo Convoy. Italian convoy attacked and destroyed. Two Italian destroyers lost along with the British HMS Mohawk.
- 20 May-1 June 1941, Battle of Crete. Series of actions supporting army in Crete, 9 British warships sunk by Axis air attacks.
- July 1941, Operation Substance. British convoy to Malta. British destroyer HMS Fearless lost to air attack.
- September 1941, Operation Halberd. British convoy to Malta. The transport ship Imperial Star, of 12,200 tn was sunk by an Italian aerial torpedo.
- 8 November 1941, Battle of the Duisburg Convoy. Axis convoy destroyed. Italian destroyer Fulmine also lost.
- 13 December 1941, Battle of Cape Bon. Italian convoy attacked, Italian light cruisers Da Barbiano and Da Giussanosunk.
- 17 December 1941, First Battle of Sirte. Indecisive clash between the escorting forces of two convoys.
- 19 December 1941, Raid on Alexandria (1941). Manned torpedoes attack British fleet, 2 battleships sunk in harbour, raised and repaired several months later.
- 22 March 1942, Second Battle of Sirte. British convoy attacked by the Italian fleet, managed to slip away, but all its four cargo ships are sunk during subsequent air strikes.
- June 1942, Operation Harpoon. British convoy attacked by Italian cruisers and aircraft, four merchants and destroyers HMS Bedouin and ORP Kujawiak sunk.
- June 1942, Operation Vigorous. British convoy attacked, drove back by the Italian fleet.
- August 1942, Operation Pedestal. British convoy attacked, nine merchantmen sunk by Axis E-boats, aircraft and submarines.
- November 1942, Operation Stone Age. British convoy to Malta.
- 2 December 1942, Battle of Skerki Bank. Italian convoy attacked and destroyed.
- 11 December 1942, Raid on Algiers. Manned torpedoes attack Allied shipping, two steamers sunk.
- 16 April 1943, Battle of the Cigno Convoy. Failed British attack on Italian convoy, Italian torpedo boat Cigno sunk, British destroyer Pakenham scuttled.
How did the Haitian military respond to attempts at democracy in the 1980's and the 1990's?
The Haitian military ruthlessly put down democracy attempts in the 1980s and 1990s. Eventually, though the Duvalier family was driven out of the stricken nation.
In 1940 Allied forces were saved from the Axis in what sea rescue?
The Battle of Dunkirk. British soldiers were evacuated by the Royal Navy and by private fishing boats and Yachts which were commandeered to help the evacuation effort. Tens of thousands of British soldiers were evacuated and avoided being cut off from the rest of Europe by the German Blitzkrieg, which charged right through Belgium and into France.
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Which side allies or axis had the most military forces?
The Allies had:
UK
France
Poland
Russia
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Czech
Ethiopia
Greece
India
Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
The Philippine Commonwealth
The Union of South Africa
Yugoslavia
The Axis had:
Germany
Italy
Japan
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Iraq
Thailand
(and such controlled lands by the axis parties)
How do you determine longitudinal axis?
Latitude and longitude are two of the most important things map readers and sailors must understand. To determine longitudinal axis one must look at the center of the object and imagine a line coming straight through it.
What were the ten countries with the best military right after World War 2?
Immediately following the war, the number of nations with great militaries was small. The traditional powers with strong militaries, such as Germany, Italy and Japan, essentially had no military strength.
The USA had the overall strongest military for many years after WWII. While experiencing various ups and downs, the USA continues to this day to have the strongest military, more than sixty years after the end of the war.
Certainly the USA had the greatest fleet in 1945, being larger than all the rest of the worlds fleets combined. The amphibious assault force of the navy, the Marine Corp, was also the finest of its kind. The USA air force (not a separate branch at the time) was the worlds largest with outstanding quality in pilots, equipment and logistics. The bomber wing was as large as all the rest of the world's force combined. Technologically the USA had the overall finest force too, with world leadership in nuclear technology and electronics.The American industrial and resource base was also the largest on the planet, and could quite easily support a large and active military.
The weakest part of the USA force was the army. The army performed spottily in WWII and lacked top notch equipment. American tanks and small arms were below the standards of the Germans and Russians. While logistics were strong, American combat effectiveness was far below that of those two nations at their top form. American artillery, was of good quality but was vastly outnumbered by the Soviet forces.
The Soviets had the second strongest military. Their army was far and away the finest on the planet with outstanding quality and vast numbers of tanks and artillery. Their tactical air force was strong. Their navy was mainly a coastal force. They possessed a huge industrial base to support these forces and had the natural resources for a long war.
Britain was bankrupted by the war and had been propped up by USA finances for years. I guess you can give them third place on this list but their effectiveness was again just an extention of the USA and would collapse to second rate status without American support. Their industrial base was, on paper, strong, but lacked resources other than via their colonies...those becoming increasily insecure as time passed.
Beyond this you would find the French - a medium quality army armed entirely with USA weapons. No real fighting force beyong their national borders. No navy. Weak economy.
China had a credible military but it was split between the Reds and the Nationalists. Following the victory by the Reds, the Chinese army became a force to reckon with, as the USA discovered in Korea 1950. The Chinese air and naval arms were negligible. The Chinese industrial and resource base was limited during the 1940's.
Canada likely would be next since they had put together a significant combined armed force for WWII, even being able to support an entire beach on D Day by themselves. They had the resources and industry to support this military independently. I'd place them sixth, although you could argue them up to fourth or fifth.
Beyond this there were no military powers beyond those capable of securing their own national borders - Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina. None of these nations had the industrial or resource base to support a large military, certainly not one capable of launching any operations larger than a raid, beyond their borders.
As you can see, among the significant powers, the only two credible camps were the communist with Russia and China in the lead and the American with the USA, Britain and France in the lead. It was thus natural for the world to split along those lines and form a 'cold war' for many decades.
What are the 3 axis of evil during WW ll?
Germany, Italy and Japan. The leader of Germany was Adolf Hitler, the leader for Italy was Benito Mussolini and the leader of Japan was Hirohito.
Who was the most brutal army in World War 2?
If you measure brutality by the treatment of captured soldiers (POWs) and of civilians in occupied areas, then you have pretty much a tie between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Waffen SS.
The IJA has a long history of murder, rape, and maltreatment of captives, both civilian and military throughout WW2. Much of this came from two sources: the Japanese soldier was taught to revere death in the service of the Emperor as the supreme duty, and thus surrender was beneath contempt, and those who surrendered were not worthy humans (and, thus, could be treated as such); the second source was the historical view that Japan was the Land of the Gods, and that as such, the Japanese people were specially blessed, and that all other peoples were lesser beings. In addition, the IJA practiced draconian discipline upon the ordinary soldier, so much so that orders were unquestionably obeyed, on pain of death.
A similar case of group psychosis was found in the Waffen SS, who believed in the racial purity of the Germanic Aryan race. Brainwashed into believing that such a race existed, and that it was the Ubermech (superhuman), and thus, had the moral duty to subjugate and enslave all lesser humanity, the Waffen SS went about a ruthless campaign to rid the world of such lower beings (usually by immediately killing them, though sometimes torturing them first). Such killings were a service to humanity, and thus, routinely encouraged (if not actively planned, which many of them were).
It's hard to say who was worse. The IJA "wins" on total bodycount, and was a much more indiscriminate killer of the innocent. The Waffen SS "wins" on efficiency - there are few known organizations more efficient at killing their intended targets than the SS. The fact that in both cases, the majority of their victims were civilians only points out how awful both were.
Note that all armies in WW2 were brutal in some form or the other; however, the IJN and Waffen SS stand apart in their abject, systematic brutality.
It is unlikely that his books were burned, because Adolf Hitler & the Nazis were believers in Darwin's theories, especially as they applied to humans & society.
Was chang Kai-shek apart of the allied powers or the axis powers?
Chan Kai-Shek was the leader of Nationalist Cina, which had been fighting against the Japanese since 1937, but which only officially became allied in 1941.
