During World War ii, Dresden was firebombed by British and American heavy bombers in a campaign that destroyed most of the city center and killed 25,000 to 35,000 people. ..…

The Apprentice revealed they did not know which years World War II began and ended, prompting criticism of them on media, British TV star told. ..…

Now, this has to be alternate history on Watchmen, and they were, fact, dropped World War II, Germans learning from British's actions in First World War.. ..…

At the same time, “socialism” has existed in various forms in theory and practice, from Soviet-style communism to post–World War II British “democratic” socialism under the Labor Party, to an amorphous, emotive post-scarcity la-la land in which everything is..…

When World War II broke out two years after the service was launched, the British used the radio station to spread propaganda. ..…

In World War I, the British lost nearly 1 million soldiers trying to save France and Belgium. In World War II, England was the only nation to fight the Axis for the entirety of the war (from September 1939, to September 1945), the only Allied power to..…

But British of World War II Europe is one which is something that sort of kicks in really after 1941 with German of Soviet Union... ..…

Hong Kong became a crown colony of the British Empire and was occupied by the Japanese during World War II. After the war, Hong Kong reverted to the British, and following the establishment of socialism in mainland China in 1949, served as a significant trading and..…

Australia and New Zealand lost faith in protection from the British after they surrendered Singapore to the Japanese during World War II. ..…

Diarchy was granted to Myanmar in 1923, and the country achieved separation from British India in 1937, 20 years after it pressed the demand. After World War II, British considered granting home rule to Myanmar, and the people, led by General Aung San, demanded..…

Abbasi has interviewed or secured testimonies from dozens of Palestinians who served in British World War II and Jews.. Abbasi would eventually discover lists of more and more Arabs who volunteered for British army and served Jews from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Safed,..…

In pre-recorded radio address, Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II. 1947. India became independent after some 200 years of British rule. 1961. ..…

Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. . 1947 . Pakistan became independent of British rule. . 1948 . The Summer Olympics in London ended; they were the first Olympic games held since 1936. . 1973 . ..…

After all, like so many ongoing world conflicts, the violent struggle in Kashmir has its roots in the dissolution of venal, exploitative British Empire in the decades after World War II. Before its independence in 1947, British India – known as the raj –..…

The England-educated lawyer served as vice chairman when the Karen National Union (KNU), which later became one of the major ethnic armed groups in Myanmar, was established after World War II. . He served as the transportation and communications minister in the British..…

The story of Father Dimitrios, the monk with the voice of an angel, who turned out to be a spy for the British Intelligence Service in pre-World War II Greece, is a fascinating yet relatively unknown chapter in modern Greek history. . ..…

While there has been a long-standing narrative promoted for over 70 years that the British Empire disappeared after World War II having been replaced by the “American Empire”, it is the furthest thing from the truth. ..…

Emeritus Kenneth Northcott lived existence, on the stage, and in British Intelligence Corps after World War II. ..…

“A large part didn’t want to say that their sons were in fact on the British side [during World War II].” . ..…

He was able to crystallize the issues faced by Jews around the world and whose crisp “We shall fight the White Paper (British immigration policy to Palestine in World War II) as if there was no war and the war as if there was no White Paper” served as an..…

Thousands of mixed-race British babies were born in World War II — and adoption by their black American fathers was blocked . . . . . ... And so, unsurprisingly, life was difficult for the 2,000 or so mixed race babies who were born in World War..…

World War II was initiated by the British and French declaration of war on Germany, not by a surprise blitzkrieg from Germany. ..…

In the teeth of the greatest crisis of British statecraft since World War II, the institutional imperatives of political combat ensure the politicians perform rather than deliberate. ..…

The grand qadi (judge) of the religious courts was always an Egyptian, but the British ended this monopoly in 1947.  After World War II, the British came up with a novel tactic for stemming the threat of Egyptian power in Sudan:  they proposed that the Sudan be..…

Churchill's Secret War British Empire and Ravaging of India during World War II, by Madhusree Mukerjee. Once British East India Company got its hands on Bengal, with its estimated annual gain of £1,650,000 year, it was to become one of the world's..…

It dates to 1947, the year the British government, exhausted after World War II and seeing its global empire crumbling, summarily dumped the Palestine Question into the lap of the still-young United Nations. . ..…

Between World War i and World War ii, the British fortified Haifa at a cost of many millions of dollars. ..…

Therefore, the referendum did not resolve issues but unleashed the deepest British political crisis since World War II.   . British Prime Minister Theresa May’s defeat in Parliament on her proposed EU agreement was the largest government defeat in a vote since..…

By 1938, he felt the need to go beyond Jabotinsky's reliance on politics and diplomacy to armed revolt against British and the exigencies of World War II brought him back to Jabotinsky's side when the latter campaigned for creation of Jewish army to fight alongside Allies..…

One of the finest military memoirs of any is Defeat Into Victory, British Field Marshal Sir William Slim's of World War II's Burma campaign. ..…

British Field Marshal Sir William Slim's of World War II's Burma campaign, which ended in victory over Japan. ..…

One of the finest military memoirs of any generation is Defeat Into Victory, British Field Marshal Sir William Slim's of World War II's Burma campaign. ..…

One of the finest military memoirs of any generation is Defeat Into Victory, British Field Marshal Sir William Slim's of World War II's Burma campaign. ..…

While there has been a long-standing narrative promoted for over 70 years that the British Empire disappeared after World War II having been replaced by the “American Empire”, it is the furthest thing from the truth. ..…

When Britain was barely hanging on in World War II, he swapped 50 destroyers for British bases. ..…

Losing more than 1.1 men, British military suffered losses nearly three times World War I than World War II. ..…

In fact, not only did he predict the Holocaust before it happened, Jabotinsky even formulated a plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler,  which he proposed to representatives of the British government after World War II began. Because the British were in control of what..…

In the 1920s and 1930s, Arab leaders never seemed to settle on whether they wanted to work with the British and accept the premise of two communities, Arab and Jewish, in Palestine or reject cooperation and lump the Jews and British together as colonial interlopers. . After World..…

Winston Churchill praised the British fighter pilots in World War II that prevented a German invasion with the words: “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” ..…

So does Niall Barr, author of Eisenhower's Armies, study of the Anglo- American military World War II. The author, devotes his early chapters to the relationship of British and American armies, first in Revolutionary War, then World War I. ..…

Woodrow Wilson’s now-famous 14 points gave the French and British fits after the end of World War I, as many different groups in what was the Ottoman Empire used not only Wilson’s 14 points to argue for independence but the example of America itself as reason enough to not trade one imperial overlord (the..…

Following a three-year occupation by the Japanese during World War II, British colonial power was restored in Singapore in 1945. ..…

Think of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and World War I; or the British Empire and World War II. ..…

During World War II, the British had a unique unit of commandos known as the No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, part of the Special Services Brigade. ... The British were not the only ones who used Jewish commandos during World War II. ..…

Eisenhower’s Armies: The American–British Alliance During World War II . by Robin Prior . . ..…

Hitler was so scarred by the incident that he banned the use of mustard gas on the World War II battlefield. . 7A British Soldier Spares Hitler’s Life . . ... Years later, Tandey would wish he would have been a little bit less merciful when he and the British..…

During the 1930s, Devi spread pro-Axis propaganda throughout India, in addition to her role as an intelligence gatherer on the British. Traveling throughout Europe during World War II, she often entertained Allied personnel with her husband, questioning them about military..…

Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II By Madhusree Mukerjee . . ..…

Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam, Germany, in the final Allied summit of World War II. . ..…

Specifically, the British imported cholera and malaria to Egypt after World War II. A British midwife who trained in the Kabylia province of Algeria got accused by his angry Algerian supervisor of working in league with the 'white-coated saboteurs passing their..…