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cylinder attached to a bipod mount. There was a projecting pin inside the base of the tube so that when the mortar bomb was slid down the tube a detonating charge was set off that flung the bomb into the air. The bomb itself was usually made of cast…

2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists notified Roosevelt of the rising efforts in Nazi Germany to purify Uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb (Bellis).…

spine, no matter what religion or ethnicity. A household name, Hitler led the genocide, or mass killing of a specific group of people, in a movement known as the Holocaust. How did Hitler gain the support of so many Germans and turn a liberal democratic…

A about the response of the British people to the effects of the Blitz? People can learn that the British responded to terror and tragedy with courage and determination and that even people in the most appalling circumstances still managed to keep…

originated from the Crises in the Balkans which led to the Collapse of Bismarckian Alliances. The creation of The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of the war. Increase in international…

on Hiroshima. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed upon those who brought war to the Far East." ---Truman. These were the famous words of a novice president who was sworn in to presidency the day Roosevelt died. Although Truman's…

portrayed as a pitiless anti-Semite or a saver of many Jewish lives during World War II, to the confusion over how to take the 1998 Vatican document on the Holocaust, the Catholic Church is in great dispute over it's history of relations with the…

to end all wars has ended. Many know that the war has ended but not much know what caused the war. Many events happened before the outbreak of the war and tensions between the countries increased, until nobody could stand it any longer. Treaties, joining…

II had the United States held back on dropping the now infamous and controversial atomic bomb? The bombs killed over 240,000 Japanese civilians, about 100 times more lives lost than the death toll at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese invaded American…

November 1918, that involved many of the countries of Europe as well the United States and other nations throughout the world. World War I was one of the most violent and destructive wars in European history. Of the 65 million men who were mobilized,…