BBC's secret World War Two role revealed - BBC News. Second World War (WWII) Histoire - Guerres mondiales: colonies, colonies et seconde guerre mondiale. Has India's contribution to WW2 been ignored? Image copyright Getty Images The numbers are staggering: up to three million Bengalis were killed by famine, more than half a million South Asian refugees fled Myanmar (formerly Burma), 2.3 million soldiers manned the Indian army and 89,000 of them died in military service.
South Asia was transformed dramatically during the war years as India became a vast garrison and supply-ground for the war against the Japanese in South-East Asia. Yet, this part of the British Empire's history is only just emerging. By looking beyond the statistics to the stories of individual lives the Indian role in the war becomes truly meaningful. Has the massive South Asian contribution to the World War Two been overlooked? In some ways, it hasn't. Everyone has heard of the Gurkhas and many people have heard something of the role of Indian soldiers at major battles like Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal.
Untold stories. - Art et guerre - Essai - "Finest hour": le Commonwealth britannique en guerre. Download "Finest hour": the British Commonwealth at war (Complete version) in PDF format (110Kb) Britain and the dominion nations were the only powers that fought in the war from its beginning in September 1939 to its end in August 1945.
United States Military Academy West Point. World War II: America's Motivation and Impact. How did the United States’ motivations for entering World War II impact our actions?
Following World War I, the United States hoped to avoid further entanglement with European politics that had drawn us into war. A strong isolationist sentiment developed that questioned the wisdom of our entry into The Great War as it was then known. However, the rise of military government in Germany, Italy and Japan and their invasions of neighboring countries became a major concern for United States leaders including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Germany Instigates World War I In Europe, Adolf Hitler led the rise of the Nazi Party, which claimed that Germany was treated unfairly in the peace treaty that ended WWI. Meanwhile, Germany and Italy became partners with Japan that had designs on domination of Eastern Asia.
American Offensive in European and Pacific Fronts Instead of putting all its efforts to fight Japan, the United States made Europe its first priority. The Life of Churchill Archives - The International Churchill Society. What makes him relevant in the 21st century?
Members of the Churchill family and the International Churchill Society answer the question in this video short. Read More > Reason.tv: How Churchill Became Churchill-rediscovering young Winston’s classical-liberal American mentor, Bourke Cockran The untold story of Young Winston and his American mentor. Reason.tv’s Nick Gillespie recently sat down with Reason contributing editor Michael McMenamin, co-author with Curt Zoller of 2007’s Becoming Winston Churchill, now out in a paperback edition from Enigma Books.
“Father Always Came First, Second And Third” Finest Hour 116, Autumn 2002 As Churchill’s daughter, Mary Soames had the run of 10 Downing Street and helped arrange dinner with Stalin. Graham Turner is a journalist whom we knew years ago when he covered the motor industry and wrote a penetrating, oft-quoted book, The Leyland Papers. He was the lion who roared when the British Empire needed him most. Read More > World War Two – the final months. History - World Wars: Voices of D-Day. History: World War Two. Operation Overlord & Neptune (D-Day documentary) History - World Wars: D-Day: Beachhead. World War II. The Blitz, (September 7, 1940–May 11, 1941), intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom during World War II.
For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain. The attacks were authorized by Germany’s chancellor, Adolf Hitler, after the British carried out a nighttime air raid on Berlin. The offensive came to be called the Blitz after the German word blitzkrieg (“lightning war”). World War II Events Holocaust Battle of the Atlantic September 3, 1939 - May 8, 1945 Dunkirk evacuation May 26, 1940 - June 4, 1940 Battle of Britain June 1940 - April 1941 North Africa campaigns June 1940 - May 13, 1943 Vichy France July 1940 - September 1944 The Blitz September 7, 1940 - May 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 Siege of Leningrad September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944 Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941 Battle of Wake Island. Sir Winston Churchill's Speeches. Winston Churchill speech on World War II. Churchill War Rooms.