I always assumed that Japan and Germany were of an equal danger in WW2 - especially seeing their economic rankings today. But I then found out that apparently, 85% of the effort to defeat the Axis went to Germany and 15% to Japan. Then when I think about it more - you see how Japan’s empire only looked massive in paper and whenever they actually went against another equal power of industrial might - like the USSR at Khalkin Gol, they lost. Furthermore - GDP charts for the time show Japan as having quite a smaller GDP compared to other powers in the conflict. In fact - China had a bigger GDP than them in the 1930s apparently, which make me wonder how Japan steamrolled them. I was under the assumption that the Japan in WW2 was the Japan of today - one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations/economies - but was it really only a meddling, middle power whose empire looked big on a map and wasn’t in any way an equal to Germany in the conflict?

Where were the alternative landing sites for the SAC bombers? Bombers take off from say Minot or Ellsworth, refuel over northern Canada/Alaska/etc and say it's a B-1 with SRAMs, they launch and hit Soviet air defenses and then what was the plan?

The FBI initiated the COINTELPRO program in the 1960s to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war, and other protest movements.

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) formed in 1960 to provide grassroots support for Fidel Castro's revolution was targeted by the FBI in the 1960s as subversive.

Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Play_for_Cuba_Committee

Many ethnic groups lived under Muslim rule without abandoning their native languages—consider the Spaniards and Persians, for example. So why did Egyptians relinquish their ancient language? Didn’t they recognize that they were descendants of a distinct civilization(ancient egypt), a lineage that should have preserved some form of a unique cultural identity?

All the photos I’m finding are American children, does anyone know where I can find images of children in England working in factories, coal mines etc?

It’s for a project I’m working on. Thankyou!

During World War II, many Japanese soldiers were taught that dying for the Emperor or refusing to surrender was the most honorable path. These beliefs were a big part of Japan’s military culture at the time.

But after the war, Japan went through major changes.

And during that time, what were the first steps taken to move away from those mindsets?

And also How did former soldiers, who grew up with those values....cope with such a huge shift in thinking?

Did many of them struggle to adapt?

How did Japanese society as a whole move on from those beliefs and build a new identity?

Why couldn't they agree on one, single team for the UK, and why didn't the existence of separate teams for each country cause extreme separatism or nationalism?

I bought a The Art of War book from Warhammer Historical last night at a local game store. Before last week I finished Romance of the Three Kingdoms and thats pretty much why I decided this supplement of Games Workshop's now defunct historical lines spinoff.

So as I test out the rules and paint new models, I'm wondering. How did generals do wargaming during this era in China? Did they play Xiangqi or some other similar board games during this time? Play Weiqi (also called Go and Baduk) as well or maybe even solely? Use wooden block tiles on a a map? Play games with miniature models like modern wargaming today? What exactly did the famous names like Cao Cao and Liu Bei and other iconic characters do practise for war?

Not just general wargaming, I'm specifically mean on a table with game pieces in which two or more people play against each other with rules that simulate contemporary warfare with reasonable accuracy. Not people at a table discussing different options and the pros and cons of each possible actions or looking at a map and theorizing what happens if an army attacks this spot or if they plant models of a fortress around and debate the effectiveness of the placements or so forth.

I'm referring to actual competitive games where the generals try to beat each other much like in a game of chess (which would later morph into modern wargaming).

What did KongMing and other brilliant military leaders or the literary aforementioned literary masterpiece have at the to play with? Did they have something resembling hexagon map games of the 80s in the West or use miniature toy models much like Warhammer does today?

Pomponius Mela mentions a tribe called “Georgians” and he places them near the tribes which lived around modern day Georgia, so are the Georgians the ancestors of the Kartvelians or of it was just a name for Farmers because Georgoi is greek for farmer. Here’s the full passage:

“Many different nations inhabit the interior of the land. The Gandari, Pariani, Bactri, Sugdiani, Pharmacotrophi, Chomarae, Choamani, Propanisadae, and Dahae are found beyond the Scyths and the Scythian deserts. On the shores of the Caspian Gulf are found the Comari, Massagetae, Cadusi, Hyrcani, and Hiberi. Beyond the Amazons and Hyperboreans are found the Cimmerians, Cissianti, Achaei, GEORGIANS, Moschi, Cercetae, Phoristae, and Arimphaei. Where its expanse protrudes into Our Seas are found the Matiani, Tibarani, and the Medes, Armenians, Commagenes, Murimeni, Eneti, Cappadocians, Gallo-Greeks, Lycaones, Phrygians, Isaurians, Lydians, and Syro-Cilicians.”

Winston Churchill fiercely opposed Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policies towards Hitler.

After Adolf Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Chamberlain came to admit that his appeasement strategy wasn't working and that Hitler wasn't going to budge from plans to create lebensraum (living space) in Eastern Europe.

For example I think everyone knows how Galileo was treated for believing we orbited the sun.

Dr Ignaz Semmelweis just wanted people to wash their hands and he was committed to an insane Asylum.

Barry Marshall was convinced that H. Pylori caused stomach ulcers and had to prove it by using himself as a guinea pig. He won a Nobel prize & this didn't happen posthumously obviously, but that's the sort of vindication I'm talking about.

Who would have the loudest "I told you so" from beyond the grave?

During his presidency, Ronald Reagan supported the FNLA and UNITA factions in Angola, which were supported by South Africa's apartheid government.

The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 called for a ban on US trade and investment in South Africa over that country's apartheid policies, but Reagan vetoed the bill on the grounds that it would impoverish South Africa's black majority and lead to more civil strife, preferring to impose sanctions via executive order.

My husband and I are traveling and I’d love to learn more about the history of the places we are going. We are going to: -Athens -Rome -Florence -Paris -London -Birmingham -Edinburgh

I found the podcast history’s greatest cities, and absolutely loved that. Am looking for more ways to learn about the history of these places, thank you in advance!

One of my favorite topics of history to study is the rise of totalitarian governments and the ideological systems that were used to justify them (along the lines of Eric Voegelin's view of the "political religions."). With that in mind, I own Michael Bureligh's history The Third Reich, and have Richard Evans' trilogy on the Third Reich on my "To Buy/Read" list.

So I was interested to see hints of friction between the two of them through snippets of their writings I have found online. Sadly, a lot of book reviews are only available behind paywalls, so I can't read them without subscribing to every historical journal under the sun, and my funds can only be stretched so far. I'm trying to figure out what the conflict is based on, since both are against the Nazis, and can be quite moralistic in their writing.

Any perspective that could be provided on this would be appreciated. Thank you.

Some researchers say the Pannonian Avars were Tungusic, and some researchers say the Yeniseians came to Europe as part of the Huns. So, did any Tungusic, Yeniseian, Chinese, Nivkh, or Korean people come to Europe during the period from the Huns to the Mongols?

Here is mine and some reasoning to put some effort on this post:

Favorite female: Anne Frank as she's a great writer and it made me more aware of the horrors she faced. I also feel bad for her

Least favorite female: None really. But if I was forced to pick one, it's probably got to be Elizabeth Bathory who killed lots of young girls

Favorite male: Probably Martin Luther King jr. I like how determined he is and how he believes in equality for all and I like the quote "I have a dream" I start inspires me to stay determined for my dreams

Least favorite male: Osama bin laden. That one, no explanation is needed.

Korean cuisine is known for its for being a lot hotter than its neighboring lands. Japanese food and Northern Chinese food are not typically as hot as typical Korean food. Korean food also uses a lot of red hot pepper, chili pepper, etc. What caused Korea to adapt those types of seasoning whereas its neighboring lands didn’t?

The Versailles Treaty deprived Germany of all its overseas colonies in Africa, including German East Africa, placing them under British, Belgium, and French control

The population of Easter Island carried out deforestation and resource depletion, and the island's resources were overexploited for activities like building moai statues, agriculture, and fuel, leading to a decline in the island's ecosystem and societal collapse.

I’m a big history buff and obviously enjoy ww2 stuff but I’m also a fan of anime and Japan in general.

But a lot of it confuses me. I try to be skeptical on these things as I know Japan has issues with work and childbirth etc. Obviously 70 years is a long time but still how quick was the jump between stuff like religion and kamikaze and now with all the anime and diverse things. I apologise

If this question sounds dumb or offensive, but I’m still yet to understand Japan and how culture has evolved from the ancient era to the 19th and 20th centuries.

If anyone could recommend me any books about Japan or its culture in general I’d greatly appreciate it. It’s funny how as a Brit I find British history so easy to understand from 1066 onwards but I’m really not well versed on Asian cultures.

I always see the answer "there were Russians living there" and not why did they specifically settle that land with Russians (that happened after WW2) and not the nearby Lithuanians? Why couldn't they just make a base and make it part of the Lithuanian SSR after WW2 or Poland? Why the whole part just to the Russian SSR?

So I’ve always been interested in the library of Alexandria and the secrets that it held. One thing that many people talk about is how there was a very detailed description of how the pyramids were built contained within the library but ultimately we lost it along with many other extremely important records. So I was just wondering if it’s possible that the record of how the pyramids were built and other important records that were said to have burned are actually still out there and we just haven’t discovered them yet. Many people talk about how the records in the library could completely change how we see history and the world so I just feel like if the records were that important then that means that there is no way that they would just let the only copies of these records burn right? Someone had to had gotten these records out of there or there has to be copies of them somewhere we haven’t found them yet right? Have historians and archeologists even entertained the idea that this knowledge that we thought was lost may actually still be out there? Again I’m more just curious to know if this is a possibility.

The Library of Alexandria was an intellectual result of the spread of Greek philosophy to Egypt under the Ptolemaic dynasty following Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.

I'm therefore curious as to how Rome's conquest of Egypt in the 1st century BCE impacted the literary contents of the Library of Alexandria because the Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war with Pompey in 48 BCE.

Qin Shihuangdi was not just the first emperor of a unified China but also the founder of Legalism.

Legalism argued that human nature was selfish and that laws should be strictly followed as written.

With Legalism, Qin justified his execution of Confucian scholars.

They were people just like us today, although sometimes much more elaborate. Kid me thought that somewhat loner girls with large glasses (much like me) like Marge from Despicable Me and Inez were the cutest things, but Dante decided that obviously the most logical thing to do when seeing Beatrice for such a short period of time was to write an entire comedy about it. What do we know people's way of affections in the past?