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Japan enters World War II with | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pearl Harbor and after

Japan enters World War II with a ruthlessness unmatched by any other combatant, and achieves in a few months a blitzkrieg to rival anything achieved by the Germans. Even Hitler is not informed of the secret strike being...

Eisenhower, an immensely popular national hero | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower, an immensely popular national hero from World War II, has no known party affiliation and both Republicans and Democrats want him as their candidate in the 1952 presidential election. Truman approaches him for...

As with the genesis of the | THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Postwar remedies and reactions

As with the genesis of the League of Nations in World War I, there are discussions among the Allies during the next war as to what more effective international organization can be devised to secure world peace. The first...

By that time scholars are beginning | HISTORY OF PAINTING

Vermeer

By that time scholars are beginning to recognize his genius (there is the first glimmer of interest when his superb View of Delft is put on public show in the Mauritshuis when the gallery opens in 1822). Gradually...

By that time scholars are beginning | HISTORY OF NETHERLANDS ART

Vermeer

By that time scholars are beginning to recognize his genius (there is the first glimmer of interest when his superb View of Delft is put on public show in the Mauritshuis when the gallery opens in 1822). Gradually...

In this strategy he is, in | THE SECOND WORLD WAR

A turning point

In this strategy he is, in effect, carrying out the Schlieffen Plan which his predecessors in World War I had been unable to achieve. They failed in the first part of the plan, the conquest of France. With that behind hi...

In this strategy he is, in | HISTORY OF GERMANY

A turning point

In this strategy he is, in effect, carrying out the Schlieffen Plan which his predecessors in World War I had been unable to achieve. They failed in the first part of the plan, the conquest of France. With that behind hi...

A new era of conflict begins | HISTORY OF SOMALIA

Fascism to independence

A new era of conflict begins in Somalia in 1923 with the arrival in the Italian colony of the first governor appointed by Mussolini, newly in power as Italy's fascist dictator. A vigorous policy is adopted to develop and...