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Yamato
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:17 AM
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Prussia burst out laughing. "I'm not her date!" he said.
Yamato
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:18 AM
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"But he could attack the other way and team up with Japan to invade Russia..." France said.
Grapejuice
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:21 AM
Post #5413
Prussia burst out laughing. "I'm not her date!" he said.
Prussia's laugh helped Israel out of her stupor and she glared at Jordan "Like he said he isn't my date, why thats the first thing your mind jumps too is beyond me, but thats not the important thing, the important thing is that YOU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" she yelled at the end to make sure her point got across.
Edited By Grapejuice on 11/9/2018 at 8:22 AM.
Yamato
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:28 AM
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"So, tell me, is there anything you would like to eat? I'm sorry to say that I don't have such a wide variety as Italy or France, but I do have some meager rations."
Grapejuice
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:29 AM
Post #5415
"So, tell me, is there anything you would like to eat? I'm sorry to say that I don't have such a wide variety as Italy or France, but I do have some meager rations."
Ireland shruggd he was used to taking what he could get "I'll take anything, yeh don't get to be picky in times of hardship after all" he said with a sideways grin
Edited By Grapejuice on 11/25/2018 at 11:42 AM.
Yamato
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:30 AM
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"FINE!" Jordan yelled back.
Yamato
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:31 AM
Post #5417
Lithuania brought in some meat and sliced bread, setting it on the table.
Grapejuice
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Posted: 11/9/2018 at 8:32 AM
Post #5418
"FINE!" Jordan yelled back.
She made sure Jordan had left the property and locked the door She glanced at Prussia apologetically "Sorry about that, I don't know why thats the first thing her mind jumped too" she mumbled, the yelling was definitely a mistake that she was beginning to regret
Edited By Grapejuice on 11/25/2018 at 11:43 AM.
IvyCat
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Posted: 11/10/2018 at 11:10 AM
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I actually found out something really interesting, not sure if either of you are interested, but:
While the instant death tolls at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are as high as 80,000 and 70,000, respectively, the U.S. saved its deadliest bombing raid appropriately enough for the Japanese capital of Tokyo.
On March 9 and 10, 1945, 279 U.S. bombers dropped 1,665 tons of bombs on the city, destroying 16 square miles, killing at least 100,000 and leaving another million each injured and homeless.
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What many people don't realize is that on the very same day that the U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb, the Soviet Union invaded Japanese territory.
Before the atomic bombs, the U.S. had already firebombed 66 Japanese cities. "If you look at it from the perspective of the Japanese military, it doesn't really make a big difference whether people are dying from fire bombing or atomic bombs ... it is [just] two additional city centres that are destroyed," said Tokyo's Temple University director of Asian Studies Jeffery Kingston.
On the other hand, war with the Soviet Union meant that the Japanese would have to fight millions more soldiers, on a second front no less. Furthermore, before the Soviet Union invaded Japan, the two countries had a neutrality agreement, which Japan hoped would put the Soviets in a position to broker friendly armistice terms between Japan and the U.S. But with that option gone, Japan's fate was sealed.
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That America is the hero of World War II. There are many reasons why this notion -- naturally, held almost exclusively in the U.S. -- is patently false, but let's go straight to the most glaring: When World War II ended and the Cold War began, the U.S. and its Western Allies were loath to write a history of the war that attributed the lion's share of their victory to their former ally who was now their enemy: the Soviet Union.
More than any other single country, the Soviet Union is responsible for defeating the Nazis. The ratio of total military losses on the Eastern Front versus the Western Front was an astonishing nine to one, and more than 80 percent of Germany's military deaths occurred in the east.
This, of course, came at an extraordinary cost for the Soviet Union, which lost somewhere around 10 million military personnel (in addition to 13 million or so civilians). The U.S., on the other hand, lost just about 400,000 troops.
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Tensions between the U.S. and Japan had been high for well over a decade before Pearl Harbor, with the U.S. even drawing up an official war plan for action against Japan way back in 1924. Thirteen years later, the Japanese even bombed an American ship in China.
By the time negotiations began between the two countries in 1941, everyone knew things were nearing the breaking point -- even those outside of the corridors of power. A Gallup poll taken in 1941, before Pearl Harbor, showed that 52 percent of Americans expected war with Japan while just 27 percent did not.
While the U.S. had indeed declared no war and deployed no troops before Pearl Harbor, the country was absolutely involved in the war before that point. A full six months before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. enacted the Lend-Lease program, which ultimately sent the modern equivalent of $659 billion worth of supplies to overseas allies fighting the war.
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The reason that the Germans conquered France in just six weeks in early 1940 is because, purely on a tactical level, the French simply weren't ready for the radical new style of combat that the Germans were employing. Known as blitzkrieg, this approach saw German units pierce through enemy lines at unparalleled speeds in the hopes of coming back around to encircle the enemy.
The retreating British forces in France, on the other hand, were simply able to escape with hundreds of thousands of troops back across the English Channel. Yet somehow Britain, as a country, didn't acquire a reputation for cowardliness -- nor should they have, just as France shouldn't have.
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In 1984, some four decades after the battles of World War II had torn the area apart, the Mariana Islands repatriated the remains of Japanese soldiers killed there during the war back to their homeland. Nearly 60 percent of those corpses were missing their skulls.
Edited By IvyCat on 11/10/2018 at 11:34 AM.
Lalalanmao
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Posted: 11/10/2018 at 11:50 AM
Post #5420
I am very interested :D
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