Where did they live? What was their social state? They were allowed to be a part of the governing system?

I've always wondered. As far as I can tell, the bomber flew alone besides some other planes that were there to observe the blast. But wouldn't it be safer to make sure that the Enola Gay had escorts so their top secret weapon wasn't blown out of the sky by a Japanese plane?

I am well aware the Japanese invaded Dutch Indonesia, but I don't understand for the life of my why they thought it a good idea to pre-emptively strike at the United States. I also know the US cut off its primary oil supply, and Indonesia was the closest and largest pool to replace it.

I have searched this on Reddit and Wikipedia and the usual answer is the Japanese feared FDR would declare war should they invade Dutch Indonesia, considering his naked hostilities towards them and their fellow axis members in Europe. As such, they tried to deal a crippling blow to the sleeping giant before aggressively expanding their empire in the Pacific.

Public opinion in the United States, however, was against going to war. Unless I'm mistaken (and please tell me if I am), Roosevelt only gained the support to go to war due to Pearl Harbor (no declaration needed from the US), and then a further declaration of war by Hitler allowed Roosevelt to enter the war in Europe without a messy senate vote. Roosevelt's 1940 platform even included a promise not to go to war. The argument that the US would respond to Japanese aggression in the Pacific with a declaration of war makes no sense. If the public was against getting involved in the nasty affairs of Europe, they certainly wouldn't want to get into a war over those European country's colonies. I can't imagine the people who don't want to fight Germany to free the Netherlands suddenly writing their congressmen to support Dutch Indonesia against the Japanese.

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Did Japan just not realize how isolationist a good percentage of the country and it's elected officials were feeling? Could they have gotten away with just conquering Indonesia, with Roosevelt left with only paper-thin proclamations?

I know that the United States had the geography to make the war for the axis powers a two-front war. However, the United States had a minuscule army compared to the rest of the world. Even if it were to attack, wouldn't it be relatively ineffective?

Quote is from Richard Overy’s Russian War.

In the post WWI period and especially the 1930's the majority of countries on the European continent had fascist groups with significant followings. As we know these groups came to power in Germany, Italy, Spain and a number of other nations. However the largest British equivalent, the B.U.F was tiny by comparisons to it's continental cousins. What was it about Britain that ensured these movements weren't successful as opposed to the continental experience?

The Crusades are usually framed as religious wars. On one side were Christians, on the other were Muslims.

But they were also split by race. The Crusaders were predominantly western/central European while the counter-Crusaders were Arabic and Turkish.

To what extent was racism a driving force of those conflicts? Was it ever on par with religion or at times did it overshadow it?

Hello everybody

Canada and the US currently have some of the largest Jewish populations in the world. I know that most of this immigration is relatively recent, but I’m curious to learn more about Jewish immigration in colonial times (pre-revolutionary America and New-France in particular). Were Jews prevented from immigrating to the new world and/or were they ever expelled from Europe to the colonies? If there was a Jewish presence in early North America, how was their situation different then in Europe? What were the differences between French, English or even Spanish colonies concerning Jewish immigration/integration?

Thanks in advances for your answers!

What did the diet of Celtic peoples, whether in Gaul or Britain or wherever, consist of prior to their Romanization? How did it differ from their diet after contact with Rome?

Did they promote them or disdain them? Were they romanticised in a nationalistic fervor or eschewed as culturally backward?

I vaguely remember learning something in college about a written language being found in a cave not close to Sumer but dated to be older.

Seriously, you can’t see any answers to anything and I don’t know why it happens

Did they ever made contact with the surrounding tribes and kingdoms like those in Central and West Africa? Did they ever proselytize? Maybe they had no drive to or have prioritized defending against Muslims from the north? I'm quite curious.

Might be too broad, but when did armies begin to stop setting up camps during the winter months with the intention of waiting until spring? There are winter camps such as Valley Forge during the American Revolution. Was Valley Forge atypical for the era or was this a common practice up until a certain period? I'm aware some battles in European history took place in the winter (i.e. sieges) but were those uncommon as well?