Were kamikaze planes more cheaply built or designed significantly differently since they were meant to be destroyed?

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World War One was expected to be a "war of mobility", but instead resulted in very slow moving trench warfare. Why was it that World War Two ended up being a war of mobility and why wasn't trench warfare as prevalent?

It seems like World War Two was fought very differently to World War One both in terms of speed and style of combat. What led to this change in style of conflict? Was it better technology or something else?

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WW2 saw the formation of African American fighting units such as the Tuskegee airmen but internment of Japanese Americans. Did any African American leaders at the time protest against that internment?

While Japanese American-specific units were also founded, their internment could be compared with segregation against African Americans in the south. I'd love to learn whether there was synergy between the two groups in working against (racial) discrimination.

Thanks in advance!

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Did Hitler portray his full plan to exterminate the Jews right from the beginning of his public political campaign, or was it in stages, progressing from mere restrictions to the more dire plans?

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How reliable is hadith as a historical source?

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The Godfather and popular depictions of Sicily in early 1900s: corruption, mafia, backwardness. How true is this depiction and how did Sicily end up that way?

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What was the nature of the relationship between the nomadic Turks and Arabs/Persians during the 10th and 11th century?

Note: i'm not a native english speaker so I am very sorry if there's any spelling and grammar error.

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Why was Pedro II of Brazil overthrown?

To me, it seems like his reign was mostly successful. So what exactly happened that led to his fall?

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To what extent is it legitimate to say that Mao's cultural revolution "erased Chinese culture"?

I'm asking this in reaction to this comment which essentially asserted that the perceived rudeness of Chinese tourists abroad was largely a result of Mao's cultural revolution stripping away traditional Chinese values in a way that has left China's new affluent elite without the system of etiquette required to handle its new wealth.

The comment makes some pretty bold claims, and I was wondering how well some of them are supported by historical evidence.

Particularly:

  1. Did the cultural revolution really "erase" Chinese culture in a fundamental and lasting way, particularly for citizens outside the cultural elite?

  2. To what extent can the effects of the cultural revolution be perceived in contomporary Chinese behaviour and attitudes.

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How was the Polish treated in Poland after the third partition?

I am asking how the Russian, Austrians, and the Prussians treated the Poles. Do they have any difference in their treatment?

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Why is David Irving no longer considered a historian?

History extension project, I need some opinions!

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According to Wikipedia, During WWI, Romania lost 8% of their population, Serbia 20%, and Ottoman Empire 14%. This is much more than the next highests, Germany, Austria, and France a 4%. What was happening that made it so devastating on these 3 nations?

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

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What was the family structure like in prehistoric times? Were they monogamous or polygamous?

I'm interested in early homo sapiens just before the apparition of agriculture.

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Why did the British take Gibraler even though it was isolated?

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Did the Bf 110 get an unfair historical reputation due to the way it was utilized in the Battle of Britain?

Christer Bergstrom argues in " The Battle of Britain – an Epic Conflict Revisited" that the Bf 110 earned such a terrible reputation during the Battle of Britain (and in the eyes of subsequent historians) because it was forced to fly slow, close-escort missions for the bombers, making all of them easy prey for the RAF. He also argues that 109s that carried out the same sorts of escort missions suffered the same proportion of losses as the 110s.

Do these arguments hold any weight? I've always found the 110 to be an interesting and beautiful aircraft and now I'm curious as to whether it's been given a bad break in the history books due to improper usage.

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How did Nixon and Kennedy's friendship affect their politics? How did they become friends, for that matter?

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If the blame HAD to be placed on a specific State, who caused WWI?

WWI is seen as a combination of factors building up, and consequently exploding, but which State had the most to do with these factors, to the point that blame could be placed on them?

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How accurate is Starz Spartacus?

I've been rewatching Starz Spartacus Blood and Sand and the other series and I've been wondering just how accurate it is. What stands out as particularly inaccurate? What stands out as accurate?

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Why did the Native American population of the United States increase so rapidly from 1960-1990?

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Anarchist Josiah Warren rejected Utopian socialist Robert Owen's New Harmony commune in Indiana as communism. What did the concept of communism mean in 1820's USA?

He further said on the commune: "those who advocated any type of communism with connected property, interests, and responsibilities were doomed to failure because of the individuality of the persons involved in such an experiment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren#Owenism_and_New_Harmony

I find folks like Warren and Owen fascinating the more I read about them.

What did the "horrible" c-word mean in those days? Was it the same classless, stateless, moneyless, utopian society that it's usually described as now?

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"... a remarkable incident in 1636, three Portuguese cannon, hauled up on to the Great Wall of China, put the Manchurian army to flight, thus procuring an extra ten years or so of life for Ming rule in China": what battle does this refer to?

The text above is from Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism: 15th-18th century, the structure of everyday life, in the chapter "Revolution and Delays." Can somebody tell me which battle the above specifically refers to, please? Thanks in advance.

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What do we know about the history of the association of rabbits and hares with Easter?

My understanding is that it is German in origin. I have also read some claims about it being a carry over from paganism but no clear smoking gun on this.

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Why do some people believe dinosaurs didn't exist? Is there any missing proof beyond the Bible that would make someone question their existence or believe it could be a hoax?

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What caused the global North-South divide?

What happened historically that caused a species that began in the global South to develop so much more quickly in the North?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North–South_divide

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When did humans first eat grasses, ie. Wheat?

We're omnivores, and by grasses I mean the grains that they produce in any form (wheat, barley. Etc) I imagine there were wild fields of wheat that we settled near and cultivated. Is this era tied with the beginning of agricultural settlements, or did that come much later, tied with the cultivation of seed crops like we practice today?

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