Is it true that the Japanese were extremely stubborn and that kept fighting even against the odds? I heard that the US "had no choice" but to bomb them because the Japanese wouldn't surrender. Is this true or is this a distortion of the truth, thank you.
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To repeat a question that was deleted from Ask Reddit. When I was younger I read that 700+K Americans died in WWII. Years later it dropped to 600+K and then down to 500+K. Watching a documentary on Reddit today they said 400+K. Of course it can be hard figuring this, misreports, dual reports, and men dying years after they were wounded due to their wounds. How many do you think died?
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They were both prominent socialists at the time. It seems unlikely that they wouldn't speak or exchange letters at some point.
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Specifically about the relationship it had with politics in that day, the war, censorship, and other social issues. (Mostly family TV like Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke Show, Munsters...) I was wondering if any American history nerds knew of any articles or books that provide information about this subject? I don't know what got me in the mood, but I just have a craving to learn more about this. =)
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Similar to Game of thrones I was curious if they actually were part of powerful families and such or regarded as strange.
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Or was it just a gradual decline in tensions?
Did the government ever feel a certain way towards Britain that the general public disagreed with?
Basically, how are we strong allies with England today after years of war in America's early years?
Thanks for any replies!
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Almost every former British colony currently possess a parliament similar to that of the United Kingdom. How come the US didn't have its own parliament like the UK does?
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So I know English derives from the Germanic family. But why are some words essentially the same in English and German, while others are vastly different? What happened during the translation that made this so? Also, why do we say Germany when they refer to it as Deutschland?
Thanks for any help!
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I have seen pictures of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang, all in places like Tehran, Yalta, Casablanca, and Newfoundland. How did they travel to get there. Like for Churchill and Roosevelt to get to Yalta, they would've needed to go through a war zone, no? As well, how Chiang Kai-shek travel all the way to Tehran?
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Not sure if this is the right place.
Follow-up: When did this connotation become most apparent?
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I was ecstatic to see that a recent book addressed a big loophole I had found in my research. Then I looked at the price: $115.00. The book is only from 2 years ago, is still in print, is not a textbook, isn't even a hardcover and is only 184 pages long. This is what I'd expect for an out of print classic from 60 years ago, not for a recent book. It isn't like this is a long special edition of a subscription only historical journal either.
Does anyone have any idea why the price would be so outrageous for such a small text?
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14301
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The Wikipedia page for The French Resistance has a section entitled "The Myth of the Resistance", which, with two citations, says that "Many sources claim the notion of the French resistance, in whatever form, is mostly a post-war myth", is this a genuine and/or common opinion? I don't have the expertise to verify it myself. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance#The_Myth_of_the_Resistance)
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According to a forum post I found when googling this quote, this was said by Josef Stalin on April 6th, 1948. Googling the quote presents a number of outher results as well, all of which are not really credible sources.
My usual search engine for credible sources, http://scholar.google.com/ has nothing either, so I'm asking you guys. Did he really say it? I'm skepical myself.
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Or some other military branch.
Edit: sorry, i am interested in any historical reason why the Marines are used.
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I started watching Hell on Wheels and they're laying tracks in 1865. I noticed there's only one set of tracks. How did the trains go both east and west on the same set of tracks? Or was there 2 sets laid down that they're not showing?
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