The Luftwaffe of the Nazi era was successful in Fall Weiß, the German invasion of Poland, which occurred in 1939. When the Allies invaded Normandy in 1944, they had air superiority. What happened in those 5 years to make the Luftwaffe so insignificant?

How was japanese clans created? How did they work? What did they do? Why did they end up in conflicts? If they had their "own society" did they have different rules compared to others? Who was the chief/king the guy in charge? How did they end up in wars ? Did any of the clans survive until present day? What clan had the most/less succes? (Sorry for having a million questions but i seriously wanna know anything and everything in between.

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand how FN could decide that jews were to have the land instead of Palestina.

Was there a position close to the leader, such as that of Chief of Staff in the USA?

First I am Catholic and nothing said here will offend me or take me away from my faith. I ask this because there did not seem to be a single authority or church for years after Jesus died, as far as I know the gospels were not written until at least 30 years after his death.

So how can the Catholic Church claim they were founded by St Peter or be more authentic than other churches? I know the religion lasted through various saints who were martyred but it doesn't seem until Constantine that the religion had one voice. Could it be argued that Constantine was the real founder of the Church and not St Peter?

The US & Britain dropped almost 3m tons of bombs on Germany in WWII and didn't ever seem to get close to killing Hitler. Were the Allies allowing Hitler to live in order to prolong the punishment and destruction of Germany?

I've been studying American history lately, and that has also included learning about the Mohawk people, who at the time (1700s) seemed to treat their women far better than colonists. But it hasn't struck me until recently that I've never read anything about any Native American tribe who treated their women poorly.

So...do any Native American tribes exist that treat their women poorly, or view them are being very inferior to men?

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If so, what happened to them? Were they compensated? I know the government was compensated for 193 structures situated on the area.

Interested in stories from the other side of the border too.

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I'm trying to imagine Prohibition starting today, and I can't imagine there wouldn't be significant (non-gang-related) resistance to it in rural areas in the US. Was there any significant anti-government violence over alcohol prohibition?

I'm referring to the average Joe, not plantation owners. How often would an urban white even see a black? Would this change if I was in the north/south? It's my understanding that owning slaves was an upper class privilege, is this true? If so could you give a guesstimate of how rich you'd have to be to own slaves in today's $$?

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I searched 'slavery' and looked through many pages before I gave up.

A bit of background: I'm somewhat of an aspiring military history buff who's been looking into the military history of Lithuania recently because of how my great grandfather, who emigrated from Lithuania to the United States in the early 1900s, was in the Russian army artillery.

My question: Lately I've been trying to look into the history of the Lithuanian Air Force from it's inception in 1919 to when it was disbanded in 1940, however I haven't had much luck. Most of the information I've found is from after 1991, when the air force was reinstated after independence from the USSR. Are there any specific sources I should look into for it's history from 1919 to 1940? Would sending in a letter or email or such to the Lithuanian Aviation Museum be a good idea? I don't speak Lithuanian, so English language sources are preferred, however I suppose I could translate Lithuanian text using an online translator if I have to.

I'm looking for a text source of the Hay-Herbert Treaty of 1903 to cite in a paper, but all I can find is the wikipedia entry of it. Is there a more official source online where I can find the text of the treaty?

Sorry for phrasing it so poorly, but how did the French get the stereotype of being snobby?