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World War I
Fought between 1914-18, World War One presented the new horrors of poison gas, machine guns and tanks combined with old infantry tactics. The result was a defensive form of warfare fought in trenches with a…
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb
The only two instances of atom bombs being used in warfare were both during World War Two in 1945. The US Air Force bombed the cites of Hiroshima on 6 August and Nagasaki on 9 August causing catastrophic loss…
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US Conscription During Vietnam
Vietnam was one of the hot spots of the Cold War. The country was divided in two and the North, backed by the Soviet Union and Communist allies, was trying to forcibly re-unite with the South, backed by the US…
Bletchley Park
During World War Two, the Buckinghamshire estate of Bletchley Park became the home of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS). They recruited all kinds of experts including linguists, mathematicians, chess and crossword champions to decrypt enemy messages under the utmost secrecy. The famous Enigma code – created by one of the cypher machines used by the Axis powers – was broken at Bletchley, an achievement which some claim shortened the war by as much as two years.
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