What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb. Three days after leveling the city of Hiroshima with a uranium atomic bomb known as a "Little Boy," the United States dropped the more menacing-sounding "Fat Man" over Nagasaki. It was Aug. 9, 1945. Some 40,000 to 80,000 people were killed, and much of the city was pulverized. Nuclear weapons would never again be used in warfare.
This is what Nagasaki looked like 70 years ago, before the bomb fell: Nagasaki before the bomb fell. And this is what it looked like afterwards: Nagasaki after the bomb. The images were printed in 1946 inside the U.S. government's "strategic bombing survey," an analysis of the epochal nuclear strikes on the second Japanese city. In particular, it includes the official report of the incident by the Nagasaki Prefecture. Within a radius of 1 kilometer from ground zero, men and animals died almost instantaneously from the tremendous blast pressure and heat; houses and other structures were smashed, crushed and scattered; and fires broke out.
Related on WorldViews. This Animated Data Visualization Of World War II Fatalities Is Shocking. Remarkable HD Footage of Berlin from July 1945. World War II — The Atlantic. The Late Movies: Disney Propaganda Cartoons. During World War II, Disney created propaganda for the US government. The cartoons dealt with subjects as varied as income taxes, the daily life of Nazis, and military tactics. I've collected a sampling of the cartoons below, for your viewing pleasure and amazement -- be warned, some are pretty weird, and many contain offensive racial or cultural caricatures. Note that most (all?) Of these are included in the DVD box set Disney on the Front Lines, if you're into this kind of thing. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia on Disney's propaganda films: As requested by the US Government, Walt Disney created a number of anti-German and anti-Japanese films for both the soldiers and the US public.
The Spirit of '43 (Income Tax) Including an early appearance of Scrooge McDuck, this cartoon shows Donald Duck learning about funding war via the income tax. Education for Death - The Making of a Nazi "What makes a Nazi? Der Fuhrer's Face Commando Duck All Together (War Bonds) Donald's Decision (War Bonds) 40 maps that explain World War II. By Timothy B. Lee on November 13, 2014 World War II was a great tragedy, claiming 60 million lives and throwing millions more into turmoil. Yet the war also spurred rapid technological development, hastened the end of colonialism, and laid the foundation for institutions like the United Nations and the European Union. Here are 42 maps that explain the conflict — how it started, why the Allies won, and how it has shaped the modern world.
Background World War II, animatedWorld War II was the biggest conflict in world history, with major battles on three continents and some of the largest naval engagements in history. The Axis (and the Soviet Union) attacks Japan and China were already at war in 1937People often describe World War II as beginning in September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The Allies besieged Tens of thousands of British troops escape from DunkirkThe war in France didn't go well for the Allies. The USA and USSR are drawn into the conflict The Allies retake Europe and Africa.
The Thrifty Pig | 1941 | WW2 Anti-Nazi Animated Propaganda Short Film by Walt Disney | WWII Cartoon. The Nazis' Forgotten Anti-Smoking Campaign - Tracy Brown Hamilton. Nazi Germany’s well-known obsession with creating a master Aryan race led to many atrocities. But from these same sinister motives came research that may have had health benefits for the German people during World War II—studies on the dangers of smoking that led to the most advanced anti-tobacco campaign of its time.
Unfortunately, the campaign was only concerned with protecting the health of Aryan Germans. “Nazi Germany was governed by a health-conscious political elite bent on European conquest and genocidal extermination,” writes Stanford researcher Robert Proctor in his book, The Nazi War on Cancer, “and tobacco at the time was viewed as one among many ‘threats’ to the health of the chosen folk.”
In 1939, German scientist Franz Müller presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer. Research by German doctors also brought to light the harmful effects of secondhand smoke for the first time, and coined the term “passive smoking.” This Illustration Of How Many Soldiers Died On D-Day Is Like A Kick To The Gut. World War 2 in 7 Minutes.
Government - Historical Debt Outstanding - Annual 1900 - 1949. WWII Propaganda Film: Our Enemy -- the Japanese (Part 1 of 2) Rape of Nanking. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Declaration of War Address - "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy" This war...! | LOL is unthinkable. The National Archives Learning Curve | World War II | Western Europe | 1939-1941. HD Stock Footage WWII Battle of Britain Reel 1. A Pro-Fascist View of the March on Rome. A Pro-Fascist View of the March on Rome. [Excerpted from Luigi Villari, The Awakening of Italy: The Fascista Regeneration (London, 1924), pp. 171-188] On September 29th [1922] an important gathering of Fascisti was held at Udine to consecrate the banners of various newly created Fasci of the Friuli, and Benito Mussolini delivered a notable speech containing an expose of the Fascista programme.
After dwelling on the interventionist policy, which had given birth to the Fascista spirit, he spoke on foreign affairs, criticizing the "renunciatory" policy of successive Cabinets and deploring the unfortunate results of Signor Schanzer's visit to London, where, he stated, Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs submitted to treatment at the hands of Mr. Lloyd George "of which a representative of San Marino would have been ashamed. " " I believe that the Monarchy has no interest in opposing what we must already call the Fascista revolution. The speech met with the most widespread approval. Mussolini's speech (English Subtitles), declaration of war on Great Britain and France.
Keynes. John Maynard Keynes [The passages quoted here are reorganized and sometimes quite out of the order they appear in the book, but seem to be clearer in this order, given the brevity of the excerpt. I have changed a few mathematical symbols to make them more predictable on the web. When in doubt, consult the original.] I HAVE called this book the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, placing the emphasis on the prefix general. The object of such a title is to contrast the character of my arguments and conclusions with those of the classical theory of the subject, upon which I was brought up and which dominates the economic thought, both practical and theoretical, of the governing and academic classes of this generation, as it has for a hundred years past. I shall argue that the postulates of the classical theory are applicable to a special case only and not to the general case, the situation which it assumes being a limiting point of the possible positions of equilibrium.
Jesse owens 1936 olympics adolf hitler. Triumph des Willens (1935) - Triumph of the Will. Rise of Hitler: The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party. 1. We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples. 2. We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated. 3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population. 4. Hitler's Rise to Power. NOVA: Holocaust on Trial (2000) Women in Berlin. World War II: The Holocaust - Alan Taylor - In Focus. One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the "racially inferior," or "sexually deviant," as well as to "enemies of the state" both internal and external.
From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews. Later in the war, this policy grew into Hitler's "final solution", the complete extermination of the Jews. It began with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed some 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care.
It culminated in the construction of extermination camps -- government facilities whose entire purpose was the systematic murder and disposal of massive numbers of people. Lt. Holocaust Resources for Teachers. Holocaust Timeline. Jump to: 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1933 January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. February 22, 1933 - 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police. February 27, 1933 - Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere. February 28, 1933 - Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire. March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.
March 24, 1933 - German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers. See also: The History Place - Rise of Hitler April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses. Holocaust Timeline: The Night of the Long Knives. The four million brown shirted Nazi storm troopers, the SA (Sturmabteilung), included many members who actually believed in the 'socialism' of National Socialism and also wanted to become a true revolutionary army in place of the regular German Army.
But to the regular Army High Command and its conservative supporters, this potential storm trooper army represented a threat to centuries old German military traditions and the privileges of rank. Adolf Hitler had been promising the generals for years he would restore their former military glory and break the "shackles" of the Treaty of Versailles which limited the Army to 100,000 men and prevented modernization. For Adolf Hitler, the behavior of the SA was a problem that now threatened his own political survival and the entire future of the Nazi movement.
The SA was headed by Ernst Röhm, a battle scarred, aggressive, highly ambitious street brawler who had been with Hitler from the very beginning. A Real-Time Account of an Early Nazi Concentration Camp - Brian Resnick - National. Years before the gas chambers and the death marches, "Dr. X" spent several weeks imprisoned at Sachsenhausen. This is how he described it to Atlantic readers of his time. ChicagoGeek/Flickr "Dr. X" wasn't responsible for the murder, but he paid for the crime.
In 1938, in the days after Kristallnacht, Dr. In a 1939 Atlantic essay, simply but ominously titled "Concentration Camp," Dr. I have been asked repeatedly where all the men were procured who torment the inmates of the camps, often with sadistic lust. Dr. Dr. It's difficult to make sense of a tragedy unfolding in real time. It's questions like these that make Dr. Read "Concentration Camp" in its entirety. JAPANESE CONQUEST OF MANCHURIA 1931-1932. Attack of September 18, 1931 ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria.
The United States Minister to China reported to Secretary of State Stimson, in a telegram dated September 22, his opinion that this was "an aggressive act by Japan", apparently long-planned, and carefully and systematically put into effect. Minister Johnson found no evidence that it was the result of accident or the act of minor and irresponsible officials. On September 22 Secretary Stimson informed Japanese Ambassador Debuchi at Washington that the responsibility for determining the course of events with regard to liquidating the situation in Manchuria rested largely upon Japan, "for the simple reason that Japanese armed forces have seized and are exercising de-facto control in South Manchuria".
Meanwhile, the League of Nations was deliberating on the Manchuria situation. "Non-Recognition Policy" Topaz internment camp - Website of the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah. Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Remembered with Google Earth. During the final days of World War II, the United States dropped devastating atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More than 65 years later, Hidenori Watanave, an associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University, has created a digital archive to preserve the memory of the Hiroshima bombing. A complement to the Nagasaki archive launched in 2010, the Hiroshima Archive layers historical resources into Google Earth, giving users the chance to explore a panoramic view of Hiroshima, survivor accounts, aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building models.
The documents are all written in Japanese, which creates something of a language barrier for many readers. But a tour through the archive will tell you something important — something important about the Hiroshima bombing and how we’re memorializing the past in our new digital age. Related Content: Google Lit Trips Ancient Rome in 3D on Google Earth Visit the Prado Art Collection with Google Earth. "1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto: CTBTO Preparatory Commission. Atomic vet recalls 1946 bomb tests — and dirty aftermath. Video Project Crossroads was a series of two nuclear tests, Able and Baker, the first tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground, near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. These were the fourth and fifth nuclear detonations in history. Watch » Project Crossroads was a series of two nuclear tests, Able and Baker, the first tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground, near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
These were the fourth and fifth nuclear detonations in history. Watch » Photo by Associated Press A huge mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll on July 25, 1946, following an atomic test blast. Photo by Emily Spence // Buy this photo Ray Beatty, 80, of Clinton, was exposed to radiation while participating in atomic bomb tests after World War II. When Ray Beatty turned 17 in July 1945, he was ready to go to war. His older brother, a B-24 pilot, was shot down on his fifth mission over Hamburg, Germany, and spent nine months in a German POW camp.
This was pre-Cold War. 84769-hiroshima.jpg (850×619) Video - The U.S. War Department's Archival Footage of the Bombing of Hiroshima. Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb (3 of 5) by Harbert F Austin Jr. The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention. The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on. They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro. So far, so good. The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan. I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.
At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Text by Steve Smith. Donald Duck’s Bad Nazi Dream (1942) The Making of a Nazi: Disney’s 1943 Animated Short. Dr. Seuss's World War II Political Propaganda Cartoons. The Late Movies: Disney Propaganda Cartoons. Disney Propaganda During World War II. WWII: Men and Jobs (1944) - Video. Animated WW2 Map Europe. Barbarossa to VE Day. World War II: The Invasion of Poland and the Winter War - Alan Taylor - In Focus. World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus.
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