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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.

What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb

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 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 Late Movies: Disney Propaganda Cartoons

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?) 40 maps that explain World War II.

By Timothy B.

40 maps that explain World War II

Lee on November 13, 2014 World War II was a great tragedy, claiming 60 million lives and throwing millions more into turmoil. WW2 Anti-Nazi Animated Propaganda Short Film by Walt Disney. 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.

The Nazis' Forgotten Anti-Smoking Campaign - Tracy Brown Hamilton

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. 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. Rape of Nanking. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Declaration of War Address - "A Day Which Will Live in Infamy"

LOL is unthinkable. The National Archives Learning Curve. HD Stock Footage WWII Battle of Britain Reel 1. A Pro-Fascist View of the March on Rome. 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.

Keynes

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.

Those who think in this way are deceived, nevertheless, by an optical illusion, which makes two essentially different activities appear to be the same. [Just what Keynes means by Z, here, has been a bit mysterious. 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.

Rise of Hitler: The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party

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. 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".

World War II: The Holocaust - Alan Taylor - In Focus

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.

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.

Holocaust Timeline

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. 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.

Holocaust Timeline: The Night of the Long Knives

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.

A Real-Time Account of an Early Nazi Concentration Camp - Brian Resnick - National. Years before the gas chambers and the death marches, "Dr.

A Real-Time Account of an Early Nazi Concentration Camp - Brian Resnick - National

X" spent several weeks imprisoned at Sachsenhausen. This is how he described it to Atlantic readers of his time. ChicagoGeek/Flickr "Dr. 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. 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. "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. 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. 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. 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. By Maria Popova. The Late Movies: Disney Propaganda Cartoons.

Disney Propaganda During World War II. WWII: Men and Jobs (1944) - Video. Animated WW2 Map Europe. GERMAN EXPANSION 1933 – The Nazi Party came to power in Germany (the Third Reich forms). Barbarossa to VE Day. World War II: The Invasion of Poland and the Winter War - Alan Taylor - In Focus. In August of 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty. One week later, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus. History - World Wars: Animated Map: The Fall of France (Dunkirk)

Bataan Death March - A Survivor's Story: The Bataan Death March. You and your group began the march on April 12, 1942? Yes. We began walking the next morning. It was about eighty miles from where we started to where we ended up. It doesn't seem very far, but we were in such awful condition that eighty miles was a heck of a long way to walk. The Pacific: Inside The Battle - Guadalcanal (HBO) The Pacific: Inside The Battle - Okinawa (HBO) World War II in the Pacific. World War II Battles - Pacific Theater 1941-1945. Bataan Death March (compressed).mov. World War II In Color- Battle of the Coral Sea. The Battle of Midway Island. Course to Midway - Battle of Midway Overview Animation. Pearl Harbor. ORIGINAL PEARL HARBOR PHOTOS Never seen these before----must be somebody 's private pictures they saved all this time. These pic's are so clear....very sad....but, good that we can see them...... World War II: Pearl Harbor - Alan Taylor - In Focus.

On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States, bombing warships and military targets in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 350 Japanese aircraft attacked the naval base in two waves, strafing targets, dropping armor-piercing bombs, and launching torpedoes toward U.S. battleships and cruisers. The U.S. forces were unprepared, waking to the sounds of explosions and scrambling to defend themselves.

Remembering Pearl Harbor. The Best Sites For Learning About Pearl Harbor. With Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day coming up tomorrow, December 7th, I thought I’d put together a quick “The Best…” list of useful resources. I know it’s a bit late, but at least you can use it for planning next year.