There is little doubt that the US embargoes on Japan pushed an already aggressive Japan towards Pearl Harbor. Japanese Navy doctrine had already been contemplating a conflict with the US and this gave them the choice of backing down or going to war. Beginning in 1938, the U.S. adopted a succession of increasingly restrictive trade restrictions with Japan. This included terminating its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan in 1939, further tightened by the Export Control Act of 1940. These efforts...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
This is something I've always wondered but couldn't imagine what the answer could be and haven't found much material elsewhere. Nazi Germany, paired with Italy and Japan, was waging war on the world| History Stack Exchange
Before delving into WW2 History, I used to think that Concentration Camps for the most part were either in Occupied Poland or Ukraine, to keep it away from the German population and make it easier to| History Stack Exchange
At which point exactly did the aims of the allied powers in the Second World War change from what they were initially to the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and the other members of the Axis? When did the ‘big three’ agree together that one of their main aims was to remove Hitler and the Nazis from power? I’ve been trying to figure out when this was-certainly (I think) by the Tehran Conference, but had this been jointly agreed before then?| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
It's pretty common knowledge (as outlined by the answer in this question: "This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why? and other sources) that one of the reasons Enigma was able to be broken by the Allies during WWII was that the Germans were rather lax in their use of best practices of cryptography. If the Germans HAD been using best practices in all of their Enigma use, could Enigma have been broken with the computational capabilities available durin...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
I recently watched this 15 minute animated YouTube video about the battle of Midway. Though the United States had the element of surprise from better intelligence, they lost a remarkable amount of dive bombers and torpedo bombers to the superior Japanese Mitsubishi “Zeroes”. The US bomber groups consisting of both bombers and fighters head out in a formation capable of protecting themselves. Together, at the very least with the amount of planes in their groups, they would be able to keep ...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
The Tehran Conference during World War 2 was a hugely important meeting, and perhaps more importantly, a hugely dangerous proposition. Having all those leaders together in one place risked utter| History Stack Exchange