World War II
Russian campaign was the culminating event of World War II. German aggression against Soviet Union was an extremely fierce battle ever took place in human history. German troops met new kind of enemy in vast fields of Ukraine and swamp Byelorussian woods: Soviet armed forces were much stronger and experienced than any European army of that time, as German, and Nazi soldiers and their allies (Italians, Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks) noticed that during the first days of the new war. When reading Hitler's plan -- Barbarossa -- everyone would notice that this operation was the main Hitler's strategic aim and any activity of Wehrmacht in Northern and Western Africa was simply a wish to threaten British interests in that region but not to win a war. It can be easily proved by figures of German troops fought in Africa and in Russia and sizes of these military theaters.
Let us try to find out the main particularities of Russian campaign and African battles and the main reasons of Russian and Allies' and also German success and failures there.
Russia was the main Hitler's aim. He wanted to capture the main strategic regions and inhabit them by Germans; Slavs had to be slaves there and work for the Nordic race. Hitler considered vast lands of Soviet Union to be a perfect space for developing own country, creating new super-race of knights who had to rule the world. His attitude to Slavic nations formed in his early years when he lived in Vienna. He was sure that Slavs are not people at all and they had to live only under German reign as they -- were not able to rule in their own country -- . His attitude to other nations was much friendlier: Britons were relative race, the majority of German-speaking or bordering Germany nations were considered relative as well. But nations of Soviet Union were found Asian and uncivilized and that meant historical mission of Germany in the east of Europe, as Adolf Hitler thought. He explained his views on the political situation in Russia in the middle of 1920s in -- Nazi Bible -- Mein Kampf -- . He wrote there that Russian nation was...
World War II WW II Manhattan Project: Begun in 1939, this project was the codename for the United States' secret Atomic Bomb project. With America's entry into the war, the project grew substantially and ultimately involved more than 125,000 people, 37 separate installations, 13 university laboratories and a number of the nation's top scientists. (History.com: "World War 2: Atomic Bomb") In 1942 the project was put under the control of the U.S.
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