World War One-FLTThroughout World War One players will encounter many genuine and factual elements that recreate the atmosphere of the Great War. The game includes famous characters such as Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Kitchener, Lenin and the Red Baron; military units will require effective command such as tanks in the field and artillery in the trenches; at sea, naval units such as cruisers and U-
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World War II History for November 9
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.”
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World War II History for November 6
1941 - Josef Stalin addressed the Soviet people for only the second time in his three-decade reign of terror. The day was the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.
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World War II History for November 3
1941 - Japanese Ambassador John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
1941 - The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor
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World War II History for October 30
1941 - FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR
On this day in 1941, President Roosevelt, determined to keep the United States out of the war while helping those allies already mired in it, approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease loans to the Soviet Union. The terms: [...]
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World War II History for October 29
1942 - The British protest against the persecution of Jews
On this day in 1942, leading British clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register their outrage over the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany.
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World War II History for October 28
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy.
1940 - During World War II, Italy invaded Greece.
Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece; even his ally, Adolf Hitler, was caught off-guard, especially since the Duce had led Hitler [...]
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World War II History for October 27
1940 - French General Charles de Gualle set up the Empire Defense Council.
In 1940, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle, speaking for the Free French Forces from his temporary headquarter in equatorial Africa, calls all French men and women everywhere to join the struggle to preserve [...]
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World War II History for October 22
1942 - The Allies met to discuss Operation Torch. Operation Torch was to be the first Allied amphibious landing of World War II.
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World War II History for October 21
1941 - Germans massacre men, women, and children in Yugoslavia
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World War II History for October 19
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1943 - Chinese and Suluks revolt against Japanese in North Borneo
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World War II History for October 18
1942 - Vice Admiral William F. Halsey replaced Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley as commander in the South Pacific.
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World War II History or October 17
1941 - The government of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, prime minister of Japan, collapsed.
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World War II History for October 16
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
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World War II History for October 14
1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1944 - During World War II, [...]
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World War II History for October 13
1943 - During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
1944 - American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, British and Greek advance units landed at Piraeus.
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World War II History for October 12
1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1946 - Gen. Joseph Stilwell dies
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World War II History for October 9
1939 - The U.S. Neutrality Act suffers a public relations setback when the German battleship Deutschland captures the City of Flint, an American cargo ship carrying farming supplies to England.
1940 - London’s Cathedral of St. Paul sustains serious damage to the roof and altar [...]
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World War II History for October 8
1941 - Germany captured Mariupol.
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World War II History for October 7
1940 - German troops entered Romania. Hitler’s plan was to have a single easter front against the Soviet Union. Romania had allied itself with Nazi Germany on July 5, 1940.
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World War II History for October 6
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1944 - Former French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tried to kill himself on the day he was to be executed for treason. A physician saved [...]
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World War II History for October 5
1942 - Joseph Stalin sent a telegram to the German/Soviet front at Stalingrad. The message was “That part of Stalingrad which has been captured must be liberated.”
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World War II History for October 4
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1943 - Heinrich Himmler encourages his SS group leaders
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World War II History for October 3
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was “broken” and they “would never rise again.”
1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices.
1942 - Germany [...]
World War II History for October 2
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
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With most of [...]
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World War II History for October 1
1938 - German forces enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied forces during World War II.
1944 - Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald
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World War II History for September 30
1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain and France allowed Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the [...]
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World War II History for September 29
1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide control of occupied Poland. The Germans took the west side of the Bug River and the Soviets took the everything to the east.
1943 - Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was published in the U.S.
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World War II History for September 28
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1942 - General Arnold fights for unique bombers
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World War II History for September 27
1939 - Poland surrenders
On this day in 1939, 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner by the German invaders as Warsaw surrenders to the superior mechanized forces of Hitler’s army. The Poles fought bravely, but were able to hold on for only 26 days.
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World War II History for September 26
1944 - Operation Market-Garden failed when thousands of British and Polish troops were killed in an attempt to seize bridges in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
British Gen. Bernard Montgomery conceived an operation to take control of bridges that crossed the Rhine River, from the [...]
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World War II History for September 25
1942 - British bombers attempted to destroy the local headquarters of the German Gestapo in Norway. The plan failed.
Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, in a stunning blitzkrieg campaign, a response to Britain’s laying of mines in Norwegian waters–which was itself a response to [...]
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World War II History for September 24
1941 - The Japanese consul in Hawaii was instructed to divide Pearl Harbor into five zones and calculate the number of battleships in each zone.
Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan’s occupation of Indo-China and the implicit menacing of [...]
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World War II History for September 22
1941 - A Ukrainian militia squad does the Nazis’ dirty work, murdering 28,000 Soviet Jews near the town of Vinnitsa.
1943 - British submarine troops sabotage the Tirpitz, Nazi Germany’s preeminent battleship, as it sits in port at Norway’s Altenfjord.
Recognizing that a two-front war is straining [...]
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World War II History for September 21
1942 - The U.S. B-29 Superfortress made its debut flight in Seattle, WA. It was the largest bomber used during World War II. The plane made its bombing-run debut on June 5, 1944. It was the largest bomber used in the war by any [...]
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World War II History for September 20
1943 - Operation Source began when British submarines attempted to sink the German battleship Tirpitz as it sat in Norwegian waters. The six submarines involved did enough damage to cripple the battleship for 6 months.
The Tirpitz was the second largest battleship in the German [...]
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World War II History for September 18
1941 - German bombers killed more than 1,000 Russians when they bombed Leningrad.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur moved his command headquarters to Tokyo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo, as he prepares for his new role as architect of a democratic and [...]
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World War II History for September 17
1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact-the invasion and occupation of eastern Poland.
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World War II History for September 16
1934 - In Munich, Lutherans marched to anti-Nazi songs.
1940 - The Burke-Wadsworth Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The acted imposed the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States. The event was the beginning of Selective Service.
The registration of men between [...]
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World War II History for September 15
1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swasticka was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
After Hitler’s accession to the offices of president and chancellor of Germany, he set about [...]
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World War II History for September 14
1944 - Americans launch Operation Stalemate-at extraordinary cost
On this day in 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division lands on the island of Peleliu, one of the Palau Islands in the Pacific, as part of a larger operation to provide support for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who [...]
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World War II History for September 13
1940 - Italy invaded Egypt by crossing the Libyan border.
Mussolini’s forces finally cross the Libyan border into Egypt, achieving what the Duce calls the “glory” Italy had sought for three centuries.
Italy had occupied Libya since 1912, a purely economic “expansion.” In 1935, Mussolini began sending [...]
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World War II History for September 12
1938 - In a speech, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1942 - The Laconia is sunk
On this day in 1942, a German U-boat sinks a British troop ship, the Laconia, killing more than 1,400 men. The commander of the German sub, [...]
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World War II History for September 11
1940 - Adolf Hitler sent German army and air force reinforcements to Romania to protect oil reserves and to prepare for an Eastern European base for attacks against the Soviet Union.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or [...]
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World War II History for September 9,
1941 - Iran surrenders to the Allies
Agreeing, among other things, Iran deports Axis spies posing as diplomatic and tourist staff. Iran will order the “diplomats” and others out on the 13th.
1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the [...]
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World War II History for September 7
1940 - London received its first mass air raid from Nazi Germany during World War II.
300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “blitzkrieg” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941.
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World War II History for September 6,
1934 - The U.S. announced that Germany was building U-boats in foreign factories.
1939 - South Africa declared war on Germany.
1940 - King Carol of Romania abdicated leaving his country in control of Prime Minister Ion Antonescu and the Iron Guard.
1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas [...]
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World War II History for September 5,
1934 - Adolf Hitler predicted that the Reich would last for 1,000 years.
1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1939 - German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
1943 - U.S. forces seize more of New Guinea
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World War II History for September 4,
1939 - The British Royal Air Force attacked the German Navy.
1940 - The USS Greer is fired upon
The American destroyer Greer becomes the first U.S. vessel fired on in the war when a German sub aims a few torpedoes at it, sparking heightened tensions between [...]
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World War II History for September 3,
1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany.
On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation, along with Australia and New Zealand, declare war on Germany.
The first casualty [...]
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World War II History for September 2,
1944 - A U.S. Navy squadron was given the assignment to take out a radio tower on the island Chichi Jima. Ensign George H.W. Bush scored four direct hits on the tower and then headed out to sea where he ejected. He [...]
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World War II History for September 1
1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
The German [...]
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World War II History for August 30
1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.
On this day in 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan to [...]
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World War II History for August 29,
1942 - Red Cross announces Japan refuses passage of supplies for U.S. POWs
On this day in 1942, the international humanitarian agency, the Red Cross, reveals that Japan has refused free passage of ships carrying food, medicine, and other necessities for American POWs held by [...]
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World War II History for August 28
1941 - In occupied Ukraine, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Gestapo.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union had advanced to the point of mass air raids on Moscow and the occupation of parts of Ukraine. On August 26, Hitler displayed [...]
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World War II History for August 27
1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
1941 - Japanese prime minister requests a summit meeting with FDR
On this day in 1941, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, prime minister of Japan, announces that he would like to enter into direct negotiations with President Roosevelt in [...]
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World War II History for August 26
1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
1944 - DeGaulle enters a free Paris
On this day in 1944, French General Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, which had formally been liberated the day before. As he entered the Place de [...]
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World War II History for August 25
1939 - Britain and Poland signed a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
1940 - British air raids on Berlin began.
1941 - Allied forces invaded Iran. Within four days the Soviet Union and England controlled Iran.
1943 - U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War [...]
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World War II History for August 24
1942 - U.S. forces sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho in the Battle of the East Solomon Islands. During this battle the “coastwatchers,” volunteers that reported on Japanese ship and aircraft movement, were a key to American success.
On this day in 1942, U.S. forces [...]
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World War II History for August 23
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. But the dictators were, despite appearances, both playing to their own political [...]
Leyendo Abduzeedo, un blog brasileño sobre diseño, me encontré con este cortometraje.World War es el proyecto final de grado de Vincent Chai, un artista del diseño gráfico con computadores, que estudió Animación 3D en la Universidad de Hertfordshire, Inglaterra.El corto trata sobre dos maquínas de guerra y su enfrentamiento, todo ambientado en el 2045 D.C. Lo que más me gustó es la grá
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World War II History for August 22
1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
1944 -Romania captured by the Soviet Union
On this day in 1944, Soviet forces break through to Jassy, in northeastern Romania, convincing Romania’s king to sign an armistice with the Allies and concede [...]
Além de fã de 3d e animação, também gosto muito de filmes com robôs (Transformers fez muita gente gostar também).
O vídeo abaixo foi criado por Vincent Chai para sua conclusão de curso na Universidade de Hertfordshire.
A história mostra a guerra em 2045, onde algumas coisas mudaram:
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World War II History for August 21
1943 - Japan evacuated the Aleutian island of Kiaska. Kiaska had been the last North American foothold held by the Japanese.
1944 - The seeds of the United Nations are planted
On this day in 1944, representatives from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and [...]
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World War II History for August 19
1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Führer.
On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.
In 1932, German President Paul [...]
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World War II History for August 18
1940 - Canada and the U.S. established a joint defense plan against the possible enemy attacks during World War II.
1941 - Hitler suspends euthanasia program
On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler orders that the systematic murder of the mentally ill and handicapped be brought to [...]
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World War II History for August 15
1940 - Air battles and daylight raids over Britain began.
1943 - Because of his special talent to use food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes, the U.S. War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit.
1944 - The Allied forces of World War [...]
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World War II History for August 14
1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter. The charter was a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
1944 - The U.S. federal government allowed the manufacture of certain domestic appliances to resume on a limited basis.
1945 - It [...]
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World War II History for August 13
1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out “for all or nothing.”
1940 - The Battle of Britain begins
On this day in 1940, German aircraft begin the bombing of southern England, and the [...]
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World War II History for August 12
1938 - The German military was mobilized.
1938 - Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross
On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler’s mother’s birthday.
The German Reich needed [...]
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World War II History for August 11
1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced, “the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war.”
1943 - Germans begin to evacuate Sicily
On this day in 1943, German forces begin a six-day evacuation of the Italian island of [...]
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World War II History for August 10
1944 - U.S. forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
