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AP 24.1067 WWII – ‘No Regrets’ About Bombing Hiroshima
Last Surviving Crew Member Has ‘No Regrets’ About Bombing Hiroshima
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636008863/last-surviving-crew-member-has-no-regrets-about-bombing-hiroshima
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AP 24.1065 WWII – USA warns Japan of the Atomic Bomb!
For several months, the US had dropped more than 63 million leaflets across Japan, warning civilians of air raids. Many Japanese cities suffered terrible damage from aerial bombings, some even 97% destruction. In general, the Japanese regarded the leaflet messages as truthful, however, anyone who was caught in possession of a leaflet was arrested by the Japanese government.
Leaflet dropped on Hiroshima before the atomic bomb, showing the names of 12 Japanese cities targeted for destruction by firebombing. Hiroshima was not listed. The other side contained text saying “we cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked…”
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AP 24.1063 WWII – The Atomic Bombs: 1945
ONLY 2 BOMBS DROPPED
ESTIMATED CASUALTIES AND LOSSES
90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima
60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki
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AP 24.1058 WWII – Japanese American Internment Camps
Japanese Internment in AmericaIn 1942, thousands of Japanese Americans living in the United States are forced into war relocation camps.
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AP 24.1057 WWII – Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March, forced march of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II.
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AP 24.1054 WWII – Nuremberg Trial and Executions
On October 1, 1946, the verdicts of two top Nazi war criminals tried at Nuremberg, Hermann Wilhelm Goering and Rudolf Hess, are announced.
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AP 24.1049 WWII – Colonial Troops…
… Saving Their Masters – WW2 Special
Without the incredible support and sacrifice of troops from British and French colonies, the Allies would be having an even harder time withstanding the Axis onslaught. This episode looks at their formation and their fighting style.
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AP 24.1048 WWII – Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.
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AP 24.1046 WWII – The Nazis and Nuclear Weapons
Suspiciously high radiation levels around the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen had long fueled theories that there was a buried bunker nearby where Nazis had tested nuclear weapons during WWII.
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AP 24.1033 WWII – If This War Were A Bar fight (Round Two!)
See the previous fight: AP 24.911 WWI – If This War Were A Bar fight
If World War 2 Was a Bar Fight It Would Have Looked Something Like This
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AP 24.1032 WWII – The Geography of 1939-1945
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AP 24.1024 Before WWII – Soviet Russia – Joseph Stalin
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
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AP 24.1019 Before WWII – Germany (Adolf Hitler)
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
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AP 24.1014 Before WWII – Italy (Benito Mussolini)
“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.”
“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
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