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Jan 20, 2022 · The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for exactly 75 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Thursday, the clock was set at 100 ...
Depth. 3.7 m (12.1 ft) Installed power. 2 x 3 cylinder triple expansion steam engines, dual shaft. Propulsion. Twin screw. Speed. 8 kn (15 km/h; 9 mph) The SS Karlsruhe was a German cargo ship from 1905 of the Hamburg America Line, which was sunk on 13 April 1945 with great loss of life by Soviet aircraft, during Operation Hannibal .
On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany which included a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. [2] Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II.
USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes in thirty seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. It was defined by the Allied powers ' Pacific Ocean Area command, which included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, while ...
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
Spandau Prison. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( / ʃpɛər /; German: [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ⓘ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced ...
September 24, 1941. Eden, Maisky, Cassin, and 8 Allied governments in exile. Adherence of all the Allies to the Atlantic Charter principles. [2] [3] First Moscow Conference. (CAVIAR) Moscow. Soviet Union. September 29 – October 1, 1941.
