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21 hours ago · n the early 1940s, life in the United States still showed signs of normalcy against the unsettling backdrop of WWII. At a local fair in 1942 in Klamath Falls, a carnival barker's distinct voice ...
3 days ago · Post-war era. The United States home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. There was a general feeling of agreement that the sacrifices were for the national good during the war.
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1 day ago · 3,057 killed [6] 37 captured [7] The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- 4–7 June 1942
- American victory
3 days ago · Werner Karl Heisenberg ( pronounced [ˈvɛʁnɐ kaʁl ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) [2] was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.
1 day ago · Through 1944, the Allies were dropping on average 3,000 tons a day of bombs on Germany. In the bombing of Dresden in 1945, four RAF and USAAF raids, made to support the Eastern Front then just 100 miles (160 km) away, killed 30,000 civilians and flattened the city. Burnt-out Hamburg Buildings, Operation Gomorrah.
4 days ago · Second Battle of Ypres, (April 22–May 25, 1915), second of three costly battles in World War I at Ypres (now Ieper), in western Flanders. The battle marked the Germans’ first use of poison gas as a weapon. Although the gas attack opened a wide hole in the Allied line, the Germans failed to exploit that advantage. The forces at Ypres
1 hour ago · Famine has been a threat to humanity since ancient times. But it wasn't until the end of World War II that scientists began to investigate what starvation actually does to a person's body. Now aid ...
