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| location | Minneapolis, MN | |
| age | 59 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
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Oct 22 |
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What are the scholarly opinions on the idea of the “European Civil War”? One problem with asserting continuity between WWI and WWII was the changes in the players. Of the major powers, Britain and France were recognizably the same, but Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had disappeared, the Russian autocracy had been replaced by Soviet communism, Germany went from a federal constitutional monarchy to a dictatorship, Italy got a dictator and changed sides, and Poland, newly created after WWI, tried to be a Great Power and did not do well at it. |
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Oct 22 |
answered | Did the USA win the counter insurgency war in the Vietnam war? |
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Oct 22 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Oct 22 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 22 |
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What was the American policy on colonisation and why? When? It varied in different periods. |
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Oct 22 |
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Are there any records that indicate a submarine vs submarine battle? In WWII, standard convoy attack tactics, for Germans and later the USN, was to attack on the surface inside the convoy. That worked a lot better than trying submerged shots. Destroyers were not, in WWII, the "basic" ASW ship; they were surface fighting ships that were adaptable for ASW. Countries that had to deal with ASW usually wound up building something other than fleet destroyers for the purpose. |
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Oct 21 |
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Are there any records that indicate a submarine vs submarine battle? This is wrong on several points. Submarines preferred to hide underwater but fight on the surface. Many of them weren't much slower than corvettes when on the surface. The preferred anti-submarine weapons, once available, were forward-firing launchers like Hedgehog and Squid. Destroyers were typically not the best ASW vessels, specialized escorts being better. Submarines wouldn't use depth charges in any case; their weapons (other than guns) being torpedoes and occasionally mines. |
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Oct 21 |
answered | What was the last battle fought mainly by sail-powered ships? |
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Oct 21 |
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Why did Robert E. Lee stop offensive maneuvers? Grant was not the commander of the Army of the Potomac; that was Meade, hero of Gettysburg. Grant was general in chief, and traveled with the Army of the Potomac, possibly to keep a close eye on Meade. |
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Oct 18 |
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How were dagger axes used in battle? That sounds similar to European pole arms, including the halberd. |
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Oct 18 |
answered | Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2? |
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Oct 18 |
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Why did Hitler declare war on the USA? Also, FDR wanted the US into the war against Germany. He was trying to avoid war against Japan. |
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Oct 18 |
answered | Why did Hitler declare war on the USA? |
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Oct 18 |
answered | Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? |
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Oct 18 |
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Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? Fascism and Communism were not similar. Yes, they look similar from the democratic side, but the Communists saw the others as the imperialist and fascist capitalist countries, and the Nazis saw both Communism and democratic capitalism as materialist ideologies. |
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Oct 18 |
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Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? @JoeHobbit: WWII in Europe didn't exterminate Communism, but rather extended and legitimized it. The Germans made Stalinist rule look good, and in the final part of the war the Red Army advanced deep into Central Europe. Moreover, the actions of the Communists in resistance movements in various occupied countries made them seem heroic. |
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Oct 18 |
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Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? The original German objectives in the Soviet Union were to destroy the Soviet armies close to the border, before the Germans had to contend with very long supply lines. Personally, I think that, if the Germans had concentrated on Moscow, we'd be arguing that the Germans might have won if they'd hit the armies in the Ukraine harder. |
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Oct 18 |
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Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom? @JoeHobbit: FDR was trying to get the US into the war against Germany, and the USN was actively at war in the North Atlantic by Fall 1941. |
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Oct 14 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 14 |
answered | How many recorded incidents are there of attacks on Australian soil? |
