Franco-Prussian War is widely regarded as a pivotal event in European history, profoundly influencing the balance of power on the continent and reshaping the political landscape of the late 19th century. This intense conflict, which took place from 1870 to 1871, pitted the newly unified German states against the Second
Malaysian media has reported that illegal Chinese salvagers have looted sunken British warships from World War II in the South China Sea. Malaysia’s maritime agency said Monday it found a cannon shell believed to be from World War II on a Chinese-registered vessel and was investigating if the barge carrier
Dr. Ghee Bowman, a historian, took to Twitter to share a post inquiring about an interesting figure, an Indian World War II prisoner.
On 4th December 2019, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard at Hawaii, United States was targeted by a lone gunman in a mass shooting resulting in the deaths of two Pentagon employess and injuring one.[toc] The gunman was identified as a US Navy sailor assigned to USS Columbia (SSN 771). As
The British Empire created the Reserve Bank of India, as a “Sheathed Weapon,” used to fleece Indian wealth. This bank remained the primary source of British finances for the Second World War. A report by Masood Rezvi. Central banks have invariably been used by their governments to create money for war funding.
It was more than seven decades ago that the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Japan, obliterating the city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people and ushering in a new era of nuclear conflict. Today President Barack Obama has become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima. Obama
In the first part of this East India Company Seires: Noble Motives we examined the origin of these EICs, their motives and the motives of Multi National Corporations (MNCs). In this series we will examine the commodities EICs dealt with and MNCs plan to deal with or are already dealing
Newly declassified Cold War documents show America was prepared to destroy hundreds of Soviet cities, possibly prompting all-out nuclear Armageddon. This shouldn’t come as a surprise because the US and the allies did just the same during World War II when they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki even after Japan was
Although many in India, scholars besides, know about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, we shall include a couple of paragraphs below to put the matter in the context of international geopolitics. In World War II, the case for dropping two bombs on Japan was not an impeccable one, and many reasons