Tag Archives: Second World War
Brief account of USA’s first ever nuclear test in the Manhattan Project
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
Why did Albert Einstein move to the USA in 1933?
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
Why did Germany and Italy agree to support Franco?
On the 26th July 1936, Adolf Hitler informed General Francisco Franco that Germany would support his Nationalist rebellion in Spain.
The causes and effects of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
On 23rd August 1939, Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop – the Soviet foreign minister and the German foreign minister – signed the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, otherwise known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
The Nazi invasion of Poland
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World War.
The start of the Second World War
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
