Firebombing was a technique first pioneered by the Third Reich during the Battle of Britain, the German attempt at forcing Britain to agree to an armistice and remove them from the war. In the last months of war, firebombing was used by the United States in Japan, Japanese causalities from firebombing campaigns numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Firebombing relied on pathfinder aircraft preceding a bomber group, electronically marking the targets, the bombers would then drop high-explosives opening up buildings and destroying roadways. The last wave would release incendiary explosives made of both magnesium and iron, along with petroleum incendiaries, which devastated the damaged buildings. The fires would also do considerably more damage due to the destroyed roadway which hampered the capability of the fire brigade to extinguish the ensuing firestorms. Firebombing created a civilian target where there had never been one before, it was truly the essence of Total War, firebombs were not precise, they did not distinguish between military and civilian targets, and due their frequent use in large cities, they weren’t intended to. Firebombing was nothing but a fear tactic; it had no objective other than to annihilate the enemy population until they were forced to surrender.

            Radio Detection and Ranging was the British technology at the onset of World War II, which most likely saved the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe orchestrated bombing raids on Britain in overwhelming force, without the use of RADAR; it is most likely that the RAF would have been annihilated in the face of overwhelming odds. However the new technology provided an early warning system of sorts which not only allowed British forces to know when an air strike was imminent, but where the enemy would be. This allowed the British commander, Sir Dowding, to use superior tactics and repel the German assault. These tactics served to destroy a large portion of the Luftwaffe, and while the Third Reich could replace fighters and bombers there was no easy replacement for the experienced pilots lost in each raid. These losses would later play a role in North Africa, when the Afrika Korps was driven out due to a distinct lack of air support, and thus access to supplies. The consequences could have been drastic if the Allies had been trapped in North Africa, particularly if Rommel had gained access to the Suez Canal.

            The atom bomb, by far the most terrifying weapon in all of human history, it was created by the United States, under the Manhattan Project. The weapon was tested in the Nevada Desert and then detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, as a last ditch attempt to force the Japanese into unconditional surrender. While the official reason for the use of atomic weapons is to prevent the needless loss of lives attacking the heavily fortified island, it is heavily speculated that the US simply wished to limit the Soviet sphere of influence as much as possible, a sign of the imminent Cold War between the superpowers.  The Cold War itself was the major result of the two detonations, the threat of nuclear technology resulted in a fifty-year arms and technology between the two ideologically polar nations. While the only effect the atomic bomb had in World War II was the Japanese surrender, it created ripples that directed the course of history until the present, and most likely into the future.

            World War II was a war the likes of which the world had never seen before. Never before had war been so focused on the devastation of the civilian population along with the military. As a result, the technology created during and as a result of this period has grandfathered a great many modern technologies, both civilian and military. One could even claim that without World War II the face of the modern world would be completely different.

Adenauer was born in Cologne, Germany. He became a lawyer and entered politics when he was 30 years old. He remained active in politics until 1933, when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party took over Germany. The Nazis removed Adenauer from office because he spoke up against them. They imprisoned him twice during the war.

After World War II, Adenauer organized a new political party, the Christian Democratic Union. He also helped write a constitution for Germany before he was elected Chancellor. As Chancellor, he helped improve Germany’s relations with the United States and other European nations.

Adenauer signed a “Treaty of Cooperation” with France in 1963. This treaty helped end many, many years of hostility between Germany and France. Konrad Adenauer retired in 1963, knowing that Germany was again a strong nation respected by the rest of the world.

The history of this vehicle started in 1941 when a young engineer K.V.Sinelschikov of the design bureau led by Yakovlev suggested to alter double training aircraft Yak-7UTI in single combat fighter. The new product, known as the Yak-7, had a number of advantages over the Yak-1 fighter. A more robust chassis design was better suited for road frontline airfields. A vacant position on the fuselage o6em rear cockpit trainer could be used for placing the gas tank, bombs, aerial camera, or as a cargo compartment. This gave the aircraft greater flexibility in the future has created on its base are many different versions.
A feature of all early Yakovlev fighters was that the wings are carried out entirely of wood. This material was cheaper, more accessible and easier to
handle than aluminum alloys. But with equal strength of wood construction obtained heavier and bulky than those made of aluminum.
The Soviet leadership and aircraft are well understood, but made of anodized aluminum was in short supply, and the outbreak of war and the loss of major manufacturing facilities for its smelting this deficit is even more intensified. The main difference from the Yak-9 Yak-7 was the fact that the longitudinal beam power of his wings and part of the cross made out of aluminum. It is possible to considerably reduce their weight, and thus increase the flight data machine. The mass of the aircraft dropped nearly hundredweight, resulting in increased top speed of 30 km / h and time to climb to 5000 m was reduced to half a minute, and improved the horizontal maneuverability. Externally, the Yak-9 was different from its predecessor is only slightly modified form of wingtips, which were not rounded, but truncated, trapezoidal.
So there was a plane, which has become the most popular and nai6olee multivariate
Soviet fighter aircraft of World War II. In August-September 1942
Yak-9 was successfully tested, and in October he launched into a series of 153 at the aircraft plant in Novosibirsk. Then connected to the production of the 166th (Omsk) and 82nd (Moscow), aircraft factories. Release of the machine lasted until the end of 1948. A total of 16 769 copies were built Yak-9, from nih12536 in Novosibirsk, Omsk, 3416, and 817, in Moscow.
Yak-9 was indeed one of the best fighters of World War II.

Warsaw – Polish authorities said this week they plan to boost tourism at Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Wolfsschanze” (Wolf’s Lair), which ended up on their territory after post-war border changes.

Artur Kurek, a senior official of the Polish forestry office, said it would invite tenders to run the 250-hectaresite of Hitler’s former command headquarters near Ketzryn in northern Poland.

“The new contract will include clauses obliging the management to draw children, as much as history buffs,” said Kurek, whose office is in charge of the tendering terms.

“We don’t want tourists to be coming just for a couple of hours,” he added.

Lying overgrown in a forest, the ruined concrete bunkers offer a chilling reminder of World War II, when Hitler turned his darkest dreams into reality.

The Wolfsschanze served as his command complex for much of the war, and is best known as the site of the failed July 1944 bomb plot against him by members of the German military.

It was located in East Prussia, a region awarded to Poland under the border changes that followed the Nazis’ crushing 1945 defeat.

The Polish state opened it to the public as a testimony to the Nazis’ crimes. In 1993, four years after the fall of Warsaw’s communist regime, the authorities devolved the management to Polish investors.

The site currently draws between 180 000 and 200 000 visitors a year, but officials estimate that a seven-million-zloty ($2.0-million) upgrade could raise the number by 20 percent.

The Wolfsschanze was the largest of 10 command bases used by Hitler across Germany and occupied Europe after World War II began with the Nazi and Soviet carve up of Poland in September 1939.

It was from here that he steered the brutal Nazi assault on the Soviet Union after turning on his erstwhile ally.

He arrived at the site on June 24, 1941, two days after the attack began. He left only on November 20, 1944, as the Soviets rolled back his forces.

In early 1945, as Soviet troops edged ever closer, German sappers used around 10 tonnes of explosives per bunker to try to destroy the site. 

The Strait of Dover was the only other location that fit these characteristics. Eisenhower bluffed the Germans into thinking that the main invasion would take place at Dover and that the Normandy landing would be a fake.

On D-Day (June 6, 1944) the first wave of Allied troops hit the beaches at Normandy under a tremendous cover of naval and air bombardment. Allied aircraft destroyed bridges, railways, and roads leading to Normandy in order to delay the arrival of German reinforcements. The remaining Allied invasion force entered the field and began pushing the Germans out of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

The city of Berlin was split into four sectors, or zones – one each for the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and the United States. The Soviet zone became East Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic. The other Allied zones were combined, forming the city of West Berlin, which belonged to the Federal Republic of Germany. This would remain the set up of Germany until 1990.

Japan was demilitarized and occupied by U.S. troops until 1952. The United States initiated the Marshall Plan whereby it lent huge sums of money and material to war-torn countries to help them rebuild. The Soviet Union took control in the countries it occupied, and Communist governments based on the Soviet system were established in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Romania. This would remain the set up of Eastern Europe until 1989.

In 1945, the United Nations was established to help insure peace.

U.S. bomber attacks from Iwo Jima did tremendous damage to Japanese industry, but the Japanese would not surrender unless their home islands were invaded. U.S. troops began preparing for this invasion by capturing the island of Okinawa on May 31.

Early in August, President Harry S. Truman ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan. The first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was exploded over the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The second atomic bomb was exploded over Nagasaki on August 9. On the same day, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and captured Manchuria.

On August 14, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito accepted Allied surrender terms. The surrender became official on September 2 (V-J Day), and World War II was finally ended.

During March and April, Allied forces took the great German industrial area in the Ruhr Valley. On April 25, U.S. and Soviet patrols met along the Elbe River. This was the eastern limit of the U.S. advance – 75 miles short of Berlin – that had been agreed upon between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies. U.S. forces under General Patton crossed to the southeast to take Austria. Germany was completely overrun.

On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide at his underground headquarters in Berlin. Surrender terms were signed with Germany on May 7, and the war in Europe was officially over on May 8 (V-E Day). Hitler’s attempt at world domination had failed, Germany was in ruins, and the German people were prisoners of war in their own country.

Meanwhile, Soviet troops were demolishing German forces in their move westward through what is now Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, arriving at the German border. On June 13, 1944, Hitler launched his V-1 and V-2 missiles – rocket powered warheads aimed at London. They killed and wounded thousands of British citizens but did not halt the progress of the war.

On September 11, Allied troops crossed the western border of Germany. Germany was being squeezed from all sides, but Hitler had no intention of giving up. He speeded up production of war supplies and especially of his new jet airplanes.

On July 25, King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini as prime minister. Hitler sent troops into Italy to fight the invading Allies, but on October 13, the Italian government joined the Allies and declared war on Germany.

In the Pacific, the U.S. Navy was the only large force that could deal with the Japanese. By June 1943, General Douglas MacArthur had driven the Japanese from New Guinea. U.S. troops soundly defeated a large Japanese force at the Battle of Guadalcanal.