British Invasion

Hitler, to rise to power in poverty-stricken Germany. Instead of honoring the treaty, Hitler conquered neighboring countries, and eventually, France and Great Britain had no choice but to declare war. Germany immediately targeted France, forcing the British, French and Belgian soldiers to conduct a desperate attempt to stop the Germans, but they were outwitted and forced to retreat up to Dunkirk near the English Channel. Completely surrounded, the army desperately called for help,…

Throughout his whole life Gandhi lived under the might of British imperialism, seeing how his nation was exploited for resources…

disasters or the invasion of the Aryans. The Aryans were nomadic warriors that came to India around 1500 C.E., and are responsible for the development of many linguistic traditions in Europe and around the Indian sub-continent.3 The Aryan 's religious texts, the Vedas, have been preserved for over 3,000 years through strict oral tradition. It is in the Rig Veda, the main book, that we find the potential beginnings of the caste system and it 's racist aspects. When telling of the Aryan 's…

Britain and Egypt. The British colonized a tremendous amount of land in Africa while harvesting numerous amounts of raw materials from Sudan. Not only were raw materials their interest, Britain pursued to limit power of imperial rivals such as Egypt, and France, in addition their motive was to secure essential waterways, and canals for transportation of goods and materials . In simpler terms, Sudan was an intersection of war, and transcontinental trade. Although the British had negative…

was a stalemate. This “both enabled colonization to succeed and limited its success” (Anderson 3).The reason for that is in order for French, British, or colonists to gain advantage in the struggle, they have to rely on Native Americans for trade, military, sources of labor and land. One example of how much they have to rely on natives can be seen when British force of twenty thousand regulars and seventeen thousand…

joint coalition operation, however, officers of the British Royal Navy (RN) were integrated into the RAN. This meant that if the need for a joint exercise arose they would have knowledge of how to act through these British officers who had prior experience (for example the Australian fleet was commanded by the RN officer, Rear Admiral George Patey). 11. On the 29th August 1914 the RAN participated in its first coalition operation during the invasion of German Samoa. Similar to other objectives…

helping Britain withstand the German assaults, Canada played a pivotal role in the airborne counter-attack and supplying the man-powers including the equipments. In July 1940, Hitler started to prepare for Operation Sealion, which involves the seaborne invasion of Britain. However he sent the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) first because he felt that it was essential to weaken Britain’s Royal Air Force to achieve air superiority. Since Britain lost its principal ally, France, Britain had to depend…

Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon, the report released by the Joint Forces Command five years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, said it found no smoking gun after reviewing about 600,000 Iraqi documents captured in the invasion. According to this argument the Iraq was not active terror threat for the U.S and they did not find any evidence the link between both of them. This is two justification to the use of force…

The British strategy at first was to contain revolutionary sentiment in Massachusetts. They tried it and it didn’t work so they were coming up with another strategy. Then someone came up with a new one. They said for them to capture New York, where many loyalists lived, so they could use it as a base. The British launched another plan and it was designed to split the New England off from the rest of the colonies. their battle of Saratoga was a crucial turning Point. There was another British…

The British Empire is often described as the largest formal empire at its peak in terms of its massive expansion of authority and far-reaching influence all over the world, as is evident from its territory comprised of more than a quarter of the land area of the globe. The Suez Canal which was opened in 1869 hugely contributed to maintain the empire by providing a shorter link to the sea between Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Its geo-strategic importance is illustrated in the comment of…