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    The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in WWI. The war was fought in Stebark, Poland. The Russians used their First and Second Armies and Germany used their eighth army. The battle took place on August 17th and ended around September 2, 1914. It all started when two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August of 1914. Russia's first army was led by Rennenkampf, and its second army was led by Samsonov. On August 20th, Rennenkampf's…

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    Have you ever wondered what happened and why at normandy? Let me give you a bit of background information. D-day was fought on june 6th, 1944. Overlord (d-days nickname) was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since june 6, 1944. And D-day was also called the overlord mission. D-day was a very tragic battle that helped the allied forces in world war 2. One of the causes were the allies made the nazis think that they weren’t going to attack normandy but they were going…

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    On 18 December 1940 During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler authorized Operation Barbarossa which was Nazi Germany's code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler’s primary targets were seizing the Baltic region, Moscow and Ukraine to exterminate communism, eliminate the Soviet Unions as a military power and capture strategic resources needed to defeat Germany’s remaining rivals. “If I do not get the oil of Maikop and Grozny then I must finish this war. — Adolf Hitler” On 22 June…

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    Stalin Diary Entry Essay

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    am part of the Soviet Union let's go back the Nazis have got my leader Stalin and i don't know what they are planning but i know it won't be good my name is Sam second in command we are planning an attack right now we got ten tanks heading to Germany 1 of them I'm in. we are getting there fast the sound of tanks firing weren't so pleasant we see a scout my men distract them and then I took him out pow hit him right in the skull my men move fast and swift we found a enemy camp with…

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    troops along with the sixth Army under Paulus, the second Hungarian Army, and the fourth Panzer Army. The Red Army, led by Zhukov, was comprised of mainly Russian soldiers. The Red Army, at this stage of the war, was less capable of highly mobile operations than the German Army; however, the prospect of combat inside a large urban area, which would be dominated by short-range firearms rather than armored and mechanized tactics, minimized the Red Army’s disadvantages against the…

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    Yoana Nandho Ms. Maggert English Honor 4th Hour 11 May 2017 Between Shades of Gray In grade school to high school people are taught about Hitler, who executed more than a million people during World War II. He is said to be the most vile dictator during the war, but was he really the only vile one during that time? During World War II, Hitler was not the only one who committed the crime of executing people during that the time of war, Joseph Stalin was guilty as well. Hitler and Stalin…

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    The battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in the World War Two , everything began when Adolf Hitler send the VI German Army of the Wehrmacht leaded by the prestigious General Friedrich Paulus and very intensive support of the Luftwaffe, they were sent to capture the city and keep moving forwards to the South-West Russian oil fields located in the Caucasus, Adolf Hitler though that it was necessary for the fuel of all the german war machine and the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler´s…

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    World War II is a war between the Allies and Axis powers. The war started at different times for different parts of the world. In Europe, it started in 1939, but for the United States it started in 1941 with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The attack was ordered by Japan's Prime Minister Tojo Hideki. Once the war broke out in Europe, FDR called for a special session of Congress to replace the Neutrality Acts with Cash and Carry. The Neutrality Acts were to limit the US…

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    D-Day is the battle of June 6, 1944 when the United States and England stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. The invasion was scheduled for June 5, 1944, but was moved to the day after because of the weather predictions made by J. M. Stagg. Although this battle established a foothold on the European continent, a significant question still stands: What if D-Day had failed? There were many components that could have ruined it, and if it had, Dwight Eisenhower would have lost his job and…

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    Managing day to day operations is an aspect of the business field that has been of great interest since my term served in the U.S. military. I was a Supply Noncommissioned Officer for a headquarter unit consisting of approximately three hundred soldiers. My job responsibility included the request, receipt, issue, and accountability of individual, organizational, installation, and expendable supplies and equipment; property accountability using the army’s state of art accounting and management…

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