Take a look at the first #Churchill speech following the start of the #Blitz pic.twitter.com/6Rq0PfsWdt
— Parliament Archives (@UKParlArchives) September 10, 2015
1st #Churchill speech following the start of the #Blitz
10 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Winston Churchill, World War II
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed #OnThisDay 1939
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: communist party, left-wing traitors, World War II
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed #OnThisDay in 1939. Stalin was no less evil than Hitler econ.trib.al/iCowG41 http://t.co/yxr5FCW1xg—
The Economist (@EconEurope) August 23, 2015
The war with Japan is over
15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Paris, World War II
"War is Over," U.S. Servicemen and servicewomen, Paris, August 15, 1945. http://t.co/gQwd5lYvvO—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) April 03, 2015
The Power of Propaganda and the Japanese Empire
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, credible commitments, game theory, Japan, World War II
The quote of Schuler is an excellent summary of the difficulty of bringing a war to an end rather than give time to regroup and attack again.
Economist Kurt Schuler has a fascinating post on the various currencies that were used in mainland East Asia during World War II over at the Free Banking group blog.
Unfortunately, there are three paragraphs in the post that attempt to take libertarians to task for daring to challenge both the narrative of the state and the narrative of the nation regarding that horrific reminder of humanity’s shortcomings. He is writing of the certainty of the US’s moral clarity when it came to fighting Japan (the post was published around Pearl Harbor remembrance day):
The 1940 U.S embargo of certain materials frequently used for military purposes was intended to pressure Japan to stop its campaign of invasion and murder in China. The embargo was a peaceful response to violent actions. Japan could have stopped; it would have been the libertarian thing to do. For libertarians to claim that the embargo was…
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Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Japan, Nagasaki, World War II
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945. http://t.co/aqtpAyoUG2—
ClassicPics (@History_Pics) June 19, 2015
How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, World War II
How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki jtim.es/QvTPC http://t.co/xYwL62C16Z—
The Japan Times (@japantimes) August 06, 2015
via How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | The Japan Times.
A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, today 1945
28 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building on the morning of July 28, 1945. http://t.co/C2UcflEc36—
History Pictures (@CombinedHistory) April 21, 2015
Mount Vesuvius eruption in the midst of WWII
09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Italy, Mount Vesuvius, World War II
Mount Vesuvius eruption in the midst of WWII, as captured by American pilots, March 1944 http://t.co/7J5b4mE2AM—
Classic Pics (@classicepics) June 08, 2015
America’s wars
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: American Civil War, Korean war, Revolutionary War, Vietnam war, War of 1812, World War I, World War II
Undeclared war:
bloom.bg/17bV5nM http://t.co/xx51J6R0sA—
Bloomberg VisualData (@BBGVisualData) May 31, 2015
The Empire of Japan in 1939
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: China, colonisation, imperialism, Japan, World War II
The Empire of Japan in 1939, read how it got there brilliantmaps.com/russo-japanese… http://t.co/wop0insgnD—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) January 21, 2015
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union today, 1941
22 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. http://t.co/9KhhHtujri—
History (@HistoryTime_) June 22, 2015
The occupation, partition and annexation of Germany, 1947
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Germany, World War II
Occupation zones in Germany, 1947. The territories east of the Oder-Neisse line, ceded to Poland & the Soviet Union http://t.co/iY3aHRaCga—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) June 05, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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