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Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo , 1884-1948, Japanese general and statesman. He became prime minister after he forced Konoye's resignation in Oct., 1941. His accession marked the final triumph of the military faction which advocated war with the United States and Great Britain. As the most powerful leader in the... Read more |
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Tokyo Trials
TOKYO TRIAL After world war ii eleven of the Allied Powers (Australia, Canada, China, France, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States) prosecuted twenty-eight of Japan's top military, political, and diplomatic leaders for an... Read more |
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Neutrality Act
Neutrality Act law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Aug., 1935. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents at the discretion of the President and by forbidding U.S.... Read more |
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war crimes
war crimes in international law, violations of the laws of war (see war, laws of ). Those accused have been tried by their own military and civilian courts, by those of their enemy, and by expressly established international tribunals. The records of the war crimes trials after World War II... Read more |
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United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, the American troops serving in Europe during World War I. When the United States declared war on Germany following President Woodrow Wilson's ringing address to Congress, the country found itself without plans for organizing a force that... Read more |
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Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov
Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov , 1853-1926, Russian general. As a commander in World War I, he won victories in Galicia. In 1916 he organized the Russian offensive against Austria, which relieved the pressure on the Allies. The offensive, successful at first, cost Russia at least a million lives.... Read more |
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Social War
Social War or Marsic War [Lat. socii =allies], 91BC-88 BC, struggle brought on by demands of the Italian allies for the privileges of Roman citizenship. The allies had fought on the side of Rome and had helped establish Roman hegemony, but they did not have the rights of the Romans. Most... Read more |
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Official War Art
Official War Art. Art sponsored by the British Government during the First and Second World Wars to make a visual record of all aspects of the war effort for information and propaganda purposes. By extension the term is also applied to art produced under official auspices for other Allied countries.... Read more |
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Declaration of war
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Falklands War
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Herculean effort to buy Allied.
...company Allied Colloids hotted up...Swiss group Ciba. For the...However, Ciba threatened to go even higher. The bid war broke out only hours after Bradford-based Allied ... |