In 1956 the combined GDPs of Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Portugal, the UK and West Germany was 87% of that of the USA and that improved over the next 20years. This suggests that the economy of western Europe was large enough to have a space program that could...
Franco did try to join the United Nations before the Japanese surrender and was rebuffed, since the war was still going on any nation joining the UN was in effect declaring war on the Axis powers. Spain wasn't actually accepted as a member of the United Nations until 1955.
There were a lot of people who thought the Apollo program was a waste of money and I suspect that the Nixon administration would have cancelled the project if there was no moon landing by 1970. The failure could be placed on the democrats who conceived the idea in the first place and the money...
The year 1982 started with the retirement of former Prime Minister McMahan which saw Labor win his former seat of Lowe in a by-election. A month later the second largest state elected a labor government for the first time in 27 years. A month later the smallest state elected a Liberal government...
An atomic bomb on Hitler's mountain retreat on the 6th of June 1944 would eliminate the head of the Nazi government and several members of his inner circle, although not Himmler. A second atomic bomb two or three weeks later on whoever replaces Hitler would paralyse the Nazi government and might...
I don't believe that Nazism was an economic theory, it was a social theory. Unlike Soviet Communism that used repression as a tool to support their economic theory the Nazis used the economy to support their social theory. I say social rather than racial because pure Aryan Homosexuals and those...
The battle of Austerlitz, was fought after the French had captured the Austrian capital, if the Army of Northern Virginia had fought and lost a battle after the loss of Richmond, would future generations refer to that battle as decisive?
With the exception of two Royal Navy cruisers deployed to the East African coast there would be no affect on the greater extent of the war. The black Africans who fought ( called Askari ) would not have been recruited into the military at all while those from India would have returned to the...
Dogs and Cats are eaten in societies that have low rates of pet ownership, you can't go to a restaurant to eat a meal that includes braised dog and then return home and play with your own dog in your back yard. From what I have been told, it takes at least two days for the odour of what your...
Harold Abrahams completed his officer training in the British Army and never saw combat and Heinrich Himmler completed his officer training in the Bavarian Army and also never saw combat. So I would say between 15th December 1899 and the 7th of October 1900.
If Scotland became a separate country, then the 800,000 or so Scots living south of the border would become aliens. Does that mean that they would have to return to Scotland to apply for Scottish Passports and then apply for working visas so they could live and work south of the border?
The reason this is so unlikely is because Britain had already had a military dictatorship in the seventeenth century and they didn't like it. You could say that the interplay between politics and the military since then was designed to prevent Wellington or someone like him from staging a Coup...
A huge do or die battle with the last of their resources in a battle that doesn't stop the Russians from reaching Berlin, I'm surprised they didn't do it.