Yep, they named a ship after him, many streets are named after him, even an alley! Im currently reading a book which will teach me just the...
Well, the americans used Blitzkrieg on Iraq in Operation Freedom. They just rushed right to the capital bypassing all strongpoints.
Soviets would most likely not advance for two reasons. One was Stalin planned later to invade farther west but nukes and unpreparedness stopped...
From what I know, Mussolini was a man who wanted to be popular. He wanted his people to think he was a great leader and wanted his army to win in...
I know, but would going for Poland result in war being stalled?
I don't know. When Hitler did take the rest of Czechoslovakia, this move took so much trust away from Britain and Germany that Britain rearmed and...
In May 1939, Hitler took the rest of Czeckoslavakia. This invasion (or as Hitler called it a liberation of Slovak people) took all trust between...
If the Generals were let loose, then Guderian would have gone to Moscow in 1941.
"One death is a tragedy; A million is a statistic" Stalin "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat" Churchill...
Japan detonated their atomic bomb 5 days after the Americans bombed Japan's cities (Nagasaki or Hiroshima, I missed which one). It was even on t.v.
rifleman1987, going off topic but the Germans did not hide the men and tanks good enough at the battle of the bulge. The allies knew most of the...
Maybe, but that delay may cause as much if not more trouble than in reality. Or maybe a blessing in disguise?
You make it seem as if the Soviets had unlimited manpower. By 1943, the Red Army was having major manpower shortages and relied on tactics to keep...
I know that, i actually changed my idea midway through typing and forgot to correct it. If Japan attacked early in the time stated, or just posed...
Hitler was a paranoid man as the war progressed(not as much as Stalin though) and he felt that his strategy of Blitzkrieg was way to risky even...
Richard 42, to reply to the TheRedBaron's answer, going south will wear the tracks just as much as going for Moscow, going for Moscow with 90,000...
what if Japan attacked in late July early August when the Soviets were close to defeat? They would not have been hit by the oil embargo yet and...
The germans had maybe 400,000 - 500,000 soldiers tops in the west before Falais pocket and well over two million in the east. The allies in the...
I agree if he allowed them to retreat they would do much better. Except for one time you mentioned. I believe that in the first winter in the...