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Heath's consistent support of America's military action in Vietnam led Nixon to call Heath the only solid friend in Europe that the USA had. [23] Despite the intensification of the British government's rhetorical support of the American war effort in Vietnam, Heath refused to deploy British troops to Vietnam.
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
Operation Foxley was a code name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. [1] At the height of World War II, one option to swiftly end the war was killing Hitler. The SOE developed two potential assassination modules, one was to poison, and the other, shooting with a special gun.
During the war, German radio broadcasts questioned why the British had sent only a few thousand troops, and pamphlets depicted the British soldier as far behind the lines while the French soldier were fighting. [46] Postcards and pamphlets claimed that British soldiers were enjoying the charms of the French soldiers' wives. [47]
Although Poland had been initially willing to avoid war and conform to the annexation of the Free City of Danzig, anti-Polish sentiment intensified after Hitler took great offense to the establishment of an Anglo-Polish alliance (menacing Germany to a two-front war and broad isolation if the Anglo-Polish alliance should combine with the Franco ...
Although King was initially hesitant to speak about the U.S. government's decision to go to war with Vietnam, he would condemn them and their actions in his speech. [82] Delivered in the heart of New York City, King gave his many reasons as to why the War was an irrational decision, noting how it had moral and ethical implications.
Instead, he pressed for attacks against residential areas. Hitler refused. He ordered that only military targets in London were to be attacked. [24] The Luftwaffe intimated that a period of good weather was now due over France, Belgium and southern Britain. They prepared for an attack along the lines set by Hitler.
On the 15/16 December the RAF carried out its first area bombing attack (destroying 45% of the city of Mannheim), officially in response to the raid on Coventry. [52] [53] In 1942, the goals of the British attacks were defined: the primary goal was the so-called "morale bombing", to weaken the will of the civil population to resist.