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Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote. Yamamoto in 1940. Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora!
World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command. "Never was so much owed by so many to so few"[a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1] The name stems from the specific line in the ...
Peace in Our Time is the title of a 1947 stage play by Noël Coward. Set in an alternative 1940, the Battle of Britain has been lost, the Germans have supremacy in the air and the United Kingdom is under Nazi occupation. Inspired to write this play in 1946 after seeing the effects of the occupation of France Coward wrote: "I began to suspect ...
Memorable quotes from Queen Elizabeth II. Theresa Braine. September 8, 2022 at 5:17 PM. ... — Address to children of Britain during World War 2, as the 14-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. [1][2] Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and the Blitz did in ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...
Hitler's "prophecy" of January 30, 1939, comprised the core of Nazism’s narrative of World War II. A historical subject called "international Jewry" had launched World War II with the intent of bringing about the "Bolshevization" of the world. It would fail. Instead, Nazi Germany would retaliate for this aggression and annihilate the Jews.
No Ordinary Time. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a 1994 historical, biographical book by American author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin published by Simon & Schuster. Based on interviews with 86 people who knew them personally, the book chronicles the lives of President ...