... , it can hit the ground as well. Lightning may seem very short, but in fact the average length is about 3 or 4 miles. Of course this will vary between lightning strikes, but this is an average figure. Although lightning is several miles long, it is actually only a few inches wide. Lightning can happen during snowstorms, hailstorms, sandstorms, tornadoes, and thunderstorms. Once in a while ... . Such a quick and enormous heating causes the air molecules to move very fast due to the huge amount of energy they receive, and they quickly and forcefully push each other apart. This creates a hug...

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... , a twenty-megaton bomb. 10 KILOTONS 1 MEGATON 20 MEGATONS Airburst: 1,980 FT Airburst: 8,000 FT Airburst 17,500 FT Area of Destruction: 3 mile Area of Destruction: 10 miles Area of Destruction: 35 miles Vaporization: 0.5 miles Vaporization: 2.5 miles Vaporization: 8.75 miles (Documentation 7) This was only a portion of the damage that the bombs did, and America soon realized just what kind of power they had, and possibly, the ... the ground. The light was so bright that citizens from faraway communities saw the flash, and even more astonishing was the fact that a blind girl saw the flas...

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... dropped paratroopers to secure the flanks and beach exits of the assault area. Amphibious craft landed some 130,000 troops on five beaches along fifty miles of Normandy coast. In the eastern zone, British and Canadians landed on Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. The Americans landed on two beaches ... in the west-Utah and Omaha. To guard against an Allied invasion of Europe, Adolf Hitler ordered the laying of millions of mines and miles of barbed wire and poured tons of concrete to create a defensive barrier along the western coast of Europe. This was soon to be known ... airborne divisions...

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... been down. At 6 a.m.(Hawaiian time) on December 7,1941, the first Japanese attack fleet of 183 planes took off from aircraft carriers 230 miles north of Oahu. The first Japanese bomb was dropped at 7:55 a.m. on Wheeler Field, eight miles from Pearl Harbor. The crews at Pearl Harbor were on the decks of their ships for morning colors and the singing of The ... of it, at any price. President Roosevelt adopted the policy of neutral patrol. The idea of neutral patrol was to create and protect a neutral zone extending an average of 300 miles off the American coastline, except off Canada. Nei...

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... invasion. The troops had to overcome many obstacles to take control of this beach. By the end of D-Day on Omaha Beach the advance had gone barely one and a half miles inland. Several of the enemy strong points were intact and the beachhead was still under fire. Even though this day was so hectic and sounded like a disaster, the major exits ... and started to break through the stiff German defenses. At the British run beaches of Juno, Gold and Sword the forces had managed to push inland an average of six miles. Even with the amount of soldiers numbering about seventy-five thousand, the c...

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... employed the method of Blitzkrieg in Poland with amazing efficiency. Submarines had also made states feel uneasy, how could they feel secure when a fleet of enemy submarines could be a few miles off coast, armed and ready to fire? Of course maybe the most significant thing that had developed during the war was the airplane. The emergence of the airplane meant the ... . Such sudden change in technology meant that the very nature of war itself changed, targets changed. Boundaries were becoming increasingly permeable, and the fact that bombers could travel hundreds of miles brought these ne...

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... event of war with Russia, the Schlieffen Plan, expecting French support for Russia, called on Germany to launch a devastating and fast-paced attack on France. Schlieffen reasoned that France, with miles of railroad and a large army, could mobilize and attack within days, thus requiring Germany to eliminate them or face a two- front war. Since Russia lacked a modern transportation system, its slow ... began in March 1918 and was known as the Ludendorff offensive. After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany secretly amassed thousands upon thousands of troops behind its lines approximately ...

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... in outside help from Ferdinand of Austria. This is when the struggle began. An army of 20,000 men crossed the Bohemian border and marched on Pilsen, a Catholic stronghold 52 miles southwest of Prague. The army was under the German mercenary general, Count Ernst Von Mansfeld. In 1618, Mansfeld attacked and after 15 hours of fighting, they captured the town. After ... Mansfeld's victory, the Catholics delayed their plans to seize Prague. On the following year, Mansfeld and his troops, marched toward the Catholic stronghold of Budweis, 75 miles to the southeast. After seven hours of fighti...

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... all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. The western powers fed and supplied the 2 million persons in their sectors of Berlin solely by plane during this ... ...

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... Nazis. With Hitler's amazing ability as a speaker and his magnetic personality the party grew. Its program promised jobs, food and education to all Germans. During the depression Germany was falling apart. Hitler and the young Nazi party tried to take over the government during this period. They failed and Hitler was arrested and spent nine months in jail. When Hitler was ... Auschwitz began, and was completed the following year. This was the final solution to the "Jewish Question". (Rogasky 53) The arrival at the concentration camp was horrible, families were torn apart and people were...

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... troubles outside, here life is beautiful". Sally pays no attention to the emerging Nazi party throughout the film, preferring to be completely self absorbed. Maximillian is probably the only character, apart from the MC, who nurtures no illusions and readily accepts the corrupt man he is. Although through his class and money he is lulled into a false reality regarding not only ... "Brown shirt" collecting money he is intrigued by the appeal of them. Brian stays interested in them but during his relationship with Max he slips into an alternate reality. Although apart from the interlude w...

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... savings. People lost their jobs and starvation become even more apparent. The government had no power and so the Great Depression had started. As the German government started to break apart and lose its stability, the German people were tired of the politics, of the suffering, and especially tired of being weak. In these desperate times, they had to turn to ... communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minister. When Tito died in 1980, the federation he ruled fell apart. A new Serbian leader named...

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... as to give the Nazis complete freedom within Austria.Scgyscgbugg then made an agreement with Hitler that there should be a vote in Austria and see who wanted germany to be apart of Austria. Hitler reacted quickly , he immiediatly moved the rechswehr to the austrian border, which was a very risky move , risking war so Schuschnigg resighned. Seyss-inquart took over as chancellor ... and immediately requested Nazi assistance to crush a so-called communist plot that he had discovered. on 12 martch 1938 , the german army moved into Austria and procalimed it apart of the German Reich . Anschl...

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... . "The radio Ghassemi 7 soon came to be regarded as the principle propaganda medium"(Rhodes 28). It was a way of speaking to the people directly and making them believe they were apart of something big. Broadcasts on Nazi rallies were aired live on the radio so that if you were not at the rally then you could still be ... apart of it at home. "[Goebbels] once said that radio would do for the 20th Century what newspapers had done for the 19th "(Rhodes 26). Every night they would air Nazi ... ...

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... savings. People lost their jobs and starvation become even more apparent. The government had no power and so the Great Depression had started. As the German government started to break apart and lose its stability, the German people were tired of the politics, of the suffering, and especially tired of being weak. In these desperate times, they had to turn to ... communist party leader Marshal Tito proclaimed the country the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and named himself the Prime Minister. When Tito died in 1980, the federation he ruled fell apart. A new Serbian leader named...

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... . The invasion went on as planned. When the airborne paratroopers jumped from their planes, stiff winds blew them off course. Many of these men missed their drop zones by 20 miles. Many also fought little battles in the dark, and were either killed or captured. The large invasion forces that were to land on the beaches consisted of 150,000 men ... ...

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... by economic factors. However there were other contributing elements. The witch trials took place throughout most of Europe. Briggs had identified the heartland of the witch craze to be a hundred miles or so either side of the Rhine, from Luxembourg and north west Germany down to Savoy and the Swiss Confederation. Although these places were hit quite hard by the craze ... ...

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... . The invasion went on as planned. When the airborne paratroopers jumped from their planes, stiff winds blew them off course. Many of these men missed their drop zones by 20 miles. Many also fought little battles in the dark, and were either killed or captured. The large invasion forces that were to land on the beaches consisted of 150,000 men ... ...

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... . The invasion went on as planned. When the airborne paratroopers jumped from their planes, stiff winds blew them off course. Many of these men missed their drop zones by 20 miles. Many also fought little battles in the dark, and were either killed or captured. The large invasion forces that were to land on the beaches consisted of 150,000 men ... ...

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... of whom is unknown, had been landed at Kinsale. No names have so far been received. This culminating crime of the German war on peaceful merchant shipping was perpetrated a few miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, the bluff landmark so familiar to Atlantic travelers, to the south-west of Queenstown Harbour. The weather at the time was beautifully fine." Notice ... ...

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... appeasement. The first option - that of inaction - seemed no longer viable. Unlike the USA, the stretch of water between them and the belligerent powers was not hundreds, but tens of miles wide. Baldwin (who really establish appeasement into the Conservative consensus) summed up the way in which the Great War, and the development of new technology, especially aircraft (which was a particular ... ...

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... a classic education and Reilschule was a technical and scientific school. His father wanted him to go to Reilschule and Hitler agreed mainly because it offered a drawing class. Every day Hitler walked 3 miles to attend Reilschule in Rintz. Reilschule was much bigger than his old school and he didn't get the attention he was used to. After a while though, he started to fit ... ...

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... Army crosses the Ludendorf Fridge @ Remagen on the Rhine river. o Cologne becomes the first German city to fall to the advancing Allies March 29, 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo o 16 square miles flattened o 100,000 people die April 1, 1945 Americans invade OKINAWA o For the first time on a massive scale, Japanese introduce Kamikaze Divine Wind April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt dies April 25 ... ...

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... to Russia in 1941, it launched a quick army which was able to capture major chunks of Russia very rapidly. It started with the massive big front in the East 2,000 miles long from north to the South. However the Soviets used the Scorched Earth tactics and were able to hold the Germans off longer than expected, and like Napoleon, he had ... ...

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... with time. Hitler took the practice of personal command much too far. No military leader can hope to understand the realities of the situation on the ground from hundreds of miles away, and yet he came to believe that he could control all but the smallest units at the front. At the end of 1942, for example, during the battle of ... ...

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