Category: War
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How Machine Gun Revolutionized Combat During World War I
The Great War witness the rise of powerful weapons like machine guns, heavy artillery and flamethrowers. The impact of machine gun was huge, allowing just a few soldiers to easily kill large number of charging enemies. Most machine guns of WWI were based upon Hiram Maxim’s 1884 design which has a continual fire of 450-600…
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The Origin of ISIS
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) became the richest terrorist organization in the world when they rapidly took over the massive Iraqi and Syrian territory in a bid to establish a new Muslim caliphate under the Sharia law. The extremists group is known for committing mass-murder, plundering Palmyra’s ancient treasures and spreading political violence…
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Fidel Castro: A Timeline of His Revolutionary Life
Fidel Castro, the rebel communist who led the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista’s capitalist government and established a socialist state in Cuba, finally dies at 90. Castro was Cuba’s first Marxist leader, along with his military adviser Che Guevara. He is praised by many for promoting social values, education and standing up against ten U.S.…
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How did Hitler Rise to Power?
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Combat Vehicles of the U.S. Military
The United States Armed Forces can certainly participate in an extensive warfare. This huge chart, created by Pop Chart Lab, exhibits most of the commissioned and uncommissioned US military vehicles; jets, helicopters, tanks, warships, submarines and many more. They arranged each rendered combat machine into class and sub-class and designated a color-coded badge showing branch…
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Casualties of American Revolution
The American Revolution not only had legally established the United States, but also had created big dreams for the American people. Colonial America wanted independence from the tyranny of England. King George along with the British Parliament and their growing taxes and unreasonable laws lead to the the American Revolutionary War. It had taken many…
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What Happened During The Korean War
The Korean War is a messy, complicated and deeply political conflict between North Koreans and South Koreans. The war gets international attention in June 1950 when communist leader Kim Il Sung of North Korea, supplied by Stalin of Soviet Union with weapons and equipment, ordered an invasion on the southern half in an attempt to…
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The Shot That Started World War I
The First World War took the lives of 10 million soldiers, 7 million civilians, 21 million more wounded and 7.7 million were missing. It all started with an assassination a century ago. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of a secret military society called Blackhand, assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand along with his…
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Remembering the Pearl Harbor Attack of 1941
Dec 7 of every year is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, as President Barack Obama declared in 2014, to remember the day the Japanese bombers attacked the naval base of United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941. More than 2,300 Americans were killed and 1,000 more were injured during the surprised raid that triggered the…
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