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Paper Salvage 1939–50. Wartime paper salvage propaganda poster. Paper Salvage was a part of a programme launched by the British Government in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War to encourage the recycling of materials to aid the war effort, and which continued to be promoted until 1950.
The Salvage for Victory campaign was a program launched by the US Federal Government in 1942 to salvage materials for the American war effort in World War II. [1] On January 10, 1942, the US Office of Production Management sent pledge cards to retail stores asking them to participate in the effort by saving things like waste paper, scrap metal ...
Oslo Report. The Oslo Report was one of the most spectacular leaks in the history of military intelligence. Written by German mathematician and physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer on 1 and 2 November 1939 during a business trip to Oslo, Norway, it described several German weapons, some in service and others being developed.
The attack on Pearl Harbor[ nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
Fleet carriers. Illustrious in 1942 with a Fairey Swordfish on deck. HMS Unicorn in the Atlantic 1943. HMS Eagle (1918) [ 1] Courageous -class aircraft carrier [ 2][ 3] HMS Ark Royal (91) [ 4] Illustrious -class aircraft carrier [ 5] Implacable -class aircraft carrier [ 6]
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 59. Most were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party.
The White Paper of 1939[ note 1] was a policy paper issued by the British government, led by Neville Chamberlain, in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. [ 2] After its formal approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, [ 3][ note 2] it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British ...
The historiography of World War II is the study of how historians portray the causes, conduct, and outcomes of World War II . There are different perspectives on the causes of the war; the three most prominent are the Orthodox from the 1950s, Revisionist from the 1970s, and Post-Revisionism which offers the most contemporary perspective.