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Thought these were interesting, and thought I'd share. Nothing to do with SEO or the Internet, but interesting nonetheless:

- In WW1, Germany was funding Lenin's campaign so Russia would enter a revolution and thus leave the war.

- The US entered WW1 because Germany sent a note to Mexico (that was intercepted) saying they would help Mexico get some original American land back (meaning they would declare war on the United States) if they helped Germany in WW1.

- In WW1, Germany recruited black Americans into the Mexican army. (Black Americans in that time opposed America at war, majorly.)

- In WW1, American military leaders wore French gas masks because the American designs (which the millions of soldiers had to wear) were fatally flawed in some cases.

- In WW2, Japan had a choice to develop either a nuclear weapon or a "death ray". They chose a "death ray", after they thought that a nuke would be impossible to build. (Thank goodness they chose the death ray, though, right?) It never was finished before they surrendered, and still don't have one today.

- Because they thought nukes were impossible, Japan declined to acknowledge "leaflets" (warnings dropped by plane on government areas) saying that the US had a weapon of great power, and would use it if Japan didn't surrender.

- They did, though. WW2 is the only war in history where nuclear weapons have been used.

- In WW2, Germany made the world's largest battleship and several times intercepted British supply lines to Russia.

- In WW2, in response to Germany's large battleship, Britian built a bigger one. It rarely saw combat, and in fact I think it wasn't even used, because the war had already ended.

- In WW1, President Wilson signed the Espianoge Act.

- You maybe learned in school that America stood together when it came to wars like WW1 and WW2. But in WW1, American soldiers' morale was so low, and so many anti-war protests were going on, that the government started their own newspapers to spread pro-war propoganda.

- Also to fight low morale, President Wilson instigated the "American Protection Legion" to spy on Americans to see what they were saying about the war. It employed 250,000 gov't workers.

- In WW2, Germany wanted to build a plane that could reach space. After spending millions of "dollars" on it, the idea was abondoned. In fact, many of Germany's research projects were a waste of money.

- In the Vietnam War, returning soldiers were often spat upon by Americans for going to fight the war.

- In the Cold War, Russia (supposedly) had enough nukes to blow the whole world up. America had enough to do it 5 times.



Hopefully this won't spark a nasty political debate (I like debates, as long as they aren't stupid) - but the facts are really interesting...

.chulium.

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Katey

Hi there,

Wow...very interesting fact indeed.


Regards,
Kieran Taylor.

jumpenjuhosaphat

Those are some interesting facts. The one that is most shocking, and that I had no idea of is during the Vietnam War, american soldiers were spit on. I shame those that would spit on any soldier of war, in any country for the simple fact that they were doing their duties.

As far as the nukes go....I thought that Russia was the worlds greatest nuclear power, having something like 12,000 nuclear weapons, with the US having a far smaller number. I'm not sure, I'll have to go check this out.

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Jimmy

Hi There.

Nice Facts about the past History. Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Jimmy.

vkg2006

Very interesting facts!!!

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jinkies99

Nice - I knew a few of those, some were new to me.

You're incorrect about the German battleship, however; the largest battleships ever built were the Japanese Yamato class, the Yamato and the Musashi. The thing about the German battleships was that Germany had been allowed to build battleships of only a certain size and weight; they sort of bent the rules by building smaller 'pocket' battleships that were armed out the wazoo.

You might be thinking about the Bismarck, which I think was the biggest battleship of WWI.

A Wikipedia article on the Yamato ships is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato

seouser

Enough nukes to blow up the world 5 times? I think we just needed enough for once... and that was way too much.

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grazie1

Hello chilium!... Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Well i guess, ur pretty much interested in history, huh? That's good...