The battle of Leyte Gulf
The Japanese empire didn’t want to accept that they were losing the war. From their desperation arose a fearful tactic: the “kamikaze” attack. The allied troops advanced to Leyte Gulf and showed all their power. Japan was on the ground… the only way of breaching a dam would be by using their pilots as lethal projectiles.
Operation CHASE
The United States had a lot of old weapons.
It needed to get rid of it anyway, and what better place than the ocean to hide its misdeeds.
Operation Chase" was launched.
Twelve ships sailed out to sea, but four were to carry chemical gases.
The vaults exploded and the toxic substances mixed with the water.
They would start an inferno.
Operation Carlota
Angola's independence was in jeopardy.
The civil war left hundreds of victims and attracted a fearsome enemy: the US.
Angola had only one way out...
To ask Cuba for help.
The island took up arms....
Gulf War Syndrome
The US saw Iraq's weakness.
It sent in its soldiers and dropped explosives on their bases, but the destruction of chemical weapons was devastating.
US soldiers were inadequately protected and soon suffered terrible symptoms of poisoning.
The authorities claimed that the fumes were diluted, but the consequences of the syndrome are still felt today.
The cunning of the Green Howards on D-Day
The Allies had a strategic plan that would turn World War II on its head, and they needed their best men.
One of them was the Green Howards.
The group had been in great battles but had lost their best men.
That wouldn't stop their power though.
Fritz Haber, the chemist who annihilated hundreds of soldiers
"It wasn’t like drowning in water, but in a sea of land".
Fritz Haber was a great chemist, and it didn’t take him long to win the Nobel Prize for the creation of an artificial fertilizer.
The invention saved hundreds of people, but it was to be set aside in the face of something monstrous.
The scientist created a toxic gas for war. It was deposited in the trenches and wiped out hundreds of soldiers.
The scientist's power knew no bounds....
Sooner than expected, the substance was used by the Nazis and would destroy his own family.
The ship that overshadowed airplanes for years
The popularity of zeppelins was growing steadily.
That's why the company went for something bigger... the creation of the Hindenburg.
It was the most amazing ship of all time, but its majesticness would be overshadowed by a terrible mistake.
The ship was destined to fail, but its legacy would be priceless.
Couple separated by war but reunited after 70 years
The Korean War left Duane trapped in Japan, but suddenly that foreign land became his home.
He would meet Peggy there, the love of his life.
However, his plans collapsed with the end of the war.
Duane would never see Peggy again...
Yet, 70 years wouldn’t destroy their love.
Heels: The ancient element of virility
The heel, considered a feminine object, was first used by the Persians.
The relief on their footwear greatly enhanced their combat in battle, but the heel went further than that.
It reached the royal courts and became a fashion staple.
Masculinity was only achieved by wearing a heel.
Sooner than expected, the high heel was destroyed by the people...
However, it would return in glory and majesty, scandalizing those to whom it originally belonged.
Astrology dominated the White House
The assassination attempt on President Reagan left his wife Nancy very frightened.
She couldn't let something like that happen again, and she found a solution in the stars.
Nancy hired astrologer and psychic Joan Quigley for her personal use.
With the Cold War simmering, presidential decisions would be left in the hands of the stars.
The Battle of Britain
Nazi Germany invaded France with ease.
Next would be Great Britain.
Without them in the way victory was certain.
The attack began and the invasion was imminent.
What the Nazis didn’t know was that Britain had an ace up its sleeve.
And they would show them what they were capable of.
The Sutherlands were the Kardashians of the 19th century
The Sutherlands were 7 sisters without any talent, but with excellent hair.
Their manes were more than 2 meters long and represented the Victorian woman to perfection.
The beautiful maidens became a beauty icon, but it would be their secret hair ointment that would bring them fame.
The family became millionaires and were caught up in the fallout of fame.
The higher they rose… the more painful the fall would be.
Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech
"Stalin’s acts were much more monstrous and involved flagrant violations of Leninist principles".
Stalin's former right-hand man, Nikita Khrushchev, took power in the Soviet Union, and to the surprise of many, he had a lot to say.
At the 20th Congress of the CPSU, he read his "secret speech".
It would put an end once and for all to the deification of the former leader.
Vladimir Lenin’s last days
Vladimir Lenin was an unquestioned leader, but a stroke took him from power.
That incident brought out something hidden in the shadows... Stalin's lust for power.
Lenin returned and saw what he had formed. If he wasn’t stopped, he’d become unstoppable.
Unfortunately, his body prevented him from continuing.
Lenin would end up in a wheelchair, watching how his country fell into the wrong hands...
Roald Amundsen and his impressive expedition to the South Pole
Roald Amundsen participated in great expeditions, but nothing compared to his trip to the South Pole. Amundsen had a great strategy, but something got in the way of his victory. Britishman Robert Scott also led an expedition, and he was breathing down his neck. Amundsen would pull an ace down his sleeve…
And the most terrifying one would be his coldness
The Battleship Potemkin
Russia was in need of change.
But the tsarist government refused.
That would lead to revolution, even at sea.
The crew of the battleship Potemkin was tired of the mistreatment and started a mutiny...
Casualties would be inevitable, but the act would mark history.
The end of Stalin
"Rest more and work less".
Those were the words spoken to Yósif Stalin at his medical check-up.
The Soviet leader remembered when he uttered those same words to Vladimir Lenin to remove him from power.
This time, he was on the other side of the coin.
Stalin tried to keep up his good humor, but the attack was inevitable...
His followers would watch in horror as the leader's body lay on the ground.
The British Empire's plan to invade Iceland
Despite the outbreak of World War II, Iceland remained neutral, but the invasion of Denmark and Norway by the Germans made one thing clear...
They were next.
That set off British alarm bells – if they were to gain the upper hand in the war, they had to act first.
They executed "operation fork" ... Iceland would be theirs.
The day Neville Chamberlain was tricked by Hitler
Neville Chamberlain feared that Germany would start the war.
Despite the size of the British Empire, the country's military strength was very weak.
If war broke out, the British Empire would be reduced to dust.
So the Prime Minister came up with a plan to avoid war.
What he didn't know was that Hitler had it all planned, and within four months, disaster became inevitable.
The Führer’s last days
“Disgrace and my dog Blondi are the only ones who remain faithful to me”.
Those were Hitler’s words inside his secret bunker.
The Allied troops’ progress forced Germany to pull back.
They thought they would have time to create another ruse, but it wasn’t possible.
Hitler didn’t want to accept it… but he had lost the war.
In the midst of confinement, deprived of water and food, the Nazi leader showed a dark side that would accompany him until the end of his days.
