OPERATION BARBAROSSA

  • BRITISH RUSH TROOPS TO AID GREECE

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Cairo, Egypt • March 7, 1941 On this date in 1941 in Greece, a British expe­di­tion­ary force from Egypt arrived just two days before the army of Ital­ian dictator Benito Mus­so­lini started its last unsuc­cess­ful cam­paign against Greek forces. The pre­vious Octo­ber the Ital­ian Army had crossed Greece’s north­west­ern fron­tier from neigh­boring Albania, launching the…

  • FINNISH AID TO DISRUPT NAZI ORE IMPORTS

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    London, England · December 19, 1939 In the afternoon of August 23, 1939, Adolf Hitler’s foreign secretary Joachim von Ribben­trop appeared in Moscow’s Krem­lin fortress to sign off on the Nazi-Soviet Non­ag­gres­sion Pact. The 10‑year pact, also known by the twin sur­names of the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Ribben­trop, was…