Axis Advantages early in World War Il

Germany had the support of Italy and Japan, with whom it established an alliance in the late 1930s known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. Like Germany, Italy and Japan, they also had expansion projects. Italy sought influence over the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa, and Japan, influence over the Pacific Ocean, China and part of Russia (at the time, belonging to the Soviet Union).

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

richard nixon led the investigation that resulted in alger hiss being convicted of prejury.