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- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic state at a nexus where numerous Eurasian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... to have endured until the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- The period between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 in support of an embryonic ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... diplomacy and negotiation must replace use of force not only in resolving ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- ("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Since the end ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ... During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Kosygin was a member ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... Mujahidin resistance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Khan opposed ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ... While some efforts on the part of guerrilla forces can be understood ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- In the Cold War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked the end ... held a signing ceremony. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent B.F. Manz ... at Kesh, near Samarkand. Timur was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- right|250px|Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. 1910]] Nomadic people, also known as nomads, are communities of people that ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Concerned about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient ... ) as the main Turkic power in the region and took hold of the lucrative ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... of Iraqi Communists, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet hope ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan brought some three million Afghan ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- fought between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria ... to Egypt following the Camp David Accords of 1979, while the rest of the ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... Since 1979, due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and continued ...41 KB (5,975 words) - 17:58, 14 May 2024
- The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... began on November 4, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which began ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron 977 and 1010 C.E. and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
