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- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies of World War II) that consisted of those nations opposed to the Axis Powers ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
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- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies of World War II) that consisted of those nations opposed to the Axis Powers ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- term was commonly used up until the end of World War II. Zaibatsu were usually ... After Japan’s surrender (1945) in World War II, the breakup of the ...11 KB (1,482 words) - 05:20, 13 June 2023
- The First Italo–Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia ... perhaps the weakest of all the colonial powers, arguing that this detracts ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- a number of outstanding issues between the powers. A rift in the relationship ... to describe the failure of the Western powers to live up to its claims ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- brother-in-law of the German Emperor William II and the elected king of Finland ... parliament. With the defeat of Germany in World War I, the monarchy was abandoned ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- administration of Germany immediately after World War II. Deputy to General ... Clay was a man whose training was for war, but he had the foresight ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- in extensive research, especially during World War II. His study of radio ... Not only did radar greatly assist the Allies in the world war, but ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- Iran (Persia). It was the first of three World War II conferences of the ... and against Japan, and the envisaged post-war settlement. A separate protocol ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- V who died four months before the end of World War I, he succeeded to the ... people were responsible for entering the war, so the people should not ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- created after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy had ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Harbor against pirates and rival naval powers. During the 1942 Battle of ... Great Britain, which had carved out colonies throughout the world ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- to ultranationalism. In 1937, it engaged in war with China for a second time ... After World War II, Japan was occupied by a foreign power for the ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available ... century caused a change in thinking. Such a war does not require the mobilization ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- as the consequence of the Turkish War of Independence between the ... secular Muslim majority state in the world. The Turkish people were ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. some support from the West European powers, who sympathized with their ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the ... soldier." In 1951, during the Korean War, he resisted Gen. Douglas ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- World War II participants. The [[ALlied Powers (World War II)|Allies]] depicted ... The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Regiments.org, Boxer Rebellion (Third China War) 1900. By August 1900, over ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, ... he wanted above all to remove the causes of war "insofar as humanly possible ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ... for Japan’s involvement in China and World War II can be attributed ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- father, following Bulgaria's defeat in World War I. This was the country ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- December 2, 1823, proclaimed that European powers would no longer colonize ... forewarned the imperial European powers against interfering in the ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ... The Korean War (1950-1953) and its Armistice Agreement left the two ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- and as a commander on the Western Front in World War I, Haushofer was concerned ... strategies in Germany, resulting in World War II. Haushofer maintained ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- Panjang Ridge, on February 13, 1942, during World War II in the Battle of Singapore ... trade to China. European colonial powers had their way in Southeast ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and ... Victoria Cross (VC) was created after the war (January 29, 1856) to honor ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- an active military officer could serve as War Minister or Navy Minister ... Incident in 1864, during which an allied fleet of Western powers bombarded ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- freedoms humans "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom ... to working for human rights around the world prior to the U.S. entry into ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- Germany"), both formed in 1949, after World War II. The East had been ... the GDR and FRG and the four occupying powers produced the so-called "Two ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... in part to bolster its efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- the Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference ... This had been forbidden by the victorious allied powers of the First World ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- to her acceding to the throne led to the War of the Austrian Succession ... of Prussia led to the Seven Years' War and later to the War of the ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- a conference organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace ... Conference involved deciding which of the Allied powers would administer territories ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Lindbergh found her own place in the world as a writer. She would gain ... Europe was struggling still to recover from World War I, Lindbergh strongly ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I between the Allied ... Negotiations between the allied powers started on May 7, the anniversary ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- are in London. Rolls-Royce planes powered Allied planes in World War I. In ... Rolls Royce engines famously set several world speed records in cars driven ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 02:47, 16 December 2022
- was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. His ironic ... His first novel, Der Zug war pünktlich (The Train Was on Time), was ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- The Eritrean War of Independence (September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991 ... energy and resources they used in a 30 year war on education and development ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- of the most distinguished field marshals of World War II. He was the commander ... 1942 Commando Order requiring that allied commandos captured in Europe ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- Ottoman parliament by Sultan the Abdul Hamid II, who abdicated, marking the ... this alliance led to the Ottoman defeat in World War I and to the end of their ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- worked in France on behalf of disabled war veterans and war orphans and ... 1909, as counsel at the Paris Court. During World War I, he was drafted into ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- During World War II, the Allies discovered that the Nazis were using ... as part of the Campo dei Miracoli UNESCO World Heritage Site along with ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 18:48, 25 October 2022
- the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 following World War I when its territories ... #039;s renewed attempt to conquer Europe in World War I resulted in loss of ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- of the three most important East Slavic powers to have emerged from the ... of the European Union. A more unified world is only likely to emerge ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- hostile nations not involved in an open war de-escalate tensions through ... The two sides in the Cold War, the NATO powers and the Warsaw Pact ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- General of Australia. He fought in both World War I and World War II. He ... towards the defeat of the Axis Powers. Without such skilled military ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- The Cretan War (205 B.C.E.–200 B.C.E.) was fought by King Philip ... The Macedonians had just concluded the First Macedonian War and Philip ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- commander of the Serbian army during World War I. Throughout his reign ... help protect the Balkans from outside powers; at this point Italy was ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- play a role in the structure of the material world. Together with Bohr ... plaguing the theory, and it was only after World War II that a technique called ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Duke.Hindley (2000), 209. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- Ethiopia is one of the oldest states in the world, and the only native African ... helping hand from the colonial powers to progress and develop, ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- He had hoped to be viewed as a prisoner of war instead of a criminal assassin ... Because he considered his action an act of war, rather than a criminal ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... they were able to accurately predict the Allied invasion plans and adjust ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- Mauer), an iconic symbol of the Cold War, was initially constructed ... of 28 years. It was built during the post-World War II period of a divided ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- in the years during and after the Second World War. The vast amounts of ... a president, who has primarily ceremonial powers and is elected by a two-thirds ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- in a street battle with the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1901. To support ... The outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) radically ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- The Pope also made use of the weakness of King Frederick II of Sicily ... Emperor and to elect Frederick II of Sicily. Frederick II made ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- opposition and disastrous defeats in World War I, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated ... displaced the autocracy of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar of ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- has been ruled by different imperial powers, and after World War II some ... He also hoped that Japan would commence a war against the western ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- instrumental in defeating the Japanese in World War II and presided over ... life, participating in three major wars (World War I, World War II, Korean ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Revolution of 1979. The coup was a Cold War incident; it was feared that ... ability to defend democracy around the world. Reasons given for why the ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II ... peace-affirming people in the world. As a modern day supporter ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- control. At the start of the first Punic War, Carthage was the dominant ... law, order and security to the known world. This administrative and ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- Channel Islands by the Third Reich during World War II which lasted from ... and was sent to a German prison-of-war camp. On the night of July 14 ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- and journalist. He led France during World War I and was one of the ... French involvement in trade with the Arab world and in good relations with ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- ===Martinique and World War II=== Fanon was born on the Caribbean island ... medal. When the Nazis were defeated and Allied forces crossed the Rhine ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- recent than that of other former imperial powers, its legacy arguably opened ... to achieving an equitable and just world for all its people. ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ... so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- gained a sense of belonging to the same world, governed by the same moral ... uneasy truce. After a tense standoff, and a war in Cisalpine Gaul after Antony ...27 KB (4,377 words) - 19:08, 21 August 2023
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... of India. For this reason, colonial powers considered it vital to keep ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- defeated in Romania's 1877 Independence War by the Romanian-Russian army ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- opposition and isolated Portugal from the world community. The regime was ... developed a real commitment to making the world a more prosperous, peaceful ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- Atatürk rose to prominence during World War I, in which Turkey allied ... The Young Turks seized power from the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1908 ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- led by Francis Xavier. By 1579, six regional war lords and approximately 100 ... to Christianity. By 1579, six regional war lords and approximately 100 ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- United States) in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and least ... people remain an enigma to most of the world. Cemeteries uncovered on ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- a political association. However the Korean War galvanized the member states ... Throughout the Cold War doubts over the strength of the relationship ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- thereof. An invasion can be the cause of a war, be used as a part of a larger ... well-defined panthe other faction in a civil war or insurrection situation ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- The Federal Republic of Germany was established after World War II ... from the massive destruction wrought by World War II to become home to ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- In World War II he joined the Allied Powers (World War II) in aid of what ... When World War I began Menzies was 19, and his family decided that ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Papal bans on trade with the Muslim world, which even in the middle ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- under Benito Mussolini (1926-1929). During World War II, he was active in ... He can be credited with helping to shape post-World War II Europe ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... was the most populous Greek city in the world. Sicilian politics was intertwined ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- offensive on the Western Front during World War II; to the south Operation ... of surprise achieved was compounded by Allied overconfidence, preoccupation ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II. ... the battle was part of the endgame of the war that led up to the Allied ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- and Anatolian sections of Turkey. The world's narrowest strait used ... it. Istanbul, the only city in the world to bridge two continents ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- The First World War, known as the Great War before 1939 and as World ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- enjoyed good relations with the Western powers, who sold him arms to defend ... competition in Budapest. At the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to Ruma ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- Algiers played a role in World War II as the headquarters of Allied ... present are 30 times those accepted around the world. ==Geography== ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe and containing ... NATO, that kept the peace during the Cold War by deterring the Soviet Union ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- people of Italy that they were losing the war, they turned against the dictator. Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- European power under the reign of Frederick II of Prussia (1740–1786). During ... Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Frederick II of Prussia's desire to ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- and is one of the largest artificial ports in the world. city since its inception. During the Second World War, the city served as a ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- In 1918 he joined the navy to serve in World War I and was assigned ... his son Geddes was killed in action during World War II, Mumford recalled ...29 KB (4,364 words) - 22:20, 25 October 2022
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... Pact, and were known as the Axis Powers. Then, nine months later ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev]] of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II. Under international ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- been annexed. An independent state after World War I, it was occupied by ... Vilnius, in the name of the whole Christian World, between Gediminas and the ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- The Amazon River of South America is the world's largest river ... begins. It is the largest rainforest in the world and is of great ecological ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 15:24, 19 August 2023
- used with devastating effect by colonial powers against the native peoples ... of reducing warfare by making the cost of war too great. ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- promised not to join any grouping of powers that was “directly or indirectly ... and shifted the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers to the Allied Powers. Alliances ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... decisive. The inexorable advance of the Allied armies in 1918 persuaded ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- Years of inter-tribal violence and civil war left the city in need of reconstruction ... from 1852 to 1908, during which time he allied with the Germans in order ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Николай Викторович,] War Heroes. Retrieved April 25, 2023. ... Institute of Food Industry in 1942 during World War II. After the liberation ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- Army officer. He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El ... ==First World War== The First World War began in August 1914 and Montgomery ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- political influence. According to the CIA World Factbook, the United States ... * Protecting allied nations of the United States from attack or invasion ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II]] or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- the Australian federal government the powers to conscript men of military ... As a result of the ban on foreign service, during World War I and ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which time his international ... During the Chinese Civil War (1926–1949), Chiang attempted to eradicate ...31 KB (4,795 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- liberty arising from the entrance of the allied powers into France to bring ... Generally, public policies in the post-World War II world, including ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 16:56, 2 April 2024
- city centers in the German-speaking world, and was listed as a UNESCO ... place every year in Salzburg, including the world-famous Salzburg Festival ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- Prior to World War II he was mostly known as a tank tactician and ... role in stabilizing Western Europe after World War II especially in normalizing ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- for the military. Through the end of World War II, factories in Japan ... === Matsushita and the post-war period === In 1946, Matsushita was ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- loss to Prussia in the Seven Weeks' War crippled Austria's influence ... into the armed conflict that became World War I. The post-World War ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the ... The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, following ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- that in an increasingly inter-dependent world, strategies based on national ... peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking before the United ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- non grata exchanged for German prisoners-of-war. He is credited with the release ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- His De-Stalinization policies reduced the powers of the secret police and ... He worked as a joiner in various factories and mines. During World ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- has risen from the rubble of the Korean War into one of the world's ... which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, a United ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- early cultural links with the Mycenaean world in mainland Greece. Though ... certain times, however, Israelite tribes allied themselves with the Philistines ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- to exist, headed by Habsburgs through World War I, and today operates ... In 1143, Pope Celestine II ordered the Knights Hospitaller to take ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- and Poland. This division caused the civil war Ukraine between various parties ... and alliances involving the three powers before being forcibly disbanded ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- In the years prior to World War II, Lindbergh was a noted isolationist ... who opposed the entry of the U.S. into World War I; his mother, Evangeline ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- role of the United States in the world, and, following the collapse ... effective means to achieve the authorized powers of the government implied ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories ... role as a leading authority on the Cold War. His "Long Telegram" ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- Transport Corporation") was the world's first airline. It ... Following World War I, the United States found itself swamped with ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- or monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. During World War II, Allied powers Britain ... During the Cold War Iran allied itself with the U.S. against the Soviet ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- died in 1458 to be succeeded by Pius II Rodrigo's brother, who ... he held should have given the Catholic world spiritual leadership; instead ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- 1526 and was taken by Prussia in 1742 in the War of the Austrian Succession ... Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. During World War II Polish Silesia was ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- " In a perhaps eerie foreboding of World War II, Stalin declared, ... country during the revolution and the civil war that followed. During the ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- An early and avid supporter of war, Goebbels did everything in his ... he was rejected for military service in World War I, which he bitterly resented. ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... under German occupation until after the Allied landings in 1944; the Low ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- later known as 5th Punjab Regiment. During World War II he served as a captain ... a national assembly, it had only limited powers. === Legal reforms === ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- were among the leading causes of the Second World War and the Nazi regime& ... of Memel in the years leading up to the war. Other regions were acquired ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced its predecessor ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on D-Day itself came ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- in particular, became focal points of Cold War tensions. East Germany was ... After the German military leaders unconditionally surrendered to Allied ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- and plays written about him. Supernatural powers were ascribed to him, and ... known as Chibi) of 208, the allied armies of Liu Bei and Sun ...18 KB (2,855 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- different from that within. To the outside world, he was heir of an ancient ... about the extent of the famine.) During World War II, Selassie was in exile ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- killing of civilians by the Allies of World War II—who claimed that ... view is that the bombings ended the war months sooner than would otherwise ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- imperial ambition to rule as much of the world as he could conquer. The ... battle became the Battle of Waterloo. Allied forces, under Wellington ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- 039;s goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security ... of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- and both rejoined the fleet late in the war. Vital fuel storage, shipyards ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- by the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Radical groups were threatening ... tracking down spies and saboteurs during World War II, where he worked on ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the ... commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, and ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- Risen, [http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index ... In Iran and many countries, Mosaddeq is known as a hero of Third World ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- and the Third Reich (1933-1945). After World War II, the city was divided; ... and science. The metropolis is home to world-renowned universities, research ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... it was largely paralyzed by the Cold War between the United States ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- a time of cultural exchange with European powers. Efforts to modernize the ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- of Catholics, however, meant that as World War II her views were out ... damaged by the effects of the American Civil War. Because of this the Langhornes ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million ... Kingdom was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release in August ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- The Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as the Clock Tower, is the world ... of Parliaments, which beats during peace and war constantly, boldly and with ...22 KB (3,639 words) - 22:14, 23 November 2023
- Germany, Italy and the Empire of Japan in World War II. ... 29 children. All four sons were officers in World War II and were decorated ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- Southeast Asia. It served as an important Allied base during World War II ... "Harbor with leafy mango trees."World Executive, [http://www.worldexecutive ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- Marlborough found international fame in the War of the Spanish Succession ... Churchill. During the English Civil War, Winston had fought for the ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- of a criminal, despite teachings in all world religions that stress the ... org/pages/507/Amnesty-Pardon-Clemency-powers-in-twentieth-century.html ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- different times in history, throughout the world. They include Biblical genocide ... *The war and ensuing genocide waged against the Canaanites by the ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... with victory in the Polish-Ukrainian War; the West Ukrainian People ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- populations, during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War ... Japan occupied other areas in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the first ... and the athletes, who represented us to the world, never even heard of it. ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- it the focus of contention during the Cold War, with both the Soviet Union ... partitioned by the former colonial powers. Pan Somalism is an ideology ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... the most heavily fortified border in the world. There is a constant hope ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- Denmark as "the happiest place in the world," based on standards ... Denmark is one of the world's flattest countries. There is little ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- continued his studies at Paris, entered or allied himself with the chapter ... foreigners flocked to them. Popes Celestine II, Adrian IV, and Innocent III ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... support was less enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From World War I until his death Piłsudski ... Germany to ensure Russia's defeat in World War I. Later in the war, ...60 KB (8,706 words) - 05:53, 10 May 2024
- The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was ... fought intermittently since 1931, full-scale war started in earnest in 1937 ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... and communism was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II, Hitler, the Nazi ... was still coming to terms with defeat in World War I in which many people ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- following victory in the Spanish Civil War. From 1947, he was de facto ... from whom he received help during the Civil War, Franco remained neutral during ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- Party, which made Iran a theater for Cold War intrigue. The Western allies ... Mohammad Reza Shah came to power during World War II after an Anglo ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, Gunji, a retired Japanese ... and the Kuriles by force at the end of World War II through the Treaty ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- A strategic naval link between West Asia and Southeast Asia, during ... Ancient Sri Lanka was also the first in the world to have established ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- the Wendat-Tionontate (Huron-Petun)," World Archaeology 35(2)(October ... Iroquois to the south. Once the European powers became involved, this conflict ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- di Cavour. Piedomont king, Victor Emmanuel II became first King of the unified ... the Italian Empire. That collapsed after World War II, when fascist dictator ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- This change, which took place during World War II, was driven by the ... century, aircraft carrier designs since World War II have been effectively ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country ... North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1867, with the union of ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece, and as one of the ... in a renaissance that spread the Greek world as far as the Black Sea and ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- and public opinion. Charles further allied himself with other controversial ... 039;s reign were marked by the English Civil War, in which he was opposed by ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and ... 24 days. Nevertheless, both German and Allied officials have expressed ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- First used in World War I to break the deadlock of the trenches, tanks ... === World War I: the first tanks === The stalemate on the Western Front ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 (Sun Tzu's Military Method) is an ... intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Considered one of ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- information on troop movements during World War II (National Archives)]] ... after the start of the Thirty Years' War, Pope Gregory XV founded the ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- pious.” There is evidence that Abubakari II may have launched successful ... debated in scholarly circles around the world. While the meaning of “Mali” ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- The third of King Henry II's legitimate sons, Richard was never ... He was also an older brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Leonora ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, graduate of Imperial ... Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, to avoid war with the United States. Yamamoto ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- in what is now called Caesar's civil war, an episode in the larger ... mark on the geo-political map of the world. It was due to Pompey's ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
- Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II, there have ... Contrasting Tendencies in the Modern World," The American Economic ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- the foundation for the English Civil War, during which James' ... pregnant with James, Lord Darnley secretly allied himself with the rebels and ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- Yellow journalism peaked in the mid-1890s during the circulation war ... early twentieth century. During the First World War, an example of anti-German ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- in 1830, many battles between European powers were fought in the area of ... region and traded with the Mediterranean world. Warrior chieftain graves ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- the Xinhai Revolution (辛亥革命). After World War I, the Kuomintang set ... After World War I, anger over Beijing’s concession of German-occupied ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- thumb|right|300px|Smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the [ ... elements.Jeffrey Record, Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (University Press ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- (d. 994) in 976 after the revolt of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria. ... eastern frontier to the Vienna Woods after a war with the Magyars. Henry I ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ... threat of using force, France declared war on Austria and Prussia in ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- Malwa has earned fame for its standing as a world leader in the legal production ... of the important producers of opium in the world. Cotton and soybeans constitute ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... His role in World War I is debated by scholars. On the one hand, he ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately ... Crown, granted Augustus any additional powers or authority; officially ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- anthropologists are used around the world to identify the remains of ... why people living in different parts of the world sometimes had similar beliefs ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- and territories Germany had lost after World War I. Already prior to the ... of wars, including the Austro-Prussian War, led to the expulsion of Austria ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- Ribbentrop Pact in which the Soviets allied themselves with Nazi Germany ... officers confined at the Kozelsk prisoner of war camp. The term subsequently ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- fighting three major wars—the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of ... The Thirty Years' War, which had commenced in the previous reign ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe–Khazaria ... "troops" but from the root world for "friends") ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- by Russia's disastrous experience in World War I. The main events of ... Three days later Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending Romanov dynastic ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- the Spanish empire was the largest in the world, although it suffered fluctuating ... service helped humanity realize that the world is one by mapping and charting ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- of his characters with the modern world. ==Childhood and education== ... published novels. Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- being neutral (it has not been in a foreign war since 1815) and therefore ... The Swiss victory in the Swabian War against the Swabian League ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- following the nation's defeat in World War I. Despite its political ... was not invalidated until after World War II, the legal measures ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors ... a majority share in the company, and World War I soon established the ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- to prevent Russia's exit from the First World War. ... 1877 he briefly took part in Russo-Turkish War as a military logistics officer ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- has also been termed India's First War of Independence, the Great ... invader in Great Britain, not a civil war. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- #039;s fascist allies during the Spanish Civil War. [http://flag.blackened ... determination to take Germany into a new world war. In these circumstances ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- has been employed in many parts of the world for thousands of years, ... Since the development of modern chemical warfare in World War I, nations ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Poland regained its independence in 1918 after World War I but lost ... Of all the countries involved in World War II, Poland lost the highest ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- on governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons as ... in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II, Shultz met military ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- used outside Russia. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature ... as well as due to its critical role in American world policy. ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- theorist. His work Imperialism and World Economy influenced Lenin ... (New World) with Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai. When Trotsky ...53 KB (7,506 words) - 19:11, 19 January 2023
- and resolutions, officially ending the Gulf War. This same day, a large multinational ... [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/01/world/copter-deaths-pentagon-finds ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- #039;s invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on ... Nazi ambition to dominate Europe and the world and lead to the defeat of ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- People's Republic of Poland following World War II. These years, while ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- formed Indonesian army during the Indonesian War of Independence, rising through ... support of the West during the Cold War. For most of his presidency ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 2023
- Submarines, first widely used in World War I, are used by all major ... 50 private submarines operating around the world, serving approximately two ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ... During World War I, Norway was a neutral country. Norway also attempted ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- in the United States and the rest of the world. Umberto Eco discussed the ... villain bent on dominating the entire world. He appeared in the short ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- loyalties and sense of place in the world, especially within the European ... the ancient Germanic practice of electing a war-leader at an assembly of the ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- to counter his critics. During the First World War, he relocated to Switzerland ... He changed his opinion when Tsar Nicholas II accepted a series of liberal ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- as opposed to revolts, coups, or civil war. Democracy is not a theory ... Democracy in the modern world evolved in Britain and France and then ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- surprise attacks. This method of conducting war can be traced back at least ... Guerrilla, from the Spanish term guerra, or "War," with ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- to international prominence in the post-World War II era largely because ... pollution, and desertification. Some of world's largest and most sophisticated ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- well as to compete against larger economic powers. The League is widely regarded ... was also a major concern. It sometimes waged war but favored peace. The making ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- of inter-ethnic strife and turmoil during World War I and not of a state ... In 1914, before World War I, there were an estimated two million Armenians ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- agent of the Moghul Empire. After the First War of Indian Independence (known ... What is now Iraq was, immediately after World War I, administered by the ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- Bulgaria was allied with the Axis Powers during World War II but was ... to point to Bulgaria as home of one of the world's oldest known writing ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop ... After the war, he was a chief advisor to the newly created United ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- capital of Romania in 1862. Between the two World Wars, the city's elegant ... historic center were damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and Ceauşescu ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial ... When World War II began, Teller wanted to contribute to the war effort ...41 KB (6,221 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It also ... some of the highest mountains in the world, including K2 and Nanga Parbat ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- In 358 B.C.E., Macedonia's Philip II, the father of Alexander ... Ottomans. At that time, Montenegro was at war with the Ottoman Empire. Cetinje ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- up the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents. ... Meiji Restoration, which made Japan into a world power that could contend ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- of the founders of the company that became Allied Domecq. He was educated at ... Impressionism alienated Ruskin from the art world, and his later writings were ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 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
- Today, Iceland is a highly developed country, the world's fifth ... 768 square miles (103,000 km²), it is the world's eighteenth largest ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- during the early twentieth century as World War I and World War II drove ... World War I caused a major surge in the use of welding processes, ...41 KB (6,376 words) - 23:28, 3 May 2023
- on tethered observation balloons in World War I. These were tempting ... No parachutes were issued to Allied "heavier-than-air" aircrew. ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- Mosque, built in 1964; Gorée Island, a World Heritage Site because of ... During the World War II Battle of Dakar, which took place off the ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- meters) below sea level, is the lowest point in the world. ... the nineteenth dynasty, Seti I and Rameses II (1279–13 B.C.E.), who consolidated ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. Since World War I, it has been part of ... withdrawal caused by a Hungarian conquest (War of 894-896) they established ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- Ali defeat the British in the Second Mysore War, and negotiated the Treaty ... , called Tipu Sultan the innovator of the world’s first war rocket. Two ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- course to become the leading Protestant world power for the next three ... course to become the leading Protestant world power for the next three centuries ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- Iraq was known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, the world's first ... of 112 billion barrels puts Iraq second in world rankings, behind only Saudi ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- de' Medici. Her parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino ... she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- The Flavians rose to power during the civil war of 69, known as the Year of ... victory against King Decebalus in the war against the Dacians. In addition ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- It was developed during the Franco-Prussian war, as an improvement to the ... and a veritable airship craze began world-wide. Many airship pioneers ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- it is the most populous island in the world; it is also one of the most ... Java is the 12th largest island in the world and the fourth largest island ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- as a result of his activities, and, during World War I, which he opposed as ... witnessing, at age five, the Russo-Turkish War and Russian presence (he claimed ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- Europe, is a modern great power, the world's third largest economy ... as a nation state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War. Unofficially, the de facto ... effectively dissolved when Emperor Francis II abdicated (6 August 1806) during ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- Arafat attended the University of King Faud II (later renamed Cairo ... During the 1948-1849 Arab-Israeli war, Arafat left the university ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- #039;s expansionism at the conclusion of World War II resulted in the creation ... sought to establish his own special place in world history. ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
- soiled mountains of others parts of Greece or the world. ... With the 2010 Kallikratis plan, the powers and authority of the regions ...64 KB (9,298 words) - 20:14, 29 April 2024
- the monarchy. The social burdens caused by war included the huge war debt ... hospital provision, and had extensive powers of censorship. The pulpit ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), pétrole was stockpiled ... The octane rating became important in the search for higher output ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... Germany, which it would retain until the end of World War I. ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he ... and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- 1931, where he spent six years reducing the war debt and the tax burden. When ... and the first step on the road to World War II. Chamberlain entered ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Despite its relatively small size, Hungary is home to nine World Heritage ... a confederation of seven Magyar and three allied Khazar tribes; the name ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- population was deported into exile during World War II. In 1957, Soviet Premier ... editor of the Ethnologue: Languages of the World, the Kalmyk-Oirat language ...59 KB (8,959 words) - 02:32, 5 October 2022
- several times in the past century. Prior to World War II, infantile paralysis ... and Trajan, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Middle Ages. It was ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- Romania's fascist government during the Second World War was ... in Europe, which is a biosphere reserve and World Heritage-listed site due ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- been on ceasefire or have declared their war to be over. ... Diarmait obtained permission from Henry II to use the Norman forces to ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- Age of Discovery. The city's World Heritage Site, the Monastery ... Lisbon earthquake, was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status in July 2004. ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- used on an industrial scale by the Germans during World War I, ... following the Allied blockade that cut off the supply of nitrates ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- The Philippine-American War was an armed military conflict between ... 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United States ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- of British forces in the Revolutionary War. Its roots, however, begin ... all Americans would lead to a bloody Civil War (1861–1865) that abolished ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- This actually referred to the colonies of the defeated powers, however ... at all against Japan or lend aid. The world, however, was informed of ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also a founding member ... before extending outward to other parts of the world. ==Before the ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- of the greatest entrepôts of trade of the ancient world. ... caused disruption throughout the Islamic world. They collected tribute from ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- recent history has been plagued by civil war and military coups, which ... a translation of K'iche' Mayan K’ii’chee’, "many trees ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- in Europe. Turkey's size makes it the world's 37th-largest country ... oldest continually inhabited regions in the world due to its location at the ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- most assimilated Jewish community in the world, the movement to found an ... of the Crusades happened again. During the war upon the Hussite heretics ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- studied at military academies all over the world and he is generally regarded ... of conventional military thought to real-world situations, as demonstrated ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. ===Ebla=== ... most comprehensive archives of the ancient world. Ebla's archive consists ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- of uselessness. Practically all government powers of any consequence were exercised ... between the two kings. Pippin had killed in war the last duke of Aquitaine ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- lobotomy and the deaths of Joseph Jr. in World War II and Kathleen in an ... that he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War. Joe McGinnis, The ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- in April 1849, when King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony dissolved Parliament ... straits, isolated from the German musical world and without any income to ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- Though the Sudanese people have experienced decades of war, genocide ... Egyptian nationalism in the period after World War I. Britain reacted by ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ... field system - arguably the oldest in the world - has been preserved beneath ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
- While the United States was engaged in World War II and allied with ... Kuomintang by the U.S. In 1950, the Korean War began, pitting U.S., U.N. ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- flourished. Today Paris is one of the world's leading business and ... From 1190, King Philip II of France (Philip Augustus) enclosed Paris ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- The Second World War and German occupation in Ukraine left total civilian ... higher education institutions and world-famous historical landmarks ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- communities resided scattered around the world, especially in central Sri ... greatest contributions of India to the art world. The music, the temple architecture ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- an announcement that Albania had become the world's first atheistic state ... But in 358 B.C.E., Macedonia's Philip II, the father of Alexander the ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- … Because we have baptized in this world and are in communion with ... he said, was to rejuvenate the Western world. Around this time, the Russian ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- height encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface. It is ... Britain was the world's foremost power during the nineteenth ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ... of the Soviet Union (then one of the world's two Cold War superpowers ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- England ranks among the world's most influential centers of cultural ... two millennia, London is today one of the world's leading business, ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- country with the ninth-largest economy in the world. Spain's history ... At 194,884 square miles (504,782 square kilometers), Spain is the ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- Spanish conquest of the New World was justified morally through self ... exciting discoveries of Columbus in the New World was streaming back to Spain ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- France ranks among the world's most influential centers of cultural ... two millennia, Paris is today one of the world's leading business and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Taiwan. The resumption of the Chinese Civil War led to the loss of the mainland ... among East Asian nations and for the world as a whole. ==Etymology== ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- and maintained power through the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Gulf ... been established by the departing colonial powers. Nasser challenged the British ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- Caribbean nation due to its pivotal role in world politics in the twentieth ... and is the 17th-largest island in the world by land area. The second ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- most important epochs in the history of the world." Leopold Von Ranke ... itself—over and against the Muslim world. On the other hand, the formation ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Brahminical city-states became major powers in the region.[http://www ... to him with the intention of delivering the world from the arrogant oppression ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- the longest for a non-royal leader in the world, and centered around a personality ... which concluded with the Dominican Civil War and a US-OAS intervention ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- , and the most populous democracy in the world. This population is remarkably ... India is home to four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- Crisis—a defining incident of the Cold War—in 1962. troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur War, Ogaden War, and Angolan Civil ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander ... princess of Macedonia as daughter of Philip II. Under the kingdom of Macedonia ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- #039;s young artistic and intellectual world, including Fontana, Józef ... of the composer. The originals perished in World War II. Only photographs survive. ...96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
