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- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... Ajax (originally viewed as a triumph of covert action), is now regarded ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... total radio silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- existed from 1346 to 1371, and was one of the larger states in Europe ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- statesman who is popularly credited as one of the finest military commanders ... During his invasion of Italy he defeated the Romans in a series of ...41 KB (6,779 words) - 19:11, 29 January 2022
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... The Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) sought allies against the Mongols ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- information on troop movements during World War II (National Archives)]] Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- from c. 1500 B.C.E. At the height of its power, during the fourteenth ... Indic and Middle Eastern worlds, regardless of geographical origin. Trade ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- 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
- The Onondaga (Onöñda'gega' or the People of the Hills ... Contemporary Onondaga are found in the Six Nations of the Grand River ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... had been captured from the Japanese by the Allies in landings on Guadalcanal ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine ... The "Battle" of Leyte Gulf was actually a campaign consisting ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and ... The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... States made her an able spokeswoman. During World War II she traveled widely ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 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
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- 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
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- regime from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest ... Heidelberg University in 1921, on the basis of a doctoral thesis on eighteenth ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... was raised under the tutelage and example of his father, Khan Abdul Gaffar ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... During World War I, Tsarist Russia experienced famine and economic ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... an increase in unemployment and his policy of wage rise restraints led to ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- 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
- Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ... to as a "turning point" in the war. The campaign marked the beginning ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- in attempts to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions ... John Maynard Keynes was the son of John Neville Keynes, an economics ...21 KB (3,193 words) - 02:29, 2 May 2024
- for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... exclusion, expropriation, and extermination of Jews. In the decades after ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... He can be credited with helping to shape post-World War II Europe ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- , "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought battleship ... when she ran aground in 1911. During World War I, Panteleimon participated ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is ... India, during the period when India was part of the British Empire under the ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he was also known as Badshah Khan ... was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of the Mohammedzais ("sons ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- E.) was a prominent general during the fall of the Qin Dynasty ( 秦朝; Ch ... Xiang's heroism on the battlefield and his death at the hands ...27 KB (4,419 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- in the Japanese army's brothels during World War II. Historians and researchers ... throughout the Japanese theater during World War II lay in the desire ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- were not directly involved. The Allies of World War I, led by the United ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister ... life. Comparison can be made with the career of Indonesia's former President ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the west ... Cologne also became an important center of medieval pilgrimage. Three ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 ... Awami League won the largest number of seats, the result was quashed ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- . Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean ... to cooperate with settlers, and the efforts of those such as Benjamin Hawkins ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the ... in England. It aimed to bring the whole of Southern Africa under British ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila. The state of the Gepids ... Empire, this space has known its share of conflict. Yet, despite centuries ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 04:34, 30 November 2022
- Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, ... Appointed by King Solomon as the leader of forced labor gangs in Jerusalem ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger ... After decades of internal conflict, rebellions and outright invasion ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 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
- January 17, 395 C.E.), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was ... He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city ... Traditionally considered an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the symptoms ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... parties which may be individuals or groups of states or organizations. Treaties ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- for power within the Communist Party of China, in which at least half ... reassert his leadership after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward which ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- ) was an economic policy of the Soviet Union proposed by Vladimir ... a country which had suffered severely due to war and revolution since 1915 ...28 KB (4,055 words) - 00:29, 26 January 2023
- were very popular during the Second World War. She was widely referred ... She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present-day ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- a turbulent 40-year career. He was President of Mexico eleven non-consecutive ... rule by an wealthy elite while the majority of Mexicans, and especially indigenous ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- He composed over 300 works comprised of operas, symphonies, oratorios ... Camille Saint-Saëns's sensitive renderings of using instruments ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the ... If I must be enslaved let it be by a King at least, and not by a parcel ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Substantial Free French ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- and 1953, while he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the ... Kaganovich. Although he tolerated the use of the term by associates and ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Archaeological Site of Troy | Image = [[Image:Troy1 ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- , was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author ... he had experienced, in the redeeming power of art and language, and although ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- 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
- a heavier-than-air craft in which movement of the wings is not used to generate ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- pan out, and she would later retract some of them, but they were always ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley ... fought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the ... The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, ... United Kingdom was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- for migrant workers. He is hailed as one of the greatest Mexican-American ... posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United State’s ...25 KB (4,024 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- A war an armed conflict between nations or conflicting political and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
