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- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the ... In 405 B.C.E., following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; Schlacht bei Mohács ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite ... the Malay archipelago for its key importance of protecting trade to China. ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- 1900s. It involved the wrongful conviction of Jewish military officer Alfred ... Following Dreyfus' conviction, the idea of an international Jewish ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The ... By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- North Korea immediately end its invasion of South Korea, the catalyst for ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... Great Britain, which had carved out colonies throughout the world ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers ... beaches by a hastily assembled fleet of about seven hundred boats. ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- in fighting between factions. Suppression of the rebellion by the South ... The detested Japanese occupation of Korea, which began in 1910, finally ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
- for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... elf," rather than the common image of the austere, serious pacifist ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I ... Hemingway's clipped prose style and unflinching treatment of ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written ... and Victor Domingo Silva. In the aftermath of World War II, many poets felt ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the ... The type of iconic status that the Battle assumed in Scottish folk ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- during the period following the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, when Korea ... in Haeju, Hwanghae Province (now part of North Korea). Born during the ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- E., establishing an independent Jewish state of Israel which he ruled for three ... the surname Bar Kokhba, meaning "Son of the Star," by the leading ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 2023
- 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
- speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint ... before the Armistice with Germany ended World War I, but the Fourteen Points ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the Year Sinmi) started out ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- 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
- The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- The Defenestrations of Prague refers to either of two incidents with ... 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a method of synthesizing ammonia using ... him to leave the country in 1933 because of his Jewish background, and ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- The Battle of Inchon (also Romanized as "Incheon;" ... invasion and battle during the Korean War, conceived and commanded by ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Samaria was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. It was also ... ninth century BCE. It was the residence of the northern kingdom's ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- also known as Bahadur Shah or Bahadur Shah II (October 24, 1775 – November ... as an Urdu poet. He is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- occurred in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty from November ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- He is credited with developing the Theory of Elitism and the doctrine of ... governi e sul governo parlamentare (Theory of Governments and Parliamentary ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... heretical, psychologically the loss of Constantinople impacted throughout ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- 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
- 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and ... their Phoenician ancestry). The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the ... In the aftermath of World War II, several people proposed that an ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- The Battle of Vicksburg, or Siege of Vicksburg, was the final significant ... as he retreated to the well-fortified city of Vicksburg. ...17 KB (2,734 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- eastern Europe in 1912–1913, in the course of which the Balkan League (Kingdom ... independence in 1878, and the re-emergence of a Croatian state in 1868 awoke ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo ... for themselves by tramping on the rights of the people whose territory ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- is arguably the most influential collection of poetry published in Russian ... painter and professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought from September 12 to September ... Ferry) is a small town at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Shenandoah ...18 KB (2,860 words) - 09:46, 22 September 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
- 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
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... 1894– April 17, 1895). The Sino-Japanese War symbolized the degeneration ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people ... the Israelites were called the people of Zion (Isaiah 12:6; Joel 2:23 ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- Sotheby's is the world's second oldest international auction ... of country houses, and in the aftermath of World War II, the company significantly ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:12, 27 April 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
- was the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century that ... His theology, emphasizing the importance of divine revelation given ...13 KB (1,939 words) - 07:14, 5 October 2022
- the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. At the age of eighteen, he ... After the establishment of the People's Republic in October 1949 ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 18:55, 31 December 2023
- Berzelius, is considered a "father of modern chemistry." In ... He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass; co ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County ... 13, 1862, during the American Civil War. Troops led by Major General ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7 ... including Smolensk and Roslavl. As a result of this operation, the Red Army ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. ... Political and economic chaos in the aftermath of World War II plagued ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of ... ==Frontiers of Hungary== The Hungarian government terminated the personal ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- centuries and is now considered to be one of the most remarkable poets of ... an Anglican priest. All that is known of his mother is her name, Anne ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei ... by 1942. Faced with the imminent demise of the Third Reich, he systematically ...18 KB (2,707 words) - 00:14, 28 November 2021
- preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Throughout six ... performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 15:04, 16 July 2022
- writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ... from home. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... from the communist North with the assistance of U.S. forces. Park also earned ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... a love of Country in the aftermath of World War II. On August 5, 1958 ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 ... which resulted in a humanitarian crisis of huge proportion. Images of ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 22:13, 28 November 2023
- Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel ... interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- align:center;" | [[Image:Portrait of Edward VI of England.jpg|200px]] ... Edward VI (October 12, 1537 – July 6, 1553) became King of England ...24 KB (3,796 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was ... hidden artillery, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) of tunnels. ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- 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
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder ... was instrumental in the development of Mithraism, which—in Cumont ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...19 KB (2,598 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- , Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).Dinitia Smith ... While attending Cornell, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed ... ) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... on reforms that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... failed during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942 ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and, with a population of 3 ... in 1923, and by fire bombing during World War II. Today it is one of ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 11:13, 25 May 2023
- poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during ... Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line," ... Eagle Claw, which failed, causing the deaths of eight servicemen. Some historians ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron ... Georgian Bay was the first area of the Great Lakes to be visited by ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 20:21, 13 December 2023
- [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 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
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- ) 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
- nearly a decade following his abrupt switch of allegiance from the Soviet ... peace between the competing factions. Loss of life led to a complete UN withdrawal ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels ... by Jews near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, probably ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts ... The Myth of Sisyphus. The aftermath of World War II provided the social ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took the former ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place ... in isolation. Rather, it was the climax of an escalating contest between ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...37 KB (5,492 words) - 09:38, 11 April 2024
- The Partition of Bengal in 1947 divided Bengal into the two separate ... The government of Bengal supported a unified, independent Bengal as ...19 KB (2,769 words) - 23:04, 28 June 2023
- leader whose role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the ... Caesar fought in a civil war that left him undisputed master of the ...44 KB (7,133 words) - 19:23, 4 February 2024
- Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (November 11, 1599 – March 28, 1655 ... him. Having a male heir was the main job of a Queen. There was, though ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 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
- Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 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
- South Korea, has earned recognition as one of the leading universities in ... The university formally established in January, 1957 through the union ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- 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
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev]] Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- 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
- known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country ... The failure of Parliamentary efforts to exclude James from the succession ...41 KB (6,020 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in ... him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, he lived ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- Japan, and the United States. The Cold War became hot for the first time ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- a living human being. The exact parameters of what constitutes human subject ... such as effectiveness and side-effects of vaccines and treatments for ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- 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
- The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British ... in that region, contained only with the fall of Gwalior on June 20, 1858. The ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- 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
- whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the ... He serves as both a guide to the recently departed and as the patron ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 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
- The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir. The infiltration of ...55 KB (8,309 words) - 08:36, 28 February 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
- Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly ... one-day campaign than in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Spanish-American ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...43 KB (6,543 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- some demand was met, such as the receipt of overdue pay, and they most ... The experiences of the mutineers on Pitcairn, too, became the stuff ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km west of the Iranian ... Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... establish and define the modern theory of socialism, societal problems ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... Control Council in 1947 in the aftermath of World War II. ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his ... Europe, where he joined the editorial board of Iskra, the publication of the ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- 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
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Defeat in World War I and the February and October Revolutions in ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ... Defeat at the Battle of Hakodate broke this last holdout and left ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- The Portuguese Colonial War, also known as the Overseas War in Portugal ... colonial forces and agreed a quick handover of power for the nationalistic ...54 KB (8,315 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or ... Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- consider a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of ... The Cuckoo's Nest. Despite the success of Cuckoo's Nest, his next ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
- The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ... ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 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
- American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording ... Orbison managed to overcome years of personal suffering and periods ...16 KB (2,532 words) - 23:52, 24 August 2023
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... In the aftermath of World War II, Africans sought independence for ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- century and continues through the aftermath of World War II. Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום ... ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- in Chicago, began as a rally in support of striking workers. The strikes ... important role in establishing the tradition of May Day. The Haymarket affair ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States after 1876 ... to the U.S. and the first popularizer of blackface performance, which ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- – January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament ... It covered the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte ... allies stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany during World War II. ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies ... defeats during the summer and autumn of 1941, Soviet forces counter ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- was a famous Irish author, novelist, and one of the great spokespersons for ... As a youth, the untimely death of his mother, the cruelty of his schoolmates ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- Decades after her death, she remains one of the twentieth century's ... early life as a foster child and ward of the state provided little nurturing ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the ... were usually portrayed as implacable enemies of the Israelites. Their most ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. Russia suffered from a number of chronic economic and social problems ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
- 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
- country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- This bacterium, transmitted through the bite of a flea, has caused the death ... The epidemiological use of the term "plague" is currently ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German radio messages ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- 1916 – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 ... he did as Prime Minister. He was a member of the Brandt Commission on International ...28 KB (4,351 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru ... important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, established by Charles ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- :For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...61 KB (8,767 words) - 07:42, 27 February 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... in those countries came as an aftermath of World War II and the Korean ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- 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
- 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
- statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 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
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- The Royal Library of Alexandria, part of a museum and library modeled ... The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:39, 20 July 2023
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- spans two major phases in the development of French literature. Gautier ... Gautier's eclectic output and changing opinions makes him one ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 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
- in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were ... By the end of the ordeal, the terrorist group had killed 11 Israeli ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... as a preliminary step to the conquest of territory in the East, thus ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née ... An iconic presence on the world stage, Diana was beloved by her British ...23 KB (3,638 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... However, Korea's history has been one of constant struggle between forces ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the ... in its provinces was not only the death of the heir to the throne but ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak ... Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The City of Kings." It became the ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- organization based on common control of the means of production as ... A major force in world politics since the early twentieth century ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- he organized mass protests against the use of nuclear power. ... ntsofjapanliv00west/page/294 Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan& ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...46 KB (7,054 words) - 22:16, 9 December 2023
- A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... Fascism was eradicated in the aftermath of World War II in 1945, while ...76 KB (10,337 words) - 22:00, 28 January 2023
- (May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- refugee who died in Bergen-Belsen. Her diary of two years in hiding during ... and very insightful written observations of life in hiding and the personalities ...32 KB (5,043 words) - 06:52, 28 July 2023
- 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French ... Truffaut himself was something of an autodidact and a complex, enigmatic ...31 KB (5,089 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
