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– January 12, 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...

21, 1978) was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...

(January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet ... However, the USSR may have over-reached itself during his watch. While ...

was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...

was a Chinese Communist leader and President of the People's Republic ... Liu Shaoqi was a main ideologue of the Chinese Communist Party, and ...

is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...

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 ...

who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Through such international bodies as the Inter Action Council, Schmidt ...

The February Revolution ( Февра́льская револю́ция ... ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic ...

(May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...

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 ...

The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...

McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is ...

movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... program with a successful implimentation of that plan to create one of ...

Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...

Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New ... early colonial times. Its Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered to be the ...

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was ... to achieving civil rights for all. He told the 1948 Democratic National Convention ...

29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...

Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...

North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... religious teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle ...

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...

Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... in World War I in which many people resented the humiliating terms imposed ...

later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in Russia ... The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ...

Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... A large influx of economic and political migrants and refugees from ...

), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...

physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...

The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history ...

to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition ... By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United ...

The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...