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- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- 15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished field ... chivalry towards his adversaries. He was one of the few German commanders who ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... |significance = Commemorates war dead Honors military veterans (U.S.) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 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
- [[Image:Roycestatue.jpg|thumb|200px|Statue of Sir (Frederick) Henry ... popularity among the rich and famous of the Rolls Royce and Bentley ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 22:33, 29 January 2023
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... also the Chief Administrator to the ruler of Damascus. Today, he is renowned ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and ... In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ... Although Kun was hostile to all forms of religion, his Jewish roots ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the first ... A great literary revival followed. One of the most important works ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- 3, 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester ... Hampshire, where his father was a Church of England clergyman. Bell attended ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- 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
- an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian ... between cause and effect in the events of history. History of the Peloponnesian ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... The Allied battle plan prior to the War had been based on France and ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- 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
- once called the Māori Wars, were a series of conflicts that took place in ... to settle on land did not always imply sale of that land. Under pressure from ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 09:40, 11 March 2023
- universal systems theory to the possibility of human rejuvenation through ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- 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
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- the past – it referred to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespective ... Magyars were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- The siege of Sparta took place in 272 B.C.E. and was a battle fought ... 297–272 B.C.E.) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to ... Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- 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
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... in Lida, stand in remembrance and honor of the past ruler and his many ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper ... racism and the degrading conditions of blacks undermined the recognition ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... "marching swastika" in the center of the cross and reinstituted ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- 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
- American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life. He graduated from ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional ... In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and the second ... Located at the southern end of the Western Rift Valley, the lake is ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- Rolls on March 15, 1906, and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904 ... Royce, the company's co-founder, did not have the advantage of ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 02:47, 16 December 2022
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 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
- in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It was originally patterned ... Assembly in a more timely fashion is one of the reasons for the failure ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
