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… Axis forces retreating on all fronts. On the Eastern Front, Soviet forces had gained an undisputed advantage over the … and the Balkans to erode German military strength. The Soviets simply wanted a sizeable second front against the … against Nazi Germany; that success belongs to the Soviet Union. Raging since June 1941, the Eastern Front witnessed …

… already beleaguered Greek state, bolstered by the European Union , struggles to deal with this massive influx, … period in the refugee crisis . On March 18th, the European Union and Turkey signed an agreement beefing up Turkish … Stone House. The refugees were separated by gender and by nationality: lines for men and women, and Syrians/Iraqis and …

… Dr. Tracy McDonald an Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet history, also at McMaster University. Her areas of … anecdote. Thank you. Tracy, you've looked at zoos in the Soviet Union. How's the history of zoos in other parts of the world … Global/Transnational …

… authority." Likewise, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (NEA), sees "too much … to excuse-making "traditionalists"—that is, teachers, their unions, and other supposed defenders of a failed system. The … an effective teacher in every classroom (and fewer union restrictions on firing ineffective ones); expansion of …

… The controversy surrounding reparations—about whether national governments owe apologies for transatlantic … Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History chronicles the history of … formerly enslaved individuals, activists, and international organizations for reparations from post-slave …

… his parents were able to turn Charley's abduction into a national cause and to bring their plight and their son's story to national attention. They did so because they were well … P. T. Barnum. The Rosses were also able to use the Western Union Telegraph Company to follow leads from many places …

… strengthened, and in 1946 Harry Truman signed into law the National School Lunch program. Upon signing the legislation, … Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch program so more needy children could … take part. Their work added millions of children to a new national breakfast program and expanded summer feeding …

… that slavery is wrong,” as in his famous 1860 Cooper Union Address.   After he was elected president, Lincoln’s … secession and, failing that, to retain the support of Union slave states such as Kentucky and Maryland. Famously he asserted that “if I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I …

… Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. He then burst into the … “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.” In other words, states were largely … to kill at such high rates. Canada did not begin compiling national crime statistics until the 1920s when the homicide …

… that U.S. air space was traversed by foreign, potentially Soviet, flying craft. The newly established U.S. Air Force … foreign weapons. It concluded that UFOs did not threaten national security. The Air Force terminated Project Grudge … on the precipice of the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union and was the most comprehensive and involved effort to …

… opportunities to debate the proper role of  religion in national politics.  But "the wall of separation between … Baptist Association why he refrained from proclaiming national days of fasting and thanksgiving, Jefferson wrote … champion of religious liberty, James Madison — proclaimed national days of thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer. And even …

… neutrality” when he encouraged his supporters in the National Assembly to leave the liberal Korean Democratic … their northern neighbor during the war, specifically the  Soviet Union and  China .  Although the intensity of anti-communism … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… their votes and make their state the 11th member of the new union. Then laggards North Carolina and Rhode Island finally … Global/Transnational …

… duty, above all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and … that the South’s “peculiar institution” threatened national progress, Adams fought the gag rule unsparingly … until the gag was finally repealed in 1844. If only the national conversation–why not, in the spirit of Adams, a …

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being elected … want to be reminded that Richard Nixon tried to create a national health care system.   No, the current Republican … watched the Kremlin used to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were …