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… War II began with Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the roots of that global conflict actually reach back to the … history itself is segmented by events termed “incidents” when they occurred in efforts to minimize their importance. … liberated from colonialism by war’s end in September 1945, was working on it. And, more generally, what was then termed …

… their mutual ill-gotten gains, the Soviet-German Pact was an uneasy partnership. Growing tensions over Finland and … organized into three vast Army Groups. Their targets were Leningrad, Moscow, and Ukraine , respectively. At 3:15 am, … the Eastern Front: David Glantz and Jonathan M. House, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. …

… his sudden withdrawal of U.S. military support for the Kurds in northern Syria in October 2019 with an … The Kurds within the Ottoman Empire Much of Kurdistan was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire , centered in what … changed markedly in the middle of the 19 th century, when the central Ottoman government embarked on a series of …

… surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio when they met for the first time on June 10, 1935.  This chance … an expert in the treatment of alcoholism, Silkworth was among the first to propose a disease rather than a moral …

… 2014, Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced to their respective nations that the United States and Cuba had … agreed to resume full diplomatic relations. The occasion was dense with history. It could hardly have been otherwise, … with the recognition that “change is hard,” especially “when we carry the heavy weight of history on our shoulders.” …

… major speech to outline drone warfare policies. Since 2002, the nation has been arming drones to fight its global war on … shares such optimistic appraisals of drones, and even Obama was forced to concede the dangers of undue secrecy, lack of … of the combat drone, beginning dramatically in spring 1944 when Nazi robot bombs started falling on London. Germany’s …

… village last month I toured a school history museum. The principal and her museum director proudly showed us the one room exhibition in which the history of the region was displayed in objects, images, even a diorama. The major … officials monitored the press themselves, stepping in whenever some editor or author was out of line. In the …

… All indications are that regime change in Iraq is still on the agenda of the Bush administration. Ironically, the … of force is rarely the answer. The idea of containment was that force was available to use in the last resort. … the concept of rollback only once during the Cold War, when General Douglas MacArthur had the North Korean army on …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. … league to return to television in the United States was the KBO from South Korea . Dominican young men play for … of games played on those sugar plantations, especially when work was light during the tiempo muerto (dead time)in …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment … as the centralizing economic and tax policies of the Washington administration, especially the chartering of a … once more came close to electing a President, in 1812 , when opposition to the war with England held James Madison …

… have come to expect great legislative victories in the wake of presidential funding scandals. After all, most … would ban soft money, has once again gone down in defeat. When earlier scandals erupted, an outraged public demanded … to an agency — the Federal Election Commission — that was established to publicize that information.  Scandal, by …

… You know the old cliché about generals going into battle:  They are … to higher interest rates [and] serious inflation.”   There was nothing particularly remarkable about that statement. … began to rise.  Yet inflation remained remarkably low.  When Clinton left office, the nation had a 3.9 percent …

… Three years ago, the Northridge earthquake showed us Californians that we … structural ones. The seismic retrofit program began in 1972 when the San Fernando Valley earthquake toppled dozens of … practically every freeway overpass and bridge in the state was at risk of collapse. Nothing besides gravity was holding …

… What does it mean to be a Catholic voter in the United States?   During this election year, some … such a bloc against Franklin Roosevelt. The issue at hand was Roosevelt's friendly approach to Mexico within the … anti-Catholic. This recalls the 1936 presidential campaign, when leading Catholic clergymen encouraged priests to use …

… Throughout the 20th century, in times of peace, U.S. military … that many believed would last forever. Hence their shock when they discovered in World War I the horrors of tanks, … of “the munitions makers” of World War I, there was little public notice, let alone public discussion, of …

… The deadly violence that took place in Charlottesville, VA … assistant professor of classics at the University of Iowa, was  bombarded with hate mail  after her  online article … of “Greekness” had already been advanced around 380 B.C.E., when the Athenian orator Isocrates, touting the virtues of …

… As our ship approached the Havana shoreline, I rushed to the outside deck to get my … about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t always so. After gaining independence in 1898, Cuba … of the new regime, the U.S.’s impression of Castro hardened when he took steps to nationalize U.S. corporations in Cuba, …

… On the heels of Black History Month, Women’s History Month … aside a whole month to honor women seems harder to explain. When pressed, most Americans would assume that Women’s … Madison, first revealed the power of a first lady. She was the first wife of a president to command the unofficial …

… While most of the books written about the Salem witch trials concern those … convicted in Salem were executed. Anyone who confessed was, paradoxically, kept alive, while those convicted who … determine and it's a type of court that was sometimes used when the regular local courts were overwhelmed. Or in this …

… Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of … dramatic rescue from the Iraqi doctors who cared for her was staged and filmed by the U.S. armed forces. And Lynndie … they are either masculinized or sexually out-of-control when they join the armed forces. As Kayla Williams wrote in …

… he and his fellow Republicans deserve much of the blame for their increase. Ever since the advent of the … provided the key to halting nuclear proliferation. In 1965, when the U.S. and Soviet governments worried about the … foreign minister, argued that a nonproliferation treaty was justified “only if the nuclear states regard it as a …

… With the Dec. 3 presidential election in oil-rich Venezuela, the … has stirred up resentment left over from April 2002 when Chavez was briefly overthrown in a coup. Prior to the coup, U.S. …