Were any Americans killed in the Cuban Missile Crisis? Did Mikhail Gorbachev die? Did the U.S. lose the War on Poverty? Did the Soviets lift the Berlin Blockade? Was the U.S. policy of containment successful? Was the Soviet Union responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The newly made weapons helped give momentum to the war, but nothing moved the war father and faster than the Americans. The Germans made the critical mistake of sinking the Lusitania as it forced America to join the war. Therefore, Germany desired to capture Paris as it could be a “bargai...
Right to the end, there were members of Japan’s ruling elite who wanted to do for their country what Adolf Hitler had just done for Germany: A Götterdämmerung that would end in the suicidal destruction of the homeland. Ultimately, this sick vision for the war’s end would only be ...
Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic ...
The Axis Powers were an alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan. The United States government was wary of the Soviets because they were communists and Americans were concerned about the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. The political systems of the two countries prevented them from reaching a mutual...
Was there overwhelming support for the Boer War? Did Gandhi serve in the Boer War? Did Thomas Hardy fight in the Boer War? Did the Kushan Empire fall? Did the Boers have slaves during the Boer War? Did Americans die in the Boer War? Did Tamerlane conquer the khanate of the Golden ...
Moreover, because Germany never managed to invade Britain, the Americans had a way to attack German economic targets. Hitler could have just done nothing. Even if war with the Americans was inevitable, not declaring war immediately might have held it off for a year or two. ...
It's not illegal for Americans to have bank accounts in Switzerland. But under the law, taxpayers must disclose all foreign accounts and pay tax on any earnings in them. Similarly, bankers must be registered with the SEC in the United States before providing investment advice here. ...
The report found that of the 22,000 Americans who had Swiss accounts at Credit Suisse, the U.S. government got the names of only about 230 clients. The Justice Department, the report found, "did not use any of the authorities and remedies available to it in U.S. courts … to obtain...
At the same time, President Obama was still pushing for the TPP and demanding that “America should write the rules, not China.” A significant response to Obama came from Germany’s Minister of Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, who said: “In my opinion, the negotiations with the United ...