The Mexican Revolution was a violent armed revolt which was triggered by the dictatorial rule of Porfirio Diaz. It morphed into a complex struggle for power as series of presidencies failed to establish peace and the desired changes of the revolution, causing rebellions to extend from 1910 until ...
What peninsula was Russia attacked on in the Crimean War? What tactics were used in the Crimean War? What countries were allied together in the Crimean War? What happened as a result of the Russian Revolution? What were the effects of the Russian Civil War?
There is a phrase in Russian intelligence circles for clueless people that are ruthlessly used without their knowledge in covert operations, which is ‘a useful idiot’, and it is hard to think of anyone more ‘useful’ in this context to the Russians than whoever came up with Saudi’s ...
First Battle of the Somme (July 1–November 13, 1916), costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I. The horrific bloodshed on the first day of the battle became a metaphor for futile and indiscriminate slaught
The CCP was founded as both a political party and a revolutionary movement in 1921 by revolutionaries such asLi DazhaoandChen Duxiu. Those two men and others had come out of theMay Fourth Movement(1919) and had turned toMarxismafter theBolshevikvictory in theRussian Revolution of 1917. In the...
In April 1961, the CIA launched an all-out invasion of Cuba through 1,400 American-trained Cuban exiles who had fled to the U.S. after the revolution. In less than 24 hours, Castro won the Bay of Pigs invasion. The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion humiliated the Kennedy administrati...
What did the Russian Revolution accomplish? What happened to Cuba during the Cuban Revolution? What did Venustiano Carranza do in the Mexican Revolution? What was life like before the Mexican Revolution? Where were the decisions for the Mexican Revolution made?
The elections were just barely democratic, with large and popular parties such as the Peronists outlawed by the military and with the range of political opinions narrowed to a sharp point. Within this system, Arturo Illia won and began working on improving the minimum wage and other modest ...
Russian Civil War (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. The Bolshevik victory ensured the supremacy
Description of the Beer Hall Putsch, an abortive coup against the Weimar Republic led by Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1923.