In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future. Would it be able to transition from a full-bore war economy to a fulsome and stable peacetime one? Many experts at the time had serious doubts. As it turned ...
Jews and Arabs from WW2 to the 1967 (Six-Day) War– Israel, Suez, Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb, Faisal Israel and the Middle East to 1979– West Bank occupation, Yom Kipper War, terror, PLO, Camp David, Anwar Sadat The Iranian Revolution– the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic react...
and the same war had been fought on the ‘home-front’ in South Africa itself, as with the USA and the United Kingdom, South Africa also had its own National Socialist (Nazism) parties prior to the war (it had actually been a quite popular doctrine across many “Western” European...
Garth Benneyworth’s research into the ‘Black’ internment camps of the Boer War, specifies that ‘Blacks’ are not merely “participants” in the war, and the Boer and Black “concentration” camps are not a “shared trauma” of “mutual suffering” at the hands of the British as: ‘T...
Time Period: Post-WW2 Institution: 2 December 1972 Country: Cuba The Order of José Martí (or Orden de José Martí in Spanish) is one of Cuba’s most prestigious honors, established on December 2, 1972, under Law No. 1239, and later redesigned and ratified under Decree-Law No. 30 on...
America’s first overseas war under Pres. Thomas Jefferson was against the Islamic Barbary Pirates who were running a slave trade for more than 300 years. The big difference is that over a century ago (or before 1917), their wars were waged in the name and under the banner of the ...
went down from 3,5 million to 3 million people in a decade between censae of years 2001 and 2011. Currently, the population of Lithuania is even smaller than that before the World War 2. Such emigration levels are unheard of anywhere outside of the countries struck by wars and disasters....
Internationalist that while most of recipients were veterans of Afghan war, it was also received by those who fought in Angola. Mongolia Soviet military involvement in Mongolia begun already before WW2 because Japanese military invasion in China that threatened Soviet borders. In 193...
On June 15, the Times reported that the US government is escalating itscyber attacks on Russia’s power grid. According to the article, “the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively,” as part of a larger “digital Cold War between Washin...
Why Russia is a great power even though its economy is limited in size Referencing infamous Soviet no retreat order, Putin warns of war with Ukraine Putin offers his casus belli for Ukraine Lithuania and Poland break with U.S. on Ukraine European strategic autonomy? Try Franco-German strategic...