What events led to the Berlin Airlift? What was the Iron Curtain during the Cold War? What made World War II a total war? What was a major effect of the Russo-Japanese War? What happened in 1952 during the Cold War? What did the Battle of Stalingrad accomplish?
One particularly strong voice against the arts events wasAvery Brundage, who became president of the IOC in 1952. Stanton, author ofThe Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions, wonders whether Brundage’s opposition was colored by bitterness. “He had entered in the literature category twi...
What happened in Poland during the Cold War? What events led to Cold War tensions? Was the Cuban Revolution a war? What happened to Germany after the Cold War? Who lost the Cuban Missile Crisis? Which country won the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What were some major historical events in 1943? What happened in 1948 during the Cold War? What led to the attack on Pearl Harbor? What happened during the February Revolution of 1917? What U.S. action in 1941 angered the Japanese and resulted in the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
“Yeah, this one happened back in August,” says Cornelius Osby. “So it was warm. In your mind’s eye, can you imagine folks sittin’ out on a porch up here, mindin’ their own business, for the most part, and all of a sudden shots started going off?” ...
What happened during Elizabeth’s annus horribilis? The 40th year of the queen’sreign, 1992 saw a series of embarrassing events shatter the British public’s vision of the royals as “the perfect family,”according tobiographerAndrew Morton. Before the 1990s, “trusted...
happened. A story started to be told. A story that was bothvivid and murderous. The schoolboys, in the strange new world of their Pacific island, gradually descended into uninhibited savagery. The typescript closed the story with a warning, a time and date: “16.00, 2nd October 1952.” ...
” This same sentiment is clearly echoed in the buildings, landscaping and layout of memorial. The subtext is clear one: “These people died for a great cause. What happened here mattered. Be aware and grateful.” In other wars the defeated sometimes make the same assertion but not in the...
Teofilo Stevenson was born in 1952 and grew up in a small town in Cuba.He started boxing as a teenager and, when he was 13, went to Havana to train at the national sports complex."I lost 14 of my first 20 fights," said Stevenson."I hated getting hit.What happened was that I dec...
Supply shocks can be either temporary, such as those caused by the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, or permanent, such as the introduction of fracking technology, which resulted in the U.S. becoming a net energy exporter in 2019, the first time this had happened since 1952. According ...