In 1941 the pressure was somewhat alleviated (缓和) for Britain when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. These acts of aggression propelled the Soviet Union and the United States into an alliance with Britain. With the unified efforts of anti...
A panel dispatched to study the Vela Incident was skeptical about its nuclear origin, pointing out that only one of the two Vela satellites picked up the explosion. It may have been detected due to a malfunction caused by a small meteoroid impacting the satellite. Many, however, doubt the ve...
a book about trips I’d made to that far-flung region. With the fall of the Soviet Union, areas previously closed to travelers had opened up. During the 1990s and after, the pace of change in Russia cascaded. A harsh kind of capitalism grew; democracy came and mostly ...
On July 3, 1941, a little more than a week after the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, Joseph Stalin spoke for the first time to the Soviet people about the progress of the war. He called the citizens of his nation "brothers and sisters," a term he had...
The space race was a bitter competition that took place in the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
e(French):a party or gathering in the evening 14.1itchi(lichee)(Chinese):a Chinese evergreen tree(litchi chinensis)or the fruit of this tree 15.shah(Persian):a title of the ruler of Iran 16.kolkhoz(Russian):a collective farm in the Soviet Union 17.apartheid(Afrikaans):the pol...
the Germans to total victory in six weeks. At the time, it seemed to be the greatest military triumph in history. It also meant, of course, that when Hitler subsequently called for the invasion of the Soviet Union, his generals were relatively relaxed. After all, what problems could the ...
The Soviet navy's first extended deployment to the Mediterranean took place in 1958, in the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Lebanon. Since that time, the Soviet Mediterranean Squadron has served as either a participant or close obs... Gordon H. McCormick - 《Rand》 被引量: 6发表...
The Battalion is stationed at Camp Pendleton in California and is often engaged in active duty. Peace Through Strength This motto comes from a mantra that was adopted by Ronald Reagan during his encounters with the Soviet Union. It is only fitting that it should be the official motto of the...
Mysterious flying objects. Claims of crashed alien spacecrafts. The U.S. has spent decades inquiring into the unknown—here's what they've learned.