Why was there a war in Sarajevo? Why was the Hungarian Revolution important? Why didn't Germany push on after the invasion of Poland? Why, by 1914, was Europe both so powerful and so anxious? Why did the Ottoman Empire expand?
Why, by 1914, was Europe both so powerful and so anxious? What is one political reason for New Imperialism? Why did the Allies decide to defeat Germany before Japan? Why did Germany and Italy declare war on the US? Why did Bismarck bring Germany into the Scramble for Africa?
Why was the annexation of Austria important? Why did Russia engage in the Crimean War? Why did Germany invade Russia during WW2? Why is the spread of the Mongol Empire important? Why was Serbia upset about Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia?
They planned to enforce massive reparations on the losing Central Powers. Germany was the only country, of the Central Powers, that could pay the reparations that the Allies wanted. Thus the Allies focused all of their attention on the Germans. A total reparation of 132 billion marks were to...
in the grip of owners in “the Big Club” as George Carlin called it, but who are also closely aligned with what we may call euphemistically “Old Testament thinking,” and this is at least partly responsible for why animal rights and veganism was so slow to penetrate the public sphere....
on December 7, 1941, Japan launched their attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs and shot bullets onto the vessels below. There was a 1,800-pound bomb dropped onto the deck of the USS Arizona, which landed in her forward ammunition magazi...
As I understand it, Palestine was destroyed in the process of creating Israel, so the process of creating Israel was far from perfect. The first Israelis fought amongst each other as well as against the Arabs, so they are also not a perfect example of freedom and democracy; however, they ...
Germany. Americans were also aware of the hideous atrocities Japan had been committing in China for a number of years (the anti-semitism of Hitler’s regime was well-known, but the gargantuan scale of the war crimes was not as well-known). In terms of the actual battle, Roosevelt was ...
Below, see the surprising reasons why so many old silent movies have completely disappeared — leaving us to wonder what cinematic treasures have been lost to the ages. Scene from Know Your Men with Pearl White (1921) A short – but powerful – silent film era ...
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas”. Exactly! I am not a fan of Stalin by any means, Stalin was a son of the gun, but one thing I know for sure about him, that he didn’t like Jews at all, and ...