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The impact of World War II on Fred Trump's business, including wartime contracts and housing for war workers.
The question of which U.S. president "had the most wars" depends on how one counts wars: formal declared wars, full‑scale wars, or the constellation of military interventions and operations undertaken...
A war by itself does not legally permit the cancellation of U.S. federal elections: Congress fixed the presidential election date in statute in 1845 and precedent and experts say no president can unil...
Both plans were contingency warbooks drafted in the interwar era: Canada’s Defence Scheme No. 1 directed audacious pre‑emptive “flying column” strikes into the northern United States to buy time for I...
George Soros’s father, Tivadar Soros, was not a Nazi; he was a Hungarian Jewish lawyer who took steps to protect his family from Nazi persecution, including changing the family name and securing false...
Holocaust denial movements have long sought to undercut public understanding by contesting the number of victims, disputing methods of killing, and reframing documentary evidence as erroneous or forge...
College and occupational deferments during the Vietnam era materially reshaped who went to war by providing legal, administrable routes out of the draft that were far more accessible to men with resou...
George Soros was a Hungarian Jewish child during World War II who survived the Nazi occupation by assuming a false identity and hiding with helpers; he was not a Nazi, an SS member, or a collaborator ...
Wireless, remotely viewed video systems did not spring from a single invention year; instead, multiple milestones mark the transition from wired, studio-bound video to wireless remote video cameras — ...
The Supreme Court’s martial law decisions form a sparse, old, and sometimes contradictory patchwork: the Court has repeatedly ruled that military rule is permissible only in narrow circumstances, has ...
Since World War II the Bronze Star Medal has been awarded in two distinct modes—a version with a “V” device for valor in combat and a version without the “V” for meritorious achievement or service in ...
No U.S. president has ever successfully delayed a scheduled federal election; the country has never postponed a presidential election and legal experts say a president has no unilateral authority to d...
built a large -centered real-estate business by starting as a small homebuilder in the 1920s, expanding into speculative subdivision and row-house development, then using wartime contracts and federal...
Between 1917 and 1953, executions, imprisonment in labor camps (gulags), deportations and state policies that produced or exacerbated each contributed—directly or indirectly—to in the , but the magnit...
In 1946 the Truman administration formally proposed buying Greenland — most often reported as an offer of $100 million in gold — driven by Cold War strategic concerns about Arctic bases and air routes...
Surviving Nazi security and police records relevant to the reprisals after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination are primarily preserved among captured RSHA/Gestapo files that were taken by Allied authori...
World War I erupted after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 but was the product of decades of militarism, imperial rivalry, entangled alliances and rising nationalism that transfor...
Holocaust denial emerged immediately after World War II as a reaction of disbelief and concerted revisionist campaigns seeking to erase or minimize Nazi crimes, and has since evolved from fringe print...
The primary documentary traces of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) and regional Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) orders from June 1942 are held in a dispersed set of institutional archives: chiefly...
The documents supplied do not contain a prepared, empirical ranking of "aggregate years of active U.S. military engagement" by presidency, so a definitive, source-backed list cannot be produced from t...
Winston Churchill’s wartime decisions and rhetoric are widely blamed for aggravating the 1943 Bengal famine and some commentators have labeled his conduct genocidal, but the historical record in the s...