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On the eve of World War II was profoundly distorted by the border changes, annexations and occupations of 1938–1939
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...
’s best‑known suicide note begins, “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again,” and goes on to explain she could not endure another episode, that she was hearing voices and losing concentratio...
can and has held presidential elections during wartime; historical precedent includes contests during the , the and , and scholars note that U.S. elections during conflict have generally proceeded on ...
centered on a few simple, emotionally charged themes: the deification of and promise of national renewal, vicious scapegoating, portrayal of external enemies to justify and expansion, and the myth of ...
The best-supported figure for Jewish deaths in the Holocaust is approximately people, a number reached by multiple postwar studies and memorial institutions though some estimates range from about 5.1 ...
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...
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...
Yes — and their collaborators did carry out door-to-door searches, arrests and roundups at various times and for multiple purposes, particularly in the early consolidation of power and during the pers...
A mix of verifiable family history, contested accusations, and rhetorical parallels shapes the claim that the Trump family has : some distant relatives in served in the Wehrmacht and, according to rep...
are commonly reported in the range of roughly 5 to 6.5 million deaths, but historians and official bodies disagree on precise totals because different counts separate Jewish and non‑Jewish victims, in...
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...
The is widely dated to February 2014, when occupied and then and backed separatists in eastern , initiating sustained armed conflict . That conflict was dramatically escalated into a full‑scale invasi...
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...
military basing in began as an emergency arrangement in 1941 and expanded into a network anchored by Thule (now Pituffik) under a sweeping 1951 defense agreement with ; most facilities were later clos...
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...
Measured per capita, most official indicators show that violent and property crime rose from the 1960s into the 1970s and peaked later, then fell sharply from the 1990s into the 2010s; by 2024–2025 ma...
Yes — by simple duration, ’s full‑scale invasion of exceeded the length of the ’s “” when it reached in January 2026, a milestone reported across Western and regional outlets . Multiple independent ou...
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 — ...
is portrayed in contemporary reporting as a military officer turned corporate executive and community leader: multiple outlets say he served as a captain in the and was decorated with a Silver Star an...