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By the late twentieth century, the spread of ________ confirmed health officials’ worries that a disease would spread to epidemic proportions much more quickly than in the past due to accelerated rates of travel.

Although France had been defeated by the Germans, it was allowed to establish a subject government in the south of France under the leadership of First World War hero

The immediate American response to the events of September 11, 2001, was to invade al Qaeda’s central haven in

Arguably the most repressive dictatorship in Eastern Europe was that of Nicolae Ceausescu in

Two naval battles of 1942 fought by aircraft operating from each side’s carriers, marking the extent of Japanese expansion and demonstrating American supremacy in both air and sea, were

The social changes that were forged during the war were recorded in one of the most famous autobiographies of the period, Testament of Youth, by

The contemporary language of human rights is anchored in a tradition of political thought that reaches back to the political philosophy of natural law theorist

Citing injustices by Serb officials in the Yugoslav government, ______ declared its independence as a free, capitalist state.

Educational opportunities for women helped the advancement of science. For example, ________ became a professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1906 and eventually won two Nobel prizes.

The most important “second front” opened by the Allies in Europe was created in June 1944 with the