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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

In 1949, Mao’s insurgents took control of the Chinese government and

In a 1947 speech to Congress, the American president set out his policy of support for the resistance of “free peoples” to communism by tying politics to economics; it would be a choice between “two ways of life.” This policy was known as the ________ Doctrine.

The poet ________ presented a philosophy in his poetry that bordered on despair: life is a living death, to be endured as boredom and frustration.