The Soviet Union takes advantage to ally with the country, and installs nuclear missiles on its territory, pointed at the United States. Tensions build to a point where it seemed a third world war was imminent. However, an accord is reached between the two world powers, resulting in the USSR withdrawing from Cuba. Wi...
Peter was a reformer. He modernized the army, built the Empires first navy, traveled the west and brought back ideas and technology of the enlightenment And also fashionable French clothing He also expanded Russia’s influence in the Black and Baltic seas. The guy was basically in love with the west. After capturing...
All long-distance transportation was by sea. For the invader, there was no opportunity to use tanks, motor vehicles, or that stellar conveyance of the Malay campaign, bicycles. Each of the objectives would require a separate amphibious assault. General Kawaguchi decided that the first landings would be made at Miri a...
So was Ann Hutchinson who argued the church membership should be based on inner grace and not on outward manifestations like church attendance. Williams went on to found Rhode Island, so that worked out fine for him, but Hutchinson, who was doubly threatening to Massachusetts because she was a woman preaching unortho...
He asked us to imagine an election debate between two candidates, one who was like a doctor and the other who was like a sweet shop owner. The sweet shop owner would say of his rival: Look, this person here has worked many evils on you. He hurts you, gives you bitter potions and tells you not to eat and drink whateve...
This modern Japanese army was victorious and as a result the dominant power in East Asia shifted from China to Japan. And Korea was forcefully shifted with it. For over 1000 years of being a vassal state of China, Korea was now an independent country. Not because it sought independence, but because independence was t...
