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24 research items
· November 2, 1917 to
February 2, 2026
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Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II and Its Impact on Civilians and Infrastructure
During World War II (1939–1945), the Allied forces of the United States and the United Kingdom carried out a widespread strategic bombing campaign against German citie...
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World War II Begins
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German And Soviet Governments Sign Secret Pact To Divide Eastern Europe
The German–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact And Its Secret Protocols On August 23, 1939, the governments of Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression t...
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JFK Description of 13 Bombs Exploding in Jerusalem
JFK: The Letter Mentions That 13 Bombs Went Off in Jerusalem on His Last Night There, Which He Attributed to Jewish Terrorists (Likely the Irgun Militia) Attempting to...
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JFK Wrote in 1939 That Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away
JFK Wrote in 1939 That Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away In July 1939, John F. Kennedy, then a 22-year-old Harvard student, visited Palestine duri...
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Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936–1939)
The Arab Revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration under the British Mandate, which...
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Haavara agreement signed between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations
The Haavara (Transfer) Agreement was signed on August 25, 1933, between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations, including the Jewish Agency. The agreement facilitated ...
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Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued on November 2 1917 by the British government during World War I expressing support for the establishment of a nat...
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Fascist Italy Invades Albania
7 April 1939 — Italian forces invade Albania after King Zog rejects Mussolini's demands for greater Italian control. Zog flees the country and Albania is incorporated ...
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Bletchley Park
1939–1945 — Britain's Government Code and Cypher School gathers mathematicians, linguists, engineers, intelligence officers and thousands of support staff at Bletchley...
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Britain Abandons Further Territorial Concessions
31 March 1939 — The British guarantee to Poland marks a major shift in policy after the occupation of Prague. Britain is no longer signaling willingness to negotiate e...
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Britain and France Declare War
3 September 1939 — Britain and France declare war on Germany after Hitler refuses demands to withdraw from Poland. Governments that spent much of the 1930s attempting ...
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Britain Guarantees Poland
31 March 1939 — Britain announces a guarantee of Polish independence following Germany's destruction of Czechoslovakia. France already has alliance commitments to Pola...
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Germany Absorbs Czech Military Industry
15 March 1939 — The occupation of the Czech lands gives Germany control over a major Central European industrial base, including important arms factories such as Škoda...
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Germany Invades Poland
1 September 1939 — German forces cross the Polish frontier and begin the war in Europe. Hitler expects Britain and France may still avoid a general conflict, but both ...
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Germany Invades Poland
1 September 1939 — German forces invade Poland from the west, north and south, beginning the European phase of the Second World War. The attack follows months of escal...
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Germany Occupies Prague
15 March 1939 — German forces occupy Prague and dismantle what remains of Czechoslovakia. The move is politically important because it extends Nazi domination over ter...
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Germany Occupies Prague
15 March 1939 — German forces occupy Prague and dismantle what remains of Czechoslovakia. Bohemia and Moravia become a German protectorate while Slovakia becomes forma...
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Gleiwitz Incident
31 August 1939 — German operatives stage a false Polish attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz and related frontier incidents. The operation forms part of an attempt ...
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Hossbach Conference
5 November 1937 — Hitler meets senior military and foreign-policy leaders and discusses Germany's need for territorial expansion. The surviving memorandum records Aust...
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IG Farben
1939–1945 wartime role — IG Farben is one of Germany's largest chemical-industrial corporations and becomes deeply integrated into the Nazi war economy. It supplies sy...
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IG Farben
1939–1945 wartime role — IG Farben is one of Germany's largest chemical-industrial corporations and becomes deeply integrated into the Nazi war economy. It supplies sy...
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
23 August 1939 — Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression agreement. Secret protocols divide parts of Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influe...
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
23 August 1939 — Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. Secret protocols divide parts of Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influe...
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Munich Agreement
30 September 1938 — Britain, France, Germany and Italy agree that Czechoslovakia must surrender the Sudetenland to Germany. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ...
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Pact of Steel
22 May 1939 — Germany and Italy sign a formal political and military alliance. Mussolini's government is not actually prepared for a major European war in 1939, despit...
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Soviet Union Invades Eastern Poland
17 September 1939 — Soviet forces cross Poland's eastern frontier while the Polish state is already collapsing under German attack. The invasion follows the secret ter...
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SS Stages the Gleiwitz Incident
31 August 1939 — German operatives stage a fake Polish attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz and other frontier incidents as part of efforts to manufacture a propaga...
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Untitled3 April 1939 — German military leaders receive instructions to prepare Fall Weiss, the operational plan for attacking Poland. The target date is set so prepara...
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Untitled23 August 1939 — After unsuccessful and distrustful negotiations involving Britain, France and the Soviet Union, Stalin accepts a non-aggression agreement with...
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When Did War Become Unavoidable?
1 September 1939 — Looking backward from the invasion of Poland, investigate possible turning points including the Rhineland, Anschluss, Munich, Prague, the British gu...
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Why Did Stalin Sign a Pact With Hitler?
23 August 1939 — The German-Soviet pact is one of the most shocking diplomatic reversals of the twentieth century. Investigate failed Soviet-Western negotiations, Stal...
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