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59 events · 25 research items · August 21, 1895 to August 28, 2026 · Page 1 of 3
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British Room 40
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

British Room 40

1914–1919 — Room 40 is the British Admiralty's cryptanalytic organization responsible for intercepting and decoding important German communications. Its intelligence c...

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Assassination at Sarajevo
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Assassination at Sarajevo

28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princi...

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Battle of Kursk Begins
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Battle of Kursk Begins

5 July 1943 — Germany launches Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient. Soviet intelligence and defensive preparations create deep belts of mines, anti-tank positi...

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Battle of Midway Begins
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Battle of Midway Begins

4 June 1942 — American carrier forces intercept a Japanese operation aimed at Midway Atoll. U.S. cryptanalytic intelligence allows Admiral Chester Nimitz to position c...

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Bletchley Park
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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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Dragutin Dimitrijević 'Apis'
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Dragutin Dimitrijević 'Apis'

1903–1917 political and intelligence influence — Dragutin Dimitrijević is a Serbian army officer, intelligence chief and leading figure associated with the Black Hand....

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Franz Halder
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Franz Halder

22 June 1941 — As Chief of the Army General Staff, Halder helps direct Germany's opening eastern campaign. His diary records both military planning and the rapid reali...

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Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler

17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...

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Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler

17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...

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Lavrentiy Beria
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Lavrentiy Beria

22 June 1941 — Beria heads major Soviet security institutions during the war. His apparatus oversees internal repression, intelligence, population transfers and elemen...

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NKVD
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NKVD

22 June 1941 — The Soviet security apparatus plays multiple wartime roles involving internal security, counterintelligence, deportation, political control and rear-are...

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Richard Sorge
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Richard Sorge

14 September 1941 — Soviet intelligence agent Richard Sorge reports from Tokyo that Japan is unlikely to attack the Soviet Union in the immediate future. His reporting...

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Soviet Reserves Reinforce Moscow
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Soviet Reserves Reinforce Moscow

1 November 1941 — Soviet formations from eastern regions increasingly reinforce the Moscow front after intelligence reduces fears of an immediate Japanese attack from ...

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SS
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SS

1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...

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SS
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SS

1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...

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Why Did Nazi Germany Lose?
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Why Did Nazi Germany Lose?

22 June 1944 — Operation Bagration provides a useful late-war anchor for investigating Germany's defeat. Trace the invasion of the Soviet Union, American entry, the At...

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