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93 events · 7 research items · April 3, 0033 to August 28, 2026 · Page 4 of 4
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My Lai Massacre
Wars & Conflicts March 16, 1968

My Lai Massacre

On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, carried out a mass killing of Vietn...

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The Lavon Affair
Wars & Conflicts December 7, 1954

The Lavon Affair

What it was The Lavon Affair, also known as Operation Susannah, was a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt in 1954, carried out by Israeli military i...

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Balfour Declaration
Breaking November 2, 1917

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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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops reach the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex in occupied Poland. They find thousands of surviving prisoners and extensiv...

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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops enter the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex. They find thousands of surviving prisoners whom the SS had been unable to ...

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Commissar Order
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Commissar Order

6 June 1941 — The German High Command issues the Commissar Order before the invasion. Political commissars captured with Soviet forces are to be separated and killed r...

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Enabling Act
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Enabling Act

23 March 1933 — The Reichstag passes legislation allowing Hitler's cabinet to enact laws without normal parliamentary approval. Communist deputies are absent or impris...

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SS Stages the Gleiwitz Incident
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

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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