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106 events · 24 research items · January 1, 0006 to August 20, 2026 · Page 3 of 5
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Iraqi fraud money scandal
Breaking November 20, 2022

Iraqi fraud money scandal

In late 2022, Iraqi authorities intensified investigations into one of the country's largest alleged corruption cases, involving the disappearance of billions of dolla...

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Royal Navy and Admiralty
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Royal Navy and Admiralty

1914–1919 wartime role — Britain's navy protects imperial shipping routes, contains the German High Seas Fleet and implements the maritime blockade of the Central Powe...

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Untitled
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Untitled

Untitled1914–1918 — Industrial warfare requires food, coal, metals, chemicals, credit and shipping on unprecedented scales. Britain attempts to deny overseas resources...

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Saladin
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Saladin

1171–1193 CE in Egypt and the wider region — Saladin ends Fatimid rule and establishes the Ayyubid dynasty. He restores Sunni political dominance in Egypt and uses Egy...

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The Hyksos Rule the Delta
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The Hyksos Rule the Delta

c. 1650–1550 BCE — A dynasty of rulers of largely western Asian origin controls much of northern Egypt from Avaris in the Nile Delta. Egyptian sources later portray th...

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The Old Kingdom
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The Old Kingdom

c. 2686–2181 BCE — The Old Kingdom becomes the classic age of pyramid construction and highly centralized kingship. The royal court controls extensive agricultural res...

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Battle of Stalingrad Begins
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Battle of Stalingrad Begins

23 August 1942 — German forces begin the major assault phase against Stalingrad after intensive Luftwaffe bombing. The city's industrial and symbolic importance combin...

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Battle of Stalingrad Begins
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Battle of Stalingrad Begins

23 August 1942 — German forces begin the major assault phase against Stalingrad while the wider German campaign pushes toward oil resources in the Caucasus. Fighting i...

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Britain and France Declare War
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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 Enters the War
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Britain Enters the War

4 August 1914 — Britain declares war on Germany after German forces invade neutral Belgium and Berlin fails to meet the British demand for Belgian neutrality to be res...

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Case Blue Begins
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Case Blue Begins

28 June 1942 — Germany launches its major summer offensive toward southern Russia and the Caucasus. Hitler seeks the oil resources of the Caucasus and control of the V...

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Full-Scale Sino-Japanese War Begins
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Full-Scale Sino-Japanese War Begins

7 July 1937 — Fighting near the Marco Polo Bridge escalates into a major war between Japan and China. Japanese forces capture major cities including Shanghai and Nanji...

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Goebbels Calls for 'Total War'
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Goebbels Calls for 'Total War'

18 February 1943 — Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech after Stalingrad, calling for even greater mobilization of German society. The speech reflects growi...

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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

7 December 1941 — Japanese carrier aircraft strike the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Japan seeks to cripple American naval power long enough to seize t...

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Japan Launches the Southern Offensive
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Japan Launches the Southern Offensive

8 December 1941 — Almost simultaneously with Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces attack British, American and Dutch positions across East and Southeast Asia. Operations targ...

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Operation Barbarossa
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Operation Barbarossa

22 June 1941 — Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union along an enormous front. Hitler seeks not only military victory but ideological destruction of Soviet com...

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Operation Barbarossa Begins
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Operation Barbarossa Begins

22 June 1941 — Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union along a vast front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hitler expects the Soviet state to collapse after a ...

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Soviet State Defense Committee
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Soviet State Defense Committee

30 June 1941 — The State Defense Committee is created as the highest wartime authority coordinating Soviet military, industrial and economic mobilization. Chaired by S...

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Soviets Adopt Scorched-Earth Measures
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Soviets Adopt Scorched-Earth Measures

3 July 1941 — Stalin publicly calls for denial of useful resources to the advancing enemy. Infrastructure, crops and industrial assets may be evacuated or destroyed wh...

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United States Freezes Japanese Assets
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United States Freezes Japanese Assets

26 July 1941 — Following Japan's movement into southern French Indochina, the United States freezes Japanese assets. British and Dutch measures follow, and Japanese ac...

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