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12 events · 26 research items · June 1, 1048 to August 10, 2026
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USS Liberty Incident
Wars & Conflicts June 8, 1967

USS Liberty Incident

On June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the United States Navy technical research ship USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was attacked in international waters of the eastern Medite...

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Great Book Robbery of 1948
Wars & Conflicts June 1, 1048

Great Book Robbery of 1948

Great Book Robbery of 1948 In 1948, during the Arab–Israeli War following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, thousands of books and manuscripts were stolen...

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DuPont
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

DuPont

1914–1918 wartime production — DuPont becomes one of the most striking American industrial beneficiaries of wartime demand because explosives and propellants are requi...

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Krupp
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Krupp

1914–1918 wartime production — Krupp is one of Germany's most important heavy industrial and armaments firms. The company supplies artillery, steel products and other ...

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Royal Navy and Admiralty
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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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Schneider-Creusot
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Schneider-Creusot

1914–1918 wartime production — Schneider is a major French heavy-industrial and armaments producer whose factories supply artillery and military material to the French...

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Vickers
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Vickers

1914–1918 wartime production — British engineering and armaments company Vickers becomes an important supplier of guns, ammunition, ships and other military equipment ...

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Who Profited From Industrial War?
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Who Profited From Industrial War?

1914–1918 — Armaments companies, explosives producers and other industrial suppliers receive enormous wartime orders. Some businesses benefit heavily while others suff...

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American War Production Accelerates
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American War Production Accelerates

16 January 1942 — Roosevelt creates the War Production Board to coordinate conversion of the American economy to wartime needs. Automobile plants, steel mills, aircraf...

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Dawes Plan
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Dawes Plan

16 August 1924 — The Dawes Plan restructures German reparations payments and facilitates large flows of American capital into Germany. The arrangement helps stabilize ...

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Did World War II Create the Cold War?
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Did World War II Create the Cold War?

2 September 1945 — The defeat of Germany and Japan leaves the United States and Soviet Union as the dominant military powers. Soviet control across Eastern Europe, Ame...

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Emperor Hirohito
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Emperor Hirohito

1926–1989 reign — Hirohito is emperor throughout Japan's expansion in China and the Pacific War. The exact nature of his political responsibility remains the subject o...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

U.S. president whose administration responded to warnings about atomic weapons and eventually authorized the massive wartime development program.

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German Hyperinflation Peaks
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German Hyperinflation Peaks

15 November 1923 — Germany introduces the Rentenmark during the final phase of the hyperinflation crisis. Years of wartime debt, fiscal instability, reparations pressu...

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Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman

U.S. president after Roosevelt's death. Truman inherited the Manhattan Project and authorized the wartime use of atomic bombs against Japan.

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IG Farben
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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
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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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Krupp
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Krupp

1914–1918 wartime production — Krupp is one of Germany's most important heavy industrial and armaments firms. The company supplies artillery, steel products and other ...

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Krupp
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Krupp

1914–1918 wartime production — Krupp is one of Germany's most important heavy industrial and armaments firms. The company supplies artillery, steel products and other ...

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

1937–1945 wartime expansion — Mitsubishi becomes one of Japan's most important industrial groups supporting naval construction, aircraft production, machinery and othe...

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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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Soviet State Defense Committee
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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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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Lenin

1917–1918 wartime revolutionary leadership — Lenin returns to Russia after the February Revolution and argues for transfer of power to the soviets, withdrawal from the...

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Who Profited From the War Economy?
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Who Profited From the War Economy?

8 February 1942 — Use the expansion of wartime production as the investigative anchor. Companies in Allied and Axis states received enormous military orders, while the...

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