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Aerial photos revealed Soviet missile silos in Cuba. For thirteen days, Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in a crisis that brought the world closest to nuclear war.
A report about a torpedo attack that was later found to be erroneous became the basis for a resolution that gave President Johnson the power to escalate the Vietnam…
After Shanghai fell, Japanese troops entered Nanking and carried out mass killings and sexual violence for weeks. The event remains an open wound in East Asian…
For two decades, the CIA ran a secret program to control the human mind, including administering LSD without consent. Files that were supposed to be destroyed…
The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed 18,000 miles only to be destroyed by Admiral Togo at the Tsushima Strait. Japan's victory in May 1905 changed the world's balance of…
The Marshall Plan, worth around $13 billion, helped Western Europe recover after World War II. It also served as a political tool in the early Cold War.
In August 1945, two atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands. While history records the events, the question of whether the bombings…
After World War II, the United States secretly brought over a thousand German scientists and technicians to the country. The program led to rocket and space…
On January 22, 1879, Zulu forces attacked a British camp at Isandlwana, killing over a thousand. The defeat shook the colonial government and changed the course of…
After World War II, Germany was divided into Allied occupation zones, and Berlin, within the Soviet zone, was also split into four sectors. In 1949, two German…
In the early 19th century, the Sultanate of Yogyakarta faced heavy political and economic pressure. The Dutch colonial government increasingly intervened in palace…
In early 1943, the Allies planned to invade Sicily under the codename Husky. The island was a logical entry point to Southern Europe, but precisely because of that…
