History

The End of a Superpower – The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Collapse of the Soviet Union Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical[…]

The Spanish American War The Spanish-American War (fought in Cuba and the Philippines) kickstarted US global ambitions and expanded their[…]

First Fighter Planes of WW1 No aircraft existed at the outbreak of WW1 equipped with a gun of any sort.[…]

Military History As the Japanese forces occupied Tulagi in the Solomon Islands in May of 1942 and expanded their Empire’s[…]

Commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the[…]

1982 Argentinian Marines occupied Stanley in the Falklands On 2nd April 1982 Argentinian Marines occupied Stanley in the Falklands, in[…]

Black and Tans vs. IRA Guerrillas The movement for more Irish self determination had turned into a full out revolutionary[…]

The Irish Civil War 1922-1923 The Anglo-Irish Treaty and the withdrawal of Great Britain from almost all of Ireland was[…]

Military History On May 5, 1944, the massive USS Colorado battleship left San Francisco for Pearl Harbor as part of[…]

Ukraine and Poland Went to War in 1919 Lviv or Lwów are two names for the same city that was[…]