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  1. 2 days ago · During the Cold War the Iron Curtain extended to the airwaves. The attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency -funded Radio Free Europe (RFE) to provide listeners behind the Curtain in the Eastern bloc with uncensored news were met with efforts by communist governments to jam RFE’s signal. The Iron Curtain largely ceased to exist in 1989 ...

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  2. 4 days ago · Propaganda: Power and Persuasion (Exhibition) London, British Library, 2013, ISBN: 9780712357005; 216pp.; Price: £19.99. When you walk in to the Propaganda: Power and Persuasion Exhibition at the British Library you are told that ‘propaganda is used to fight wars and combat disease, build unity and create division’.

  3. 2 days ago · Matthias Corvinus' intervention in the Moldovian-Ottoman War: Kingdom of Hungary Moldavia: Ottoman Empire: Inconclusive. After initial Hungarian and Moldavian victories, Hungary stopped supporting Moldavia; Stephen III of Moldavia becomes a vassal of the Ottoman Empire; 1480–1481 Ottoman invasion of Otranto: Kingdom of Naples Kingdom of ...

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    1 day ago · War with Moldavia (1475–1476) Mehmed the Second, portrait by Paolo Veronese In 1456, Peter III Aaron agreed to pay the Ottomans an annual tribute of 2,000 gold ducats to ensure his southern borders, thus becoming the first Moldavian ruler to accept the Turkish demands. [64]

  6. 4 days ago · The invasion of Belgium was the foundation of the key propaganda tool for the Entente Cordiale, a Franco-British-Russia alliance created in August 1914. After Britain declared war on Germany for violating Belgium's neutrality (guaranteed by an 1839 treaty), British authorities spearheaded a propaganda push to muster anti-German sentiment.

  7. 3 days ago · One of the most famous posters of World War II, "Someone Talked" urges Americans to prevent sensitive information from falling into enemy hands. Closely associated with the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" series communicating the same idea, the image of a drowning sailor dramatically illustrates the consequences of careless talk about military ...

  8. 2 days ago · The unification of Moldova and Romania is a popular concept in the two countries that began during the Revolutions of 1989. The Romanian Revolution in 1989 and the independence of Moldova in 1991 further contributed to the development of a movement for the unification of the two Romanian-speaking countries. The question of reunification is ...

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