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  1. 5 days ago · But Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany grasped the true meaning of the Anglo-Russian pact: “When taken all around, it is aimed at us.”. The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th ...

  2. 5 days ago · A primary reason nations can find themselves in conflicts lasting far longer than expected is the immense emotion related to war. War’s human nature affects all strata of society from political elites to the general populace creating three obstacles preventing states from ending conflict. The first is decoupling war from political goals, the ...

  3. 3 days ago · Because German unification was a tipping point leading to the end of the Cold War, the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe, the collapse of ‘already existing socialism’ and eventually the end of the Soviet Union, it has produced considerable scholarship. Documentary evidence has been in short supply, however.

  4. 5 days ago · Warsaw Pact, treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The treaty provided for a unified military command and for the maintenance of Soviet military units within other participating states.

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  5. 5 days ago · War of 1812 ; Civil War & Reconstruction ; WWI ; WWII, Pearl Harbor, Atomic Bomb, Japanese-American Incarceration ; Vietnam War ; Korean War ; Cold War ; Gulf Wars & Desert Storm/Shield, 1980s-1990s ; 9/11 Attack (2001), Afghan and Iraq Wars (2000s) Other / General ; Music & Entertainment; Native Americans; People; Politics & Law; Railroads ...

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  6. 4 days ago · Rich with illustrations, maps, and primary-source documents, the encyclopedia includes more than five hundred entries from some eighty experts on the War of 1812. " Book Jacket. Eyewitness to America's Wars by Alan Axelrod. Call Number: Online - Ebook Central. ISBN: 9780816074143.

  7. 1 day ago · t. e. The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies ' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.