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The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated by parades, open houses, receptions, and air shows. In Washington D.C., 10,000 troops of all branches of the military, cadets, and veterans marched past the President and his party. In Berlin, 1,000 U.S. troops paraded for the German citizens at Templehof Airfield. In New York City, an estimated 33,000 ...
The Prague Spring describes attempts to reform communism in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. Czechoslovakia was a relatively young nation, formed at the end of World War I. It was invaded by the Nazis at the start of World War II, then liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945. But as in other eastern European countries, the Soviet liberation ...
Apr 19, 2024 · French Revolution, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term ‘Revolution of 1789,’ denoting the end of the ancien regime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
Apr 4, 2023 · France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech on defense strategy to present the La Revue nationale strategique (RNS), a new military programming law (2024-2030), on the ...
Jan 10, 2024 · Attal will be France’s youngest-ever prime minister and the first openly gay man to serve in the post – making him one of the world’s most prominent and powerful LGBTQ politicians. Attal, a ...
The military alliance between the United Kingdom and Poland was formalised by the Anglo-Polish Agreement in 1939, with subsequent addenda of 1940 and 1944, [1] for mutual assistance in case of a military invasion from Nazi Germany, as specified in a secret protocol. [2] [3] [4]
Mar 5, 2020 · FORT LEE, Va. –. Editor’s note: The following is a history of defense contract administration written in 1999, shortly before establishment of the Defense Contract Management Agency. The author, Janet A. McDonnell, was the Defense Logistics Agency historian at the time. From the earliest years of our nation’s history, the military has ...
