Cold War conflicts involving the influence of the rival superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United StatesKorean War (1950–1953) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950, until the signing of t ...
The Second World War brought many changes to Canada; the government was necessarily more centralized during the war, and it remained so afterwards. The federal government also began to adopt social we ...
Main article: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)Following the end of Reconstruction, many states adopted restrictive Jim Crow laws which enforced segregation of the races and the seco ...
Further information: United States in the 1950s, Post–World War II economic expansion and Culture during the Cold WarWartime rationing was officially lifted in September 1945, but prosperity did not ...
When the war ended in Europe on May 8, 1945, Soviet and Western (U.S., British, and French) troops were located along a line through the center of Germany. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this wou ...
Various biota include chemosynthetic communities near cold seeps and nonchemosynthetic communities such as bacteria and other microbenthos, meiofauna, macrofauna, and megafauna (larger organisms such ...
Although Christopher Columbus was credited with the discovery of the Americas by Europeans, the ships in his four voyages never reached the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, Columbus sailed into the Caribbean ...
The castle, Ch?teau de Dieppe, which survived the 1694 bombardment, is now a museum and exhibition space, with a strong maritime collection. A rich collection of 17th- and 18th-century ivory carvings ...
Dieppe belongs to the Pays de Caux, lying along the Alabaster Coast in the Haute-Normandie region. It is located on the Channel coast, north of Rouen at the mouth of the Arques river and lies east of ...
After the German invasion of Poland Further information: Invasion of Poland (1939)September 1939Poland: 1 September 1939France: 3 September 1939United Kingdom: 3 September 1939British India: 3 Septemb ...
Initially, Brazil maintained a position of neutrality, trading with both the Allies and the Axis Powers, while Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas's quasi-Fascist policies indicated a leaning toward t ...
Czechoslovakia Ludvík Svoboda with Czechoslovak soldiers of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Eastern Front in 1943.Czechoslovakia along with the United Kingdom and France attempted to resolve G ...
In Africa In Africa these included: French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, the League of Nations mandates of French Cameroun and French Togo, Madagascar, French Somaliland, and the protectorate ...
Main articles: Causes of World War II and Grand Alliance (World War II)The origins of the Allied powers stem from the Allies of World War I and cooperation of the victorious powers at the Paris Peace ...
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated History by Larry Kimmett and Margaret Regis is a careful recreation of the "Day of Infamy" using maps, photos, unique illustrations, and an animated CD. From ...
