- The Renaissance, 1350-1517
- The Reformation, 1455-1600
- Russian History, 1380-1613
- Spain and England, 1469-1618
- The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648
- The Age of Monarchy, 1643-1780
- The Age of Exploration, 1492-1787
- The Enlightenment, 1543-1789
- The French Revolution, 1789-1815
- The Industrial Revolution, 1750-1914
- European Revolutions, 1815-1849
- Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, 1804-1914
- German and Italian Unification, 1815-1871
- World Trade and Empires, 1839-1914
- World War 1, 1914-1919
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1939
- Italy and The Rise of Totalitarianism, 1919-1939
- World War 2, 1939-1945
- The Cold War, 1945-1968
- The Fall of Communism, 1945-1989
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The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain in 1940
The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain in 1940 In April 1940, the German army invaded Denmark and Norway. In May the army staged a successful two-pronged attack on France, with one division invading through Belgium and the other through the Ardennes, south ...
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North Africa, Italian, Eastern, and Western Front of World War II
The Eastern Front In perhaps his most serious error of judgment, Hitler abandoned the nonaggression pact he had signed with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. The Soviets were taken completely unawares, but they soon rallied against the enemy and proved ...
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The End of the World War II In Europe
The End of the World War II In 1945, Soviet troops were marching westward toward Berlin, while Allied troops approached it from the southeast. In April, the Soviets were the first to march into Hitler’s capital city, where they took brutal revenge on the ...
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Results of World War 2
Results of the World War 2 The Allied forces had crushed the German attempt to conquer Europe. The Nazi Party was disbanded and discredited; many of its key figures killed them- selves or fled to South America. A number of the rest were tried as war criminals. ...
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World War II in Europe Practice Test
Review the following study guides if necessary: World War II in Europe
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The Cold War in Eastern Europe
The Cold War in Eastern Europe In 1946, Winston Churchill made an important speech on the current state of world affairs. He spoke the following memorable sentences: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, ...
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NATO and Warsaw Pact Countries
Nato and Warsaw Pact Countries Since the Communist and non-Communist members of the United Nations were mutually hostile and distrustful, many heads of state felt that they would do well to form smaller international unions for their mutual protection. Two such ...
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Rebuilding Europe During the Cold War
Rebuilding Europe During the Cold War When Communist forces took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, the U.S. Congress realized the seriousness of the Soviet threat to European democracy. They voted for full funding of the European Recovery Program, universally known as ...
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Cold War Conflict
Cold War Conflict Until 1949, the United States was the only nation that had the technology to make nuclear weapons. However, Soviet scientists, following the same research path as the Western scientists, had their own bomb by 1949. A nuclear arms race ensued. By ...
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