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Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and Today’s Overthrow of Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela, how did we get here? From a successful miracle economy rich in money and oil to today’s hyper-inflated, starving…
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USA in WWI: The Zimmermann Note
In it, Germany’s foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann laid out a proposal suggesting that Mexico ally itself with Germany in an…
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The May Fourth Movement and the Rise of Communism in China
China undoubtedly experienced an almost miraculous transformation from a poor and colonized agrarian nation to a full-blown world economic power…
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Reconciliation in Cambodia: 40 Years since Khmer Rouge
Upon their ascent to power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge and leader Pol Pot began and sustained a genocidal…
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Revolutionary Terror in Cambodia
The Cambodian genocide was one of the worst incidents of mass killing following the end of the second world…
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Nuclear Proliferation in the US and Abroad Post WWII
In August 1945, the world witnessed the power of a new age of weaponry as two bombs destroyed the Japanese…
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Eisenhower’s Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Terrified of communism gaining a strong foothold in Asia, United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called eight nations…
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John F. Kennedy, the Soviet Union and the Cold War
John F. Kennedy served as the 35th President of the United States. During his campaign, he narrowly defeated former Vice…
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Africa and Middle East
Sunset over the British Empire: The End of Imperialism
After World War II, the Unites States and the Soviet Union emerged as global superpowers. Global imperial forces such…
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Boundaries: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Perched like small dots in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean between South America, Africa, and the continent of…
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