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Which nations have armed prisoners and sent them to war?
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Why did the American South agree to the compromise of 1850?
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Why did Sweden and Norway become the vassals of Denmark?
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Circa 1940, what was the oil production of each nation?
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Why were cavalry raids so powerful during the American Civil War?
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Which battles of WWII did the cracking of Enigma decisively influence?
Awarded Dec 28, 2021 at 0:30
Does the Ottoman Empire count as a colonial power?
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Settling legal disputes in high medieval Europe?
Awarded Aug 14, 2021 at 7:27
What was the nature of a widow's personal estate in Colonial America?
Awarded May 12, 2021 at 10:52
Why did Yamamoto reprimand Nagumo after Pearl Harbor?
Awarded Jan 19, 2021 at 19:09
Did Charlemagne's Christian conquest of Germany cause the Vikings to hit back at Britain?
Awarded Jan 15, 2021 at 9:47
How didn't the North Koreans catch the pun "We paean the DPRK. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung"?
Awarded Nov 1, 2020 at 18:06
Why did Peter the Great crown Catherine I as empress?
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Why was agriculture more conducive to slavery in U.S. South than the North?
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What were Germany's long-term aims in World War I?
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Why did few French and no Dutch pilots (but many Poles and Czechs) take part in the Battle of Britain?
Awarded Jun 18, 2020 at 17:45
Why did so many Italians emigrate to Argentina?
Awarded Jun 3, 2020 at 21:07
Why did the Nazis guillotine criminals but mostly hang political enemies, and why were the White Rose group an exception?
Awarded May 22, 2020 at 9:34
Why did the the East-Pakistanis oppose Urdu as their national language while Indians accepted Hindi as theirs?
Awarded May 7, 2020 at 13:48
Why didn't America "rent" parts of China?
Awarded May 2, 2020 at 8:50
Why were Soviets so extremely effective snipers in WW2?
Awarded Apr 29, 2020 at 20:19
Was Russia the only country in WWII that succeeded in expansionist war aims?
Awarded Apr 13, 2020 at 5:55
Why did Peter the Great name Saint Petersburg, Russia with a foreign styled name?
Awarded Mar 17, 2020 at 7:20
Why would anyone from Japan be in Northern India in early 1900s?
Awarded Mar 6, 2020 at 8:30
Why didn't Roman emperors have harems?
Awarded Mar 5, 2020 at 15:50
Why is the late Russian Empire associated with Byzantium while having little in common with it?
Awarded Feb 28, 2020 at 12:20
What was the point of horse armour?
Awarded Feb 23, 2020 at 2:05
Why is Napoleon III seen as a bad leader?
Awarded Jan 30, 2020 at 5:55
What did General McAuliffe actually say at Bastogne?
Awarded Dec 16, 2019 at 22:20
Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
Awarded Nov 12, 2019 at 21:30
Why did so many ruling European families hold on to Catholicism during the Reformation?
Awarded Sep 20, 2019 at 6:10
Did the USSR pledge support to Czechoslovakia before the Munich Agreement?
Awarded Sep 17, 2019 at 15:50
Who considered themselves as "Prussian"?
Awarded Aug 6, 2019 at 14:55
Did it matter that the Red Army clung on to Stalingrad's West bank in 1942?
Awarded Jul 12, 2019 at 13:05
Is there any historical evidence of boiling oil being poured on attackers?
Awarded May 9, 2019 at 16:10
How to explain the Khalkhin Gol outcome in view of Soviet weakness and Japanese strength at that time?
Awarded Apr 26, 2019 at 4:10
Why didn't Ronald Reagan become Republican candidate for the President of the USA in 1976?
Awarded Apr 21, 2019 at 17:30
Why was sugar cultivation more profitable in the Caribbean/Brazil than West Africa?
Awarded Apr 5, 2019 at 2:45
Why was 19th-century Japan able to modernize and not China?
Awarded Feb 10, 2019 at 7:20
What is the context of Lincoln saying: "if I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it"
Awarded Jan 18, 2019 at 10:00
Why was Germany unified in Versailles not Berlin?
Awarded Jan 14, 2019 at 14:25
Why did Europe not see Roman-era numbers of men participating in battles until the 17th century?
Awarded Dec 17, 2018 at 9:55
Why were the Germans and Russians so fixated on an unlikely "separate peace" in 1945?
Awarded Nov 23, 2018 at 6:10
Is it true that Newton ordered the hanging of counterfeiters?
Awarded Nov 9, 2018 at 21:40
Why did France support the Confederacy in the Civil War?
Awarded Oct 22, 2018 at 20:55
Did Andrew Jackson kill Dickinson fairly according to the customs of duels at the time?
Awarded Oct 22, 2018 at 19:10
What was the hippie movement? Why did it decline?
Awarded Oct 18, 2018 at 12:00
Why didn't the Ottoman Empire remain neutral in WW1?
Awarded Oct 17, 2018 at 22:05
How did recognition by Morocco influence the history of the USA?
Awarded May 31, 2018 at 20:53
Why was there little nonwhite migration to Europe in the 19th century?
Awarded May 26, 2018 at 1:40
Where did Southern Fried Chicken come from?
Awarded May 20, 2018 at 15:47
Why was China not colonized by any country?
Awarded May 10, 2018 at 1:14
What was the role of Nikita Khrushchev during the battle of Stalingrad?
Awarded Apr 16, 2018 at 18:04
Why didn't the European Christians take back Constantinopole?
Awarded Apr 3, 2018 at 8:31
Why were Indians able to free themselves of the European Colonialists unlike South Africans?
Awarded Mar 17, 2018 at 6:43
Why couldn't bastards inherit titles?
Awarded Mar 3, 2018 at 18:52
What defined a Jew in the context of WW2?
Awarded Feb 20, 2018 at 9:59
Did early northern Europeans drink alcohol?
Awarded Feb 14, 2018 at 9:19
Why didn't Japan take Pearl Harbor when they had the chance?
Awarded Jan 24, 2018 at 3:50
What percent of the US Federal Budget was spent on WW2?
Awarded Jan 22, 2018 at 17:17
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