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Why was Harry Truman chosen to be Vice President in 1944?
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Why didn’t Herbert Hoover’s residency in London during and after WWI disqualify him from becoming President?
Awarded Dec 30, 2017 at 12:53
Why didn't the British Grand Fleet force an engagement with the German Imperial Navy in WW1?
Awarded Dec 16, 2017 at 23:41
Why didn't the Moroccans try to explore and conquer the New World?
Awarded Dec 11, 2017 at 10:36
Under what legal theory was Mary Surratt hanged as an assassin of President Lincoln in 1865?
Awarded Dec 5, 2017 at 10:16
Is it true that there are more slaves in the world now than ever at one point in history?
Awarded Nov 15, 2017 at 4:03
How did life change for the average American as a result of the end of World War 1?
Awarded Nov 14, 2017 at 16:48
Has any national leader ever climbed as far as fast as Ulysses S Grant?
Awarded Nov 4, 2017 at 0:36
Was the flexibility of German army a big contributor to their success?
Awarded Oct 24, 2017 at 10:14
When did nonporous ceramic become widespread?
Awarded Oct 9, 2017 at 19:12
Why was the Scout movement so successful?
Awarded Oct 3, 2017 at 15:53
Why were British ships not of the same quality as French and Spanish ships until the latter part of the 18th century?
Awarded Oct 1, 2017 at 20:22
Did Truman play the piano in Potsdam to annoy Churchill with Chopin?
Awarded Sep 28, 2017 at 5:28
Why would Japanese people be in China during the 1920s?
Awarded Sep 26, 2017 at 23:03
Was mortality higher on French slave ships and if so, why?
Awarded Sep 26, 2017 at 15:33
Was it ever possible to join the US military instead of going to prison for a crime?
Awarded Sep 25, 2017 at 18:07
How kind were the Muslim occupations of North Africa?
Awarded Sep 12, 2017 at 8:15
Why are the Lesser Antilles so politically fragmented?
Awarded Sep 9, 2017 at 4:02
How does one wash with sand?
Awarded Sep 7, 2017 at 15:03
Why did people have so many children in Victorian times?
Awarded Sep 2, 2017 at 0:43
Was there a King of England, or an heir to the throne, in 1831 who idolized Michael Faraday?
Awarded Sep 1, 2017 at 22:19
How did the Medici originally get into finance?
Awarded Sep 1, 2017 at 8:12
Why did the Germans spare Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk?
Awarded Aug 31, 2017 at 8:16
How deadly was the Wild West?
Awarded Aug 30, 2017 at 17:26
What was the church's attitude to "magic" prior to the 15th century?
Awarded Aug 30, 2017 at 14:13
Why didn't the US produce stamped weapons like the Germans during WW2?
Awarded Aug 27, 2017 at 18:15
What are these historical references (from a novel)?
Awarded Aug 25, 2017 at 15:35
Has there ever been a case when a traitorous military commander took command again for the side he betrayed?
Awarded Aug 20, 2017 at 12:31
Did the U.S economy flourish after national debt was eliminated by President Andrew Jackson in 1835?
Awarded Aug 15, 2017 at 3:11
After the USS Reuben James was sunk (1941 Oct 31) by Germany, why didn't the USA join the war?
Awarded Aug 11, 2017 at 7:40
How did the Crimean war change British society?
Awarded Aug 4, 2017 at 7:55
In what European countries did non-hereditary nobility exist? (XVII-XIX centuries)
Awarded Aug 4, 2017 at 6:56
Why were people from the Asian Steppes able to militarily dominate Europeans on a repeated basis?
Awarded Aug 3, 2017 at 14:17
How did they cook on ancient ships?
Awarded Aug 1, 2017 at 5:02
Why were the Irish exempt from conscription during WWI?
Awarded Jul 21, 2017 at 11:18
Was the Titanic tragedy at least partly avoidable?
Awarded Jul 13, 2017 at 21:08
Why did Union troops like General McClellan?
Awarded Jul 4, 2017 at 17:45
Why did Bavaria join Prussia/Germany instead of Austria?
Awarded Jun 28, 2017 at 13:35
How has Catalonia ended up being so nationalist?
Awarded Jun 15, 2017 at 15:48
Why did Theodore Roosevelt send his daughter Alice with Taft on a diplomatic mission to Asia?
Awarded Jun 14, 2017 at 18:38
Nuremberg Laws - Did they affect existing marriages between Jews and Non-Jews?
Awarded Jun 7, 2017 at 7:12
What impact did the Seven Years War have on the American Revolution?
Awarded Jun 3, 2017 at 15:46
Why did the USSR give Crimea to Ukraine?
Awarded May 21, 2017 at 16:55
Was 18th century Prussia really so militarily obsessed?
Awarded May 9, 2017 at 16:09
What unique personal experiences contributed to the formation of Mao's brand of Communism?
Awarded May 6, 2017 at 22:56
During and right after the French Revolution, how did France maintain and operate such a big army all over Europe?
Awarded May 5, 2017 at 12:10
Why didn't Hitler have more submarines in the English channel?
Awarded May 4, 2017 at 17:03
Why did the population of Anchorage, Alaska, increase by so much in the 1970s?
Awarded Apr 25, 2017 at 12:33
Why did North America economically prosper, and maintain stable government and South/Central America didn't?
Awarded Apr 4, 2017 at 18:59
Why was the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) ultimately successful?
Awarded Mar 18, 2017 at 22:33
Why was France granted an equal status among victors of World War II?
Awarded Mar 18, 2017 at 15:49
What forces/incentives drove the Mongols to conquer a much larger territory than they could comfortably settle or rule?
Awarded Mar 15, 2017 at 16:33
Why did Austronesian/Polynesian people not colonize Australia?
Awarded Feb 24, 2017 at 23:22
Why did the Chinese Nationalist party members go to the island of Taiwan and not to any other island?
Awarded Feb 2, 2017 at 15:18
In WWII, what was behind the very early decision to accept nothing but unconditional surrender in 1941-42?
Awarded Jan 29, 2017 at 1:59
Why were schoolchildren in the USA taught virtually nothing about the Holocaust during the fifties and sixties?
Awarded Jan 27, 2017 at 0:28
Was the Battle of Tours really the turning point for the Umayyad expansion into Europe?
Awarded Jan 14, 2017 at 19:51
Was Antarctica a factor in the Falklands war?
Awarded Jan 12, 2017 at 10:44
How did Greece avoid the Soviet sphere of influence?
Awarded Jan 3, 2017 at 11:41
World War 1: Why did Italy not fight until 1915?
Awarded Dec 30, 2016 at 9:05
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