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Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?
Awarded Nov 8, 2018 at 18:50
What Roman legions were present in London (UK)?
Awarded Oct 30, 2018 at 15:15
Why wouldn't an ASDIC work immediately after a depth charge attack?
Awarded Oct 29, 2018 at 21:35
Which version of Napoleon's "Europe is a Molehill" quote is correct?
Awarded Oct 27, 2018 at 2:50
When/how did Harry Truman give the order to bomb Hiroshima?
Awarded Oct 23, 2018 at 11:00
Why did the Confederacy think they could win the American Civil War?
Awarded Oct 22, 2018 at 20:35
Did foreign language phrase books exist in the ancient world?
Awarded Oct 22, 2018 at 5:25
Roughly, what percentage of arrows can be reused after a battle?
Awarded Oct 18, 2018 at 3:35
How could a skilled battle commander like Napoleon Bonaparte lose to Prussians at Waterloo (Belgium) as such?
Awarded Oct 17, 2018 at 19:10
How did the Nuremberg Trials decide whether a guilty defendant was to be sentence to death or life imprisonment?
Awarded Sep 25, 2018 at 19:55
Has there ever been a peaceful overthrow of a dictator or monarch?
Awarded Sep 21, 2018 at 13:50
What was the fastest military draft in the United States?
Awarded Sep 19, 2018 at 17:20
Where does this hairstyle originate from?
Awarded Aug 22, 2018 at 10:09
What is the equivalent in France of the "Victorian era"?
Awarded Aug 19, 2018 at 1:15
How professional and well equipped were US Civil War soldiers?
Awarded Aug 16, 2018 at 21:25
What were sandbags used for in medieval duels?
Awarded Aug 16, 2018 at 4:00
Are steam engines still in regular use anywhere in the world?
Awarded Aug 14, 2018 at 14:31
In Britain, what was the "Junior Service" in 1913?
Awarded Aug 9, 2018 at 13:45
What does "Depot Battalion" mean in Hart's Annual Army List?
Awarded Aug 5, 2018 at 20:40
How and when was the modern company ownership structure invented?
Awarded Jul 18, 2018 at 14:58
Is this a true quote of Engels about vague Russian leaders and their vague followers?
Awarded Jul 14, 2018 at 17:37
Why bother to attack in trench warfare?
Awarded Jul 13, 2018 at 17:25
What is the most number of times someone has become leader of a European country?
Awarded Jul 6, 2018 at 18:58
How many people worked to build one Liberty ship?
Awarded Jul 5, 2018 at 12:56
Could a person get from the outer districts of Vienna into the city center via the sewage system?
Awarded Jun 30, 2018 at 19:03
Did Russian winter seriously contribute to German defeat on the Eastern Front in WWII?
Awarded Jun 26, 2018 at 19:07
Is there any evidence of armies enrolling women in fighting roles in significant number in antiquity or the middle ages?
Awarded Jun 25, 2018 at 4:07
The US founding fathers and Canada
Awarded Jun 15, 2018 at 19:19
How significant was the Fall of Constantinople as an event leading to the Age of Exploration?
Awarded Jun 5, 2018 at 7:32
Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
Awarded May 16, 2018 at 11:04
How did people have access to ice in warm areas before the industrial revolution?
Awarded Apr 13, 2018 at 6:08
Why did Japan not withdraw from China as its pacific front was crumbling and the threat of US invasion imminent?
Awarded Apr 12, 2018 at 12:28
Are a fief and a vassal state the same thing?
Awarded Apr 7, 2018 at 23:53
What does this spear & carpentry square symbol mean?
Awarded Feb 14, 2018 at 14:17
What is the highest number of brothers who became ruler of the same country?
Awarded Feb 9, 2018 at 18:01
How and why did trade unions in America become influenced by organised crime, but unions in Britain didn't?
Awarded Feb 3, 2018 at 13:50
Did Ancient Roman insulae reach more than 10 storeys?
Awarded Jan 26, 2018 at 10:46
Why did Germany take so long to consolidate into a single nation?
Awarded Jan 21, 2018 at 20:34
Were well-connected Germans able to park their sons in Norway during WWII?
Awarded Jan 11, 2018 at 13:07
Why did LBJ, a staunch segregationist, champion and sign the 1964 Civil Rights Bill?
Awarded Jan 4, 2018 at 18:14
Why did the church attack Mainz for printing books?
Awarded Jan 1, 2018 at 12:00
Do any historians consider superior German airpower as the most important factor in the Battle of France?
Awarded Dec 22, 2017 at 9:27
Why was the Declaration of Independence handwritten, rather than printed with a printing press?
Awarded Dec 15, 2017 at 1:27
What kind of education would a 12th/13th century English knight get?
Awarded Dec 14, 2017 at 23:22
Are there any specific events which grants a soldier permission to execute a prisoner on sight? (Like in the movie: Fury)
Awarded Dec 7, 2017 at 4:02
Was the US Army during the WW2 Western Front a motorized army, a mechanized army, or neither?
Awarded Nov 9, 2017 at 14:29
What historical analyses are there to say whether or not the USSR really needed a second front (D-Day) in WWII?
Awarded Nov 6, 2017 at 19:32
What is the silver object on the desk and what is 'Elizabeth I' doing with it?
Awarded Nov 4, 2017 at 14:50
Are there any documented examples of wooden ships which were in active service for 100 years or more? If not, what is the longest?
Awarded Oct 6, 2017 at 16:34
When did Australia declare war on Germany in WWII
Awarded Sep 27, 2017 at 21:41
Has there ever been a true kidnapped princess from anywhere in the world?
Awarded Aug 21, 2017 at 15:09
Was Rommel anti-semitic?
Awarded Jul 26, 2017 at 23:32
Why didn't Saudi unification include the coastal states of Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait?
Awarded Jul 4, 2017 at 7:27
Why were battles massed until the late 1800s?
Awarded Jun 21, 2017 at 7:30
Physics of a heavy cavalry charge?
Awarded Jun 5, 2017 at 23:20
Did Antarctica remain entirely unvisited by humans until the early 19th century?
Awarded May 27, 2017 at 21:21
Why didn't Hitler have more submarines in the English channel?
Awarded May 1, 2017 at 3:52
Why weren't Indians converted en masse to Islam or Christianity?
Awarded Feb 22, 2017 at 13:30
Why did the British have so few destroyers going into World War II?
Awarded Jan 29, 2017 at 6:17
Why the six hour gap between British and French declarations of war?
Awarded Jan 2, 2017 at 20:23
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