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24 Questions

States calling themselves a dictatorship

What were Germany's long-term aims in World War I?

Did the Soviet Union or its satellite states have any broadcast propaganda media for an international audience?

Why did Guinea vote so differently in the 1958 French constitutional referendum?

What was the situation of homosexuals in the early Soviet Union?

When was the last time a country acquired territory by buying land from another country?

When did migration and international travel become legally limited?

Have there been any joint US-Russia/Soviet military engagements post WW II?

How did the KPD relate to the German state during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?

Why didn't Soviet Jews flee east ahead of the advancing Nazis?

How was the administration of the liberated part of The Netherlands organised between 12 September 1944 and 5 May 1945?

Most recently settled area habitable without modern technology

Elevated walkway in background at 1980s Potsdamer Platz seen in Wim Wenders' film “Der Himmel über Berlin”

Did any Nazi court convict officers of atrocities that went “too far” even by SS standards?

Have any big events happened during DST changeover?

Historical examples of secessionist movements fighting alongside their de jure governments

Relatively modern phantom islands or similar entities

Was the 1939 Red Army more disciplined / better behaved than the 1943-1945 Red Army?

In what incident did a resistance press leak cause a concentration camp commander demotion?

Did IRA bombings in Great Britain lead to Hibernophobia?

Why did PvdA and not KVP provide the prime minister in the Kabinet Drees-Van Schaik (1948-1951), despite KVP being the largest party?

Did wages get paid in pubs?

Heads of state convicted in international court

Irish Nationalist Party in Liverpool