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Vor einem Tag · The Western world is undeniably in the late stages of its empire, though this reality is seldom discussed in corporate media. Historically, the US has been the most powerful empire the world has ever known, and remain a global empire today. However,America exhibits all the classic signs of a late-stage empire: overextended militarily, deeply in debt, and a culture descending into decadence ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus and continuing for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
Vor 5 Tagen · Fredrik Logevall’s ‘Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam’, is a fascinating examination of the decades leading up to American escalation and direct troop involvement in 1965.
Vor 2 Tagen · Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941, the first ‘day of infamy’ for the Western world in the 20th century occurred with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on Sunday, 28 June 1914.
Vor 2 Tagen · 1775 - September 3, 1783. Location: United States. Participants: Dutch Republic. France. loyalist. Spain. United Kingdom. United States. American colonies. Major Events: Battle of Brandywine. Battle of Bunker Hill. Battle of Monmouth. Battles of Saratoga. Battle of Bemis Heights. (Show more) Key People: Benjamin Franklin.
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
Vor 4 Tagen · Book: Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914–1958. David K. Fieldhouse. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780199287376; 400pp.; Price: £65.00. Reviewer: Dr Nigel Ashton. London School of Economics. Citation: Dr Nigel Ashton, review of Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914–1958, (review no. 575)
Vor einem Tag · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
