The Battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Era (1799-1815). The fight lasted only one day, on June 18, 1815. French, English and their allies faced each other on the battlefield that...
D-Day or Decision Day is the name by which the landing of Allied troops in northern France on June 6, 1944 is known.. Summary The discussion of the Allied attack on Normandy...
The Cold War was characterized by an ideological dispute between Soviet Union communism and US capitalism. Although both countries have never faced each other directly...
Vladimir Putin (1952 - ) is a Russian lawyer and politician and has been president of Russia since 2012. A former KGB employee, after the dissolution of the Soviet agency, Putin devoted himself to...
The Apollo 11 mission made the descent on the Moon possible on July 20, 1969 and marked a major scientific and political achievement for the United States. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong and...
Fascism was the governing regime in Italy from 1922 until 1943. Created by Benito Mussolini in 1919 and made official as a political party in 1922, fascism dominated every aspect of the country as...
Kim Jong-un has been a North Korean military and leader since December 17, 2011. Biography Born on January 8, 1983, in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, Kim Jong-un is the third...
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (CVDT) was a meeting held in 1969 with the objective of defining and standardizing issues related to international treaties. The resolutions of...
The independence of Catalonia is a movement that aims to establish a country in the region of Catalonia, which is currently in Spain. Several attempts to separate the...
Sputnik (Russian for traveling companion or satellite) was the name used to designate the aircraft of the Soviet space program. The launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, caused panic...
World War I began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. It lasted four years and four months and an estimated 17 million soldiers and civilians lost their...
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution, was a political cleansing movement driven by Mao Zedong. His objective was to remove from the...
The Ukrainian Holodomor represents the death of millions of inhabitants of rural areas by starvation between the years 1932 and 1933. The term holodomor (which in Ukrainian means "death by hunger") is...
The genocide in Rwanda was the mass murder of ethnic Tutsi members committed by representatives of the Hutu ethnic group, which took place from April 7, 1994 to July 15, 1994. The Hutus also killed...
The watergate case, also called the watergate scandal (watergate scandal) was an episode of political espionage, which culminated in the resignation of Richard Nixon, president of the United States, in...
