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>>2270238

>straight up genocide millions

[citation needed]

Also it doesn't matter what they did if their criticism was valid.

>>2270256
You cannot be this retarted

>>2270256
Fuck off shill.

>muh the soviets never murdered millions

The shit they pulled in the Civil War.
Holdomor.
Great Purge.
Several "ressetlements" of various ethnics.

>muh if their criticism is valid it is a-ok

The tankie/slav is defending hypocrisy. I am not surprised.

If your criticism is supposed to have anymore value you should at least strive to be better than the one subjected to your criticism.

Would have been pretty ridiciolus if the Nazis started whining about racial inequality in America.

Wanted to be allies with Germany which would have been retarded from British intrest perspective.

>>2270102
His eyes were too beady

>>2270117
You mean as opposed to declaring a second world war where millions upon millions of your countrymen will be sent to die for basically nothing?

they are Korean rice farmers who cosplayed as Chinese after discovering the giant next door

>>2269969
If Japanese were Chinese they wouldn't be Japanese now would they

>>2269969
>Is Japan Chinese?
Yes.

>>2269859
Its the latter. It means viewing Europe as more important than other places.

>>2269859
it's both
the latter leads to the former

>>2269859
It's looking at things from a European viewpoint. It's absolutely sensical for a European. I don't care how the non-Whites want to go about history.

>>2269672
-You dont find the evidence for the existence of a God to be more reasonable than not.
-You do not find the claims made in its documents or by its proponents convincing

There you go OP

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>>2269677
You don't need to believe in the supernatural to be a Christian

>>2269656

Robespierre. Seriously, why the fuck doesn't anyone make a movie about his rise and fall?

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>>2269656
The wars of the diadochi, more specifically the battle of ipsus and the events surrounding it

HBO series following ice age hunter gatherers. I feel it had amazing potential.

>>2269602
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/history-pubic-hair/

>>2269602
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7uIOSxSH4

>>2269602

ever since stone age technology allowed shaving

Kennedy, by far

Although Clinton's legacy has deteriorated a lot recently

A couple years ago the gap would've been smaller

>>2269588
Marylin>Monica

Clinton, no contest.

JFK was a dangerous narcissist, Oswald did the world a service.

>>2269551
>Why would the British create a ship that would render the rest of their navy completely impotent?

Because it made every other major power's navies equally impotent. It also ruined WWI by making the Brits and the Germans too afraid of losing their battleships to use them in actual combat outside of long range snorefests like Jutland. Thank goodness the Nazis and Japs were absolute madmen.

>>2269573
Thanks for the respone, the only thing I don't understand is why they felt the need to reset their lead from having hundreds of competitive ships more than their rivals to only having one powerhouse of a ship? Didn't it make more sense to retain their lead in naval forces rather than close the gap with new technologies?

>>2269578
Because from 1890s to 1914 saw Naval technology changed at an incredibly fast pace, but until the Japo-Russian War the naval brass had no idea what would actually win in a pitched battle between two equally matched navies. The British built the Dreadnought because it might have given them the upper hand against the school of naval warfare that believed that large ships would be made obsolete by fast moving torpedo boats which would make a blockade impossible.
Then after the Japanese torpedo boats performed worse than expected in 1905 while their standard fleet destroyed the Russians at Tsushima and around Port Arthur, the British found they had backed the right horse. Either way was better than sitting around and doing nothing while everyone around you, especially Germany, was building up a cutting edge-navy.

>>2269420
do your own homework

Humanities was a mistake.

sage

Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981-89)
U.S. Representative from Vermont's at-large congressional district (1991-2007)
U.S. Senator from Vermon (2007-present)

The seven years war of 1756-63 had begun in skirmishes with the French in America. France was expanding from Canada south down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, threatening to encircle the 13 New England colonies along the east coast. In India, the collapse of the Mogul empire enabled a French general, Joseph Dupleix, to capture Madras from the British East India Company and thus control most of South India. With rich possessions in the Caribbean, France was set on Europe's greatest global empire.

In 1758, British units in America returned to the Ohio valley, where French lines were cut and the principal fort, Duquesne, captured and renamed Pittsburgh after the British statesman, William Pitt. The following year, General James Wolfe advanced up the St Lawrence and seized the French colony of Quebec, scaling the adjacent cliffs, known as the Heights of Abraham, reputedly reciting Gray's Elegy as he climbed. French posts in the Caribbean were also captured. Horace Walpole remarked of 1759 that "our bells are worn threadbare ringing for victories".

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>The Ethiopian coup d'état of 1928 was an attempt by supporters of Empress Zewditu to rid her of the heir apparent and Crown Prince, Ras Tafari Makonnen. With Tafari gone, Zewditu would be the sole ruler of the Ethiopian Empire (Mangista Ityop'p'ya).
>When confronted by Tafari and a company of troops, the ringleaders of the coup took refuge on the palace grounds in Menilek's mausoleum. Tafari and his men surrounded them only to be surrounded themselves by the personal guard of Zewditu. More of Tafari's khaki clad soldiers arrived and surrounded Zewditu's guard. Tafari's soldiers were equipped with newly imported rifles, machine guns, small cannon, and an obsolete but menacing tank. The tank, a Fiat 3000, had been a gift to Empress Zewditu from the Duke of Abruzzi of Italy during a visit some years earlier.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenian_raids
Ireland invades Canada

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>>2269294
shame 1940 is the cutoff because I would say that the vietnamese war of independence would be a great topic since it had so many different phases to talk about that were all extremely different from one another.

Did you know that Ho Chi Minh actually petitioned for Vietnamese independence from France at Versailles all the way back in 1919, citing the principle of self determination. He was ignored of course. Then during ww2 the USA actually helped found the lineal ancestor of the Viet Cong as a partisan group to fight the Japanese. Then when the French attempted to reassert control after running away from the Japs the viet partisans turned their guns on them. When the French came back Ho Chi Minh actually asked US president Truman to intervene and get France to back down (see pic) which he quite unfortunately refused, considering France was an important NATO ally. It was only after this refusal of support that the Viets turned to the soviets and chinese for help. After kicking out the french and the americans the chinese invaded vietnam as well, all three were soundly beaten back and Vietnam remained independent. Truly an incredible story.

Rise of Japanese militarism and Sino-Japanese wars perhaps?

>>2269294
Interwar Yugoslavia, how it was formed, and why it failed.
1918-1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaeSueY4jz8

they were ARYAN'D

>>2269291
>Sumerians appear, noone really knows where they came from, pretty much invent civilization
>semitic tribes learn from them and build their oen city states
>sumerian cities start to decline due to the lands getting overused by irrigation, some get taken over by Anatolian empires
>bronze age collapse happens and fucks the region up, trade collapses, cities near the coast get looted
>Assyiria gets mostly spared and take over most of the region with iron weapons. They like skinning and deporting people a lot.
>they even take over Egypt for some time but get overextended. Arabs move in to some territoris, some cities get independent and some get taken over by Persians
>Babylonia tries to larp as the new Assyria but they soon get conquered by the Achaemenid Empire

>>2269291
>build kingdom based on agriculture
>ruin your soil
>your kingdom dies

Oh, and something about barbarians raiding.

I can read Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, English, Icelandic, and I know some German from school

I feel very confident when reading Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
I can read Beowfulf
but I am not confident in the pronunciation, I just use Old Norse phonology

I'm taking a course of the History of the English Language this semester, and although the breadth of the class is great, I'm hoping to pick up a little bit

I'm fairly proficient in German, which helps

>>2269182
>tfw don't have enough time to learn Old Norse, Old English, Latin, Old French, and Middle English, and Ancient Greek

>>2268966

He ordered the construction of a grand toilet and then never once used it.

>>2268968
There is something seriously wrong when the low effort shitposts are what I enjoy most about the board.

>>2268966
Despite conquering the world he could never poo in a loo.