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You ask your grandparents about "The War/fighting/conflict."

What is their response?
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>>1956685
FREEEDOOOM
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>>1956685
we killed a buncha japs
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>>1956688
So US, Scotland, somewhere like that?

I know most places will likely be WW2, some even WW1.

Some places have interesting recent conflicts, like Ulsterfags.
Georgia is almost there but there thing wasn't necessarily a conflict, just an overthrowing I suppose.

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Why is the West so proud of its Greco-Roman heritage, but not its medieval period? Why do you identify with one more than the other?
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I'm just speculating, but I imagine it has to do with the more unified identity of Greece and Rome (in a cultural sense), and once we hit the middle ages things tend to splinter a bit nation-wise.

Most Westerners see it as being a quality similar in most other Westerners.
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>>1965384
Because deep down snow nigs know how terrible they are. From 500-1400 is like one big chimp until they finally realized the value of their former rulers, so they prefer to forget about it.
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>>1965384
i personally love the medieval period
but i think it has to do with the fact that after rome fell we went from building an empire and spreading our roads and knowledge across the world, to burning people at the stake for having different views and dying of disease in mud huts.
whereas in the middle east culture and knowledge prospered and people were liveing relatively comfortably. and in the far east china was conquering shit and makeing gunpowder all while being emperors and shit.

honestly that's just my perspective desu

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Could it be argued that the Treaty of Versailles was the most significant cause leading to WW2?

Forgive me if this is a silly question.
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Wasn't hard enough

Germany should have been annexed

t. fag
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>>1965179
Versailles overwhelming leniency can indeed be considered an important cause of WW2
Post WW2 Peace (which left Germany divided and militarily occupied) showed us that a harsh treatment was the cure to German chimp outs

The two main reasons for WW2 were Versailles leniency (which combined with the general German butthurt about having lost WW1 paved the way for WW2) and the US spawned Great Depression
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Didn't go far enough

In hindsight the most utilitarian thing to do would have been to systematically execute every last German man, woman and child.

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Who are the most powerful people in history?
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>>1965030

jews
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The ones who treat women as objects and ignore their "opinions".
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The ones who treat Turks as objects and ignore their "opinions".

How did Napoleon manage to fight off the rest of the European powers for so long (and even be so close to winning)?
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>>1964317

because his army was much bigger and better than anything that opposed it and napoleon was an excellent tactician, strategist and logistician
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manlet rage
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>>1964338
>much bigger

That's bullshit and you know it
Napoleon was outnumbered in most major battles he fought, and France's army wasn't half as big as those of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Britain combined

Napoleon was a genius, why is it so hard to admit for you?

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Who started the first world war? Germany or Austria-Hungary?
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>>1963364
The Serbs.
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Serbia
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> Who started the first world war? Germany or Austria-Hungary?

why not both

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Why else would they make their statues with blue eyes?
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No, it's supposed to be an allusion to psilocybin mushrooms. I'm not even trolling you here.
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not enough proof, not every depiction has blue eyes
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>>1960543
>Egypt

wow! a depiction out of thousands has blue eyes!

>Sumer

Same as above, it even has a monobrow which certainly isn't a nordic feature

>Peru

Kys

>India

Yeah, I guess his eyebrows were blue too

What was apartheid South Africa actually like?

no /pol/ plz
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>>1950438
Dr reddit, I'm /pol/.

It was just like America before 1964, except more people were second class citizens. It would have fell A LOT sooner but fear of Soviet/chinese infiltration of the ANC government made the west prop it up past it's expiry date. Standard of living and such was much higher and it was generally a better country if you put aside moral qualms over who had a right to rule, but if you think about it, Khoisans aren't even native to the region so they lose the indigenous argument and they didn't set up any government themselves, so they lose that too.

Basically, it was white AND based.
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>>1950438
blacks were economically better off then any country on earth, had the 7th largest economy on earth in the early 70s

now SA is a toilet, 41st GDP. but at least blacks are 'free' to be ruled by other blacks instead of whites.
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was really having sex with a black person a crime? is there mixed population?

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What's Masculinity?
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>Be born male
>Have a good degree of responsibility
>Be fit
did i get it right?
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>>1948575

Born a bloke, embrace a mind set which involves self improvement, emotional restraint, boisterousness.

Many different kind of man, so I can't really say.

Muh ''toxic masculinity" is fucking stupid though.
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>>1948575
Inferior to femininity

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How common were sexual relations between white women and slaves in the USA?

I know white male masters tended to have relations with their female slaves, but did the mistresses of the plantations and their daughters partake of their slaves?

I mean wouldn't a plantation owner's daughter just view the strong bucks working the fields as property to be used as she pleased?

Just curious.
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>>1945388
This was before birth control so it would be too risky.
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>>1945388
>inb4 cucking
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>>1945388
They couldnt' get enough BBC, and the white men knew it.

However, if a BBC encounter resulted in a pregnancy, the results were disastrous for everyone involved, making the BBC that much more forbidden and enticing.

Is that what you were looking for?

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When it comes to gunpowder, nobody knows gunpowder better than me. I have the best gunpowder. The best. But look folks, the Mongolians have been definetely outsmarting our politicians at warfare. It's terrible. When Mongolia sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing horse archers. They're bringing lootings. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. We need to build a wall. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Mongolia. I love Mongolia. I have great relationships with the Mongolian people. But what they have been doing to our villages and farms is just... terrible. Terrible. Sad! Don't worry though, folks. Confucianism is going to come back. And it's going to come back greater and stronger than ever before. It's gonna be yuge, believe me. We're going to make China great again.
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When it comes to socialism, nobody knows about socialism better than me. I have the best socialism. The best. But look folks, the westerners have been definetely outsmarting our politicians at the Cold War. When West Germany send its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing companies. They're bringing banks. They're capitalists. And some, I assume, are good people. We need to build a wall. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate westerners. I love the west. I have great relationships with the western people. But what they have been doing to our GDR is just... terrible. Terrible. Sad! Don't worry though, folks. The Stasi is going to come back. And it's going to come back greater and stronger than ever before. It's gonna be yuge, believe me. We're going to make the Iron Curtain great again
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>>1944759
>>1944787
Please, go on
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>They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Everytime.

Why do Indians want Hindi to be an official language of the UN (similarly to Spanish and Arabic being there despite no nation that uses them as official languages being a permanent security council member) when Hindi isn't even the most important language in India, let alone relevant at all outside of it?

Russian and Mandarin at least have the benefit of being national languages learned by virtually all citizens of two very large and relevant countries. Hindi is only used in certain regions of India.
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>>1939333
>indians
The Indian government does.
>relevant
Neither is chinese.
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>>1939333
Chenese: PRC, Taiwan,... ???
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>>1939341
Is the Indian government not made up of Indians?

>neither is Chinese
>Russian and Mandarin at least have the benefit of being national languages learned by virtually all citizens of two very large and relevant countries.

Not to mention that Mandarin is there for two reasons: Number of speakers and China being a permanent member of the security council due to being one of the """"winners"""" of WWII.

And arguably, Mandarin is more relevant than Russian and Arabic. On the other hand, Hindi does not only largely overlap with English, but is even less used than English on its own home country as a lingua franca.

If the USA had the capability and intelligence during WW2 to build and use a nuke, why did they not have the ability to achieve world domination?
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>>1965982

Pre-hydrogen bomb nukes are "only" about as effective as a very large (1,000ish) or so heavy bombers sortieing at once. They're powerful, but not an instant win button for any conceivable conflict. Hell, they got the railroads running again in Hiroshima the next day.

Quite honestly, if you posited a war breaking out between the USA and the USSR in the aftermath of WW2 as we know it, it would almost certainly be more decided by conventional weapons than atomics.
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>>1965982
>world domination

For what purpose?
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>>1966036
For the same purpose the bomb was created.

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What went wrong /his/?
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2003
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Iraq.
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Iraq, mass immigration

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In all the history classes i have taken there is rarely any mention of operation Bagration. The combined losses of the Germany and Russia were close to a million, which is more than the Americans lost during the whole war. It was also the battle that crippled the back of the Wehrmacht. so why is it rarely spoken about?
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>>1965310
Russia is a big fucking country.
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>>1965313
Yes, most definitely. But Bagration was no small skirmish. hell, I could have said that hardly any of the Eastern front is covered besides in Uni.
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>>1965310

because western, anglophone historians don't have access to or literally cannot read the russian archival material on the subject, if it even exists

people really need to understand this and stop crying about muh eastern front

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