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Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
The New-York Tribune prints this map on November 9, 1919, of the ongoing armed conflict in Europe in 1919, one year after World War I had ended: [7] War of Independence in Estonia and Latvia White Army of General Yudenich
Cambridge is a village and the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,086 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,086 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
This was a new social phenomenon and marked a major cultural shift in how nations commemorated conflicts. Interest in World War I and its memorials faded after World War II, and did not increase again until the 1980s and 1990s, which saw the renovation of many existing memorials and the opening of new sites. Visitor numbers at many memorials ...
Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. The 2020 United States Census, listed its population at 49,284. [1] Its county seat is Cambridge. [2] Henry County is included in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3]
The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Harvard UP, 2009). Bowman, Isaiah. The New World: Problems in Political Geography (4th ed. 1928) sophisticated global coverage; 215 maps; online; Brendon, Piers. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) a comprehensive global political history; 816pp excerpt
Houses exhibits on the ancient Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas: Stacy's Tavern Museum: Glen Ellyn: DuPage: Chicago area: Historic site: Operated by the Glen Ellyn Historical Society, 1840s wayside stagecoach inn: Star Worlds Arcade: DeKalb: DeKalb: Northern Illinois: Arcade: Exhibition of video gaming collectibles ...
Battles generally refer to short periods of intense combat localized to a specific area and over a specific period of time. However, use of the terms in naming such events is not consistent. For example, the First Battle of the Atlantic was more or less an entire theatre of war, and the so-called battle lasted for the duration of the entire war ...