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What are some of the inherent differences in the development, outbreak and process between Cold War 'proxy wars' and post-Cold War wars fought by the US and Russia?

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How popular was Philip II of France?

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Why were the British more successful in creating and maintaining an empire in India than in North America?

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Did Hitler or the Reich ever have a plan to invade Italy in the event Germany won WWII?

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How effective was the St Brice's Day Massacre? Was it to blame for the invasions of Sweyn Forkbeard and Cnut?

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Napoleon and his regime: Son of the Revolution? Military dictator?

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Why and in what ways did developments in Yugoslavia after 1945 differ from the common Eastern European model?

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How influential and successful was Charles-Maurice Talleyrand in curbing Napoleon's expansionism, if at all?

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Can Jurgen Habermas' theory of the 'Public Sphere' be transposed onto the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; Was there the same 'coffee shop/salon culture' as there was in Enlightenment France (1789)?

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After 'The July Days' in 1917, the Mensheviks declared the Provisional Government to have "unlimited powers". Why was this? Were they bluffing, or did the Mensheviks see the Provisional Government as more 'revolutionary' vessel than it actually was?

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What are some of the inherent differences in the development, outbreak and process between Cold War 'proxy wars' and post-Cold War wars fought by the US and Russia?	4
How popular was Philip II of France?	4
Why were the British more successful in creating and maintaining an empire in India than in North America?	4
Did Hitler or the Reich ever have a plan to invade Italy in the event Germany won WWII?	3
How effective was the St Brice's Day Massacre? Was it to blame for the invasions of Sweyn Forkbeard and Cnut?	3
Napoleon and his regime: Son of the Revolution? Military dictator?	3
Why and in what ways did developments in Yugoslavia after 1945 differ from the common Eastern European model?	2
How influential and successful was Charles-Maurice Talleyrand in curbing Napoleon's expansionism, if at all?	2
Can Jurgen Habermas' theory of the 'Public Sphere' be transposed onto the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; Was there the same 'coffee shop/salon culture' as there was in Enlightenment France (1789)?	2
After 'The July Days' in 1917, the Mensheviks declared the Provisional Government to have "unlimited powers". Why was this? Were they bluffing, or did the Mensheviks see the Provisional Government as more 'revolutionary' vessel than it actually was?	2