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Was Joseph Kennedy's tenure as UK ambassador and the comments he made about Democracy being "finished" ever used as a campaign issue against JFK?	6
Instead of splitting the German Empire after WW1 so Poland could have free access to the sea, why did the powers not just recreate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the predecessor state to Modern Poland which already had access to the sea?	6
During the last days in the Fuhrerbunker it’s said Hitler 'lost his grip on reality' or was 'living in a fantasy world'. Is there a moment where historians agree Hitler did indeed lose his grip on reality, or did conditions at the end of the war only illustrate his disconnect from reality all along?	6
I’m a working man in NYC in 1899. The automobile and subway are still years away. How likely is it that I own a horse, and if I don’t, how do I get around a giant metropolis like NYC?	6
When drafting the Constitution, what was the logic behind having the House of Representatives elect the President (Should the Electoral College fail to decide), but only giving each state a single vote?	5
How did the mentality of the top military leadership change from ‘Black people aren’t even honorable enough to be combat soldiers’ during the WWs to ‘lets send in the heavily black combat units first’ in Vietnam?	4
Who gave the order to drop the second bomb on Nagasaki?	4
What was the conduct/atmosphere of the campaign for the first West German Election in 1949 considering the history of intense, terse, and often violent German political campaigns in the previous decades?	4
After the fall of the Eastern Bloc, who initiated the expansion of the EU into Eastern Europe? Was there an official EU policy to expand East, or did Eastern Europeans make initial overtures to join the EU to get away from Russia?	3
Did the Chinese history of opium abuse and imperialism inform the later draconian drug laws of Asian countries?	3

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