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What did the League of Nations do during WW2? Was the staff sent back home? What was going on in its buildings in Geneva?

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Henry Morgenthau Jr. died in 1967, many years after West Germany had remilitarized and become an industrial powerhouse. What did he think about it?

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It’s 1939 and I’m one of the first Soviet soldiers to enter Eastern Poland. Am I able to read shop names and other signs written in Latin script? Did Stalin-era schools only teach Cyrillic?

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What were the reactions to the rapid decline of the USSR in the late 1980s? Did experts expect Gorbachev to succeed in his attempts to relaunch the country and end stagnation?

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Before Kennedy's election was racism against Catholics particularly widespread? When did it start to die off? Was it also deeply present in Northern Europe?

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During the Congo Crisis Belgian civilians and paratroopers started to return to the former colony. What was their aim? Did they want to reinstate colonial control?

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Almost 1 million Israeli citizens descend from or are themselves immigrants from the former Soviet Union. How has this influenced the relationship between Israel and the USSR/Russian Federation?

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What was the reasons for American Jews to lobby against sanctions on South Africa under Apartheid, if they did?

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Henry Morgenthau Jr. died in 1967, many years after West Germany had remilitarized and become an industrial powerhouse. What did he think about it?

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Is there an estimate of how many oppositioners were killed by the Italian fascists before WW2? What are the difficulties and methods to pin down such numbers?

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What did the League of Nations do during WW2? Was the staff sent back home? What was going on in its buildings in Geneva?	219
Henry Morgenthau Jr. died in 1967, many years after West Germany had remilitarized and become an industrial powerhouse. What did he think about it?	18
It’s 1939 and I’m one of the first Soviet soldiers to enter Eastern Poland. Am I able to read shop names and other signs written in Latin script? Did Stalin-era schools only teach Cyrillic?	16
What were the reactions to the rapid decline of the USSR in the late 1980s? Did experts expect Gorbachev to succeed in his attempts to relaunch the country and end stagnation?	8
Before Kennedy's election was racism against Catholics particularly widespread? When did it start to die off? Was it also deeply present in Northern Europe?	5
During the Congo Crisis Belgian civilians and paratroopers started to return to the former colony. What was their aim? Did they want to reinstate colonial control?	3
Almost 1 million Israeli citizens descend from or are themselves immigrants from the former Soviet Union. How has this influenced the relationship between Israel and the USSR/Russian Federation?	2
What was the reasons for American Jews to lobby against sanctions on South Africa under Apartheid, if they did?	2
Henry Morgenthau Jr. died in 1967, many years after West Germany had remilitarized and become an industrial powerhouse. What did he think about it?	2
Is there an estimate of how many oppositioners were killed by the Italian fascists before WW2? What are the difficulties and methods to pin down such numbers?	1