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Did Israel ever support or help establish Hamas?	10
The death toll for Chernobyl ranges wildly, from a few hundred to tens of thousands. Which numbers are the most believable and why? Furthermore, why is it so hard to establish a concrete number for the disaster?	10
After WW1 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became independent, democratic republics. All three turned into authoritarian dictatorships in the 1930s and had underground fascist movement that they... suppressed? How come? And how come they all had such similar political paths? What was going on here?	10
Nowadays Nixon is only remembered for the Watergate scandal, but whst was his presidency like? What policies, good and bad, did he implement?	10
In Antiquity, highly centralised governments and huge standing armies were quite prominent, while during the Middle Ages, states were very decentralised and armies were small. What caused this Devolution and why did it evolve back into highly centralized systems and standing armies again?	9
The British supported the Japanese navy buildup leading up to the Russo-Japanese War and the Japanese joined the Allies in WW1. What caused these great relations between the two countries and why did they deterioate so much in the 1920s. causing Japan to join the Axis?	9
Why didn't the Germans immediatly seize the French Fleet? And would it have been enough to make Sealion a more realistic possibility?	9
How many different prince titles (e.g. Count, Duke, Margrave, etc..) existed in the HRE and what was their meaning and purpose?	9
How true is the common argument that Hitler would have won the Battle of Britain if he only had kept bombing the airfields instead of the cities?	9
The sabotage of a heavy water plant in Norway by Norwegian and British commandos is often mentioned when speaking about the Norwegian participation in WW2. But how important was that plant for the German development of an atomic bomb really and how close were they to getting one?	9

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