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I know that Gustav Adolph in the 30 years war is famous for his new modern tactics. What exactly did he change that he became so famous for it and was able to gain victory after victory against the catholics?
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Much has been said about Germany's inability to win the Battle for the Atlantic in WW2 using mainly U-boats. But I often hear that during WW1 Germany's chances to force the UK to submit using mainly U-Boats was, while still impossible, much higher. How true is that?
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Was there ever a serious risk of inter-war France falling into civil war? It had a large divide between an extremist right and left and it had a popular front a la Spain. Furthermore, were did this divide and rise of extremist ideology come from?
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What exactly was Japan after the Meiji Restauration? An absolute monarchy? What about during WW2? Was it a totalitarian dictatorship? If so, who was the dictator? And can it be called fascist?
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[WP] Your arrival as the worlds first, and so far only, superheroine caused a large upheaval in the existing comic book industry, legal system and sciences. After your secret identity is revealed, you're on the run from every government, big corporation, and curious scientist in the world.
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During Napoleonic times big organizational army units were called "XIV Corps". In modern day times we call them "12th Army". The Roman Empire called them "XII Legion". What did the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese, etc... call their big organisational army units?
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It seems that most 19th century European nationalism was driven forward by "intellegentsia" writing "nationalistic/patriotic literature". What was the intellegentsia, why was it so crucial for the dev. of nationalism, and what did this lit. look like and how would it help support nationalism?
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Why was the Free City of Krakow created? After the fall of Napoleon, all of Poland was re-annexed into its neighbours, all but Krakow. There, the highly autocratic and anti-liberal powers of Prussia, Russia and Austria created a very liberal and jointly controlled republic. Why?
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