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Did the US military consider the conscription during the Vietnam War to be a success? If not, when did they realise that it was not?

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Did European Christians consider the UK (a nominally Christian nation) taking Jerusalem from The Ottomans (a Muslim empire) in WW1 to be significant?

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What were relations like between Mexico and the Native American people in the modern day southwest USA? Particularly the Apache and Comanche

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Why was the state of New Mexico called that, rather than calling e.g. the current state of Arizona or California "New Mexico"? They were also formed from the land won from Mexico and border the country

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Did life in the Old West in the USA differ much from the Old West in Canada?

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Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Edwin Walker before he killed JFK. How significant of a political figure was Edwin Walker? I'm familiar with what he did from wikipedia but would the average American have known about him? Would his death have been big news?

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Was Columbus the first to try to reach India by sailing west from Europe?

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How did the War of The Pacific (Chile vs Bolivia and Peru) start? And was it Chile's goal to cut Bolivia off from the sea?

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During the Cold War, were the US embassy in Moscow, Soviet embassy in Washington, etc. just glorified spying operations? Any other NATO embassy in a Warsaw Pact country or vice-versa, would be interesting to read about also.

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In the 1970s Chile had Pinochet and Argentina had their notorious military junta. What was military rule like in the rest of South America at this time?

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Did the US military consider the conscription during the Vietnam War to be a success? If not, when did they realise that it was not?	45
Did European Christians consider the UK (a nominally Christian nation) taking Jerusalem from The Ottomans (a Muslim empire) in WW1 to be significant?	43
What were relations like between Mexico and the Native American people in the modern day southwest USA? Particularly the Apache and Comanche	38
Why was the state of New Mexico called that, rather than calling e.g. the current state of Arizona or California "New Mexico"? They were also formed from the land won from Mexico and border the country	30
Did life in the Old West in the USA differ much from the Old West in Canada?	28
Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Edwin Walker before he killed JFK. How significant of a political figure was Edwin Walker? I'm familiar with what he did from wikipedia but would the average American have known about him? Would his death have been big news?	25
Was Columbus the first to try to reach India by sailing west from Europe?	24
How did the War of The Pacific (Chile vs Bolivia and Peru) start? And was it Chile's goal to cut Bolivia off from the sea?	24
During the Cold War, were the US embassy in Moscow, Soviet embassy in Washington, etc. just glorified spying operations? Any other NATO embassy in a Warsaw Pact country or vice-versa, would be interesting to read about also.	24
In the 1970s Chile had Pinochet and Argentina had their notorious military junta. What was military rule like in the rest of South America at this time?	23