/u/nowlan101's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Where did American's like Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge get there fascination and rose colored view of war?
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My college professor once told our class that England, Post-World War II, could not have created the NHS without the funds provided in the Marshall Plan by the U.S. Their economy was too damaged to fund it alone. Is there any merit to it?
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In Catherine Merridale's book Ivans War she says that throughout World War Two things like shellshock and PTSD were never accepted as legitimate reasons for soldiers to leave the front. Is this true? And if so, did the Soviet government evolve in its views and treatment of PTSD?
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What was the status of the Tlaxacalan’s and Cortes’s other native auxiliaries in the first few decades of New Spain?
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I've read that during the Battle of the Bulge Army troop shortages were so bad that they let blacks and whites serve together in the same unit. I also heard that they remained integrated after the battle. Is this true? What happened to such units after the VE-Day?
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Are there any sources on what Hernan Cortes said to the Tlaxcalans to make them allies of the Spanish?
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After reading In The Court Of The Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Monetefiore I come away with a very negative picture of Nikita Khrushchev. Is this accurate?
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