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How did Japan go about bringing electricity to its cities and towns? Did they hire westerners to teach them how to use it in order to make their own companies?

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After Josef Tito's split with Stalin, why didn't the USSR invade Yugoslavia with Warsaw Pact troops like they did in Prague and Hungary?

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How did the Soviet Union, a nation ostensibly built to transcend capitalism and market economies, go about building their currency?

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Tobacco was originally a cash crop grown and exported from the English colony of Virginia in the 1700’s. How and when did it end up in a country as distant and far away as Russia?

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Did America “plan” to step into the role of global superpower by the end of World War II? Or was there any talk of going back to the isolationist policies of the past and leave Europe to its own devices?

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Did a unique accent arise among the families of the British soldiers and colonists that lived in India like there was in Australia and Canada? If so, why or why not?

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I often hear the aphorism “there are no atheists in fox holes” in relation to the U.S. military. But what about a country that was, supposedly, atheistic, like the Soviet Union? What religious practices or rituals did soldiers have in combat? Did they have any? How did it change over generations?

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What were the circumstances behind the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower’s whopping 36% share of the black vote in 1955 Presidential Election?

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What were the beliefs of the right wing militants of Korea and the leftist militants around the time of the Korean War? What made it so hard to compromise?

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In the subsequent memoirs of the Soviet generals and politicians who survived Stalin's purges, did they express any regret or guilt for the fact they survived while so many of their comrades from the early days of the Revolution died?

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How did Japan go about bringing electricity to its cities and towns? Did they hire westerners to teach them how to use it in order to make their own companies?	8	AskHistorians
After Josef Tito's split with Stalin, why didn't the USSR invade Yugoslavia with Warsaw Pact troops like they did in Prague and Hungary?	8	AskHistorians
How did the Soviet Union, a nation ostensibly built to transcend capitalism and market economies, go about building their currency?	8	AskHistorians
Tobacco was originally a cash crop grown and exported from the English colony of Virginia in the 1700’s. How and when did it end up in a country as distant and far away as Russia?	8	AskHistorians
Did America “plan” to step into the role of global superpower by the end of World War II? Or was there any talk of going back to the isolationist policies of the past and leave Europe to its own devices?	8	AskHistorians
Did a unique accent arise among the families of the British soldiers and colonists that lived in India like there was in Australia and Canada? If so, why or why not?	8	AskHistorians
I often hear the aphorism “there are no atheists in fox holes” in relation to the U.S. military. But what about a country that was, supposedly, atheistic, like the Soviet Union? What religious practices or rituals did soldiers have in combat? Did they have any? How did it change over generations?	8	AskHistorians
What were the circumstances behind the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower’s whopping 36% share of the black vote in 1955 Presidential Election?	7	AskHistorians
What were the beliefs of the right wing militants of Korea and the leftist militants around the time of the Korean War? What made it so hard to compromise?	7	AskHistorians
In the subsequent memoirs of the Soviet generals and politicians who survived Stalin's purges, did they express any regret or guilt for the fact they survived while so many of their comrades from the early days of the Revolution died?	7	AskHistorians