Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan included

After 1928, the Nazi Party, guided by the chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels,

The goal of Peter the Great’s foreign policy was to

The newly efficient taxation systems in many European realms of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries paid for many expenses, but by far the most expensive expenditure made by these states was

In 1662, Louis XIV asserted his authority over the marquis of Canillac and other nobles who acted independently by

The outcomes of the War of the Spanish Succession made it clear that military dominance in Europe lay with the

Frederick William I of Prussia was significant because he

In England, Charles II triggered a crisis not unlike that produced by his father’s rule when he

In 1946, some six thousand people died in the Great Calcutta Killing, in a confrontation between

During the battle of Okinawa,