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  • ImperialismThe word imperialism derives from the Latin root imperium, meaning to command or to rule. Historians trace its modern usage to Napoleon III's political…
  • Iraq WarOn the 12th of September 2002, President George W. Bush stood before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City and declared Iraq a member of the…
  • Warsaw PactThe Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, hosted a signing ceremony on the 14th of May 1955. Eight nations gathered to establish the Treaty of Friendship…
  • Vietnam WarOn the 2nd of September 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This declaration came after years of struggle…
  • American imperialismIn 1830, the United States government passed the Indian Removal Act. This law forced approximately 60,000 Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi…
  • Bay of Pigs InvasionOn the 20th of May 1902, a new independent government proclaimed the foundation of the Republic of Cuba. U.S. military governor Leonard Wood handed over…
  • Satellite stateThe term satellite state emerged in English texts as early as 1780. Writers used the phrase to describe planetary mechanics where smaller moons circle larger…
  • PutinismThe phrase Putinism first appeared in print on the 11th of January 2000. Andrei Piontkovsky published an article titled Putinism in the newspaper Sovetskaya…
  • Soviet empireThe term Soviet empire emerged in academic circles during the late 1950s to describe a specific pattern of global dominance.
  • John DeeJohn Dee was born in the Tower Ward of London on the 13th of July 1527. His father Rowland Dee served as a mercer and courtier to Henry VIII.
  • British EmpireIn 1497, John Cabot sailed from England and made landfall on the coast of Newfoundland. He believed he had reached Asia but found no colony to establish.
  • Empire of LibertyThomas Jefferson used the phrase Empire of Liberty in 1780 while the American Revolution was still being fought. His goal was to create an independent state…
  • Territorial evolution of RussiaThe Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480 marked the formal end to centuries of Tatar rule over Russia. Ivan III and Vasili III consolidated a centralized…