Curated playlist
Imperialism
- ImperialismImperialism began as a word for Napoleon III's invasions. By the 1880s it sounded positive in the West.
- Iraq WarThe Iraq War's main reason, weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be false.
- Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact's only two military actions targeted its own members. Hungary's 1956 exit bid was crushed.
- Vietnam WarOn March 8, 1965, 3,500 US Marines waded ashore near Da Nang, starting America's ground war in Vietnam.
- American imperialismGeorge Washington called the young United States an "infant empire" in 1786. Was it foreign policy or empire?
- Bay of Pigs InvasionKennedy canceled the second air strikes the night before the Bay of Pigs landing.
- Satellite stateMongolia's Soviet-backed republic collapsed less than two months after the Soviet Union dissolved.
- United States invasion of PanamaThe United States invasion of Panama began at 12:46 a.m. local time on the 20th of December 1989. Over the following hours, 27,684 American troops and more than 300 aircraft went into action. Washington's stated aim was to remove General…
- John DeeJohn Dee, an English mathematician and astronomer, once sent a flying beetle soaring up to the palace of Jupiter. The stage was at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the play was Aristophanes's Peace. Dee built the effect from pulleys and…
- British EmpireThe British Empire began with trading posts and failed colonies. By 1920 it covered 35.5 million square kilometres.
- Empire of LibertyJefferson's Empire of Liberty promised freedom, yet he obtained roughly a hundred million acres from Native Americans.
- 1953 Iranian coup d'étatA tank fired one shell into Iran's prime minister's home in 1953. Mohammad Mosaddegh fled, then surrendered to the army.