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Europe 1866
End of the German Confederation
Prussia responded swiftly to the German Federal Diet's vote for mobilization, declaring the German Confederation at an end and ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa 1940
World War II and the Fall of France
In 1939 Germany invaded Poland, prompting Britain and France to declare war. Although this Second World War immediately drew in ...
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Russia 1948
Berlin Blockade
As a result of the War, Germany had been divided into Allied zones of occupation. The German capital, Berlin, was ...