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The Yalta Conference: Dividing the World
February 1945. The war in Europe was ending. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea. They came to decide the future of the post-war wo…
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The Aftermath: Rebuilding a Broken World
When the guns finally fell silent, the world faced an unprecedented crisis. The war had destroyed entire cities, shattered economies, and left millions hom…
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The Liberation of Paris: A City Freed
August 1944. The Allies were racing across France after the breakout from Normandy. The French Resistance, which had been waiting for this moment, rose up…
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The Aleutian Campaign: America's Forgotten Battlefield
When people think of World War II in America, they think of Pearl Harbor or the home front. They don't think of Alaska. But in 1942, the Japanese invaded t…
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Resistance Fighters: The Secret Armies of Occupied Europe
When your country is occupied, what do you do? For millions across Europe, the answer was to fight back however they could. The resistance movements were a…
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The Warsaw Uprising: A City's Sacrifice
By August 1944, the Soviet army was approaching Warsaw. The Polish Home Army, the underground resistance, decided to act. They wanted to liberate their cap…
Human Psychology
Dark Triad: The Personality Traits That Make Someone Genuinely Dangerous
Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams coined the term dark triad in 2002 to describe three personality traits that share a core of callousness, manipulation, a…