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...to fight on the German side. In order to 'sweeten the deal', Zimmerman suggested that Mexico would get back her lost territories in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona when Germany...
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Britain and an independent South America
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...the 21 July 1824 The Consuls reported the regulations had been repealed by Congress. Mexico In October 1823 Charles O’Gorman was appointed Consul General for Mexico, with instructions to perform...
What’s the context? Polish cryptologists reveal they have cracked the Enigma code, 26 July 1939
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The 3 Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski ‘Il y a du nouveau’ On 26 July 1939, in the Pyry Forest south of Warsaw, Polish cryptologists revealed...
What’s the Context? 6 August 1945: an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
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...by Stalin and there was no sign that the Japanese leaders were ready to agree to surrender unconditionally. After the successful test at Alamogordo in New Mexico on 16 July...
What’s The Context? 8 January 1959: Fidel Castro enters Havana in triumph
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...Castro brothers were jailed for 15 years, but were released after 2 and allowed to go into exile in Mexico. There they met the charismatic Argentinian doctor Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara,...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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...bomb was tested successfully in New Mexico. Its use, on 6 and 9 August, would lead to Japanese surrender and the final end to the global conflict. At Potsdam, Truman...
Prime Ministers and their Foreign Secretaries
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...arrive and were often written in code in case they were stolen by foreign spies. When his conduct at the 1814 Congress of Vienna was later challenged in Parliament, Castlereagh...
What’s the Context? D-Day, 6 June 1944
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...overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-western Europe. After months of detailed planning, involving much discussion, a certain amount of friction between Allied military and civilian authorities, and...
‘A Call to the Women of Great Britain’: the formation of the Women’s Land Army
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First World War, Social history, The National Archives
...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
Mata Hari: the execution of an alleged international spy-mistress
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...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...