...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
...contentious document come into existence and why was it signed? Responsibility for drafting the treaty, rested with the ‘Big Four’ (the US, Britain, France and Italy). The conference started discussing...
...clearly helped that he was promoting a cause likely to have strong popular support. But being the darling of the people is no guarantee of success when manoeuvring against a...
...out a timetable and terms for the Nazi takeover of the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland. And he had persuaded Hitler to sign a piece of paper stating that...
...already proving ineffectual, not least because the US refused to sign up. Disarmament remained a worthy aspiration undermined by a nationalism inflamed by contentious peace settlements. In Britain, politicians knew...
...visitors reach a section focusing on Under age and Over age soldiers, telling the tale of Sidney Lewis, the youngest combatant to sign up during the First World War (at...
...the War of the Polish Succession was the first sign of serious tension between him and Newcastle. Newcastle realised more quickly than Walpole the strength of public feeling that led...
...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...
...also be a sign of weakness 1. Cavell’s execution needs to be set in its wartime context to understand its particular resonance. Portrait of Edith Cavell, via Wikimedia Commons [Public...
...the House of Commons or holding a significant domestic post, but his reputation was damaged by his failure to prevent the Crimean War or to manage it well. His parents...