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Conflicts and Wars
| 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | ● Student-led protests ended with government deployed troops occupying the square; heavily censored event in China |
| 1992 Los Angeles riots | ● 🐇 Riots occuring after police brutality against Rodney King; significantly impacted tensions between African American and Korean American communities |
| 2011 England riots | Protests, against a man’s shooting by the police, were hijacked by looters, arsonists and violent rioting |
| Atrocities in the Congo Free State | Absolute rule of the King of Belgium led to some of the worst cruelty against Congolese people |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | ● 1961 failed American invasion of Cuba |
| Bloody Sunday (1972), and The Troubles | 🐇 Massacre of unarmed civilians by British soldiers in Northern Ireland |
| CIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro | From poisoned food to infected diving suits, the CIA spent over a decade trying to remove Castro from power |
| DeepStateMap.Live | Online map documenting Russian and Ukrainian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine; currently active |
| Emu War | ● When the emus couldn’t be stopped the army rolled in |
| Hundred man killing contest | A newspaper report of a contest between two Japanese soldiers |
| Idi Amin | ● Ugandan military dictator and despot |
| Iranian Embassy siege | A 6 day hostage situation in London concluded with the SAS storming the building; made into a Netflix movie |
| List of genocides | 🐇 With an estimated 7 million killings, the Holocaust is the largest recorded genocide in human history |
| List of war crimes | 🐇 Violations of war since 1809 |
| List of wars involving the United States | 🐇 The US is almost 250 years old and has been involved in over 130 conflicts |
| Mata Hari | Dutch exotic dancer and German spy during WWI |
| Mountain Meadows Massacre | Mormons in Mountain Meadows do mass murder |
| Nanjing Massacre | Horrific mass murder, assault, torture and looting by the Japanese army against Chinese civilians |
| Nazino tragedy | When Soviet prisoners are sent to an island with no supplies cannibalism ensues |
| Nuclear close calls | When an intruding bear almost caused nuclear war |
| Osage Indian murders | Some Americans didn’t like Native Americans getting rich from oil |
| Snake Island campaign | Russia’s attempt to take Snake Island resulted in a blunt response from Ukraine |
| Storming of the Bastille | Celebrated on 14th July, this was a key event in the French Revolution |
| Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War | ● 🐇 In history, events always start before you’ve realised they’ve started |
| Tulsa race massacre | ● White supremacists destroy black community in one of the worst displays of racial violence in the US |
| Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth | We would have won the Vietnam War if it hadn’t been for… |
WWII
| 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden | 20,000 people attended this pro-Nazi rally, and 100,000 protested against it |
| Adolf Eichmann | ● A key player in the Final Solution; later captured in Argentina by the Mossad |
| Allied war crimes during World War II | 🐇 A lesser talked about history |
| Auschwitz bombing debate | When the allies found out about Auschwitz a moral dilemma started |
| Bombing of Dresden | British and American aerial bombing of a German city killing up to 25,000 people |
| Bullenhuser Damm | A school where children were used in human experiments |
| Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler’s death | 🐇 It’s safe to say he is definitely no longer alive |
| Cowra breakout | Japanese POWs break out of an Australian camp resulting in 235 deaths |
| Fatebenefratelli Hospital | When Nazis came for its Jewish patients they found the patients had a dangerous disease… |
| Holocaust denial, and Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust | 🐇 The history of denialism that developed after WWII; the Holocaust is actually the single most documented genocide in history |
| Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic | A loaf of bread went from 160 marks to 200 billion marks |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Klaus Barbie | Known as ‘the Butcher of Lyon’ for his treatment of French Jews and resistance members; later discovered in Bolivia |
| List of Righteous Among the Nations by country | 🐇 People who risked their lives to save Jewish people during the Holocaust |
| Mitford family | 🐇 British aristocratic family; one sister had a friendship with Hitler, one married Oswald Mosley, and another was a communist |
| Nancy Wake | AKA White Mouse, Wake worked for the French Resistance and British forces in France during WWII |
| Nazi concentration camp badge | The Nazis used a number of coloured triangles to indicate certain prisoners in concentration camps |
| Nazi symbolism | For those of you who put 18, 88, or 14 in your username and are getting messages from people calling you a Nazi |
| Nicholas Winton | British stockbroker who helped save 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia |
| Operation Chastise | ● RAF bombings on dams to destroy German infrastructure |
| Operation Mincemeat | The disguising of the Allies invasion of Italy involving ‘the man who never was’ |
| Oswald Mosley | ● Leader of the British Union of Fascists; Britain’s Hitler |
| Roman salute | Historically interesting, culturally… inappropriate |
| Rudolf Hess | ● Deputy Fuhrer and devotee to Hitler… until he parachuted into Scotland and Hitler declared him insane |
| Stab in the back myth | The belief that the Germans did not lose WWI, but were betrayed by the government |
| Unit 731 | Secret Japanese research unit and place of human experimentation |
| USS Indianapolis (CA-35) | No one realised the ship had sunk leaving the survivors in shark-infested waters |
| Virginia Hall | WWII super-spy and the ‘most dangerous of all’ according to the Gestapo |
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