Learn more about espionage during the American Revolution in the “Espionage That Created the Nation” exhibit. Here you will find a range of key sources on NATO, espionage and security during the Cold War. After … Read more
The “Great Depression” was a major global economic collapse symbolized in the United States by the “Black Thursday” stock market crash of October 24, 1929. The Great Depression of the 1930s began with the stock … Read more
During World War II, some factions promoted Vietnam’s independence, but as Wu Yuanjia, who will build the Vietnamese army after World War II, said, the Communist Party is the best organization and action orientation. This … Read more
Early modernism in art came with Impressionism, followed by Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and abstract art. Modernism was influenced by Surrealism, late Cubism (Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, and German expressionism), masterful modernist color painters such as … Read more
The Treaty of Versailles signed in June 1919 in Versailles Palace in Paris to end the First World War codified the peace terms between the triumphant Allies and Germany. The treaty was one of several … Read more
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran took place less than two months after the Allied victory over pro-Axis forces in neighboring Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. In the months leading up to the invasion, British and Soviet … Read more
The Red Army (Krasnaya Armiya) was the common name for the Russian National Army from 1918 to 1946, known also by the abbreviation RKKA (Workers and Peasants Red Army ). The Red Army was founded … Read more
From 1946 to 1991 the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies were locked into a long, tense conflict known as the Cold War. Historians disagree on a date, but it is widely believed … Read more
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that operated during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was established in 1938 … Read more