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The Anschluss ('fusion') of 12 March 1938 was the annexation and formal union of Austria with Germany. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi leader of Germany, dreamed of an empire which enclosed all German speakers, his 'Greater Germany'...

Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was deputy leader of the German Nazi Party and a key figure in the fascist regime of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) until his bizarre decision in 1941 to fly to Scotland. Hess believed he could persuade Britain to...

Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was an Estonian-born Nazi who propounded anti-Semitic racial theory and anti-Christian values. Rosenberg's theories matched those of the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler...

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 May 1979 to 28 November 1990. Although the United Kingdom emerged militarily victorious from World War II (1939-45), it was still...

Kosrau I (r. 531-579 CE) was the greatest king of the Sassanian Empire (224-651 CE) in virtually every aspect of his reign. He reformed the military, the Persian government, expanded his territories, engaged in large-scale building...

A 1920 photograph of Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin led the Bolshevik faction of socialists in pre-revolution Russia and then seized power in November 1917 in the Bolshevik Revolution, becoming head of the Soviet state.

The first page of the first issue of the Russian political newspaper Pravda (May, 1912). Edited by socialists, the newspaper became the official mouthpiece of the Russian Bolshevik/Communist Party.

A gouache on paper painting titled McCarthyism 1950 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Joseph McCarthy, flanked by Roy Kohn and David Schine, leading his anti-Communist...

The consequences of the Second World War (1939-45) were many and varied. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and military-dominated Japan were all defeated. Many occupied countries were liberated and regained their freedom...

The rise of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933, was enabled by those already in power eager to take advantage of his popularity. Hitler promised to make Germany great again after the humiliation...