Good evening, Why didn't the Soviet Union annex Poland, Yugoslavia, Germany etc. in 1945 as SSRs?

With the number of US war veterans killing themselves every year, and reading that some of the super-tall Prussian soldiers killed themselves to avoid duty, is there evidence of other soldiers doing the same from other cultures and times? If so, why is this not well known or recorded in history?

Negative weather conditions were much of detriment for the Soviet forces. Even if the Soviet Union was confident in its military, I don't see an immediate reason not to wait until spring or summer.

(Save for a pack of vikings) no-one reached the americas before columbus. Navigationally, i'd image it would be easier than many other routes. Go west until you hit land. Why was it so difficult that no-one managed?

All over the internet I've seen countless times people talking about how much of a horrible person Colombus was, stating that he came and enslaved the natvies, sold their children as sex slaves and so on. But I've also seen people say he was a great person and that he was just a product of the times he lived in. I was wondering what you guys thought about Christopher Colombus. Thanks.

I'm not sure why this has come to mind, but was thinking earlier that in a lot of video games Oda Nobunaga is seen as a villain, usually in cohorts with a devilish creature or figure. I was just wondering if this is rooted in history at all?

For such a long lasting, powerful and influential kingdom I wonder why there weren't any known reports about them outside of the old testament.

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My particular interest is for the U.K. and U.S. but of course want to hear history of other countries.

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I'm looking for a beginner/novice history book that covers the last few years of British rule in the Middle East.

Any suggestions?

I tried googling this and all I got was whacky pseudo-religious conspiracy theories, anyone able to enlighten?

I mean in the fields of study. Are there specific courses I would need to take for my bachelors? What sort of PhD would I need to get?

Obviously I don't know much about higher education. Currently enlisted in the military and looking up minors, majors, college, university, etc. it's all a bit confusing to me. Any help is appreciated!

Like, let's say someone was duke of two duchies within a kingdom. How would he administer rule in two places at once?

As the title says, the phrase appears in Shirer's translations of Soviet documents, of some of Hitler's speeches, in British and American diplomatic missives, and in other places besides. It seemed peculiar to me that this term should show up in so many places.

Were there other societies with towns and cities? The impression I've got is basically "the Incas, and jungle tribes" for all of pre-Colombian S.America. I'm sure it's more complex than that.

I was having a discussion with two friends about the premise of Gerald Horne's book The Counter-Revolution of 1776. Particularly speaking, we brought up the notion that British economic aspirations for colonies in the Americas (especially mainland North America) conflicted with those of settlers in the Thirteen Colonies themselves. But it dawned on me - the British didn't just control what would become the United States. British people and their descendants occupied territories all over North America, the Caribbean, some of Central America and some of South America. In fact, Canada and the United States form what could be called a contiguous Northern bloc.

I wanted to comment further, but then I remembered that I didn't really know all that much about Canada apart from what I found out myself outside of the (US) classroom setting. Additionally, what knowledge I do have of Canada and the settlers' history there is a set of facts rather than a coherent narrative, with events and underlying dynamics and phenomena.

Both Canada and the United States are former British colonial territory. Both of them are settler regimes. Both of them contain major populations descendant from settlers of other colonial powers (Spain and France). Given the similarities, why does the US compartmentalise the history of both countries so much?

Other related questions:

• Is this separation characteristic of US academia/historiography in the US?

• Do people in Canada learn/study more about the US than vice versa?

• What is the historiography in the UK like? Do British historians think of the colonies as one expanse, two, or more?