American right-wing commentators occasionally lambaste the New Deal as "socialism." What were German fascist and Soviet ideological assessments of Roosevelt's economic ideas?
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It just seems that they spent the equivalent of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-years, on a highly risky project that they couldn't guarentee would work or be ready during the course of the war. Whilst they had existing stocks of chemical and biological weapons which were cheaper to develop and to manufacture and have the advantage that the buildings are still standing and so it's easier to occupy the area and it the chemical or bio weapon is short lived there's less residual problems then there are with localised fall out.
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Chorus: Hagaleena Magaleena Upa Staka Waka Taka Oka Poka Loka was her name. (Clap Clap)
There was a funny girl, she had a funny name. She got it from her pappy just the same, same, same. Chorus
She had two hairs in the middle of her head One was alive (put one finger on top of your head) And the other one was dead (put another finger on top of your head) Chorus
She had two eyes in the front of her head One was green and the other was red. Chorus
She had two teeth in the front of her mouth One pointed north (put one finger against your mouth, pointing north) And one the other pointed south (put another finger against your mouth, pointing south) Chorus
She had two lips, two beautiful lips, Shaped just like two battleships. Chorus
Her nose was so long that when she sneezed It got caught in between her knees. Chorus
Her ears stuck out like the sails of a boat Her Adam's apple wandered up and down her throat. Chorus
She had two arms in the middle of her body One knew judo (horizontal karate chop motion) And the other knew karate (vertical karate chop motion) Chorus
She loved to polish her fingernails She bought her polish in ten gallon pails. Chorus
She had two feet size twelve and a half One took a shower (kick out one foot) And the other took a bath (kick out the other foot) Chorus
Her feet were flat as bathroom mats I forgot to ask how they got like that. Chorus
A semi-truck hit Mag-a-leena (slow down during this line) (back to original tempo) Completely destroyed that poor machina! Chorus
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The Franco-German rivalry is centuries old and dates back to wars over Alsace-Lorraine and the Franco-Prussian war set the stage for the two World Wars essentially. Why then did DeGaulle and Adenauer get along so well in postwar Europe? Was it because of communism?
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On the one hand I'd expect them to praise it, since a lot of people at the time, and nowadays as well, interpreted it as being pro-socialism. But on the other hand, in the 30s the Soviet Union was persecuting kulaks and peasants, and it's not like the Joads were industrial workers. However the Joads didn't own their own land while ostensibly the kulaks did. Anyways, how did people in the USSR and the USSR government react to The Grapes of Wrath?
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One thing I've heard time and time again is that there was no sizeable German resistance to the Nazis and that the Germans overwhelmingly supported Hitler during the war. But If almost 12 million people were prepared to vote for the sworn enemies of the Nazis in 1932, they couldn't have all (or even mostly) been killed, imprisoned, or converted within the next 12 years. Why was there no large-scale underground opposition?
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Excuse me if this question has been asked, but I can’t seem to find a consistent answer to this.
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Did England have an elective monarchy in the 18th century?
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By the 17th and 18th Century, European powers established a series of forts along the West African coast that functioned as relay stations for ships to dock and purchase slaves from Native African slave traders, or otherwise used as midway points to journey upstream and barter further inland. By the 18th Century Native African traders were so accustomed to this that they demanded large quantities of goods such as textiles, weapons, tobacco, and alcohol in exchange for the slaves they sold.^[1] But which African societies were doing the capturing and selling?
I'm aware that slavery in West Africa has a considerable history prior to the arrival of Europeans slavers, although more through cast systems and debt bondage rather than the mass-scale chattel slavery of the Americas. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but weren't most of the slave-based societies in West Africa the larger Muslim states - Songhai, Mali, and Ghana? I've also read statements that in the later Sokoto Caliphate of the 19th Century, 40-50% of the population could be considered enslaved, although that's clearly influenced by the economics of centuries of the slave trade prior to then and not representative of the earlier Muslim states.
While voodoo folkways can still be seen in the Americas after the African diaspora in places like Louisiana, Haiti, and Brazil, Islam has little presence as far as I'm aware. This author estimates that around 20% of the slaves transported to the Americas were Muslim. Although not negligible, that's still rather small. If the slave-societies of contemporary West Africa were primarily the Islamic states, then shouldn't the majority of slaves sold to Europeans also be Muslim?
But I'm trying to read the power dynamics of this situation. Weren't the slaves sold to Europeans mostly captured immediately prior to their enslavement? A slaver probably wouldn't want to easily part with the slaves he's had for years. And the Islamic states were powerful - they had iron weapons and armor, domesticated horses and camels, and large organized militaries. The conclusion I'm reaching, tentatively, which is why I'm asking /r/askhistorians - were the West African Muslims the ones doing the capturing and selling, while smaller non-Muslim folk societies the victims?
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My entry to this topic is the somewhat recent news that Poland has outlawed the term "polish death camp." The law was widely criticized by many for a variety of reasons, but I saw some Israeli scholars say it denies history -- but I don't know how to follow up on that claim. The most I've seen is this article on Quillette that gives some context on the state's motivations for the law, but what is the evidence that poland was culpable to the holocaust?
P.S. I am 100 percent Polish via my parents, but I've lived in the United States my whole life. I'd ask their input but I imagine it would be quite biased.
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We know a decent amount about what happened after the Conquistadors landed. I'm curious what the peoples of the time, and after, thought about it. Has anything made it down to us of their views on the diseases? Stories, traditions of remembrance, etc.
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Bonus: How is the Reconquista taught and percieved in Portugal today?
The Reconquista, the expulsion of the Islamic Empire from Iberia, is popular percieved as a Spanish (specifically a Castillian/Aragonese) conflict against the Moors. This in part due to its spearhending by Isabella and Fredinand, the Inquisition, and the mythologization of the Conquistador.
Where are Portugal, or Portuguese culture, in all of this?
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