After the end of the Second World War, general George S. Patton said that America defeated the wrong enemy.

I've heard that he wanted America to ally National Socialist Germany in order to destroy the U.S.S.R.

Is this true? If so, what do you think of his opinion?

Unfortunately most of the mainstream history I come across seems to focus on this era in a purely serb-centric or austro-hungarian-centric perspective, and I find the neglect of the muslim position rather more glaring when taking into account that bosnia itself is actually a muslim country.

Is it true that the USA had planned to move the capital and government to Cuba before Castro?

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A quick google search revealed nothing. I am curious if there is a legitimate source this quote can be attributed to, or if it is some clever propaganda.

Considering how common UTI is among women, how was it cured before penicillin? Was it common knowledge to cure it by eating lemons and cranberries?

World War 2 killed so many of Russia's men that women became the majority gender. Why then is Russia still so patriarchal. If women outnumbered men then they could have used this to leverage more rights and protections for themselves.

Hello I'm a sophomore in college and Im just curious what careers are out there for a bachelors in history.

I've only ever heard that USSR was grossly over matched by Germany in technology and resources, apart from sheer numbers of men. With this in mind, how did Russia roll Germany back? Was it just manpower? Did they make technological advances late in the war? Did their industry have a resurgence?

I think the title says it all, really.

I'm a bit of a linguistics geek, so this question has puzzled me for a long time. In most cultures, when myths are transmitted names tend to be transmitted as well. So why are Roman gods named in such distinct ways, so different from their Greek counterparts (e.g. Athena => Minerva, or Poseidon => Neptune)? I would expect Poseidon to be called some Latinized version of his Greek name, like "Posidonus", not something that literally doesn't share a single phoneme with his Greek name, like "Neptune".

I mean the beret, poofy pants with boot, megaphone, mustache, maybe a monocle, director costume. I see it on Halloween and in my mind's eye, but it doesn't seem to conform to anyone that I know.

My question regards on the reason why for instance during the first Punic War Roman fleet managed to loose more than half of their fleet to a storm, for instance the show of force in southren sciliy 255 BC, or even later near cape Pilanurus? Anyway it boggles my mind how in relative proximity of landmass upon a sight of a storm ships aren't beached and such losses can occure? How?

I know he was born in Austria, right on the border, and he was a German war veteran, but was he always campaigning on behalf of a borderless broader Nazi movement, or was he encouraging votes for Nazis in the Reichstag in elections he himself could not vote for? Both?

Would this be like a Canadian fascist running ads or speaking on behalf of an American fascist (for example)?

I'm particularly baffled by the fact that Alaska has a population of 740, 000 while it's neighbor, the Yukon, has only 40, 000.