Mussolini wanted to recreate the Roman Empire before and during WW2, did he ever talk about renaming the country as well?

Or did the quick collapse of British forces in Malaya substantiate a belief that the Australians and New Zealanders would be easily defeated and later isolated? Would the abundance of resources, agricultural and growing manufacturing power that Australia and New Zealand possessed at the time as well as Japan over expanding into a frontline that was incredibly faraway compared to the defenders as well as rapidly depleting resources such as oil create any doubt that these smaller though developed nations could put up troubling resistance against the Empire of Japan?

Why was the US/NATO convinced the SOVIET Army would invade Europe by pouring through the Fulda Gap?

Tactically for armored warfare it seems rushing across the flat terrain of Lower Saxony, driving a wedge between the US and UK sectors, as well as seizing or isolating Bremerhaven and potentially the major ports in the Netherlands would have been far more logically sound.

Now that the Warsaw Pact has been abandoned for more than 20 years, do we have any knowledge of their actual war plans or tactical/strategic objectives had they invaded?

When the Norse discovered the New World hundreds of years before Columbus, did this news spread into other parts of Europe? If not, then why?

*or check the stove

In addition, how does someone become bilingual if no one else of their native language knows the language?

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With the crippling of the German military after the Treaty of Versailles, the damage to the German men of working age from WW1 coming home (both dead and horribly injured), Hyperinflation in the 20's, the Great Depression and the collapse of the Weimar Republic in the early 30s... how did Hitler and Germany in general turn their economy around enough to be able to launch and support an enormous military campaign in 5 or 6 years, or by the end of the 30s?

I still occasionally see people on the Internet saying things along the line of "Jewish people control the media and/or the government". How has this idea persisted, considering its massive, poisonous (to say the least) effect on history? After the holocaust was revealed, how was this "idea" not thrown out alongside other "ideas" such as "Germany lost world war 1 because Jews stabbed them in the back"?

A lot of land and relatively little opposition. All maps of the Mongol Empire I've seen barely go past Lake Baikal. Was it an issue of too little gain for too much effort?

Presuming there are no kids to take care of.

Did the sort of tavern that you usually see in fantasy movies and the like even exist?

From Biblical light chariot armies, to the Persian Immortals, to the Parthians, to the Huns, to the Mongols - Eastern warfare relied on missiles shot from a distance.

From the Greek phalanx, to Macedonian pike and Alexander's Companion cavalry, to the Roman legions, to the Viking shield wall, to Crusader knights, to Swiss pikemen - the West relied on the shock of close combat.

Why the difference? The terrain of Europe may not lend itself to horse archer tactics but why no emphasis on foot bowmen (aside from the English longbow) in the West?

Often, even on open terrain favoring horses, Western shock armies led by exceptional generals like Alexander, Trajan, and Richard the Lion Hearted could defeat horse archer enemies. How did they accomplish this? What did they do right and what did Crassus or the King of Hungary do wrong agains the Parthians and Mongols?