Often called their own little Vietnam type of war, what kind of operations was a common soldier expected to partake in? Were they doing the same kind of counter-insurgency ops we did against the Vietcong? Were they really prepared at all to deal with that kind of enemy?

How did most soldiers feel about the war themselves? What was morale like? Those kinds of things. In a nutshell, I guess what I'm asking is if someone could provide a sort of picture for me showing what it'd look like had I been alive and old enough for service at the time, as I do understand conscription was fairly common in the USSR (or was it required completely)?

I was recently told that copper from North America (especially the current Upper Peninsula of Michigan) was important in the bronze of the early Bronze Age of east Asia. I have been unable to google such a theory. Is there any suggestion that this could have been the case? Is there any history of trade between the two areas at all?

Edit: I have found one source (a guy called Graham Hancock) who claims that this is the case, I am unable to find anything that substantiates this, nor is my chemical specialty near enough to metallurgy to validate anything that I see about the similarity of the metals to support such a conclusion.

In Shakespeare's time, female roles were played by boy actors. In opera up until the 19th century, female roles were taken by castrati when female singers weren't available or allowed (depending on jurisdiction). In both cases, the actors involved were seen sometimes as novelties, sometimes as necessary given the limitations of the art, and sometimes as talented performers in their own right.

Flash forward to the twentieth century, and female impersonation is the domain of the gay bar, a facility often illegal outright or de facto. I realize that I'm zooming between countries and centuries, but at some point there seems to be a switch flipped. Did the radical idea that women should be allowed in the arts push away liminal figures that were secretly only ever tolerated out of necessity? Did a greater emphasis on what we now call homosexual behavior stigmatize these figures? Am I talking out of my ass?

I know that Japanese theater has its own relationship with crossdressing, and that's all I know about Japanese theater's own relationship with crossdressing, so I'm limiting the question's purview to the West.

I'm thinking of King Charles V for example. Or was incest not a big deal back then?

I am not a big redditor however this was suggested to me as a good place to potentially find the answer to this (so please bare with me). I'm a big history nerd, and currently living in France. One of my favourite periods of history is the interwar period, and more specifically the Paris peace treaties. So far I have been to the signing places of three (by accident), and thought it would be cool to visit all five. I have been to the chateaus of Versailles and Trianon, as well as St. Germain en Laye. It was very easy to find where the Treaty of Sevres was signed and I intend to visit there soon. However I have spent FAR too long researching the Treaty of Neuilly, and cannot find WHERE in Neuilly sur Seine it was signed. Does anyone know?

Specifically, in England.

Also, is there any evidence that the Derg spent the Live Aid proceeds on weapons, or was the BBC lying about that report?

Speaking of the BBC, a Newsnight piece a few years ago said that the EPRDF under Meles was also committing a kind of holodomor, in the same way (by withholding western food aid from areas of Ethiopia that supported the opposition parties). Is there any evidence of that?

Once again, please refrain from lay speculation, I don't want the comments to be nuked by mods for being unsourced. This is an answer I've been wanting to know for almost 5 years.

Naturally many of us know that the Prussians were a valuable ally to Wellington's armies at Waterloo, and that only one hundred years later after a great deal of change, relations were the opposite, seeing as it was now the French and British against the Germans.

Queen Victoria's ancestry was vastly German nobles from the various German states, and her husband (and first cousin...) Prince Albert too was a noble German. However neither to my knowledge, were Prussians - and the rise of Prussia into the German Empire is indeed a very fascinating process and subject of history. This makes me wonder what relations were like between the British and their German neighbours (both Prussia and the small states too) between the 100 years from Napoleon to World War One. Naturally I know that around 1905, the British and Germans were in an arms race for production and invention superiority, and the German nation size and power was seen as a great threat to some others of Europe - leading to World War One.

Also, Wikipedia cites that Hanover was lost and incorporated into Prussia in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War. I would be very grateful if someone could please elaborate and explain this event!

Also, what was the standard equipment of a German Wehrmacht/SS soldier at the beginning of the war and what was added/scrapped as the war developed? Are there any differences between Western and Eastern front equipment?

Today, sitting President Barack Obama is visiting Cuba. The last person to do so was Calvin Coolidge in 1928. What was the purpose of Coolidge's visit, and did it leave any impact on US-Cuba relations?

Did they think cats, door handles, and clothing was biting them? Demons? Witchcraft? Just one of those things that everyone knew about and didn't make a fuss over?

What other wars have had global theaters? What other conflicts have been global?

I heard that Churchill once called the Seven Year's War a World War, but are there any others?

There seems to be a lot of debate over what kind of armor this was. Some say its made of leather other that its a combination of materials including linen.

I am reading a lot of debates and speculation on this armor that was very common in Greece and outside but i cant find many ancient references to it or the word "Linothorax".

For centuries, the Catholic Church enacted capital punishment on a large scale. But in modern politics, the Catholic Church has been a staunch supporter of life. When did this change?

Let me know if I'd be better of going to one of the sister subreddits. Thanks!

I really have very little knowledge of where the Mexican border was before the war and what happened to Spanish speaking Americans during this time.

I know a bit about the empire, write in detail if you like :)