since there was a ongoing civil war in England there must have been much public oponents to his reign. but how was he seen by his followers and the subjects that hadn't declared their direct support to his reign?

and was there much public outcry of how tyranical he was from any side while he was still the king?

How much did the "murder" of the princes in the tower contribute to his death at bosworth fields. meaning that did that event in any manner help lord Stanley to take the side of Henry Tudor?

The aforementioned timeframe is 769-1453. I'm aware that's a very broad period of history- for that case I think it would be best to break it down into 769-867, 867-1066 and 1066-1453 as those periods would differ from each other. I know that coalitions did occur sometimes, but how common were they, and how large were they? I doubt personally they were much larger than regional, but I'd be interested to learn more!

This idea started to bug me a few weeks ago. For the most part, people tend to associate the word Nazi with pure evil (Nazi scum!, etc.). With millions dying and large amount of propaganda against them and their allies, now it seems like nobody bats an eye anymore at Germany or any of the former Axis Powers (at least in the United States). We acknowledge the past and judge it harshly, but nobody really associates that past with who they are today. It's barely been a little over 70 years, how did this change happen so quickly?

So I'm in late high school and I have recently been given a 1200 word assignment/essay type thing to do for my history class.

The question is to write an essay based on a question that I get to come up with that centres around how the Vietnam war affected Australasia. Some example questions given were:

How did the Vietnam war affect returning Soldiers?

How did the Vietnam war affect Australia?

How did the Vietnam war affect Cambodia?

ETC.

So I'm looking for some advice/help on what a good question to write about is and some guidance on writing that question. Thanks

I've read about the battle of Java sea and I know the about Leyte Gulf and the battle of the tin cans. I have a basic knowledge of Iron bottom soun. Are there any other large engagments between Cruiser and or destoryer forces in the Pacific or Atlantic?

My uncle told me a story that my grandmother had told him about her time as child in Germany during WWII. It's significant because she normally refused to talk about it and her sister denies that WWII even happened. The story goes that her father was persuaded to join the Nazi party in order to keep his job as a postal worker. Towards the end of the war there were allied soldiers trying to distinguish actual Nazi's from ones like her father. Two soldiers who did not speak German showed up at their door and took her father out back after awhile they heard a gunshot and assumed the worst because they had been brainwashed into believing that the Allied soldiers were the enemy. Instead, the allied soldiers came back with the father and a deer they had shot in the woods behind the house for food.

The reason I ask is because I want to turn it into a script for my screenwriting class, but if there's no way this could have happened then I don't want to bother with it. My grandmother did have alzheimer's, if this story is plausible then is there anything I should know to make the story more historically accurate?

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It seems that a huge portion of young people (including myself) have bad vision nowadays. Was this as commonplace in history as it is now? If so, how would someone young in Roman or Medieval times get through life with near-sightedness?

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary towards the end of WW1, Admiral Miklos Horthy took charge of Hungary as its regent, ostensibly ruling it for the Habsburgs in their absence. We know that the Habsburgs never regained control of Austria or Hungary (and there seemed to be little interest in restoring Kaiser Karl to the throne), but Hungary continued to be ruled as a regency.

How did this work, exactly? Was there any understanding among the people that the country might pass back into the hands of the Habsburgs, or was this merely lipservice paid to legitimize Horthy's position? Why adopt this position at all?

That common old trope that " all the borders of the middle east were drawn by members of the house of lords in a drawing room, wearing smoking jackets, and drinking port", that gets frustratingly thrown around obviously is not the truth.

Just as in the Americas, many of the modern countries of South and Central America are based upon the Captaincies, Intendencies, and Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire, surely many of those arbitrary lines on the maps of Africa and the Middle East, drawn by the colonial powers have some sort of historical or logical basis.

I keep hearing that Christianity was a hindrance on the progress of humanity and caused the dark ages, is this true?

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In the past months there has been a growing opposition to allowing Syrian refugees in to the United States. Does this have a historical precedent? I am not asking about the public opinion, but rather regarding the actual policy of the US.

This is the idea of Italian as an identity vs. Neapolitan, Venetian, Tuscan, etc. etc. I'm reading one book on early modern Italy that argues that there was a valid idea of pan-Italian identity among at least upper class people in that period, but I'm curious about other arguments for and against if we can properly call the Italians "Italian" before Unification.