I am a history student currently doing a report/short presentation on Gamal Abdel Nasser. I have to tackle 4 major points in this, which are: 1)who is he, 2)his leadership style, 3)his strengths/weaknesses, 4)what lessons can we learn from him.

i've pretty much gotten the first point done through research, but I can't seem to find out what his leadership style is (i know he was an authoritarian, how can I elaborate on that more?) and also what his strengths and weaknesses are (i know that he is charismatic due to his speeches and his attraction to his people) Any help will be appreciated, thank you!

In We Were Soldier, about the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, artillery and air strikes are routinely called to within feet of friendly soldiers. In Platoon as the base is overrun in the final battle of the film, the Captain requests his air support to drop all his ordinance on top of the base in hopes salvaging the battle. I've also read anecdotes of soldiers calling artillery on themselves during WWII in order to stop an enemy advance, sacrificing themselves in the process.

How close could artillery be brought to friendly forces with creating causalities? Was it ever standard operating procedure to call artillery on top of your position?

Thank you for your suggestions in advance!

I wanted to know about the origins of the people of Kiev from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, and why it is known as "Kievan Rus" if today its population is Ukrainian. Why is that, and where did they come from if they are not Russian, and how did they adopt the name Rus?

This is a question about historical methodology about researching events rather than a straight-up question about an event. I would prefer an answer that takes into account methodology for studying late 20th century teenage rebellion, but methods of researching different eras hold relevance to me as well.

Anecdotal and amateur accounts of teenage rebellion I have been exposed to tend to look to the media produced for teens as an indicator of what teenage rebellion in a specific era looks like. Let's say my era of study is the American 1980s: I am pointed towards Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Heathers (1989) as sources. If the target era is the American 1960s, the suggested sources are Clockwork Orange and The Filth and Fury.

This method of research runs into an issue though. Using media marketed towards teens doesn't actually encapsulate the essence of teen rebellion. It only exposes you towards the salient ideals content producers believed to be key to the incarnation of teenage rebellion in their era.

What are different methods of studying teenage rebellion in the context of the late 20th century?

The Spanish colonial empire extended from Mexico City to Buenos Aires many years before Jamestown was founded. With so much land conquered by the Spanish, why didn't they conquer the Eastern Seaboard of what is now America and Canada?

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So I was rereading Sharpe's Trafalgar, and while I know Bernard Cornwell isn't always the best about some stuff in terms of historical accuracy, I had a couple questions about the use of marines onboard during the Napoleonic wars. What did marines do when they weren't fighting? What happened if their officers were killed? Could sailors become marines? And what was the organizational relationship between marines and sailors? Were they mutually exclusive? Could a ship's officer be named by a captain to be in charge of the marines? Thanks for your help!

I get Lincoln freed the slaves plus Civil War, but what did Kennedy do (comparing to Garfield and McKinley)?

Edit: post was intended to be about the long WWII era (post WWI era to immediate aftermath of WWII) rather than the cold war though I'd be interested in the cold war history if people have that available.

As far as I understand it, we can associate the Praetorian Guard with military police. If I suspect they might be conspiring against me, why couldn't I treat them like a standard military unit and make them guard the border?

I posted this on r/morbidquestions, but then they told me about this sub, so...

If I'm presuming something wrong here, it would be nice to know as well. I have a very, very limited knowledge about world wars, even less about nazi germany.

Mistakenly or not, what I've learned is that after WWI, parts of Germany was destroyed to a wasteland, they had to give up a lot of territory, countries kept an eye on them so they didn't have much freedom to do somethings (like international commerce)... all of that have destroyed their pride and self esteem.

But then at 1939, WWII ecloded and a lot of countries had to join forces to stop Germany from conquering Europa.

What... What happened in a so short time? I do learned(again, possibly mistakenly) that Germany broke many pacts and agreements and attacked peaceful countries all of nowhere, so this might explain why allies went full force on them. But this still does not explain his fast economical growth, does it?