From my understanding, Venezuela's oil reserves are larger and were discovered first. So what lead to the Western nations to invest so heavily in Saudi Arabia instead of Venezuela? Especially for the United States, given their closer geographic proximity to Venezuela.

Edit: I'm writing a paper on Oil in Latin America. I'm not asking you to do my homework for me. In all my research, nothing seems to answer this question that seems like a fairly obvious one to ask.

Hello,

I'm a recent immigrant to the US, so never learned this stuff in school. I've a great understanding of the immigration process in the present day however very limited knowelege of what it was like back in the days of the founding fathers.

My main question would be, when the US Declaration of Independence was written and the US was no longer a British Colony, did everyone become a citizen? Did people have to apply? Did the founding fathers automatically become citizens? Or did this not become an issue until the Constitution was written?

When immigrants came to Elis Island, they were checked for diseases and send on their merry way, were they given papers, did they automatically become US citizens? What about the people who had already immigrated to the United states - did they become citizens automatically or did they have to naturalise?

I apologies if this is a bit of a silly question, but I've tried googling and don't come up with much, just various acts that were created after the constitution that allowed white immgrants of good moral character to naturalise 2-5 years after continual residency.

Many Thanks!

I've heard a lot of people say this but I find it quite difficult to believe. The Nazis had some brilliant minds in planning, surely they had created systems to help survive the winter.

I don't know nearly enough about WW2 to make any sort of argument but surely they took a note from Napoleon

I've always heard the story told that Japan gave up after the atomic attacks. But I've also heard stories about loyal soldiers living in caves afraid to surrender to allied troops.

I find it difficult to believe that the entire nation simply gave up the war effort, but I suppose it is possible in the face of atomic terror. What kind of resistance, if any, did the occupational forces in Japan face after world war two?

I have always heard that D-Day opened a second front, but wasn't there 3 Fronts the Germans were defending. East, South, and Africa?

1915 in England and America.

Was it be cause of the limit of ressources of native American's ? And why was there such a Big difference in between both society's ?

Preferrably peer-reviewed material, but I am occasionally open to informal readings as well.

Edit: Also, interested in any must-read historians/authors as well.

The 60s was pretty dominated by liberal views and progress. But it stopped pretty abruptly. The conservatives took control for several terms after. What was the reaon? Was it Democrats' mistakes? Republicans' victories? A combination of the two? Something else?

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specifically asking in relation to Italy, as I'm studying literature of the Italian Risorgimento/unification, and in the novel I'm reading (Il Gattopardo) Garibaldi (I assume on the part of the House of Savoy, about whom I'm equally clueless) is overthrowing the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (bourbon rule).

many thanks!

Obviously there was the Lend-Lease program, and I'm aware of a few instances where Western bombers would land in the USSR after particularly long missions, then refuel and fly back later. I'm curious if any consideration was ever given to the idea of creating an expeditionary force, particularly when the Soviet situation looked grim in '41, '42, and early '43. If there were such discussions, what prevented them from turning into action? Distance, logistical difficulty, political differences?

I'm primarily curious because it seems like an idea that would have popped up given the importance of the USSR to the Allied cause. If a similarly important ally were going through what the Soviets were at Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad, today American/NATO boots would almost certainly be on the ground ASAP.

Reading about the Persian Wars there is much about how Athens commemorated their victories and the acts of the dead such as the Stoa Poikile or Serpent Column; did any other states also commemorate their victories against the Persians?

I do realize that I might be on the verge of breaking the 20 year rule, but I was watching something about Daesh and noticed them using these pickups a lot. So I wondered where and how they originated and if there is any knowledge about how great or not they were in conflicts 20 years back and more.

Cheers!

Legend has it that in his final years, the Soviet leader was prone to doing things like repeating pages of his televised speeches. Is there any truth to this?

I always wondered that were the cavalry charges so OP like in the movies and my favorite game franchise total war.I tried to search it on google but i didn't understand any of it so please can any body answer this question? (by the way sorry for my bad english if i wrote it wrong)