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Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey (Central Powers) France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the United States (Allied Powers) -
In 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant spread a radioactive cloud across much of what was once the Soviet Union. -
The Spanish Civil War was a tragic armed conflict that broke out in Spain after the partial failure of the coup d'état of July 17 and 18, 1936 carried out by senior Army officers against the government of the Second Republic. It lasted 3 years. From 1936 to 1939, and divided Spain in two. -
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. -
The Battle of Stalingrad has gone down in history as the bloodiest in history. -
The term "Cold War" became shorthand to describe the ideological struggle between capitalism in the West and communism in the East. American journalist Walter Lippmann popularized the term in a series of articles in 1947, as nations chose sides in the confrontation. -
The objective was to create a single communist country that would be an ally of China and the USSR[2]. -
Political, economic and cultural causes, as well as ethnic and religious tensions -
A plane crashed into one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. -
The apparent objective was to control Kuwaiti oil reserves. -
when a massive demonstration shook Damascus, the capital of Syria -
