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Holocaust in History
When it comes to learning World War Two history, one of the most important topics that we are faced with is the Holocaust. We have all heard of the 6 million number, and now because of this event, European countries are not allowed to have nationalism. It’s a very common topic that is taught in…
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USS Liberty Incident
During the Six-Day war, Israel would attack one of its greatest allies, America, in something known as the USS Liberty incident. The USS Liberty was a converted liberty ship, that was used to collect signal intelligence data from surrounding areas. On June 5th, at the beginning of the Six-day War America was still considered…
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Operation Mockingbird
During the 1930’s and 40’s the Nazi party had a message that resonated with the German people. Many people attribute this to the use of radio broadcasts, and public speeches. This was greatly studied by the Americans so they could duplicate the Germans process of propaganda. Unfortunately, the policies that America politicians were trying to…
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Spider
During the end of the Six-day war, Israel would have its first two nuclear bombs built. This was after Prime Minister Levi Eshko secretly ordered the team at Dimona to assemble two nukes with whatever material and hardware they had. This type of bomb was different than an arial bomb that the US and other…
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Israeli Dinoma
Since the beginning of its founding, in 1948, one of their top priorities as a group of people is getting their hands on the atomic bomb. While the first nuclear reaction was done by the Germans, and it was perfected into a bomb during the Manhattan project in America Israel, felt like that technology should…
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Congo
Congo has always been an area of the globe were human right abuses seemed common play. Congo was first colonized, by Belgium, and was regarded as a very wealthy country due to its mineral resources. King Leopold II of Belgium was the one owner of the whole country and ran the Congo with a brutalist…
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Death of Bandera
Over the course of the late 40’s and 50’s the MGB (Ministry of State Security) and later the KGB would attempt multiple assassinations and kidnappings of Stephan Bandera, while he was living out the later part of his life in Germany. It wouldn’t be until October 15, 1959, when they got lucky. Outside of his…
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Burma & Myanmar
In 1948 the country of Burma was formed in southeast Asia. Early on in diplomatic relations, Burma’s first task was to recognize Israel as an ally and set up domestic ties. In 1955 Burma and Israel reached an agreement on trading weapons and training from Israel, in exchange for Rice from Burma. These weapons would…
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Coup in Argentina
After World War Two Hitler lived in peace in Argentina, with support from the President, Juan Domingo Perón. He was helpful to Hitler in keeping in hidden. However President Juan Perón had anti-United States policies as a leader, which made him a target for a regime change. However, luck was going to run out. Juan…
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Unit 8200
As Israel was taking shape, and the IDF was forming, a new unit know as Unit 8200 was emerging. The 8200 was something known as a Signal intelligence unit, or sigint for short. As a sigint unit their main job was to collect intelligence on the enemy by use of electronic means, this includes activities…