Has history vindicated him yet?
>>58264
lol no, the opposite.
>>58264
Without a doubt, McCarthy himself probably didn't even comprehend the extent of soviet infiltration.
>>58264
yes. Based Yuri revealed a lot of things to us.
/his/ lets discuss the ancient Celts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVAWwWi0DbE
You will never hear this blaring behind you as you charge Romans with battle boners and blue paint
>>58138
Bump
Post something about their history and civilization OP. I don't know much about them besides the blue paint, battle boners and their fire crotch leader
Were Picts Celts?
When did you realize that Germany was the victim of an extermination campaign by the other powers in WW1
From my own work on the subject
>Austria’s decision to formally annex the territory, which was ratified and approved by a committee of the European powers, and also formally recognized by the Serbian government, angered many Serbians because it represented a deliberate attempt by the Hapsburg Empire to prevent pan-Slavic nationalism, and crushed all hopes of uniting with the Bosnian Serbs. Because of this, despite the Serbian government’s promise “to conform to the decision of the powers relative to Bosnia” (Allen 206), it did nothing to discourage anti-Austrian propaganda or eliminate nationalist groups that targeted Austrian territorial integrity. For this reason and other, when Serb nationalists murdered the Archduke and his wife, the Austrians and the Germans viewed it as great insult to Austro-Hungarian power and integrity and as the most grievous offense in a long series of transgressions
>Therefore, when the Austrians issued their ultimatum to the Serbian government, the German empire wholeheartedly supported the decision without even knowing the actual contents of the demand. In a message about the ultimatum to all the European powers the Austrians explained their frustrations that “observing a benevolent attitude towards the political interests of Serbia… [hoping] that [Serbia] would finally decide to follow an analogous line of conduct on its own side” (Allen 210) had produced no results
>Germany was fulfilling her obligation to her ally, who was moved to such drastic action “by the instinct of self-preservation” (Allen 211). Austria feared that if the pan-Slavic movements continued, Serbia would demand Croatia, and should they succeed in acquiring it, The Hapsburg empire would be surrounded on three sides by nations which all had claim to her territory. This, coupled with Italian demands, would leave Austria-Hungary without sea access
>why does everyone act like I'm the bad guy when I invaded a neutral country and sank civilian liners
>the German chancellor asked his diplomats to convey his message to the various European powers he “trusted the conflict would be ‘localized” (Edmonds 3), while the German secretary of state for foreign affairs, Herr von Jagow, “insisted that he question at issue was one for settlement between Serbia and Austria alone and that there should be no interference from outside in the discussion between these two countries” (Allen 214).
>Herr von Jagow “promised…that if relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia became more acute he was ready to fall in Sir E. Grey’s (the British foreign secretary’s) suggestion that the four powers (those not already directly involved) work together in favor of moderation at Vienna and St. Petersburg” (Allen 219) “because every intercession of another power on account of the various treaty-alliances would precipitate inconceivable consequences” (Allen 215).
>So strong was the desire for peace in the German government that it refused to mobilize its own troops in response to Russian mobilization. Austria, Serbia and Russia had already instituted mobilization, which, at the time, was tantamount to an informal declaration of war, and thus, the German Empire’s hesitancy to mobilize its own forces in response to Russian mobilization against her further demonstrates the German desire for, if not a peaceful, at least a militarily limited solution. Thus, to this end, Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote a personal letter to his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, to cease its mobilization against Germany. When the Tsar refused, the German government demanded Russia cease all mobilization, and, to insure that should it come to war the conflict would be limited, also sent dispatches to the United Kingdom and France, asking “for an assurance of neutrality in the case that Russia should attack Austria” (Edmonds 5).
just wait
>Britain sent an ambiguous response and France replied saying she “would consult her own interests” (Edmonds 6), which is plain enough for any modern historian to see that France intended to make war on Germany to recapture the predominantly German-speaking border region of Alsace-Lorraine, which it had lost in the Franco-Prussian war some 50 years ago
>Two days after the first message, Germany asked Britain for a guarantee of neutrality, and again Britain delivered an ambiguous response. The following day, France declared general mobilization to prepare for war with Germany, in direct violation of the entente cordiale whereby “the two governments (Britain and France) agreed that if either had grave reason to suspect an unprovoked attack, or fear to general peace, they should consult and decide on future action” (Edmonds 1). Germany declared mobilization within a few minutes of the French decree; neither would learn of the other’s actions until well after the orders were given.
>The claim that regardless of selfish motivations to attack Germany, France was obligated to do so by way of its alliance with Russia is wrong, as the terms stipulated by the alliance were purely defensive, and Russia had mobilized against Germany first, and had declared war on Austria-Hungary, not the other way around.
Throughout the final few decades of the Qing Dynasty, China lost several wars to European powers such as France and the British Empire. In 1894 though, they lost to Japan, who - from my understanding - were historically much weaker than China ever was. This was due to the better technology and armaments utilized by the Japanese, from aforementioned European powers, which China (under Qing) violently resisted.
Why did China resist modernization so much, while Japan was much more embracing?
While not really related, even Mao opted to delay modernizing areas of his country. Is this something common to China?
pathetic bump
>>58038
i always assumed because of the size of the nation
Japan was a large enough nation to independently resist foreign interference but still small enough that they could force their entire society to come to grips with changing their way of life at a fundamental level
its forcing a population of like tens of millions of people making a change instead of hundreds of millions
probably still not sufficient to explain i guess
>>58038
they ended up on the end of gunboat diplomacy and decided they didn't like that is possibly what kicked it off.
Were the Spartans really all they're cracked up to be? Or are they just a giant Greek meme?
>>57983
they're a meme, but they also held hegemony for 200 years after winning the first Peloponnesian War
you also might know that the movie is based in a comic, which in part is Frank Miller's exaggeration of the spartan patriotism. biased narrator, you know
the coolest spartan meme is laconic humor btw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase#Examples
>>57983
2000 Spartans lost to 300 Thebans.
I don't understand this, can someone explain it to me at least? How was it a woman's fault that a man forced himself on her and was tempted by her?
Why did society change and start to see this as wrong and not just blame the woman? When did this happen? Around the mid 20th century?
>>57939
Depends on the culture.
>>57939
>considered acceptable
it never was, since it was damage to property
yes, women were property back then. deal with it
patriarchy
Were the moors black?
>>57835
It was used to refer to any non-white persons of Muslim ancestry but it specifically meant North or West Africans.
Some were, most were Berbers.
>>57835
The Sahara desert is a great, inhospitable expanse with few oasis’s. To conceive that north Africans were black, when the region was originally colonised by Phoenicians, Syrians, Greeks and Egyptians simply because it happens to be on the same continent as sub-Sahara Africa is ludicrous.
The we wuz kings shit is literally the worst attempt at historical revisionism I've ever heard of.
Sorry bruh they were the moops
Is prehistory history?
>>57821
if a thing happened but no one was there to write about it, did it make history?
>>57821
Yes, there's a thread on it and the mods seem cool with it, especially as it relates to humanity.
Is preheating an oven heating the oven?
I was looking through my medieval art folder and I realized that I actually have a pretty scant amount of art from the Middle Ages besides the Codex Manesse. So, art thread of stuff actually painted/drawn/engraved from the Middle Ages anyone?
![Flag_map_of_North_&_South_Vietnam[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/bLUhafI.png "Flag map of North & South Vietnam[1]")
What went wrong? Was it inevitable that South Vietnam would fall or could it have eventually turned into a ROK-style democracy?
>>57548
Congress cutting off funding and not letting Ford send troops in is why the South fell. It was very much an avoidable event.
>>57548
Watergate happened and the US could no longer support them
they lacked the will to win
Best gay people in history
Ill start and win
weird, he doesn't appear to be getting stoned into mush
we will have to fix that, habibi
>>57547
Inb4 Hayek and Friedman quotes.
>>57587
>gay people
=goos
>gay culture
=bad
Get it straight
83 years ago, today, on the 2nd of November, 1932, Australia began a month long campaign against the emu horde in the Campion District of Western Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
What are you doing to mark the anniversary of this confrontation, /his/?
If this Emu War joke gets run into the ground any further it will pop up in China.
Hey? The Emu War is still on going mate. Zoo's with Emus in them are actually POW camps mate.
Thoughts on this guy? Was he a good leader? Would he have won the war if he hadn't invaded Russia? Would he have taken over Europe? Did he even want to take over Europe, or only to defend Germany?
Economically it could be debated that he was a good leader.
>>57439
Who is spamming these shit WWII threads? I'm not against the discussion of WWII, just against this garbage that's been repeated on /pol/ and /int/ a million times.
No, Hitler would have still lost. The UK had a superior navy and won the Battle of Britain before Hitler even invaded the USSR. The British could have embargoed and blockaded Germany and Italy and just waited until the two countries collapsed or agreed to return to pre-war borders. There was nothing Hitler and Mussolini could have done to defeat the UK.
It is now 1944. Can you devise a feasible scenario in which Hitler may win or at least make the war a stalemate ? is it possible ?
what month?
> 1944
yeah no that's too late the wheels are already in motion for the inevitable
>>57437
January
Besides the pyramid of Giza, which of the wonders are indeed real?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria
There's some other lists of different wonders in the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_World
>>57362
Last I heard the only one that might not have been real was the hanging gardens. The temple of Artemis was for sure real: it was burned down by herostratus because he wanted attention.
real? they were all real. theres a saying that goes if the pyramids weren't still around nobody would believe that such structures could have been built.
>>57418
One of my history teachers didn't believe in the Statue of Zeus or the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
