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105 votes
10 answers
21k views

Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?

44 votes
5 answers
18k views

Why did Lincoln wait to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

33 votes
1 answer
6k views

Did Shackleton's crew all "miss out" on WW1?

27 votes
4 answers
7k views

Why was the US so pro-China and so anti-Japan before WW2?

18 votes
5 answers
1k views

What do we know about Hitler/OKW's plans concerning USSR if Molotov/Ribbentropp Pact hadn't happened?

17 votes
4 answers
5k views

Why did the Japanese attack the Aleutians at the same time as Midway?

16 votes
1 answer
2k views

Were there concrete plans, 40-41, for Japan to attack Singapore/Indonesia, while avoiding a fight with the US?

15 votes
3 answers
4k views

How solid is the claim that Alfred Nobel founded the Nobel Prize specifically because of his invention of dynamite?

12 votes
4 answers
3k views

The British used to (still?) classify their guns by weight in pounds rather than caliber. Was that a constant across shell types?

12 votes
1 answer
3k views

What happened at the Battle (or not?) of Luding Bridge, during the Long March of Chinese Communists in 1935?

11 votes
2 answers
608 views

Were Israel-Iran relations better in the 80s? What changed?

10 votes
2 answers
738 views

Was there a massacre in the Algerian war calculated to provoke French reprisals?

9 votes
4 answers
3k views

Were B-17s (rather than B-29s) ever used to bomb mainland Japanese territory during WW2 (at least before the capture of Okinawa)?

8 votes
1 answer
1k views

Any idea what type of 1920-1930s tank this is?

7 votes
2 answers
829 views

What did the Japanese military do to maintain their fighting edge during the Edo era/Bakufu (1603-1868)?

7 votes
3 answers
2k views

Did Franco ever refer to his regime as Fascist?

6 votes
1 answer
699 views

How effective was the (Western) Allies bombing campaign over Germany in drawing down the Eastern Front Luftwaffe?

6 votes
4 answers
2k views

Was WW1's extended static slaughter caused by bad leadership?

6 votes
7 answers
2k views

What weapon systems have come and gone very quickly?

5 votes
3 answers
1k views

Have there been government conspiracies that were successful for over 25 years?

5 votes
1 answer
641 views

Did Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Finance Minister of Louis XIV, sanction mass executions for reasons of economic policies?

5 votes
2 answers
1k views

Why was there relatively little use of land mines in WW1?

4 votes
3 answers
520 views

Were there efforts made in the 19th century to inoculate the natives against smallpox?

4 votes
1 answer
320 views

Can you name a battle in 14th C (?) in which many knight got killed because of pointed shoes?

4 votes
2 answers
5k views

How historically accurate are the subplots about poison gas and false flag assassinations in Babylon Berlin?

3 votes
1 answer
354 views

When did banishment/exile cease to be enforceable, if it ever was?

2 votes
3 answers
578 views

Did any German generals question the wisdom of Störfang (June 1942 attack on Sevastopol), right before Case Blue?

2 votes
3 answers
581 views

Why did the early WW2 Japanese forces so outperform their Western opponents at jungle warfare?

1 vote
0 answers
75 views

What do we know about the timeline of deaths _within_ famines, from historical wartime occurrences?

1 vote
1 answer
359 views

How did the the Soviet-China near-war in 1969 affect the supply of arms to North Vietnam?