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The '''Crimean War''' (1853-56) was fought between Russia on the one hand and an alliance of G ==War==

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...t of an European military force by an Asian one. Conditions for ending the war were agreed in the [[Treaty of Portsmouth]], mediated by [[Theodore Rooseve ...ement of the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] led to some of the causes of the war, specifically the forced lease of [[Port Arthur]] to Japan.

...sia]]n author, often called the ''"greatest of all novelists"''; wrote ''[[War and Peace]]''.

...reaty Organization'') is a mutual defense treaty established after [[World War II]] by ten European countries and the [[United States of America|U.S.]] an ...ported the immediate attack on Afghanistan, but did not endorse the [[Iraq War]]; the refusal to do so offended [[America at the Crossroads|American neoco

...ite Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War; non-Japanese troops stayed until 1920 and Japan withdrew in 1920, although

A war fought between 1853 and 1856 between an alliance of Great Britain, France,

...y]] admiral, principally an intelligence specialist on Russia, who opposed war with the U.S. but became Navy Minister in 1944-1945

...ayers, each controlling one of the major European powers just before World War I: England, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Turkey, or Austria.

...arguably a continuation of Japanese expansion in the [[First Sino-Japanese War]]

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...Russia; rear army commander during WWII; condemned and hanged as a major war criminal by the [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]]

The '''Seven Years War''' from 1756 to 1763 was a near-global conflict involving the major Europea ...rms of the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] (1748), which had concluded the [[War of the Austrian Succession]]. The main grievance was held by the Austrian [

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...re than half of its economic resources. The republic recovered in the post-war years. The parliament of the republic declared the sovereignty of Belarus o

In the years 1919–1991 Vitebsk was part of the Soviet Union. During World War II, the city was under German occupation (1941-44). Up to 150,000 Jewish pe

...ich Mironov|Vyacheslav Mironov]]. ''Ya byl na etoy voyne.'' (I was in this war) Biblion – Russkaya Kniga, 2001. Partial translation available onlin *[http://artofwar.ru/a/abramow_o_b/ Vyacheslav Mironov. ''I was in that war''.]

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====World War II==== Early in the 1940s, the [[German]] invasion of [[World War II]] also destroyed many lives, both military and civilian. Between 20-28 S

...the capital itself, had been burnt down. The country had no treasury. The war against [[Poland]] and [[Sweden]] was continuing and many territories had b