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  1. 12 hours ago · They were rescued after 72 days on 22 December 1972. The story of the survivors was chronicled in Piers Paul Read's 1974 memoir, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), in a film adaptation of the book, titled simply Alive (1993), in the documentary, Stranded (2007), and in various other books and films.

  2. 12 hours ago · Eastern Front Part of the European theatre of World War II Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GermanyGermany - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its 16 constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of 357,600 km 2 (138,100 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.

  4. 12 hours ago · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › StalinismStalinism - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · History Further information: History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) and Rise of Joseph Stalin Stalinism is used to describe the period during which Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union while serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to his death on 5 March 1953. It was a development of Leninism, and while Stalin ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cold_WarCold War - Wikipedia

    12 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...

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  8. 12 hours ago · The Kingdom of Italy ( Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 2 June 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic. The state resulted from a decades-long process ...