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  1. Jul 2019
    1. Suez Crisis

      or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the tripartite aggression in the Arab world and Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France

    1. swaraj

      an ancient Sanskrit term, composed of the particle swa (or sva), which means self, or one's own, and raj, which means rule

    1. rganization (NATO) i

      an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949

    1. 1943 Tehran Conference

      a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran

    1. Grand Alliance

      an alliance made during World War II, which joined together the United States (led by Franklin Roosevelt), the Soviet Union (led by Joseph Stalin) and Great Britain (led by Winston Churchill)

    1. blitzkrieg” strate

      an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory

    1. League of Nations

      an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes

    1. The sick man of Europe

      a label given to a European country experiencing a time of economic difficulty or impoverishment. The term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the Ottoman Empire.

    1. Franco-Prussian War

      referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and later the Third French Republic, and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia

    2. Crimean War

      a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia

    3. Bernhard von Bülow’

      a German statesman who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909