What Era Of Recent History Has NOT Been Done To Death? (Russian, attack)

[Big bull]

Originally Posted by BlackShoe

A very little known piece of modern history could be the 1918-1919 North Russia Campaign. This was a joint British-French-American incursion into Northern Russia at the end and short time after World War 1. Since Russia was out of the war and revolution raging, the allied plan was to assist the White Russians and keep large amounts of military material in and around Archangel from falling into the hands of the Germans or the Bolsheviks. The US committed more than 5000 troops to the venture. The campaign proved to be a failure, and the allies withdrew in the spring 1919. It can be said that Americans and Russian Communists shed each others blood long before the Cold War was even a concept.

I believe there was also a US incursion into Siberia or near Vladivostok at the same time.

[BereniceUK]

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade which was formed to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and how they were treated after they returned home to the USA in view of the post-war anti-communist feeling.

Are there any survivors left? Their stories would make a fascinating documentary film and/or book. I know there's at least two Spanish Civil War memorials in the US, in San Francisco and Seattle.

Below is what their flag is supposed to have looked like

[Six Foot Three]

LOL, i didn't even know of their existence as that's twice in one week you've taught me something about american history that i was clueless about although i admit my passion lies in western european history

[BereniceUK]

Seems to me that the Spanish Civil War as a whole hasn't received a lot of coverage. And how about the two Italian-Abyssinian wars?

[Six Foot Three]

Originally Posted by 6 FOOT 3

LOL, i didn't even know of their existence as that's twice in one week you've taught me something about american history that i was clueless about although i admit my passion lies in western european history

I forgot to hit the ''quote'' button on my last post as i was refering to Berinice who is from the U.K.

[noetsi]

1) US interventions in Central or Latin America.
2) Operations of the CIA (both at home and abroad) during the Cold War. We don't want to know.
3) Histories of technological and scientific change has received limited attention by historians.
4) Except for some elements of popular culture the period from 1956 to 1959 and 1977 to 1979 have recieved relatively limited attention. They were periods between dominant eras with no signficant trends or events like a major war. In eras of drift without defining moments, history tends to get ignored.

[Six Foot Three]

Originally Posted by 6 FOOT 3

I forgot to hit the ''quote'' button on my last post as i was refering to Berinice who is from the U.K.

I need to spell properly also as that's ''Berenice''

[Mikestone8]

Originally Posted by noetsi

How far back does recent go?

Well, the Penguin Atlas of Recent History starts at 1848, with a brief precis of events since 1815.

[Mikestone8]

Originally Posted by Trudy Rose

I'll go for the Franco-Prussian War and the Thirty Years War. Both changed the face of Europe..I know.. that phrase has been totally over used..but these are two wars that really did.

Agree about the TYW. CV Wedgwood did an excellent book on it.

Not so sure about the FPW, which seems to me more a kind of epilogue to the war of 1866. Austria's defeat left about four-fifths of Germany (and nearly all its industry) under Prussian control in the North German Confederation, and the southern states allied to it. So German unification under Prussia was near enough a fait accompli already. 1870 did little more that make that fact a bit more obvious.

True, the Alsace-Lorraine issue created a running sore, but even without it, France would still have had to reconcile herself to being only the second power in Western Europe, where she was long accustomed to being the first. so Franco-German relations would still have been bad. Alsace-Lorraine, to my mind, aggravated an existing problem rather than creating a new one.

[shiphead]

The time period between the end of the civil war to the end of WW1. When I was in school it was all about the world, civil war, and the colonies. Nothing else.