The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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The history of ketchup dates back to a fermented fish sauce in 300 B.C.E. China, becoming popular due to its long shelf life. Tomato-based ketchup debuted in 1812 and later grown into a billion-dollar business by Heinz.

Joseph Stalin was a youthful advocate of Marxism during the National Bolshevik Party’s ascendance to power and became dictator of the Soviet Union in 1929. Stalin’s reign of terror cost the lives of an estimated 20 million Russians.

Lasting just seven months and nineteen days in 1898, the Spanish-American War was fought mostly in the waters of the Caribbean around Cuba, but also in the Philippines. The Spanish-American War officially ended with the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10th, 1898.

As detailed by Adolf Hitler’s personal physician, Nazi high command and soldiers on the frontlines were taking methamphetamines and other performance-enhancing stimulants. Hitler, Göring and other officers also consumed morphine and other opiates.

Annie Oakley was born in 1860 and soon became an expert marksman while hunting in the Darke County, Ohio region. After besting professional sharpshooter Frank Butler, the pair of gunslingers would get married and travel the world as competitive sharpshooters.

Despite the Silk Road’s obvious link to the trade of Chinese silks, the term “Silk Road” wasn’t coined until 1877. From commodities like vegetables and leather to intangibles like language, culture and philosophy, the Silk Routes were operational from 130 BCE to 1453 when trade with China was banned by the Ottoman Empire.

Weather forecasting has gradually grown in sophistication from its history of almanac algorithms and crowdsourced weather observations to more accurate predictive modeling.