The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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The great pyramids of Giza, near modern-day Cairo, Egypt, were built for Pharaoh Khufu with the belief that the king’s body and supplies would ascend together into heaven.

J. Edgar Hoover was a lawyer by training but spent 48 years as Director of the FBI. His controversial tactics and range of power were evident in his many campaigns to identify fascists and communists.

Grand Central Station, or simply Grand Central, is a New York City train station and the second busiest in the world, behind Manhattan’s Penn Station. The station took 10 years to construct leveraging 10,000 workers and opened in 1913.

Agent Orange was a chemical warfare herbicide intended to destroy Vietnam’s dense forest coverage and food supply but resulted in deadly toxins, disease and death for U.S. soldiers and Vietnamese citizens alike.

The battle of bloody ridge was a Korean War engagement between Republic of Korea Army and U.S. 8th Army regiment, against the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army and North Korean communist fighters.

Margaret Thatcher was a lawyer who ascended to Prime Minister of England, taking control of the Conservative Party leadership in 1979. Thatcher would face down the Soviet Union during the Cold War, return Hong Kong to the Chinese and more.

Mao Zedong was the communist leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao’s initiatives in land reform and social revolution led to the deadliest famine in recorded human history.