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The Story of the M1 Garand: The Iconic and Influential World War 2 Weapon

by History Guild | May 2, 2022 | Military History | 0

Reading time: 7 minutes
Called the “greatest battle implement ever devised”, the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle served the USA well during WW2 and beyond.

Dag Hammarskjöld: a defiant pioneer of global diplomacy who died in a mystery plane crash

by History Guild | Feb 17, 2022 | Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 5 minutes
The idea of a global institution has captivated thinkers since Immanuel Kant in the 18th century. But a body set up to create and maintain world peace and security needs the right people to make it work. When the United Nations was created in 1945, old sentiments — seen in the disbanded League of Nations — threatened to prevail. Would the UN and its leadership simply comply with the great powers of the day?

Kazakhstan: A Story of Endurance

by History Guild | Jan 14, 2022 | Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 7 minutes
As protests erupt across the former Soviet republic, the world watches transfixed. How did Kazakhstan come to be the country it is today?

Domino Theory and U.S. Foreign Policy

by History Guild | Dec 14, 2021 | Military History, Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 4 minutes
When looking at the cold war and the way the United States went about its foreign policy, you can’t escape the influence of the so-called domino theory. This belief, a common one in American’s halls of power, stated that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding ones would, too. Was there any truth in this theory, though, or was it more scare mongering?

How the Australian Women’s Weekly spoke to ‘50s housewives about the Cold War

by History Guild | Nov 28, 2021 | Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 5 minutes
Esmé Fenston, by the end of the 1950s, the Australian Women’s Weekly was selling over 805,000 copies a week. More than half of all Australian women read the magazine.

Cuba without Fidel: Five Years Later

by History Guild | Nov 25, 2021 | Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 6 minutes
For nearly 60 years, and for better or for worse, Fidel Castro was Cuba; at least he fancied himself as such, and the Communist Party which he largely governed with total control, never questioned this image. But what about the Cuban people? Did they really view Fidel as a “modern day Simon Bolivar”, and their one defender against American imperialism?