Articles written by Barry Vale

Harry S Truman is without a doubt most famous for making the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945.

Oct 13, 2010 - Barry Vale

William the Conqueror was only widely referred to as that by historians and writers from the 19th century.

Sep 19, 2010 - Barry Vale

Generally the Cold War is considered to have begun in the late 1940s to 1990, and left the US as the only remaining superpower.

Aug 12, 2010 - Barry Vale

Sir Francis Drake was one of the most accomplished admirals, sailors and explorers of his own generation. His exploits made him a legend in Elizabeth's time

Aug 11, 2010 - Barry Vale

Lord Horatio Nelson was one of the greatest yet most controversial admirals to have served under the Royal Navy. He had a profound impact on history.

Aug 8, 2010 - Barry Vale

Henry VIII is one of the most infamous monarchs in history and not just because he had six wives.

Aug 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

Adolf Hitler had no time for modernist architects and artists, whose work he considered morally degenerate and politically subversive.

Jun 27, 2010 - Barry Vale

Hindenburg and Ludendorff knew something that the German government's propaganda kept from the public, the war was going badly.

Jun 27, 2010 - Barry Vale

The German government had great confidence that its submarines or U-boats could get Britain out of the war.

Jun 16, 2010 - Barry Vale

For the fist year of the war many propaganda feature films were made that unrealistically portrayed the war.

Jun 16, 2010 - Barry Vale

Lenin gave a greater amount of consideration to the practical steps that were needed to bring about proletarian revolution as soon as possible.

Jun 15, 2010 - Barry Vale

Orthodox Marxists until the October Revolution itself argued that Lenin was actually decreasing the chances of a successful communist revolution.

Jun 15, 2010 - Barry Vale

Thatcherism was a word used to describe the economic, political, and social policies followed by the governments of Margaret Thatcher.

Jun 15, 2010 - Barry Vale

The 17th Century saw the start of political groups that would develop into parties.

Jun 10, 2010 - Barry Vale

From Parliament's beginning in the mid 13th century an MP would almost exclusively have represented the rich merchants or the land owning classes.

Jun 10, 2010 - Barry Vale

Australian governments after 1945 tended to stress their support of the United Nations and their close military, economic and political links with the US.

Jun 10, 2010 - Barry Vale

For Kublai Khan invading Japan had military, strategic, and political advantages.

Jun 10, 2010 - Barry Vale

Hobsbawm argued that many of the events and practices that we think of as 'traditions' are in fact invented

Jun 9, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Middle East as a region has been considered to be a vital part of the International Community for many centuries.

Jun 9, 2010 - Barry Vale

The PRI regime had governed Mexico for several decades into the 1990s yet it lost that domination rapidly.

Jun 8, 2010 - Barry Vale

This look at the events that led to the Second Battle of Bull Run takes into accounts the previous battles in the American Civil War.

Jun 8, 2010 - Barry Vale

The rise of China since the 1960s has been one of the most remarkable features of global politics.

Jun 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The dissolution of the monasteries represented some of the most profound social, religious and economic changes of the Henrician Reformation.

Jun 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Battle of the Little Big Horn as fought on the 25th June 1876.

May 3, 2010 - Barry Vale

Henry VIII had lost all hope of Cardinal Wolsey having success in getting the Pope to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

Apr 11, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Church of England was re-established with the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, and a Revised Version of the 1552 Common Book of Prayer.

Apr 11, 2010 - Barry Vale

Southern resentment of defeat in the American Civil War prompted the creation of the murderous Klu Klux Klan with terrible results for African - Americans.

Apr 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The United States government of the late nineteenth century were certainly interested with increasing the international status of their country.

Apr 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Soviet Union or at least its leadership was widely perceived to have a highly negative view of the United States and Western Capitalism .

Apr 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

Arguably the media is able to assist or limit the conduct of military operations, if that is in fact the intention of the media to do so.

Apr 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The period between 1675 and 1553 BC, Egypt's great glories in the past, saw decline under a succession of ineffective, as well as weak unknown kings.

Apr 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

Vladimir Putin's gaining of the Russian presidency after Yeltsin stepped down due to ill - health represented a reinvigoration of Russia's vitality.

Mar 14, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Russian government after 1991 had to regard its CIS neighbours as fully independent foreign countries rather than fellow republics within the USSR.

Mar 14, 2010 - Barry Vale

The war genre film Black Hawk Down was directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Jeremy Bruckheimar, it was made to depict the dramatic events of October 1993.

Mar 14, 2010 - Barry Vale

His contemporaries believed that William of Orange's acquisitions of the British kingdoms would by pivotal in his endless struggles against France

Feb 28, 2010 - Barry Vale

Britain in general and England in particular had the potential to be a great power. London was one of the most prosperous cities on earth as well as a great port.

Feb 28, 2010 - Barry Vale

As England and later Britain gained a huge empire the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings was not just confined to the British Isles

Feb 16, 2010 - Barry Vale

The erstwhile 16th century German monk Martin Luther was actually the unintended founder of his own Christian denomination in the form of Lutheranism.

Feb 7, 2010 - Barry Vale

The Spanish Inquisition was started at the end of the fifteenth century in order to ensure that the populations of Spain were loyal members of the Roman Catholic Church.

Jan 24, 2010 - Barry Vale

Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck without a doubt was the mastermind of German unification, which was achieved in 1871.

Jan 24, 2010 - Barry Vale

The time period between the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the passing of the social welfare measures introduced by the Liberals saw notable changes,

Oct 22, 2009 - Barry Vale

Marx founded the philosophy and ideology of Marxism, whilst Lenin eventually established the first Marxist state in the form of the Soviet Union.

Aug 9, 2009 - Barry Vale

Terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction have changed from time to time and with some of the profound political changes since the 1970s.

Aug 9, 2009 - Barry Vale

The South Sea Company was originally set up on the premise that trade with Spain would increase as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession.

May 26, 2009 - Barry Vale

As a teenager George III succeeded his grandfather George II as the King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover in 1760.

May 26, 2009 - Barry Vale

As an event D-Day had various meanings for different people and different countries.

May 26, 2009 - Barry Vale

Fridtjof Nansen was born on 10 October 1861 just outside the Norwegian capital of Oslo then known as Christiania.

May 24, 2009 - Barry Vale

The process of mummification is one of the most famous aspects of ancient Egyptian society and an important over all feature of the history of Ancient Egypt itself.

May 19, 2009 - Barry Vale

As a political party the CDU of Germany was established after the end of the Second World War, and was committed to West Germany's reconstruction.

May 17, 2009 - Barry Vale

The Roman Catholic Church dominated religious life in Western Europe during the bulk of the medieval period, and it tightly controlled the availability of the Holy Bible.

Apr 26, 2009 - Barry Vale