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Global armed conflict from 1939 to 1945, including war in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, mass civilian suffering and major geopolitical change.

Transnational political and social campaigns against slavery and the slave trade, with different timelines across societies.

Period of codified racial segregation and minority rule in South Africa, ending with democratic transition in 1994.

Armed conflict beginning with the United States-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and followed by occupation, insurgency and sectarian violence, with major U.S. military withdrawal in 2011.

A Catholic conspiracy to destroy the English Parliament and kill James I was uncovered in 1605.

European powers agreed to the cession of Czechoslovak borderlands to Nazi Germany at Munich.

British intelligence used a corpse with forged documents to misdirect Axis planning before the invasion of Sicily.

British statesman who appears briefly in connection with the political circumstances surrounding the monarchy.

The kingdom attempting to exercise control over Scotland during the conflict.

Southern African country formerly administered as the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

A significant early-career location in Charles’s emergence as a professional recording and touring musician.

Political center of the Commonwealth during the succession and mobilization period preceding the Ottoman invasion.

Capital and largest city of Kenya.