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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Mahatma Gandhi in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Gandhi's life and achievements. In the 19th century, European countries had colonized large parts of Asia and Africa to increase their own power. Gandhi used his incredible conception of nonviolent civil disobedience and unity beyond religions and the class system to fight...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Cold War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Cold War. Following the violence and upheaval of the Second World War, the face of Europe had greatly changed, and an Iron Curtain divided the communist East and the democratic West. Tensions soon mounted between the Soviet Union and anti-communist America, in a conflict...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Princess Diana in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Following her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981, she became a member of the British royal family, and from that moment on her private life became subject to intense media scrutiny. In the following years, accusations of adultery placed...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Iran-Iraq War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Iran-Iraq War. On 22 September 1980, Saddam Hussein attacked the Shatt al-Arab with the aim of annexing territories around it. This marked the start of a protracted war between Iraq and Iran. After eight years of hostilities that included the controversial use of...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Georges Lemaître in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the work of Georges Lemaître. An unlikely combination of a priest and a physicist who was responsible for the theories of the expansion of the universe and the primeval atom, which today we accept and know collectively as the Big Bang theory, Lemaître was not widely...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of Operation Desert Storm in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Operation Desert Storm. Iraq's decision to invade Kuwait, home to one of the largest oil fields in the world, in 1990 caused panic in the international community. Consequently, in early 1991 a coalition of international forces, the largest military alliance since...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel, the imaginary border between the North and South of the peninsula. This marked the escalation of diplomatic tensions into open conflict, and resulted in a three-year war of attrition...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Normandy landings in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Normandy landings. By 1944, the Second World War had been raging for five years and German forces occupied much of Europe. On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Although the Allies...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the European Union in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the development of the European Union. In the turmoil that prevailed after the Second World War, there was a strong desire in Europe to work towards peace and economic recovery, and the continent's political elites believed that the best way to do this was by working...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Six-Day War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Six-Day War. In 1967, relations between the State of Israel and its neighbours, which had long been strained, became dangerously tense. In the ensuing military conflict, Egypt, Jordan and Syria were unable to defeat Israel, and the Israeli victory and territorial gains...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of the Marne in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of the Marne. After the First World War broke out in 1914, the German army secured a series of early victories and advanced almost as far as Paris. However, a number of mistakes on the German side allowed the Allies to obtain a decisive victory at the...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Nuremberg trials in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Nuremberg trials. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the world was slowly coming round to the large-scale atrocities committed by the Nazis. The Allies recognised the need for international jurisdiction on war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the wake of the Second World War and its atrocities, the international community decided to come together to establish peace and accord freedoms and dignity to all individuals. This led to the founding...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of the Atlantic in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of the Atlantic. At 9pm on 3 September 1939, the longest campaign of the Second World War began. Germany aimed to use its navy and air force to gain supremacy in the Atlantic Ocean and prevent the British from receiving aid, thereby forcing them to...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Treaty of Versailles in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Treaty of Versailles. The First World War had left Europe in a state of almost total devastation. Eager to seek revenge, the Allied powers came together to draft the Treaty of Versailles, which would see Germany pay reparations to the victors and the borders...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el Tratado de Versalles, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto que rodea a la firma del Tratado de Versalles, al final de la I Guerra Mundial, ante una Alemania exhausta
• Profundizar en el papel de los principales personajes y países implicados en la firma del tratado, y en las...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of Bloody Sunday in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Bloody Sunday. In January 1972, tensions between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland were at an all-time high. When a supposedly peaceful demonstration in the city of Derry turned violent, things were about to take a turn for the worse. Thirteen...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Britain in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Britain. When Hitler decided to attack Britain in 1940, he expected a rapid victory for his army. Instead, the Battle of Britain became the most colossal air combat in history and led to the deaths of thousands of civilians. But it also showed the world...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the 1948 Palestine War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the 1948 Palestine War. On 15 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion formally proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. Immediately after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the neighboring Arab nations came together and decided to invade Palestine to put an...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Vietnam War in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Vietnam War, a brutal conflict that spanned two decades and resulted in catastrophic human and material losses. After the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, Vietnam was partitioned into two ideologically opposed states, namely the Communist North Vietnam under...
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