EARLY LIFE UNIT 731 Detachment 731, The Kamo Detachment,Ishii Unit, Ishii Detachmentor the Ishii Company, was a covert biological and

BACKGROUND Japan’s efforts to establish clear naval and air superiority in the western Pacific first hit a snag in the Battle of the

 OPERATION REINHARD  The first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were established in 1933 as soon as the National Socialist regime

ROMANI PEOPLE  The Romani are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas. The Romani originate from the

MONSTERS Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners, including children, by Nazi

BACKGROUND Italy had seized military control of Libya from the Ottoman Empire during the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 , but the new colony

The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to

JERUSALEM Jerusalem is a city located in modern-day Israel and is considered by many to be one of the holiest places in the world.

BACKGROUND From the start of the invasion in August 1975 onward, TNI forces engaged in the wholesale massacre of Timorese civilians.

CRUSADES The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval

BACKGROUND After 1541, monarchs of England styled their Irish territory as also a Kingdom—replacing the Lordship of Ireland—and ruled

  BLOODLESS REVOLUTION The Glorious Revolution, also called “The Revolution of 1688” and “The Bloodless Revolution,” took place

CAPTURED The Grand Mosque seizure occurred during November and December 1979 when armed civilians calling for the overthrow of the

Circassians The Circassians are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia, many of whom were displaced in the course of

BACKGROUND The Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire numbered about one million at the turn of the twentieth century and was

  BACKGROUND Palestinian groups used to initiate few attacks on Israeli targets from both the West Bank and Jordan before the

  EARLY HISTORY Around 1000 B.C., King David ruled the Jewish people. His son Solomon built the first holy Temple in Jerusalem,

BACKGROUND PFLP leader George Habash had planned the hijackings with Wadi Haddad, his lieutenant, in July 1970, when Jordan and Egypt

DARFUR GENOCIDE The Darfur genocide refers to the systematic killing of Darfuri men, women, and children which occurred during the