BACKGROUND On January 12, 2010, Google revealed on its blog that it had been the victim of a cyber attack. The company said the

  AL ANFAL CAMPAIGN The Anfal campaign began in 1986, and lasted until 1989, and was headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of

BOMBING On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 minutes after takeoff from London.

BACKGROUND In 2001, the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence service, was profiling newly inducted Syrian President Bashar

BACKGROUND Iraq had established a nuclear program sometime in the 1960s, and in the mid-1970s looked to expand it through the

  BACKGROUND The Katyn Massacre: When The USSR Purged 22,000 Polish Men. In 1939, Poland had been invaded from the west by Nazi

  SPANISH CIVIL WAR The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal tothe eft-leaning

  BACKGROUND Shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital city,

FRENCH REVOLUTION The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning

  AZTECS EMPIRE The Aztecs, who probably originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico, arrived in Mesoamerica around the

  AUTO DA FE An auto-da–fé or auto-de-fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took

  TRIANGLE MIDDLE PASSAGE The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly

BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE The Wounded Knee Massacre was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians, mostly women and children,

  MUNICH MASSACRE The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the

  WAR The Six-Day War was a brief but bloody conflict fought in June 1967 between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Syria and

 APOLLO 11 Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz

  PART 1 BACKGROUND With the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the United States had grown concerned about the

  MAEJI RESTORATION The Meiji Restoration also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that

  पृष्ठभूमि 27 जून 1976 को, एयर फ्रांस फ्लाइट 139, एक एयरबस A300B4-203 ने तेल अवीव, इजरायल से प्रस्थान किया, जिसमें 246 मुख्य रूप

  BACKGROUND On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300B4-203 departed from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 246 mainly