In a long-awaited history due to be published this week, journalist and author Anne Applebaum draws on firsthand accounts and previously unpublished archival material to describe how the Kremlin established its hegemony over Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. The book, titled Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe<span>, 1944-56, explores the gutting of local institutions and the murders, terror campaigns, and tactical maneuvering that allowed Moscow to establish a system of control that would last for decades to come. I spoke with, Applebaum, whose previous book, a history of the Soviet Gulag, won the Pulitzer Prize.</span>
The Strait of Malacca separates the Malay Peninsula<span> from the Indonesian island of Sumatra while the south coast is separated from the island of Singapore by the Straits of Johor.</span>
The correct answer is letter C
The Act of Navigation was a law drafted by England in 1651, sanctioned by Oliver Cromwell (leader of the government that overthrew the monarchy in 1649) with the aim of ending Dutch maritime competition and boosting the English.
In a time of intense change there were two major revolutions that transformed England in the seventeenth century that resulted in the English liberal revolutions. The Puritan Revolution from 1640 to 1648 and the Glorious Revolution between 1688 and 1689.
Leonardo Da Vinci. Dated back to the 15th century, titled 'the last supper'.
He resisted calls to turn back and looking for the passage to the Pacific ocean, he took the passageway it was found.