United Nations

  • The failure of the League of Nations is one of the most significant geopolitical collapses of the 20th century. Established after World War I to prevent another global conflict, it ultimately proved powerless against the rise of aggressive militarism in the 1930s. Historians generally attribute its collapse to four interconnected fatal flaws: Furthermore, other crucial…

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  • The Rwandan Genocide, which took place over a horrifying span of 100 days from April 7 to July 19 1994, stands as one of the most brutal and rapid genocides in modern history. An estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in a planned campaign of mass murder orchestrated by the…

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