April - 2017

The Fall of Saigon: NVA troops capture the Capital

For almost 20 years, Vietnam had been a hot topic for the Cold War. Vietnam had originally been a French Colony (Indochina), and after...

For a long time, since the end of the 1940's, both the USSR and the US prepared for a nuclear war, and had built up safety nets spanning...

Prior to WWI, The Dardanelles, or the channel of water that connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, that was in the heart of the...

It was 1967, and the Cold war was in full swing. Berlin had been walled in two, the American President, John F Kennedy was dead (an...

It was 1915, and the war had only been fought for one year, and it was on this day that the Germans released Chlorine gas on the French...

It was on this day, in 1889, that the most notorious dictator and the orchestrator of the Holocaust was born. On April 20th, 1889, Klara...

On this day, 1945, the Soviets won the battle of the Seelow Heights, an elevated area of land that overlooked the town of Seelow and was...

On April 9th, 1917, Canada's international reputation for honour and bravery was born, because it was on this day, all the way up to the...