Sound and not so sound beginnings
1789: the US War Department establishes a regular army with a strenghth of 'several hundred men' 1829: London's organized police goes on duty...known as Scotland Yard! 1938: British, French German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. This eventually leads to:1941: The SS Einsatzgruppen operating in the Ukraine massacres between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukranians (of which 33,771 are Jews), at Babi Yar, a ravine about 30 miles outside of Kiev.
1943: GEN Eisenhower and Marshal Pietro Badaglio sign an armistice aboard HMS Nelson off Malta as Allies recapture Pompeii!
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