Why was world war ii's battle of the bulge important? a. it was the final major nazi offensive against the allied forces in the war. b. it opened a path for german forces to attack the soviet union in stalingrad. c. it prompted italy to surrender, leaving germany and japan to fight the allies. d. it distracted the u. s. so japan could launch a surprise attack on pearl harbor.

- "the past is made of multitudinous items ranging from anything that can be collected, recollected or assessed to originate in the past. as such, the past is a gallimaufry of particulars that may not have been related in any way. however, the human mind seeks organization to understand concepts and other things. the human mind therefore seeks relationships in explaining and studying the past. history being a humanity, dictates that historians have to serve this human trait by bringing structure to details of the past. historians do this by creating interpretive frameworks that capture as many details as possible."

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the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.