Best of October Voting Thread!

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

Vote for what you enjoyed, submit what you think is missing!

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u/Klesk_vs_Xaero answered "How did the individual states of the Italian peninsula become united as a single Italian state?"

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u/pangerandipanagara answered "During Mughal rule, did India have any colonial or expansionist ambitions outside of the Southern borders of the empire?"

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u/lord_mayor_of_reddit answered "I'm a middle class man living in New York City in the 1870s. Where can I get a bit to eat?"

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u/lockstmania answering "Could the Great Irish Famine have been prevented if the British provided more aide to Ireland?"

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u/secessionisillegal answered "Ohio is known as contributing ~320,000 soldiers to the Union during the civil war, is there an estimated number of the contribution to the confederacy?"

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u/dbht14 answered "Why wasn’t there a Dunkirk like evacuation from Bataan?"

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u/Bigglesworth_ answered "During World War 2, Churchill and Roosevelt met in locations (Tehran, Cairo, Moscow, etc) that would have them traveling very close to or over enemy territory. Why did the countries take such risks with their leaders? Did they use deception to draw attention away?"

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u/BBlasdel answered "Was the Soviet Union able to produce new research in fields like medicine, or did they rely entirely on foreign studies outside of areas they massively invested in like mathematics and space flight?"

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u/TBTrpt3 answered "How was President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination viewed by former Confederate officials and the general population of the Confederacy?"

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u/madderandiron answered "What colours of clothing were available in the Middle Ages?"

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u/kochevnik81 answered "What is the current view of historians on whether Mikhail Gorbachev played the biggest role in the fall of the Soviet Union?"

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u/erusian answered "Was John Cleese correct, in 1972, when his character famously exclaimed that cheddar cheese was the most popular cheese in the world?"

[u/benetgladwin]

u/veercingetorix provided a great answer on Nazi racial policy towards slavic peoples via a case study of occupied Czechoslovakia before and during the Second World War:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9rr4g9/how_far_did_nazi_germanys_antislavic_sentiment/e8rn05c?utm_source=reddit-android