Did you know some of historical ironies(for example the first and last ruler of Byzantine Empire hadsamename)?

Question

MUSSOLINI WAS INITIALLY MARXIST AND LATER BECAME FASCIST WORST ENEMIES OF COMMUNISTS

OTHER EXAMPLES?

Answer 1

WWII started because Poland was invaded. When WWII was over, Poland was still occupied by an invading army (the Soviets) who forced Poland to become a puppet state of Moscow.

Not only that, the rest of eastern Europe was now under the military authority of the USSR and the Allied governments accepted this despite having just fought for six years to prevent the Germans doing the same.

Answer 2

Napoleon was both the Hero of the French revolution and the Great Leader of France and has been featured on the French currency several times yet he was born Italian to a family who despised the French and in his very early years wanted to be just like his father who fought in a rebels group against the french who were invading their land (corsica)

Also, China denied Europeans the right to trade with them because they were so lowly. Then China applied their invention gunpowder to new invention of theirs the gun and decided not to use it. Two hundred years later the Europeans come to china and force them to trade with the guns the chinese invented and discarded.

Answer 3

In 1861,Wilmer McLean owned and had a farm on the land that the first battle of the Civil War was fought on, the First Battle of Bull Run.

After the battle he said he wanted to move farther away from the fighting, so he sold his farm and bought land at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.

In 1865, his new house was used as the place where Lee signed the terms of  surrender to Grant to end the war.

It has since been said that the Civil War started in Wilmer McLean's backyard and ended in his front parlor.

Answer 4

roman emperor trajan was one of romes greatest emperors even though he wasnt roman

Answer 5

It's ironic that Hitler was all about the Aryan race, yet he had brown hair and brown eyes.

Answer 6

Abraham  Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

John  F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.  

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in  1860.

John F. Kennedy was elected President in  1960.

Both were particularly concerned  with civil rights.

Both wives lost their  children while living in the White House.  

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.  

Both Presidents were shot in the head  

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln  's secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy's  Secretary was named Lincoln ..

Both were  assassinated by Southerners.

Both were  succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.  

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln ,  was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, who  succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.  

John  Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born  in 1839.

Lee  Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born  in 1939.

Both  assassins were known by their three names.  

Both names are composed of fifteen letters.  

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln  was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'

Kennedy  was shot in a car cal led ' Lincoln ' made by  'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and  his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.  

Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his  assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth  and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

Answer 7

- Stalin, the leader of the communist empire (the USSR) was the greatest threat to the west. Yet, he became the greatest ally to the US & the UK against the n***s (more than 50% of the n**i army was involved in the Russian front).

- Dispersion was a condition that the Jews had suffered from for centuries. Ironically, it became their source of strength. It helped in establishing a trade & banking network all over the world, which many countries had benefited from.

- The 2nd Crusade: The emir of Damascus regarded Nur Al-Din as a threat because he was very popular among the Muslims. & so, the emir of Damascus became an ally to the crusaders’ kingdom of Jerusalem. When the warriors of the 2nd crusade arrived they besieged their ally (Damascus). The crusade ended in a complete failure & the people of Damascus open the gates of their city to Nur Al-Din.