Franz Boas publicly objected to US participation in World War I, and after the war he published a brief expose and condemnation of the participation of several American archaeologists in espionage in Mexico under their cover as scientists.

* 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.

In Czechoslovakia, that required a Soviet-backed Czechoslovak coup d ' état of 1948, the brutality of which shocked Western powers more than any event so far and set in a motion a brief scare that war would occur and swept away the last vestiges of opposition to the Marshall Plan in the United States Congress.

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

A dispute with Yemen over the Hanish Islands in 1996 resulted in a brief war.

Mussolini believed that following a brief entry of Italy into war with France, followed by the imminent French surrender, Italy could gain some territorial concessions from France and then concentrate its forces on a major offensive in Egypt where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

The Taifa kings competed against each other not only in war but also in the protection of the arts, and culture enjoyed a brief upswing.

The eventual Reformation of the Scottish Church followed a brief civil war in 1559 – 60, in which English intervention on the Protestant side was decisive.

But after a brief interval war broke out again, and again Sennacherib led an army into Judah, one detachment of which threatened Jerusalem (; ).

After a brief war with Sweden the peace terms of the Convention of Moss recognized Norwegian independence, but forced Norway to accept a personal union with Sweden.

Following a brief occupation by Nazi Germany when the Nazis declared war on the Soviet Union, Lithuania was again absorbed into the Soviet Union for nearly 50 years.

After the war, he had a brief career as an accountant.

In late December 1985, however, a border dispute between Mali and Burkina Faso over the mineral rich Agacher strip erupted into a brief war.

* 1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.

After putting down a brief civil war, Otto defeated the Magyars in 955, ending the Hungarian invasions of Europe and as well as securing his hold over his kingdom.

When a brief flirtation with democracy became a civil war after World War II, the Colorados, the party of the Lopiztas, were again running Paraguay.

As the most prosperous republic of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia emerged from its brief ten-day war of secession in 1991 as an independent nation for the first time in its history.

When it refused the national army attacked in a brief civil war between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons.

After solidifying his rule over the western provinces, Severus waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding the eastern frontier to the Tigris.

In spring 1918, during a brief period of economic liberalism prior to the introduction of war communism, and again during the New Economic Policy ( NEP ) of 1921, Lenin justified the introduction of state capitalism controlled politically by the dictatorship of the proletariat to further central control and develop the productive forces:

After crippling the US economy and becoming a nuclear power, Japan invades and takes the Marianas Islands ; the US and Japan fight a brief war, which the Japanese lose ( they are subsequently denuclearized ); an embittered Japanese pilot and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the US Capitol Building immediately after Ryan's confirmation as Vice President, killing most of the House and Senate, the President, all nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment ( including the JCS ), and most of the Cabinet.

The Second Italo – Abyssinian War was a brief colonial war that began in October 1935 and ended in May 1936.

This led to a brief political crisis ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ) and a mutiny by conscripts posted in British Columbia, but the war ended a few months later.

Following the term of service in Japan, each emissary returns for a brief visit to the campus to interpret his experience to the college community.

The service is brief and variety in forms of worship is practiced.

We should first recognize our tendency to develop a hierarchy of values, locating brief treatment at the bottom and long-term intensive service at the top, instead of seeing the services as part of a continuum, each important in its own right.

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

While Allen's service as a judge in Vermont was brief, he continued to ferret out Tories and report them to local Boards of Confiscation for action.

In April 1917, during a brief period of German aerial supremacy, a grandstanding Member of Parliament ( upset at the lack of orders for his own aircraft manufacturing firm ) claimed that, on the Western Front, a British pilot's average life expectancy was 93 flying hours, or about three weeks of active service.

There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.

After a brief break, the community joins together again for a church service that follows a typical evangelical format, with a sermon as a central feature.

After brief service on the Eastern Front, including the siege of Leningrad, he returned to Germany in 1942 to work as a trainer and advisor at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium.

In addition, the Litya, a brief prayer service for the departed, may be served on each weekday of Great Lent, provided there is no feast day or special observance on that day.

For a brief period, the specification also included a connectionless datagram service, but this was dropped in the next revision.

After brief service in western Virginia, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 3 and given the command of a brigade.

The Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave young Abraham Lincoln his brief military service.

Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork.

After brief service as a selectman, Huntington began his political career in earnest in 1764 when Norwich sent him as one of their representatives to the lower house of the Connecticut Assembly.

Telewest's HD service initially comprised around 10 – 30 hours per week of video-on-demand content, with no linear high definition television channels available, although the early trial services of BBC HD and ITV HD were carried for a brief time.

In 1648, the relatively brief Second English Civil War broke out, and Rupert informed the French King that he would be returning to King Charles ' service.

During the time the Perry Light Infantry was in service, it saw brief combat action as Confederate Gen. Jubal Early feinted an attack on Washington.

He left the service of Maximilian, and after a brief employment by another kinsman, the duke of Ferrara, he decided to quit the military life, and in 1514 entered as a student at the University of Bologna.

After a brief service in Hawaii, he studied at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth in 1928 – 29.

The unit ran a brief experimental shuttle service between Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon, via Warwick, Leamington Spa and Banbury, between 2002 and 2003.

He later transferred to the entertainment branch ( under luminaries such as Spike Milligan ), and immediately prior to his national service, there was a brief stint at RADA ( the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), during which his fees were paid by film director Brian Desmond Hurst, who also used Moore as an extra in his film Trottie True.

After a further brief period of government service as a deputy prefect, he visited Tripoli and joined the National Liberation Front of Chad ( FROLINAT ) where he became a commander in the Second Liberation Army of FROLINAT along with Goukouni Oueddei.

After brief frontline service as a field curate in World War I, he was appointed as the Spiritual Director of the Nitra seminary by Bende's successor, Vilmos Batthyány.