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Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease, or the Lend-Lease Act, was the US program created by Congress on March 11, 1941, lending or leasing war supplies to over 40 Allied nations, worth about $50 billion.
Lepa Radić (Лепа Светозара Радић)
Lepa Radić (Лепа Светозара Радић), 1925–1943, Yugoslav partisan and Communist Party member hanged by German forces at Bosanska Krupa at age 17 after refusing to name comrades; National Hero of Yugoslavia from 1951.
Leticia Incident
The Leticia Incident (Leticia Conflict) was an armed dispute between Colombia and Peru, starting in 1932, following the seizure of the Colombian Amazon River port of Leticia.
Leuchter report
The Leuchter report is a 1988 document by Fred A. Leuchter Jr. denying the homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz; courts and scientists have rejected it.
Lev Mekhlis
Lev Mekhlis (Лев Захарович Мехлис, 1889–1953) was a Soviet party and military figure who served as Stalin's personal secretary, edited Pravda, and led the Red Army's political administration.
Liaodong campaign of 1388
The Liaodong campaign of 1388 (고려 요동 정벌) was a Goryeo military expedition against Ming-held Liaodong that turned back at Wihwa Island, and its commander Yi Seong-gye used the army to depose King U.
Liberal Revolution of 1854
The Liberal Revolution of 1854 (Revolución Liberal de 1854) was a Peruvian civil war won by Ramón Castilla, who decreed the abolition of slavery and the indigenous tribute.
Liberated Area of Cambodia
Liberated areas of Cambodia were territories controlled by the Khmer Rouge (CPK) during the 1970-1975 civil war, first created in April 1970, covering 85 percent of the country by 1973, with markets closed and currency abolished, and retained as Democratic Kampuchea's administrative zones after 1975.
Liberated Areas (Oman)
Liberated areas of Dhofar, Oman: zones held by the Dhofar Liberation Front (later PFLOAG/PFLO) during the Dhofar Rebellion 1963–1976, under Marxist rule, reconquered by the Sultan's Armed Forces by December 1975.
Liberated Zone (Sierra Leone)
Liberated Zone (Sierra Leone): the RUF's own name for territory it controlled during the 1991-2002 civil war, chiefly around the Gola Forest in Kailahun, where it imposed civil administration, martial rule, and self-reliant settlements before UN deployment ended rebel control in 2001-2002.
Liberation Day (Italy)
Liberation Day (Festa della Liberazione) is Italy's 25 April national holiday commemorating the 1945 CLNAI insurrection that freed Genoa, Milan, and Turin from Nazi-Fascist occupation, established by decree in 1946.
Liberation of Finnmark
Liberation of Finnmark: Soviet Red Army freed Norway's northernmost county, East Finnmark, October-November 1944 (Kirkenes 25 October; halted at Tana River 6 November), during the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, while Germans burned the province and evacuated over 50,000 people.
Liberation of Kherson
Liberation of Kherson: Ukraine's 11 November 2022 recapture of Kherson city, the only regional capital Russia took in 2022, after a summer-autumn counteroffensive and Russian withdrawal to the Dnipro's east bank.
Liberation of Paris
Liberation of Paris (Libération de Paris), August 19–26, 1944: Parisian insurrection, Leclerc's Free French 2nd Armored Division entry, von Choltitz's surrender on August 25, and de Gaulle's Champs-Élysées parade.
Libyan civil war (2014–2020)
Libyan civil war (2014–2020), also called the Second Libyan Civil War: conflict between Haftar's eastern LNA and the UN-recognized Tripoli government, from Operation Dignity in May 2014 through the October 2020 ceasefire and 5+5 Joint Military Commission.
Libyan genocide (1929–1934)
The Libyan genocide, also known as the Cyrenaican genocide, was the mass killing of Cyrenaica's Bedouins by Fascist Italy from 1929 to 1934, killing 50,000–70,000.
Libyan slave trade
The Libyan slave trade is the buying, selling, and forced exploitation of migrants and refugees in Libya, which expanded after the state's 2011 collapse and drew global attention when CNN showed slave auctions in 2017.
Libyan–Egyptian War
The Libyan–Egyptian War, also called the Four-Day War, was a short border war between Libya and Egypt fought along their Mediterranean frontier near Salum from July 21 to 24, 1977.
Lidice massacre
Lidice massacre: Nazi destruction of the Czech village of Lidice on June 10, 1942, reprisal for Heydrich's assassination; 173 men shot, women deported to Ravensbrück, most children gassed at Chełmno, village razed.
Life unworthy of life
Life unworthy of life (Lebensunwertes Leben) was the Nazi designation, from the 1920 Binding-Hoche tract, for disabled people deemed a genetic and financial burden; it underpinned sterilization of 400,000 Germans and the T4 "euthanasia" murder of roughly 250,000 to 300,000 patients.
Lillehammer affair
Lillehammer affair: 21 July 1973 killing of Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi by Mossad in Lillehammer, Norway, mistaken for Black September leader Ali Hassan Salameh; five agents convicted, later pardoned.
Limbang rebellion
The Limbang rebellion of December 1962 saw insurgents of the North Kalimantan National Army seize Limbang, Sarawak, taking hostages before Royal Marines retook the town.
Lincoln County War
Lincoln County War (1878-1879), also called the Billy the Kid conflict, was a merchant feud in Lincoln, New Mexico Territory, between the Murphy-Dolan House and Tunstall-McSween allies, ending with McSween's death, Lew Wallace's amnesty, and the Posse Comitatus Act.
Lindt Cafe siege
The Lindt Cafe siege (Sydney siege), 15–16 December 2014: Man Haron Monis held 18 hostages in Martin Place for 16 hours; Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson died; coroner found police waited too long.
Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich
The Destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich (Зруйнування Запорозької Січі) was Catherine II's 1775 abolition of the Zaporozhian Host, ending Cossack autonomy on the Ukrainian steppe.
List of 17th-century wars involving the Thirteen Colonies
17th-century wars of the future Thirteen Colonies: Anglo-Powhatan Wars, Pequot War, Kieft's and Esopus Wars, Anglo-Dutch capture of New Netherland, King Philip's War, and King William's War (1689–1697).
List of 18th-century wars involving the Thirteen Colonies
The 18th-century wars involving the Thirteen Colonies were colonial conflicts tied to European wars between Britain, France, and Spain, from King William's War to the American Revolutionary War of 1775 to 1783.
List of Alamo defenders
List of Alamo defenders names the men who died defending the Alamo on March 6, 1836, including Bowie, Travis, and Crockett; official count 189, estimates up to 257.
List of alleged operations by Mossad
List of alleged operations by Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service: the 1960 Eichmann capture, Operation Wrath of God, Lillehammer 1973, the 1997 Meshaal poisoning, Dubai 2010, the 2018 Iran archive raid, and the 2024 pager attack, with attribution caveats.
List of American and British defectors in the Korean War
American and British defectors in the Korean War: the 21 U.S. POWs who refused 1953 repatriation and the single British Royal Marine, Andrew Condron, who chose to defect to the Communist side.