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President Dwight Eisenhower appointed John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in January 1953, a job he held until almost…
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Led by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptians funneled money, arms, and eventually ground troops to support revolutionaries in North…
Cyprus gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 16, 1960, but the agreements that led to sovereignty failed to…
In 1972, a group of Palestinian terrorists shocked the world by kidnapping eleven Israeli athletes during the Summer Olympics in…
Loy Henderson (1892-1986) is one of the most storied figures in American diplomatic history. Beginning his career in 1922, he…
At the height of the Cold War, with the death toll mounting in Vietnam and the split between the USSR…
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