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Despite getting extremely close to agreeing to negotiations to avert hostilities, the U.S. and Japan failed to make peace and…
The attack by the Imperial Japanese Army against the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor catapulted the United States into World…
December 7, 1941 will forever be one of the most memorable dates in American history. The attack on Pearl Harbor, a preemptive…
The Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union has experienced several conflicts that have been provoked by ethnic hatred and…
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József Mindszenty was a Roman Catholic cardinal ordained shortly after World War II who staunchly resisted the fascist and later…
Oliver North is a former United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal involving…
On November 1st, 1952 the United States detonated the world’s first hydrogen bomb on a large atoll called Eniwetok in…
More than thirty years later, the Iran Hostage crisis still ranks as one of the most traumatic diplomatic events in…