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Indochina conflict began with United States economic rebuilding of Japan. Political, social ideals of Communism; French Colonialism threaten post WW2 Southeast Asia.

In this detailed account of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Michael Dobbs brings new information, analysis and conclusions to a narrative that reads like a Tom Clancy novel!

The article is a history of the Guatemala's 36-Year civil war that explains the groups involved and the challenges facing the peace process today.

Alleged attacks on two American destroyers by North Vietnamese patrol boats gave the Johnson Administration an excuse to request passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.

The US occupation of Iraq may be viewed by future historians as a failure, but history contains examples of military occupations that achieved their long term goals.

Seattle - King County's Health Department has prepared an apocalyptic comic book drawing an analogy between the deadly 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and Swine Flu.

Following the Brown v Board of Education case, the growing Civil Rights Movement found support among white Americans confronted by a contradiction to equality & justice.

The first decade of the Cold War validated Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, from the division of Europe to internal fifth columns promoting Communism.

The Special Forces were established in 1952 to act as counter-insurgency troops against Communist aggression, but would grow to be a part of the regular armed forces.

The 29th President lacked all the basic credentials to lead the nation and his death in 1923 might have avoided impeachment over scandals in his administration.