During the years of the Cold War, from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, any one-time event in the USA or the USSR was susceptible to being misinterpreted and generating a new war on a global level – such as the Mistranslation of the words of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
The frontier of the Americas as seen by whites disappeared in the 1890s. Still, the theory of expansion does not stop, and the United States will expand overseas in search of further territory. William McKinley is a president who symbolizes such American imperialism. The Last Civil War President
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States Navys Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 13 warships and 188 aircraft, and killed 2,403 US military personnel and 68 civilians. Fearing a possible attack against the American president, F
History of Chicago , Andrew Diamond &Pap Ndiaye, Fayard, 2013 The somewhat misleading title of this book seems to offer a synthetic and mainstream city history, as Fayard has already published many times, whether from Rome, from Beirut or Vienna. However, this text, written with four hands by two Am