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In what was America’s longest and perhaps its most debated war, America sleep walked into war in Southeast Asia in the early 1960s. It fought a regime headed by a

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The United States government blundered into a war that it said it was not going to fight. Then, after joining the war, it ignored various warnings as the war expanded. In

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In the late 1930s, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States would start taking the steps to the back door of war, even though most Americans wanted the nation

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What Next? And Next?: A shorthand history of America at war Part III America and the Great War (1917-1918)

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The Spanish-American War of 1898 was a turning point that dramatically changed America. The United States once had been the avowed enemy of empire. Prior to the war, president Grover

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