The Berlin Airlift
On 26 June 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off ...
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The H Bomb
November 1st, 2011, by denny
On 1 Nov 1952, the US detonated the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb (or ...
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August 20th, 2011, by denny
On 20 Aug 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded. The troubles began in January when Alexander Dubcek took ...
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July 20th, 2011, by denny
Following WWII, the US moved quickly to demobilize the vast military it had constructed during the ...
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June 25th, 2011, by denny
Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following WW II. US ...
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November 9th, 2009, by denny
I spent some time in Berlin while the Wall was still up; I was a West ...
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