America was involved in Vietnam for 20 years. Our presence started small but by 1965 had significantly escalated. 3.1 million troops saw combat and at least 58,300 were killed. We spent over $120 billion from 1965 to 1973 which led to an oil crisis and rampant inflation. Are you better ...
Also there is a big difference between military allies and political allies. Socialist Chile may work against the United States on global political issues but is a major military ally for its own security reasons. Reality gets really strange with situations like Pakistan and Yemen. This list:Milit...
El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico’s biggest newspaper, endorsed Kamala Harris on Tuesday following backlash to a comedian who disparaged Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s rally in New York Sunday. “The hearts of all of us who love this beautiful Garden of America, ...
Just as Sun Yat-sen never expected to see the birth of a Red regime in China, nor did Stalin believe the Chinese Communists could one day seize power. His hopes for the Chinese revolution rested with the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek. Stalin favored Chiang because he was convinced that Chiang ...
While their stories may not be widely known, countless dedicated, courageous women were key organizers and activists in the fight for civil rights. Without these women, the struggle for equality would have never been waged. “Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement,” ac...
“this is how things work in hollywood and all actresses who’d made it did it this way.” she said she left the industry shortly afterwards. sean young: the star of blade runner and wall street told the dudley and bob with matt show podcast that while working...
After one such fight, he found a young Vietnamese lying in a gully, face down. He pointed his gun at the boy and nudged him with his foot. AS THE boy turned over, Abraham saw there was a rifle close to his outstretched arm and he reacted instantly: he saw the boy's look of ...
Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Oakland supported the Black Panthers’ first “survival program.” (Via eBay) In the ’60s, people were looking at end-of-the-world scenarios with the atomic bomb and the Cold War. “Tricky Dick” Nixon got elected during this period, and ...
Why did we fight the Civil War? What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that...
Throat cancer has taken the lives of many illustrious figures, serving as a stark reminder that it does not discriminate between the famous and the ...