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17 matches.
Afghanistan·2021·Wars
Twenty years of nation-building collapsed in twenty days.
Rwanda·1994·Wars
Neighbors with machetes. Radio broadcasts with kill lists. A hundred days of hell.
Iraq·1991·Wars
When the world ganged up on Saddam Hussein.
United States·1978·Wars
Jimmy Carter's thirteen-day hostage situation with two Middle East leaders
United States·1963·Wars
A president's murder spawned a half-century of doubt.
Cuba·1962·Wars
North Korea / South Korea·1953·Wars
Three years of carnage frozen in place, never actually resolved.
Japan·1945·Wars
America's atomic gamble vaporizes a city and kills 140,000.
Germany·1945·Wars
Germany signed away twice. Stalin demanded the encore.
Germany·1933·Wars
How a fire became the match that lit totalitarianism.
France·1919·Wars
How Allied victors carved up Germany and sowed the seeds of World War II.
Russia·1917·Revolutions
When bread riots toppled an empire and Lenin seized the moment.
France·1870·Wars
United States·1863·Wars
Lee's gamble on Northern soil ended in catastrophic defeat.
United States·1861·Wars
When Lincoln's election shattered the Union and slavery's fate hung in the balance
India·1857·Wars