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Red Scare

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Cold War, Historical
Red Scare is a phrase used to refer to periods of anti-Communism in the United States. The first "red scare" took place began towards the end of World War I and was generally characterized by worker revolution as well ...Read More »

McLean House

{ Article added: 07/03/2010 }
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Categories : Civil War, Historical
On July 21, 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War took place on farmland owned by Wilmer McLean. It was called the First Battle of Bull Run. Seeking to get away from the war, McLean, ...Read More »

Dieter Dengler

{ Article added: 01/04/2010 }
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Categories : People, Vietnam War
Dieter Dengler was a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War whose capture and imprisonment in Laos as a POW was the subject of the film Rescue Dawn. The prison camp was operated by the Pathet Lao, and Dengler was ...Read More »

Manfred von Richthofen

{ Article added: 11/07/2009 }
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Categories : People, World War I
Manfred von Richthofen was a famous flying ace in World War I who is more commonly known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service and was credited with 80 ...Read More »

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Categories : Photographs, World War II
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph depicting six U.S. servicemen raising an American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The photograph was ...Read More »

Moscow–Washington hotline

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Categories : Cold War
More commonly known as the "red telephone", the Moscow–Washington hotline is a direct line of communication between the United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia) developed during the Cold War. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the two sides ...Read More »

Great Locomotive Chase

{ Article added: 09/06/2009 }
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Categories : Civil War
The Great Locomotive Chase is the name given to a raid conducted by the Union Army (and led by two civilians) that took place on April 12, 1862. The purpose of the raid was to do as much damage ...Read More »
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