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…. And so the Civil War was over. Yet even the ending of the war did not bring real peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from…

…the ending of the war did not bring real peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C…

…South East Asian countries would fall into Communism, and this would certainly weaken American prestige in the world. When the Indochina War came to an end in 1954, the Geneva Peace Treaty granted the Viet Minh the northern part of Vietnam while the French…

…. Casualties in the land forces amounted to more than 37 million in addition close to 10 million deaths among the civilian populations were caused indirectly by the war. Despite worldwide hopes that the settlements arrived at after the war would restore world peace…

…. The English wanted to protect the fur trade with the Indians and hoped to keep the Americans from it. In the summer of 1811 one more effort was made for peace and it failed. In November President James Madison put Congress on notice to get ready for war…

…also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude - as individuals and as a Nation - for our attitude is as essential as theirs. And every graduate of this school, every thoughtful citizen who despairs of war and wishes to bring peace, should begin…

…of North Vietnam and rejected Westmoreland's request for 206,000 additional troops. Johnson also called for peace negotiations and declared that he would not seek reelection in 1968. Peace talks began in Paris in May. Opposition to the war in the United…

…such a great source of loss and tension however a new friction between the victors of the second world war, USA-Great Britain and Soviet Union, didn't took so long. A new power struggle started and shook the peace that they had sacrificed a lot to attain. The post…

…The Vietnam War was the most controversial war in U.S. history. Also called the Indochina War, it was said to have been started in 1957 when communist rebels of North Vietnam launched an attack on The South. The country was divided because…

…Prior to September 11, 2001 the line delineating national defense expenditures and other expenditures in the federal budget was reasonably clear. And civil expenditures that became defense expenditures in time of war or national emergency were well…