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Imperialism
- ImperialismImperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, and its name traces back to a single Latin word, imperium, meaning to command, to…
- Iraq WarAt 5:34 in the morning on the 20th of March 2003, Baghdad time, the United States began bombing Iraq. There was no declaration of war.
- Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact was born on the 14th of May 1955, eight days after West Germany joined NATO. Its founding declaration accused a remilitarized Western Germany…
- Vietnam WarA war lived differently depending on where you stood. Listen to the story with the care it demands, from the Gulf of Tonkin to the fall of Saigon.
- American imperialismAmerican imperialism is the exercise of power by the United States outside its borders. In 1786, then-private citizen George Washington described his new…
- Bay of Pigs InvasionThe Bay of Pigs Invasion ended in total defeat within three days. On the 20th of April 1961, the invading force of Cuban exiles surrendered to the Cuban…
- Satellite stateA satellite state has been part of the English language since as early as 1780, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
- John DeeJohn Dee was born in the Tower Ward of London on the 13th of July 1527. His father Rowland Dee served as a mercer and courtier to Henry VIII.
- British EmpireThe British Empire was once described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", because the sun was always shining on at least one of its territories.
- Empire of LibertyThe Empire of Liberty is a phrase Thomas Jefferson first wrote down in 1780, while the American Revolution was still being fought.
- 1953 Iranian coup d'étatOn the 19th of August 1953, a tank fired a single shell into the home of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the elected prime minister of Iran.