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246) Armistice, 1918
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Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This book explains how the armistice came about and discusses the consequences of World War I on a global scale.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An "account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity"--
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Contains twenty-six essays that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to the U.S.-led war on Iraq in 2003, debating whether the war was justified, the role of the U.S. in Iraq, the type of government Iraq should have, and the country's prospects for the future.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Reveals in gripping detail how the crisis leading to World War I unfolded. Drawing upon fresh sources, it traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts among the main decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade.Examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully...
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
In the spring of 1994 the tiny African nation of Rwanda exploded onto the international media stage, as internal strife reached genocidal proportions. But the horror that unfolded before our eyes had been building steadily for years before it captured the attention of the world. In The Rwanda Crisis, journalist and Africa scholar Gerard Prunier provides a current yet historical perspective that Western readers need to understand how and why the brutal...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Many Americans did not want the U.S. to enter World War II. But all that changed on December 7, 1941. It was a quiet morning in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Then suddnely the sky was filled with Japanesse warplanes. Within two hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet lay shattered in the harbor. And America was at war." - back cover
256) Year of meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"In early 1860, pundits and political operatives across America confidently predicted the victory of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential election. Douglas, after all, led the Democrats, the only party that bridged North and South. But the Democracy would splinter over the issue of slavery, opening the way for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln, not the first...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768...
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