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Led by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joseph McCarthy efforts are made to root out Communist sympathizers in the United States, efforts which take on the form of public show trials.
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During a particularly tense period of the Cold War NATO forces are constantly on alert and ready to attack the communists with nuclear weapons and ready to attempt to repulse attacks on NATO member states.
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As tensions mount during the Cuban Missile Crisis the senior officers on board a Soviet sub damaged by a US destroyer make a decision that determines the fate of mankind.
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North Vietnam closes in on South Vietnam causing a mass exodus.
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In the first direct confrontation between Cuban and American forces, the US quickly pours troops and weapons into the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada to smash their brief Marxist experiment propped by Cuba.
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Despite the efforts Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to repress rebellions springing up across the Soviet Union it was inevitable that it would dissolve.
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Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.
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In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.
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There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.
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When one thinks of America's first amusement ride Coney Island comes to mind, but another ride in Pennsylvania was attracting large crowds of thrill-seekers a decade before.
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