Despite the efforts Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to repress rebellions springing up across the Soviet Union it was inevitable that it would dissolve.

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.

North Vietnam closes in on South Vietnam causing a mass exodus.

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.

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.

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.

As the threat posed by the Soviet Union increases and Communism expands throughout Europe the United States initiates a series of atomic bomb tests known as Operation Crossroads in the Bikini Atoll.

North Vietnam closes in on South Vietnam causing a mass exodus.

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.

Despite the efforts Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to repress rebellions springing up across the Soviet Union it was inevitable that it would dissolve.

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.

Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.

George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.

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.

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.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.

Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.

A small anecdote from the crossing of the Mayflower to America reveals that an indentured servant, John Howland was swept off the deck of the ship during a storm, and that had he not been saved US history would have taken a different turn.

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.

There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.

Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.

The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...

There are several facts and fictions associated with New York City's Empire State Building, like that one about a penny dropped from the top having the ability to kill someone on the sidewalk.