Foreign Affairs
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East meted out justice to Japanese war criminals at locations throughout Asia.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
In spite of his youth and inexperience in journalism, Edward R. Murrow assembled a team of radio reporters in Europe that brought World War II into the parlors of America and set the gold standard for all broadcast news to this day.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
The birthplace of civilization is also the home of culture's nemesis.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
No U.S. president had ever flown while in office, and none had ever visited Africa. But that didn't deter President Franklin D. Roosevelt from flying to Morocco for a top-secret meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. For Roosevelt, it was more than just a vitally important wartime conference -- it was a grand adventure.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Perceiving the impending danger posed by Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill battled Britain's government and public opinion for increased military spending in the 1930s.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Did American commanders needlessly send doughboys to their deaths during the hours before the 1918 armistice went into effect?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
President John F. Kennedy's tentative response to the report by General Maxwell Taylor had unintended consequences for the course of the war.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Thanks to the actions of the men assigned to protect him, President Harry S. Truman survived a harrowing attempt on his life by two Puerto Rican nationalists.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:06 pm
More than a half century later people still ask the question about Alger Hiss: Was he or wasn't he a Communist spy?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Adolf Hitler had decreed that Paris should be left a smoking ruin, but Dietrich von Choltitz thought better of his Fuhrer's order.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:04 pm
For most of Ronald Reagan's advisers and diplomats, the president's June 1987 Berlin speech was much too confrontational -- a disaster in the making. Efforts to delete the call on Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall' continued even as the president's motorcade made its way to the Brandenburg Gate.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:04 pm
With Operation Urgent Fury -- the invasion of Grenada -- two decades ago, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead in less than a decade to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision, tenacity and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:02 pm
When Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, it opened a heated debate about the limits of freedom in a free society.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire?
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