... of Africa and India, Indochina and others, to the incredibly important invention of computers and other technological advances in the later days of the so-called war. We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, ... ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the ... bad as our government...

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... shaped our humble country. During the end of 1940's through the 1980's, the world was hushed in fear of a battle brewing between the former war allies, United States and the Soviet Union. Here, the kings of each opposite worlds clashed. Capitalism versus communism, freedom versus totalitarianism and democracy versus dictatorship ... had taken over him. "During two years of life in Canada, I saw the evidence of what a free people can do. What the Canadian people have accomplished and are accomplishing here under conditions of complete freedom- the Russian people, under the conditions of ...

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D-Day and The Battle of Stalingrad were two battles in the Second World War II that changed the tides of the war towards the Allies both on the Eastern and Western Front. Before the winter of 1942-43, when the battle at Stalingrad ... and 10,000 aircraft delivered over a quarter million men to fortified Europe. The United States and Great Britain provided the majority of the troops, but Canadian and Free-French forces also participated. Three American infantry division assaulted the beaches code named Utah and Omaha. Two American airborne division landed in the night ... to Berlin. When com...

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... the most outstanding black leader in the US. Du Bois wrote in the Crisis that blacks should arm themselves during racist attacks. By the time World War 1 broke out in 1914 . The Crisis covered the war extensively. Du Bois saw the war as an opportunity for black's soldiers to show that they are competent and courageous and able to cooperate with whites. The ... war also opened a lot of jobs for blacks. When war was over it brought racial strife, white saw that blacks took all the jobs. Race riots broke in over 20 cities it was called the "red summer". Later on in ... Bois and Shirley w...

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