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Troops Abroad Spain dominated Cuba in the late 19th century. Spurred by tales against the population by their Spanish overlords, it took an explosion on the battleship Maine to catapult our country into conflict.
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Related Writings
The Sins of the Father
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| The War to End
All Wars A Bosnian student changed history one day in 1914 by assassinating a member of German royalty and his wife. The resulting war produced some of the most horrific weapons used in conflict and killed millions of Europe's young men.
World War I |
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| Social Management
The act of making alcohol illegal was
an effort to place controls on an American society. See how the
experiment went. Having grown up on Chicago's south side, tales of
parents and friend's parents involvement in this era was the norm
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| The Big Crash The stock market crash of '29 may have been the instigator of the Depression but economic policies made it more prolonged. See what your grandparents endured to give us a better life.
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