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The Geneva Peace Accords, signed by France and Viet Nam in the summer of 1954, reflected the strains of the international cold war. Drawn up in the shadow of the Korean War, the Geneva Accords represented the worst of all possible futures for war-torn VietNam
The total cost of the war to the federal government between 1941 and 1945 was about $321,000,000,000 (10 times as much as World War I). Taxes paid 41 per cent of the cost, less than Roosevelt requested but more than the World War I figure of 33 per
News of Hiroshima's destruction was only slowly understood in Tokyo. Many members of the Japanese government did not appreciate the power of the new Allied weapon until after the Nagasaki attack. Meanwhile, on August 8, the U.S.S.R. had declared war against
In 1939 physicists in the United States had learned of experiments in Germany demonstrating the possibility of nuclear fusion and had understood that the potential energy might be released in an explosive weapon of unprecedented power. On August 2, 1939, Albert
While the campaign for the Philippines was still in progress, U.S. forces were making great steps in the direct advance toward their final objective, the Japanese homeland. Aerial bombardment was the prerequisite of the projected invasion of Japan — which was to
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The last inter-Allied conference of World War II, code-named "Terminal", was held at the suburb of Potsdam, outside ruined Berlin, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. It was attended by the Soviet, U.S., and British heads of government and foreign ministers:
Before their ground forces were ready for the final assault on Germany, the western Allies intensified their aerial bombardment. This offensive culminated in a series of five attacks on Dresden, launched by the RAF and the U.S. Air Force in the night of February
Roosevelt's last meeting with Stalin and Churchill took place at Yalta, in the Crimea, February 4—11, 1945. The conference is chiefly remembered for its treatment of the Polish problem: the western Allied leaders, abandoning their support of the Polish government in
The progress of the Soviet armies toward central and southeastern Europe made it urgent for the western Allies to come to terms with Stalin about the fate of the "liberated" countries of Eastern Europe. London had already proposed to Moscow in May 1944 that
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Relations between the western Allies and the USSR were still delicate.
The longest-standing difference was about the territory and boundaries of Poland. Stalin was trying to get the Allies to consent to the
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