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U.S. Military Academy established — History.com This Day in History — 3/16/1802 | This Day in History
Discover what happened today in history. Read about major past events that happened today including special entries on crime, entertainment, and more.
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America The Story of Us — Blacks in the… | Video
Learn how blacks serving in WWII helped forward the Civil Rights Movement.
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Military Aircraft | Topic
any type of aircraft that has been adapted for military use.
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United States Military Academy | Topic
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is an institution of higher education for the training of commissioned officers for the U.S. Army.
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Memorial Day | Topic
Memorial Day, observed the last Monday of May, honors men and women who died while serving in the American military.
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War of 1812 | Topic
The War of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and the British Empire fought between June 1812 and February 1815.
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Axis Military Leaders | Photo Gallery
View images of Axis military leaders from World War II.
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Allied Military Leaders | Photo Gallery
View photos of Allied military leaders
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World War II | Topic
An international military conflict, World War II involved most countries around the world and lasted from 1939 to 1945.
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Civil War: Union Military Leaders | Photo Gallery
View images of Union leaders from the Civil War, like Abraham Linoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and learn more about the roles they played in this bloody engagment.
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Jimmy Carter on Military | Video
President Jimmy Carter states his goal of keeping peace in this History Channel video. He said that eight years before him…
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Reagan on Military Strength | Video
"We cannot shirk our responsibility as the leader of the free world."
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Korean War | Topic
Beginning in 1950, the Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War and dragged on for three bloody years.
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Vietnam in HD — HISTORY says Thanks | Video
HISTORY employees thank their loved ones for their military service.
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Bernard Law Montgomery | Topic
Montgomery was indisputably Britain's greatest soldier since Wellington.
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Napoleon Bonaparte | Topic
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 1800s.
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Arms Race | Topic
Over the past century, the arms race metaphor has assumed a prominent place in public discussion of military affairs.
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Lend-Lease Act | Topic
The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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P.G.T. Beauregard | Topic
P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who achieved military success, but often clashed with senior officials.
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Winston S. Churchill | Topic
British statesman Winston Churchill was a writer, orator and formidable military strategist. He is best known for leading the Allies to victory in World War II.
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Dogfights — Glossary of Military Aviation Terms | Interactive
Learn the meaning of aviation terms such as "cockpit", "elevons", "punch Elvis" and more with the Dogfights Glossary of Military Aviation Terms on History.com.
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UFO Hunters — Military vs. UFOs | Video
In this History Channel "UFO Hunters" video clip, we see that two different British military base radar systems picked up a…
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Military aid to Saigon slashed — History.com This Day in History — 8/20/1974 | This Day in History
In the wake of Nixon's resignation, Congress reduces military aid to South Vietnam from $1 billion to $700 million. This was one of several actions that signaled the North Vietnamese that the United States was backing away from its commitment to…
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Nuremberg Trials | Topic
The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949 for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals--military leaders as well as civilians--to justice.
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Julius Caesar | Topic
A Roman statesman and general, Julius Caesar is considered one of the great military leaders of history.
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Weather in War | Topic
For countless generations, weather has influenced the planning and conduct of military and naval campaigns.
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Norman Schwarzkopf | Topic
U.S. Army officer who commanded Operation Desert Storm, the American-led military action that liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in the Persian Gulf War (1991).
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Vietnamization | Topic
In 1969, U.S. President Richard Nixon (1913-94) introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War (1954-75) by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
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Operation Rolling Thunder | Topic
During the Vietnam War (1954-75), as part of the strategic bombing campaign code-named Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout Communist North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968.
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Spartans | Topic
The Spartans, a military society in ancient Greece, were at the height of their power from 404 B.C. to 371 B.C.
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Andersonville | Topic
Andersonville, Georgia was the site of a Confederate military prison from February 1864 until May 1865 during the American Civil War.
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Battle of Waterloo | Topic
The Battle of Waterloo of 1815 was the last defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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America's Wars | Topic
Military conflicts throughout U.S. history have shaped the country's policies, influenced its culture, defined its borders and cost thousands of lives.
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Benito Mussolini | Topic
Benito Mussolini's self-confessed thirst for military glory battled his acute intelligence, psychological acumen, and political shrewdness for control over his military policies.
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Samurai and Bushido | Topic
The samurai were members of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan who rose to power in the service of the powerful landowners who backed the military dictator, or shogun.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu | Topic
Japanese warlord who founded a dynastic military government that endured for nearly three centuries.
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Women in the Vietnam War | Topic
Some 11,000 American military women and an unknown number of female civilians served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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The Art of War | Topic
Military leaders and heads of state have long relied on the 2,500-year-old Chinese book The Art of War for inspiration and advice.
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Winfield Scott Hancock | Topic
(born Feb. 14, 1824, Montgomery County, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 9, 1886, Governor's Island, N.Y.) Union general during the American Civil War (1861–65), whose policies during Reconstruction military service in Louisiana and Texas so…
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Eisenhower Doctrine | Topic
(Jan. 5, 1957), in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
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Joseph Hooker | Topic
Joseph Hooker was a career U.S. military officer who served as a major general and commander of the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War
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Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact | Topic
The Cold War tensions that followed World War II prompted Western and Communist nations to form separate military alliances, resulting in the creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 and the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
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Frederick William, baron von Steuben | Topic
A Prussian military officer, von Steuben was instrumental in converting the Continental Army into a disciplined fighting force during the Revolutionary War.
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Peloponnesian War | Topic
The great war between Athens and Sparta lasted for 27 years, destroyed the Athenian imperial system and changed the entire course of Greek military history.
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Myles Standish | Topic
Myles Standish was a Mayflower passenger and military leader of the Plymouth colony.
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Cleopatra | Topic
The legendary Cleopatra VII ruled ancient Egypt as co-regent for almost three decades, and is remembered for her military alliances and romances with two Roman leaders.
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Reconstruction | Topic
Reconstruction refers to the period of upheaval in the American South after the Civil War and abolition of slavery.
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Tôjô Hideki | Topic
Wartime leader of Japan's government, General Tôjô Hideki, with his close-cropped hair, mustache, and round spectacles, became for Allied propagandists one of the most commonly caricatured members of Japan's military dictatorship throughout the…
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German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | Topic
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which both countries, despite their history of fierce enmity, agreed to take no military action against the other for 10 years.
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George Waring | Topic
After designing early sewage systems, George Waring put his military background and reforming spirit to good use as New York City's commissioner of sanitation from 1895 to 1898.
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