An Illustrated History of the USA
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31 -- AMERICA'S BACK YARD "MucraNixon. Mucr a Nixon!"-cDcath toNixon! Abarrica deblockedthe road.Thecarro ckedwildl y asth ...
Reaganandth e Sandinistas Nicaraguais acountryin Centra lA me rica.Inthe 1970sit wasruledb y aright-wingdictato rname d Somoza, ...
SUPERPOWER AmericanHispanics In 1950 the population ofthe: U nited States includedfewer than four millionresident" His- panics" ...
Americanneig hbo r. AlloverLat inA me rica,it seemed,rhcUnitedStateswasproppingup oppressiveandunpopulargovernments. T h isWJSno ...
-- 32 -- A N E N D TO C O L D WAR? "Theyta lka bo utwholost andw ho w o n .H u m an reasonWOIl.Mankindwon.,. T hese.'wordswere s ...
T heChines...· communist leader. MaoZcdong, attackedd ercure.Hc· accusedSovietleadersof "revisionism "-cthnr is,ofalterin gsomeo ...
S U P F RPO\t' ER HenryKissinger In 1938 a fifteen-year-old Jew ishboy was fo rced toflee fromGerma nyw ithh is parentsin o rde ...
In M ay] IJHH,Gorbachcvbegan(0w ith drawSoviet troops {romA{~llJtlistau.T hefollowingyear brou ght evenbiggercha nges.Allover ce ...
-- 33 - - THE AMERICAN CENTURY I J cni m s and ho tdogs.skyscrapers a nds u permar k et s. m assp roductionandro ckmllsic-w hat ...
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Thefirstsupermarketsappearedi lltheU nitedStates inth eI Y50s ,Withth eirhugevarietyoffoods and ot her consumergoods,supermarket ...
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