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2024.
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"Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on...
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2021.]
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"There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a 'friendship'...
26) Germany
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©2003
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Traces the history of Germany from ancient times to the present with specific emphasis on the Bismarck Era, the First World War, the Peace Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Regime, and post-war East and West Germany.
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[2021]
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The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries. Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist...
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[2018]
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlins covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trumps steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin, and Robert Muellers ensuing investigation of the president and those close to him. Based on interviews with hundreds of people in Trumps inner circle, current and former government officials,...
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2016.
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This book shines new light on reasons for the US invasion of Mexico in 1846, opposition by Abraham Lincoln and other politicians to the unjustified and unconstitutional decision by President Polk to go to war, the importance of the ensuing war against Mexico, the resulting territorial seizures by the United States, the impact both nationally and internationally to both countries, the troubling legacy even today, and the result of silences that have...
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This may be the most anticipated publication in American history, a document that can actually have an impact on the very future of our democracy. This is the full text of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It is THE REPORT AND NOTHING BUT THE REPORT: presented as released by the Attorney General of the United States, with no positioning or framing apparatus -- such as a celebrity...
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"'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in an insightful account, a prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as...
35) The Cold War
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Chronicles the Cold War, from its origins in the Soviet Revolution as the twentieth century began to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the century closed.
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A Japanese war map, a midget submarine, and evactuation orders are all part of the story of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. By examining these and other artifacts, readers feel like they are witnesses to the attack that brought the United States into World War II. Open this imaginary time capsule and learn!
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2007
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The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our Republic. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warming of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas that extends far beyond the issue of an overstretched military,...