He's crippled by debt, and crippled physically too, a souvenir from the War Between the States.
France sought to impose a monarchy over democratic Mexico while U.S. foreign power weakened during the War Between the States.
Those of you captivated by the war between the states during this 150th anniversary year can also take advantage of this week to visit historic battlegrounds such as Manassas, Chickamauga, Shiloh, Fort Sumter, and Antietam.
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The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.
The Cuban missile crisis was one of the most serious security crises of the past century, a situation that, if handled poorly, really could have led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and the end of human civilization.
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There was never a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, in large part because each country was deterred from attacking the other.
Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
After 1872, war between Britain and the United States became almost inconceivable.
This should help to transform the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from a tribal war over the land they cohabit into a conflict between sovereign states.
Now that they are gone, the prospect of war between EU states has become unthinkable.
In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
At the height of the Cold War, the win by the pianist who grew up in Texas helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.
Right before he took office, Pena Nieto began a trip to the United States in November saying that ties between the neighboring nations must go beyond the drug war.
Countries like Japan would never even think of going to war with the United States, because to interrupt trade between our nations for even a day would have disastrous results for the Japanese economy.
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But to many, many others the explorer's courage, optimism and enthusiasm were the perfect distraction from a world still bruised by World War II and nervously watching the increasingly tense standoff between the United States and Soviet Union.
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, where he signed an historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines how the partnership between the United States and Afghanistan will be normalized as we look beyond a responsible end to the war.
IMF, but may find it withheld because of the war: the United States, which has been pressing for peace talks between Congo's government and its rebels, has made known its disapproval of Zimbabwe's armed intervention.
Bush also made comparisons between "how we left" the Vietnam War and what might happen if the United States were to pull out of Iraq.
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Last weekend, five Sabritas distribution centers were set alight and about 40 delivery trucks were destroyed in the states of Michoacan and Guanajuato, the site of a turf war between cartels.
IR--An alliance is a formal treaty or agreement between states, commonly for the purpose of mutual aid in the event of war against a common enemy.
On the war in Kosovo, Mr Allen has struggled to strike an awkward balance between the conservative Republican orthodoxy that the United States should stay out of the Balkans and Virginia's strong military tradition.
In terms of the European allies, there has long been a difference between Europe and the United States on how best to pursue the "second phase" of the war against terror.
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