Here are entries that are tagged “war.”
On this date inĀ 1973, U.S. President Nixon announced an agreement to end the U.S.-Vietnam War.
In the “Gadsden Purchase” of 1853, The United States of America bought 45,000 square miles of land from the United States of Mexico.
In 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established through the confederation of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Transcaucasian Federation.
In 1972, U.S. President Nixon ordered a halt of heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
In 2006, three years and two weeks after his capture, Iraqi Saddam Hussein was hung until death.
On this date in 1979, Soviet forces assaulted Tajbeg Palace and killed Afghanistan’s President Hafizullah Amin, his 11-year-old son, and 150 others.