First battles

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Remember the Maine!

the Spanish-American War begins
2002
Discusses the explosion of the "U.S.S. Maine" in Havana harbor in February 1898, an event that provoked the United States to declare was on Spain.

Point of no return

Tonkin Gulf and the Vietnam War
2004
Chronicles the events which occurred on the second and fourth days of August 1964 and explains how those events drew the United States into the Vietnam War.

The shot heard round the world

the battles of Lexington and Concord
2001
Details the events which occurred in the five years leading up to the American Revolution and discusses how those events forever changed the relationship between the colonies and Britain.
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