Cold War
The Cold War was a period of mistrust and bad feeling between the United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia). It lasted from the end of World War II (1945) until the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). Both sides believed that the other wanted to spread their form of government throughout the world, and wanted to stop them. It was called the Cold War because the two nations never actually fought, but were very cold toward each other. However, several wars erupted in other nations in large part because of the Cold War.
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24/7: Behind the Headlines: Special Edition: The War in Iraq
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24/7: Behind the Headlines: Special Edition: The War in Iraq
Global warming, Iraq, China's growing influence - find out what is going on behind the headlines of todays most pressing issues!
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic Summer Challenge Book Pick.
Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, "Fallen Angels". He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club; and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair. "
Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.
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