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January 14th: Congress Ratifies The Treaty of Paris With Great Britain

January 13, 2023
The American Revolutionary War was a conflict fought between the Thirteen Colonies in North America and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783. The main cause of the war was the colonies’ desire to be free of British rule and to establish themselves as an independent nation. After eight years of…

January 12th: Operation Chopper Takes Place

January 12, 2023
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was exacerbated by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as each side sought to spread…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech

January 6, 2023
On January 6, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. In this speech, commonly referred to as the Four Freedoms speech, Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human rights that he believed should be protected for all people around the world: freedom of…
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