President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

During one event, she noted that German prisoners of war were permitted to sit closer to the stage than black soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

He hoped that during his second four-year term he could end the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Some say that General George Washington used it during the American Revolutionary War.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

During the next year,Gates said, it will be critical to show that progress has been made in the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

The report concluded that both Israel and Palestinian militants committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the Gaza war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The report accuses both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes during the three-week war in Gaza that began in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

In 1988, the U.S.Congress passed a bill that provided reparations to Japanese Americans interned during the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Iraq's Journalist Syndicate says the incident shows the violence that civilians have suffered during the war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The Old City with its Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy places is part of the eastern half of Jerusalem that Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

A majority of scholars and historians agree that the massacre of an estimated one million Armenians during World War I constitutes genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

They were tribal members who came up with an unbreakable code in their complex language that was adopted by American forces in the Pacific during World War II and used to confound the Japanese.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

What else are you going to do?" Back at his home and headquarters in suburban Washington, Russell says Muslims should understand that western societies fought for specific rights during hundreds of years of war over religion.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

This urban setting has been pointed out by anonymous tipsters, who have come forward after 25 years, as the suspected final resting place of at least four people who disappeared during the civil war that raged in Guatemala during the 1980s.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27