I'm Steve Ember. Germany's attack on Poland and the start of World War Two in Europe presented a problem for Americans in September of nineteen-thirty-nine.

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Two summers had gone by since the start of the American Civil War, and the North had not yet won a major battle in Virginia.

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They felt that now was not the time to start a civil war.

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Days later,on October seventh, President George W.Bush announced the start of the war.

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President Truman and his military advisers were concerned World War Three would start.

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The Confederacy had no navy at the start of the Civil War.

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Many feared the start of another civil war.

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Meanwhile,dozens of war survivors who had come to witness the start of the trial were disappointed at its quick conclusion.

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The Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Cairo is the start of a projected better infrastructure in the war-torn Sudanese region.

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Its mission is to examine Britain's role in the run-up to the start of the Iraq war in 2003 through the conflict and its aftermath.

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