Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith describe the first days of the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

She was the first woman to be permitted to work in combat areas during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He easily won the presidency in eighteen sixty-eight in the first election held after the war.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

World War Two ended. Enrico Fermi had been the first to use a neutron to produce the radioactive change of one element to another.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

So they and the Liberal Democrats have formed Britain's first coalition government since World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Many of them believed that the first World War in Europe had been a terrible mistake.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

The civil war in Greece ended. American help for Greece and Turkey was the first step in what became known as the "Truman Doctrine."

VOA: special.2011.08.04

And,in leading that war, he took the first steps that would destroy the institution of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

The garden will be the first on the White House lawn since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund expect the world economy to shrink this year for the first time since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In July of eighteen sixty-one, Union soldiers from the North and Confederate soldiers from the South fought the first major battle in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

They remembered that South Carolina had fired the first shots of the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The First Barbary War stopped piracy against American ships for a time.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In nineteen fourteen, Europe exploded into the First World War.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

"I cannot fire the first gun of the war."

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The upsurge in violence came a day before the first anniversary of the Gaza War,in which more than 1,100 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

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