He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The court can try people for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when their own countries are unwilling or unable to.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It said they were unable to face the responsibility of having involved their country in an unnecessary war.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The War Department sent General George Crook to punish the Indians and force them back to their reservation.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

They were men who fought one war against the king of England, and were now prepared to fight against their own government.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

They had lost the Civil War. Now much of their power was gone, and they were suffering.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

For many years, popular singer Dinah Shore invited optimistic post-war Americans to take to the highway and see their country in a Chevrolet.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

Still the war continued. In the East, Union armies were slowly pushing forward toward their main target.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Their music influenced the image of the United States and helped ease Cold War tensions.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It represented the alliance between their two countries during America's war for independence from Britain.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

But after the war, women were expected to stay at home and have babies while their husbands went back to work in factories and laboratories.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Now the people of the North could understand their side was winning the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

If this failed, Geary said, they hoped their actions would produce civil war.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Two years of a bitter, bloody civil war started to show their effects on both the Confederate states of the South and the Union states of the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Grant continued to talk of their service in the Mexican War.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Mr.Brown said Britain was right to go to war to topple the Taliban and their al Qaida allies in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The Medal of Freedom was established in 1945 to recognize civilians for their efforts during World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

North and South Korea remain technically at war, and their leaders have only met twice in 2000,and 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23