While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

As the Inca Civil War raged, in 1531 the Spanish landed in Ecuador.

As the Civil War raged across the divided land in 1862, Booth appeared mostly in Union and border states.

The Thirty Years ' War which raged across Europe motivated the city to build these walls.

The War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 and raged for 12 years.

The Sri Lankan Civil War which raged on and off from 1983 to 2009, between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) saw large scale asymmetric warfare.

Yet the House of Savoy continued to rule Italy for several decades through the Italian Independence wars as the Italian unification continued and even as the First World War raged on in the early 20th century.

The league planned to begin play in 1945, but postponed its opening for a year as World War II still raged.

In early 1863, as the American Civil War raged, a number of local black citizens enlisted in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a regiment composed of black soldiers serving under white officers.

As World War II raged on, Hitler vowed, that if he could not conquer the world, he would destroy it.

In the Second World War a fierce battle raged around this area.

The Castellammarese War raged on between the Masseria and Maranzano factions for almost four years.

This rivalry eventually escalated into the Castellammarese War, which raged from 1928 to 1931 and resulted in 60 mobster deaths.

The estate served as neutral ground for both sides during the American Civil War, although fighting raged across the nearby countryside.

The War of Spanish Succession had raged since 1701.

In the 1950s, as the Cold War raged on, Soviet strategic plans required that a secure transport link across the river Vistula be built.

In the 1980s, this ecoregion was put in grave danger as the Iran – Iraq War raged within its boundaries.

As World War I raged in Europe, Heinemann thought it best to have an American based company.

As Cold War tensions heightened and the Korean War raged on, Dean led a massive industrialization of the United States nuclear facilities.

Riots and protests raged outside the convention venue, and disorder reigned among convention delegates tasked with leading the party after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the increasing casualties of the Vietnam War, and Johnson's decision not to seek his party's nomination for a second term as president.

The Chinese Civil War became more widespread ; battles raged not only for territories but also for the allegiance of cross-sections of the population.

In 1659 and 1660 the Seneca interceded in the First Esopus War, which raged between the Dutch and Esopus at current-day Kingston.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War 2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully.

Of special interest this anniversary year of the war between the states are the many Civil War battlefields where, likely as not, you'll catch some memorial re-enactments.

The cubist generation before World War 1,, and, on a lower level, the surrealists of the period between the wars, both assumed an accepted universe of discourse, in which, to quote Andre Breton, it was possible to make definite advances, exactly as in the sciences.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, all remaining ethnic Anatolian Greeks were forced out during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

* 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War " to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

* 1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

Teacher training was interrupted during World War II between 1941 and 1943, when Alexander accompanied children and teachers of the Little School to Stow, Massachusetts to join his brother.

* 1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years ' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.

* 1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40, 000 and 100, 000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.