Understanding America and Her Enemies in Wartime
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Fidel Castro’s Forces Triumphant
Fidel and Raul Castro formed an underground movement in the early 1950s to overthrow the brutal and corrupt regime of the dictator Fulgencio Batista, under whose rule Cuba had become a haven for organized crime. After an unsuccessful rising against Batista in 1953 the...
Pope John XXIII Crowned
Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church from October 1958 until his death in 1963. Born in 1881 as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, he was one of thirteen children in a family of sharecroppers who lived in a village...