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Israel Threatens to Strike Syria If Rebels Gain Access to Chemical Weapons

January 28, 2013
Asia
Assad regime
Bashar al-Assad
Benjamin Netanyahu
Chemical Weapons
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Containment
Hezbollah
Israel
Middle East
Military Strike
Nuclear Weapons
Silvan Shalom
Syria
Syrian rebels
vice premier
weapons of mass destruction
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Silvan Shalom, Israel’s vice premier, said that if it appeared that the Syrian government was losing control of its chemical weapons stockpile in its struggle against rebels fighting against the government of Bashar al-Assad that Israel would launch military strikes on those bases. Silvan Shalom was commenting on a report that leaked to the […]

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The Cold War: The Iron Curtain (1945-1947)

March 4, 2012
Beginnings of the Cold War
Clement Atlee
Clifford-Elsey Report
Cold War
Containment
Fulton
Great Britain
Harry Truman
Iron Curtain
Kennan
Missouri
Soviet Union
United States
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.” This now famous speech outlined what Churchill called the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe. Unlike after World War I, it was clear that the United States would not be allowed to languish in the […]