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Rwandan Genocide
Though many would like to thing that the last great genocide of the twentieth century was the Holocaust, they are wrong. In 1994, the Hutus in Rwanda murdered 800,000 Tutsi in just 100 days.

Vietnam War
In an attempt to prevent communism from traveling into South Vietnam, the United States participated in what turned out to be an unproductive war.

World War I
How did one assassination entice the entire world into war? How did the Germans lose if they were still on foreign soil? How did the end of World War I lead to the Second World War?

World War II
Why did Hitler invade Poland? How did Great Britain hold its own against the Nazi attack? How did the Soviet Union help win the war?

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