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December 22, 1968: Mao’s Red Guard Comes To An End

The Red Guards were a paramilitary youth movement that emerged during the Cultural Revolution in China, starting around 1966. The movement was inspired by Chairman Mao Zedong’s vision of revitalizing the revolutionary spirit and purging perceived enemies of communism. Composed primarily of students and…

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December 20: 1860: The Union Is Shattered

On December 20, 1860, a secession convention in South Carolina voted unanimously to secede from the Union. Fearing that Republican Abraham Lincoln’s administration would appoint antislavery officials who would undermine slavery, slaveholders chose to abandon the Constitution and form their own nation. To justify…

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