Assassination Of JFK: Conspiracy Or Single-Gunman?
.... Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people .....
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Labor In America
.... factory owners able to recruit farm girls as laborers? They did it by building decent houses in which the girls could live. These houses were supervised by older women who made sure that the girls lived by strict moral standards. The girls were encouraged to go to church, to read, to write and to attend lectures. They saved part of their earnings to help their families at home or to use when they got married.
The young factory workers did not earn high wages; the average pay was about $3.50 a week .....
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The Petersburg Campaign
.... held by George Washington), and appointed to General-in-Chief of the Army. The reputation he had gained in the West had boosted morale in Washington, where the news from their theater was not always encouraging. Now that he was put in charge of the entire Union effort, morale soared on the home front. However popular Grant was with the civilians, the soldiers remained skeptical. Grant may have done well against the Confederate Generals in the West, but he'd never met Bobby Lee.
After receiving his .....
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Boston Massacre
.... of different off-duty jobs, which meant they would be taking away jobs from the Boston laborers. Many times when the soldiers left their barracks and were walking about the town, carried large clubs, for the purpose of assaulting the people.
Many would say that the colonists had every right to be mad and irritated. But what about the soldiers. They were just taking commands from the country that they are defending and fighting for. To them they were just doing the right thing. But we all .....
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Women In World War I
.... soon grew to be what we consider in today's society as jobs made for women, as nurses, secretaries, bookkeepers, etc. In April of 1917, women gained the most honorable status in society they ever received as Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was accepted as the first woman in the House of Representatives. In 1920, women composed 23.6% of the labor force, more than ever in American history, and beside that, these women were married with families, and had taken over their husband's jobs in factories as well .....
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United States And Imperialism
.... felt a sense of duty to intervene when they observed the situations of different territories such as Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines around 1900. When intervening in these different areas of the world, the United States (supposedly) planned to idealize by imposing their civilized ways of society and religion on these crude populations of foreign people. This idealizing by the U.S. would also involve introducing American politics into the troubled environments. The "ideal" politics happened to foll .....
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The War In Vietnam
.... security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition, and enemy of the United States. Drawing an analogy with the unsuccessful appeasement of fascist dictators before World War II, the Truman administration believed that any sign of communist aggression must be met quickly and forcefully by the United States and its allies. This reactive policy was known as containment.
In Vietnam the target of conta .....
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Should The USA Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Japan?
.... are not proving to be effective and something more potent is required. The tremendous shock of the blast will precipitate a swift surrender.
Enough American lives have already been lost and in the long run, the bomb will cost fewer lives. The attack on Iwo Jima alone has cost us 25000 casualties and nearly 7000 deaths, a rather high price to pay for an eight-square-mile island. Okinawa cost us even more, we received 50000 casualties while the Japanese suffered 100000. Too ma .....
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African - American Civil Rights
.... for the entire revolution was Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, the first black American to play major league baseball. Blacks had crept in America's national past time; more radical social changes were soon to come. Disenfranchised blacks finally found a leader dedicated to their cause in Harry S. Truman. After hearing of a lynching of black war veterans, Truman was suddenly tuned in to the heated crisis in the southland. Despite persistent tries to advance the cause of the blacks, Truman was repe .....
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The Pikes Peak Gold Rush
.... A lot of the other people either turned back or died on the way. Most of the people who did make it returned home without the riches that they came for. The people that returned home were called "Go Backs". The other men stayed behind and continued panning or opened up shops in nearby towns.
The picture that the newspapers portrayed Colorado as a rich place for gold. Newspaper reporters traveled to Colorado to see what all of the hype was about. The reporters helped the population grow in the min .....
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Address At March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom
.... What the “bad check” thing means is these people signed papers for all people to be created equal and it just doesn’t happen.
Also in his speech he says “we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”. That quote meant that we the people will not give up until all this segregation between races is over with and settled.
Then all throughout the end of his speech he talks about the same thing and that is how we the people will wake up some da .....
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Harry Truman And The Atomic Bomb
.... Project since 1941, there was never any question in Roosevelt’s mind but the bomb would be used when ready. On Truman’s orders, the B-29 Enola Gay piloted by U.S. Army Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The date was August 6, 1945. Tibbets had named the plane after his mother the night before the attack. The Bomb was named Little Boy (Dark Blue in picture), exploded approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immed .....
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The 1920's
.... lawyer named Thompson. He had argued to the trial judge that these men were being sentenced to death because they were anarchists and foreigners. Actually, there was evidence presented that Vanzetti was insane at the time of the crime. Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839 (1926). However, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the Superior Court had no jurisdiction to grant a new trial because the motion was not timely. Both defendants were electrocuted in .....
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World War I Propaganda
.... German government ran an add in the newspaper the day of the departure of the Lusitania. Most people read this but thought this add was some kind of foolish prank and blew it off. Another thing that almost all of the newspapers said was that this was the war to end all wars. This led the American people to believe that this was for a good cause and it would be well worth the effort and losses.
Music and the motion pictures were used to not only entertain the American people but were also used to ed .....
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The 1920s: An Era Of Transition And Tension
.... worst. During the period from 1921 to 1929 the economy was characterized by industrial growth and increased productivity. The "Welfare Capitalism", was initiated by corporate managers to improve the work environment. Therefore workers became even more productive, and new industries began emerging or expanding to great heights. Technology was increasing bringing the first radio commercial which was heard in 1920, and by 1929, 40% of the homes had radios. The Movie Industry boomed being able to build beauti .....
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