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- 2371: WWII: Why did the U.S. get involved in the war?
- ... U.S. As the war progressed, the U.S. found itself getting involved. They felt sympathy for the British after what happened at Dunkirk. They started helping G.B. with weapons and food. 50 old American naval destroyers were sent to Britain. Now it was clear the U.S. were on the Allies side but they still weren't physically involved in the big war. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their aim was to strike such a severe blow that the U.S. would not rival the Japanese in the Pacific(boy were they wrong or what). American ships were sunk or badly damaged. American dead totaled over 2,300. The United States weren't going to take that from the Japanese and on December 8, 1941, congress declared war on Japan ...
- 2372: Communism East Europe
- ... War between those who supported Lenin and those who opposed the Soviet regime. To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save the revolution. The forcible requisitioning of food and supplies was approved by Lenin. This could only be achieved by enforcing strict and absolute discipline at every level of society. Terror was to become the chief instrument of ... being eventually exiled from Russia and, ten years later in 1940, being assassinated by one of StalinΖs agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved by undemocratic methods, that is, rigged elections, terror, totalitarian state ... communist Eastern bloc if the nationalist communist leader Gomulka, who had been imprisoned by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly ...
- 2373: Comparative Analysis Between P
- ... the holding company for the state owned enterprises. The previous governmental policies and the change of rule definitely caused the country to be in debt and economically inefficient. Yet, despite the knowledge that other Latin American countries had taken steps to incorporate industrial policies, the Dominican Republic did not officially direct its efforts towards privatization. During the 1980's, the CEA relinquished some of its land to diversify from the sugarcane ... of the national airline was the Aeropuerto Internacional de Las Americas (AILA). This is the country s largest airport. This achieved privatization of the ramp and maintenance services. They were bought by a subsidiary of American Airlines in 1991. Other services that have been privatized are baggage handling, ground transportation and airplane maintenance. -Garbage Collection: this service was sold to the private company Attwoods Dominicana, S.A., a subsidiary of a ... 1993, Jan.-Feb.). Dominican Republic(privatization programs). LatinFinance, 76-79. Kirby, Paul. (1996, Sept.). Over the line? LatinFinance, 44-48. Kraus, James R. (1996, Feb. 15). Puerto Rican bankers fear loss of federal tax breaks. American Banker, 161, 5. McConnel, Walter. (1993, Jan.-Feb.). Puerto Rico(The 1993 Privatization in Latin America Directory). LatinFinance, 98-101. Mera, Orlando. (1995, Sept.). Dominican Republic(Latin America Trade Finance 1995-1996). LatinFinance, 89- ...
- 2374: Immigration and Its Effect on the Economy of the U.S
- ... social science scholars concluded their assessment of U.S. society with the observation that "America's biggest import is people" and determined that "at a time when attention is directed to the general decline in American exceptionalism, American immigration continues to flow at a rate unknown elsewhere in the world" [Oxford Analytica 1986, 20]. Unlike earlier mass immigration periods to the United States the present day wave of immigration to the U.S ... people who settled the United States. Historian Oscar Handlin added to this statement by stating that "once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history" [Handlin 1951, 3]. " The benefits of immigration, however are manifold. Immigrants are highly entrepreneurial. Their rate of business start-ups and self employment tend to be higher than that of United States born ...
- 2375: Americas Fetish For Death
- ... its importation of Africans. Eventually America underwent a massive battle due to its traditions, which led to the deaths of many soldiers both innocent and tainted. As the dust of the Civil War settled, African-American gained equality gradually, though never the respect and acceptance of Anglo-Saxons. They were still viewed as inferior animals, less than the common housefly. As if racism were not bad, enough the implication of it upon capital punishment was truly genius. Since American, could not kill African-Americans without serving some form of punishment, they decided to integrate it with the legal system. Now Anglo-Saxons could taste that "Negro-blood" without the usual mess. This implication had ... stagger, the district attorney of Georgia argued that despite the intimidating facts that there was no substantial evidence of racial discrimination. Death's effect upon racism was detrimental to African-Americans, though its transformation of American society would ultimately lead to the sadistic lust of massacre. Since the implication of death and racism, family entertainment has taken some part. Mobs of white men as well as curious children and women ...
- 2376: Langston Huges
- Langston Hughes is a key figure in the vision of the American dream. In his writings his African-American perspective gives an accurate vision of what the American dream means to a less fortunate minority. His poetry is very loud and emotional in conveying his idea of the African-American dream. Most of his poetry either states how the black man is ...
- 2377: Education
- ... have never quit school , D. DeMott rejects the myth that all social classes receive the same education. He supports his essay by denying that the stating line is the same for all students in the American educational system. DeMott begins his essay by giving us an example of the mythological belief that school is a fair institution where everyone begins at the same starting line. Next, DeMott gives general ideas about the American publics denials, and the educational system, provides for students. To support these denials DeMott gives us some assumptions of the general public s beliefs on education. The first assumption is about intelligence, an individual is ... by you level of intelligence. Poor people don t share these ideas. The rich believe that if they tax themselves heavily, they will produce better quality of students, they call this fairness. DeMott then analyzes American education by its beginnings and how this question of education being equal came to be. The belief that immigrants saw that in order to be Americans you needed an education, therefore there are many ...
- 2378: Lenis, Vladimir
- ... ruled aloof of his disorganized nation. His government of appointed officials and men in inherited positions did not represent the people (The Tyranny of Stupidity 120). Even though all of Europe had experienced the Industrial Revolution, Russia had precious little machinery. To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grain to other countries in exchange for machinery, even though it meant that more people would starve (Haney 17). Compound this with ... left in the government. Different political factions formed, and none got along (U.S.S.R. 63). Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the czar and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant revolution; Marxists promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban working class. The people were fed up with Russia s state of affairs and ready for the change. Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed, ...
- 2379: U.S Auto Industry's Market Share and Fluctuations
- ... since the first foreign truck was imported from Japan in 1956, GM's share of the market began to decline. Foreign cars were smaller, more fuel efficient, less expensive, and often more reliable than their American counterparts. General Motor's market share dipped from nearly 44% in 1973 to below 30% in 1985. In response to this sudden drop in its share of the market GM founded the Saturn Company. Saturn ... this would allow Ford to avoid high tariffs placed on foreign cars in China and Japan. Ford motor company currently employs over 300,000 workers world-wide. In January of 1996, Ford merged its North American, South American, Asia-Pacific, European, and African Automotive Operations into a single organization, Ford Automotive Operations. This merger cut back on costs of developing new cars because now instead of five different organizations working on the ...
- 2380: Macario Sakay
- Macario Sakay Contradictory to accepted belief, Philippine struggle to American regime did not conclude with the arrest of Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. There were a lot of struggling forces fighting for Philippine autonomy awaiting the year 1910. One of these forces was headed by Macario ... In the early days of the Katipunan, Sakay worked with Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto. He battled alongside with Bonifacio in the hills of Morong (now Rizal) Province. Throughout the primary periods of the Filipino-American war, Sakay was imprisoned for his subversive behavior. He had been caught developing some Katipunan chapters and advocating its principles from town to town. Freed in 1902 as the upshot of an official pardon, Sakay ... and his men as brutish outlaws preying on the simple folk of the countryside. In April 1904, Sakay delivered a proposal asserting that the Filipinos had a primary claim to fight for Philippine independence. The American occupiers had already made support for independence, even through words, a crime. Sakay also acknowledged that they were bona fide revolutionaries and had their own constitution and an established government. They also had a ...
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