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- 4081: Elie Wiesel Biography
- ... Paris, where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne. With a strong desire to write, Elie worked as a journalist in Paris before coming to the United States in 1956. He became an American citizen almost by accident. After being in New York City on an assignment, he was hit by a taxi, and confined to a wheelchair for a year. A friend convinced him to apply for U ... at Boston University where he also holds the title of University Professor. He is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Religion as well as the Department of Philosophy. He has been an American citizen since 1963 and lives in New York with his wife and son.
- 4082: D-day 2
- D-Day June 6, 1944 Two years of planning and preparation led up to the Allied Landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944 (pg. 3). British and American staffs had to work out every foreseeable detail for an undertaking that would involve the major military resources of the two Allied powers; immense stocks of shipping, aircraft, and supplies were assembled in the British ... to be considered in reference to over-all Allied plans for offensive operations against Germany, as well as the developments of the war in Russia and the war against Japan. In May 1943 the Anglo-American conference in Washington concluded. Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt together with their highest military advisers decided to launch and offensive in 1944 against Hitler's Atlantic Wall. (pg. 4 ) Allied planners finally selected a ...
- 4083: Dred Scott
- ... impact on both the highest court of the land and the history of the United States. The Dred Scott decision can definitely be included in this category of monumental cases that changed the course of American history. Until this decision the Supreme Court had a flawless reputation. Its prestige and credibility were beyond reproach. This high regard for the Supreme Court made people on both sides of the slavery issue turn ... to the courts, through the trials of a few cases,to decide upon the complex and heavily debated issue of slavery. This is why the case of Dred Scott played such an important role in American history. In the first trial in l846, the St. Louis Circuit Court denied Dred's plea for freedom. However, his lawyer set up a retrial in 1850. Scott claimed freedom because of his stay in ...
- 4084: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... the missile crisis from ever happening. Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos gave a speech to the General Assembly in which he not only confirmed the presence of missile bases in Cuba, but in return for an American promise not to invade Cuba, he offered to take them out and halt the threat of a nuclear war. He stated that they had "sufficient means with which to defend (them)selves," and continued to ... years since the crisis, nothing has surfaced that proves that Moscow ever had any intent other than the defensive position it claimed. Consider this statement made by Kruschev in his memoirs: The aim of the American aggressors was to destroy Cuba. Our aim was to preserve Cuba. Today Cuba exists. So who won? It cost us nothing more than the round-trip expenses for transporting the rockets to Cuba and back ...
- 4085: Causes Of The Great Depression
- ... energy and mining. Even industries with most growth (construction and automobile manufacturing) showing signs in the year before the stock market crash, about 600 banks a year were failing around the country, and half the American people were living at or below the minimum subsistence level. By the time the stock market crashed, the ruin of the American economic system was revealed. There were many things which contributed to the economic deterioration leading to the depression; lingering effects of WWI caused the government to cut back spending in order to balance the budget ...
- 4086: Communist Containment In Asia
- ... intervene in the World's affairs as long as no one interfered with theirs. With the Truman Doctrine, we completely reversed that role that had been only briefly breached during the World Wars. The new American policy was one of Containment: to contain the spread of Communism to the states in which it presently inhabits. The relationship with the U.S.S.R. after Truman's declaration was in constant decline ... Truman, Margaret. Harry S Truman. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1973. pp. 344- 372. 4) "The Truman Doctrine." Grolier Encyclopedia. 1993 ed. "Vietnam War." Microsoft Encarta. 1994 ed. Primary Sources 1) Draper, Theodore. "American Hubris: From Truman to the Persian Gulf." New York Review of Books, 16 Jul. 1987, pp.40-48. 2) "Truman Doctrine Speech." gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Gov/US-Speech/Truman.47 3) "The ...
- 4087: Civil War 7
- ... until years after the war that people would get their lives back on track. Whites in the south now hated the blacks and still think they are inferior. The process of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War was known as reconstruction. The war left a set of pressing questions concerning with what to do with the South. These questions involved the relationship with the former Confederate states and the Union ... the profit. Some southerners were still farmers, but they had to work much more. Directly after the war, money had little to no value at all. The southerners had a big affect on present day American society. The southerners back then influenced us with their farming techniques, and even today the south has the biggest and best farmlands in the whole country.
- 4088: Civil War 2
- ... substantial enough to win the war. Jefferson Davis strategy was to take a defensive position rather then an offensive one. The basic war aim of the confederacy, like that of the United States in the revolution was to defend a new nation from conquest. . Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 314). Davis reasoned just as Washington did during the revolution, that retreating against a stronger enemy is not bad all the time. It gave time to regroup your forces and build a counterattack against the enemy. Although the south did try this tactic at the ...
- 4089: Compare And Contrast The Attit
- ... similar but yet contrasting views toward the wealth that was created in the United States. Among these individuals were Andrew Carnegie, Eugene V. Debs, and Horatio Alger. One of the best-known philanthropists was the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who devoted the latter part of his life to giving away most of the huge fortune he had amassed in the steel industry. Following the principles laid down in his essay Gospel ... Although different in ideas Carnegie perform what Eugene V. Debs believed in: the distribution of wealth. Eugene Debs began working on the railroads at age 14, and in 1893, at age 38, he founded the American Railway Union. The union dissolved after a violent strike in 1894. Debs served a six-month jail sentence for his participation in the strike and turned to radical politics soon after being released. Despite persecution ...
- 4090: Columbian Voyages- Their Effec
- ... them was detrimental to many cultures, most of all the Native Americans. Crosby brings up many institutions and ideologies to re-enforce his opinion, such as the slave trade and the conquest of many Native American cultures. One of the major effects of the Columbian exchange was the decimation of the Native American population. Crosby attributes this to many factors, the conquest of the Europeans, the cultural vacuum created by European attempts to Christianize the Amerindians, and the introduction of new and lethal micro-organisms into the ecosystem ...
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