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- 5601: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... assassination to nearly 25,000 a year later. At this point Johnson began the rapid deepening of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; as early as February 1965, U.S. planes began to bomb North Vietnam. American troop strength in Vietnam increased to more than 180,000 by the end of the year and to 500,000 by 1968. Like many Americans who recalled the "appeasement" of Nazi Germany in the 1930s ...
- 5602: Maifest Destiny
- ... was that Great Britain could not control weather or not the colonist expanded out west or not. The colonists wrote it off as manifest destiny. The Trail of Tears is possibly the saddest stories in American history. Native Americans were forced to leave their land and travel the 800-mile journey west to find new land and a new home. Nearly one quarter the population did not survive that journey, they ...
- 5603: The Use Of Nuclear Power As A
- ... total, more than 140.000 people were estimated to be killed. Although the most memorable effects of the atomic bomb were the mass amounts of death, the development of the atomic bomb has greatly influenced American society and the world. The scientific development surrounding the atomic bomb has been a pivotal point in the worlds history, launching us into the Atomic Age. The cause of building an atomic bomb in ...
- 5604: Ellis Island
- ... trinkets. The company later sold it to Mynheer Paauw who also bought land along the New Jersey coastline. Samuel Ellis, a colonial merchant bought the island and it became at last Ellis Island. After the Revolution, the island was sold to New York State and in 1811, Fort Gibson was built on it in preparation for the War of 1812. No fighting took place at Fort Gibson it was mainly a ...
- 5605: English And French Relations I
- ... the economic difficulties after the war. Duplessis conservative standpoint did little to assure that their position was being elevated in Canada. Duplessis' 1958 Liberal successor, Jean Lesage, attacked the federal Conservatives, and started the Quiet Revolution 196, with phrases like, "Maitre Chez-Nous." He promised the new generation of educated, affluent Quebec coters a chance to be "masters in our own house," quite different from any desire to be unified with ...
- 5606: Early History Of Judaism
- ... to be seen as common of oppressed people, and the result is almost always a great deviation in the ways of the 'old world'. A perfect example of this comes when examining the point in American history where independence was declared from England. Now, mere centuries later, America is as different in its politics, religions, and social forces from England as one could imagine. This was most likely the result when ...
- 5607: What Life Was Like Before The Civil Rights Movement And What More Needs To Change
- ... rules. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and is hopefully producing a big victory with the proposed Voting Rights Act. The civil rights movement is the Black Freedom Movement, the Negro Revolution, and the Second Reconstruction! Segregation Segregation has been an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in all parts of life and to have supremacy over blacks. Segregation is called the Jim Crow system ...
- 5608: Orientalism And Colonialism
- ... millions of people around the world. After decades from the end of colonization, what has the third world received for the West? For the Aborigines, they have received the affliction of diabetes. For the Native American, there is an affliction of otherwise unknown ailments and sexually transmitted diseases. For the Inuit, they have been stripped of their land and are now the poorest population in America today. For the African, they ...
- 5609: Daycare: The Effects And What To Look For
- ... by Wildavsky in 1997 stated that nearly 65% of women with children under the age of six are participating in the working world. Wit this many mothers working this means that about half of young American children spend time in the care of a non-parent for at least part of most work days(NICH, 1997,p. 16). Placing your child in a daycare should be the hardest decision for you ...
- 5610: Indian Removal Act
- ... fell into the hands of the Army, who then mostly signed the task off to contractors. Indian attempts at conforming were futile and quickly crushed. When the Cherokees Americanized their tribe and converted to "the American Way" the state of Georgia quickly went in with militias and forced them along their way. Various tribes of Indians fought on the side of the United States against their Indian brothers in return for ...
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