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- 1281: African Americans
- ... the problems of low income, high unemployment, poor education, and other problems related to racial discrimination, it could be said that the black community in the 20th century has existed in a perpetual state of crisis. The black community, however, has developed a number of distinctive cultural features that black Americans increasingly look upon with pride. Many of these features reflect the influence of cultural traditions that originated in Africa; others ...
- 1282: Watergate Scandal
- ... rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very historical event for our nation that no one will ever forget. The "Watergate Scandal and constitutional crisis that began on June 17, 1972 with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DMC) headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. It ended with the registration ...
- 1283: Vietnam War - The Vietnam Conflict And Its Effects
- ... was fought for nothing. There were only losses and nothing was gained. After the war, southern Vietnam's agriculture, business and industry were devestated. The newly Communist Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia became an important South - Asian power. Today, Vietnam remains under Communist rule. The Vietnamese Communist Party is the major political party. The State Council Chairman is Vo Chi Chong. The Prime Minister is Do Muoi. After the Vietnam war, United ...
- 1284: Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
- ... was fought for nothing. There were only losses and nothing was gained. After the war, southern Vietnams agriculture, business and industry were devestated. The newly Communist Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia became an important South - Asian power. Today, Vietnam remains under Communist rule. The Vietnamese Communist Party is the major political party. The State Council Chairman is Vo Chi Chong. The Prime Minister is Do Muoi. After the Vietnam war, United ...
- 1285: Vietnam
- ... Communist control would threaten the security of the West, but the U.S. military role would be limited to providing training and logistical support. These contradictory premises were explained because of the recent cold war crisis that had occurred in Cuba. McNamara saw South Vietnam not as an independent communist state but "equated HO Chi Minh with Fidel Castro," thinking that Vietnam would be used as a tool for a communist ...
- 1286: The Constitution
- ... turned out to be one of the greatest problems the nation faced, and it was responsible for one of the worst wars in American history, the civil war. This problem first started with the nullification crisis. Because the constitution was so vague that problems erupted over where the powers were to go, the three branches of the federal government began to gain as many powers as they possibly could. This goes ...
- 1287: Abraham Lincoln
- ... of an 11 year old girl. Lincoln was sworn in on March 4. After Lincoln's election, many Southern states, fearing Republican control in the government, seceded from the Union. Lincoln faced the greatest internal crisis of any U.S. President. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised an army and decided to fight to save the Union from falling apart. Despite enormous pressures, loss of life, battlefield setbacks, generals ...
- 1288: Articles Of Confederation DBQ
- ... speech to Congress that he was unable to obtain the rights to the Mississippi, and in fact the Confederation never was able to procure those rights. John Jay's letter to George Washington speaks of crisis and revolution, probably referring to Shay's Rebellion, the first major uprising against the Confederation. The rebellion was crushed, but it showed the discontentment of the popular masses. The letter also speaks of the "better ...
- 1289: Atomic Bomb
- ... awesome power they held. There is nothing in modern warfare that can compete with the devastating effects of nuclear weapons. At the beginning of World War II, the Japanese were a major threat to the Asian World. On December 7, 1941, when they decided to attack Pearl Harbor (a US naval base in Hawaii), it was evident that their intentions were not limited to Asia. The United States entered World War ...
- 1290: A Timeline Of The Holocaust
- ... January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor, the most powerful position in the German government, by the aged President Hindenburg who hoped Hitler could lead the nation out of its grave political and economic crisis. Hitler was the leader of the right-wing National Socialist German Workers Party (called the Nazi Party for short); it was, by 1933, one of the strongest parties in Germany, even though * reflecting the country ...
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