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- 511: Between the Wars: 1919-1941
- ... of Nations, a serious isolationist adversary. However, in 1921, President Warren G. Harding, a man who, himself, condemned the United States joining the League of Nations, held the Washington Naval Conference. In this meeting of Asian and European countries, the United States actively participated in three treaties to begin to ease the tension already forming in the Pacific. In 1932, when the League of Nations proposed an economic boycott against Japan for reparation of the occupancy of Manchuria, President Hoover refused to participate, in fear of involvement in an Asian war. Just eight years later, during the Roosevelt administration, the United States placed an embargo on exports of scrap metal, oil, and aviation fuel to Japan because of its intolerance for Japanese military presence in ...
- 512: Cuba, Castro, and the United States
- ... has shown itself to have far reaching consequences. Washington's failure to achieve its goal in Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain ... South and Central America had such control of American foreign policy as to almost topple the Presidency in the recent Iran - Contra affair. As a result the U.S. government has once again faced a crisis which threatens to destroy its credibility in foreign affairs. All because of one man with a cigar. In concluding I would like to state my own feelings on the whole affair as they formed in ...
- 513: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... in the isolation of the island. Piggy is described as being more socially compatible with adults, and carries himself with a sense of rationale and purpose that often serves as Ralph's moral compass in crisis; although Ralph initially uses the conch to call the others, it is Piggy who possesses the knowledge to blow it as a signal despite his inability to do so. Similarly, Piggy's glasses are the ... Previous events including the crash and various untended wildfires indicate the island has suffered substantial trauma. Golding's choice to generate conflict between the id and the ego may well be symptomatic of a greater crisis for the island/person, where it is reduced to an internalized battle between its two fundamental psychological processes. As such, Golding's climax plays much like a morality tale; out of control, the id destroys ...
- 514: Freud
- ... that development proceeds through a series of critical stages. But he believed the stages were psychosocial, not psychosexual. Erikson also argued that life's developmental stages encompass the whole life span According to Erikson, a crisis is equivalent to a turning point in life, where there is the opportunity to progress or regress. At these turning points, a person can either resolve conflicts or fail to adequately resolve the developmental task ... time for learning how to live creatively with others; this period can be the most productive stage of an individual's life. According to Erikson, the stimulus for continued growth in middle age is the crisis of Generatively versus Stagnation or Self-Absorption. By generatively, Erikson meant not just fostering children, but being productive in a broad sense - for example through creative pursuits in careers, in leisure-time activities, in volunteer ...
- 515: The 1960's
- ... political assassinations, and ghetto riots. The decade began under the shadow of the Cold War between the Soviet Union which was aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall construction, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam War, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the countrys self-confidence and sense of ... on the Kennedy legacy and on the press coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded where Kennedy had failed (Consort 161) However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. Rioting by urban blacks was to be a feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s (Consort 87). In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push beyond social ...
- 516: The Watergate Scandal
- ... related to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee for the Re- Election of the President. Shortly thereafter some of Nixon's aides began cooperating with federal prosecutors. (Watergate 1). Immediately following the initial Watergate crisis a defection of aides in the Committee for the Re-Election of the President became evident. (Watergate 1). The Democratic National Committee break-in, defection of CREEP aides, and the additional trial information led the ... many illegal activities involved with Watergate such as the abuse of Presidential powers and the illegal use of campaign finances. These activities have brought about reforms in today's government. The coupling of the Watergate crisis and its associated outrageous abuse of campaign funds has caused an evolution in the American political system. The federal government now has the authority to monitor the activities of political candidates' campaign financing and is ...
- 517: The 1960's
- ... respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the soviet union, which was aggravated by the u-2 incident, the berlin wall, and the cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the ussr. The decade ended under the shadow of the viet nam war, which deeply divided americans and their allies and damaged the country's self- confidence and sense ... johnson, drawing on the kennedy legacy and on the press coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded where kennedy had failed. However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. rioting by urban blacks was to be a feature of every "long, hot, summer" of the mid-1960s. In 1965, King and other black leaders wanted to push beyond social integration, now ...
- 518: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... Clay to help him come up with compromise. They came up with a law that would lower tariff annually over a 10 year period until they were satisfactory. After the Missouri Compromise and the nullification crisis were dealt with things were relatively quiet for awhile. Then in 1850 California requested admission to the union as a free state. California was the first state applying for state hood in the Mexican Cession ... six-teenth president of the United States. He had many threats against his life, none of them frightened him. He wa saware that there was great danger for a man in his position during a crisis. The election of 1860 was a major factor in starting the civil war. In his inaugural speech LIncoln said that he would respect the rights of the south despite this the civil war began six ...
- 519: New Jersey During the Revolution
- ... British after the fall of NY to the British. In late December 1776 to mid Jan 1777, he in turn chased the British out of most of NJ. This period of time is called the Crisis of the Revolution because it seemed the American army could not stand against the British, and the support for the Revolution came to a low ebb, until Washington reversed the military and political situation by the victories in Trenton and Princeton. During the Crisis, NJ, like many states, did not always perform well. The militia in large part refused to turn out to fight with Washington, many began to refuse to accept Continental paper money, and hundreds a day ...
- 520: Fidel Castro 2
- ... has shown itself to have far reaching consequences. Washington's failure to achieve its goal in Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain ... South and Central America had such control of American foreign policy as to almost topple the Presidency in the recent Iran - Contra affair. As a result the U.S. government has once again faced a crisis which threatens to destroy its credibility in foreign affairs. All because of one man with a cigar. In concluding I would like to state my own feelings on the whole affair as they formed in ...
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