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- 971: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- ... Times, p.1. http://www.kent.edu/May4/welcome.html http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/names.html http://www.nomad2000.com/nomad/km4c.html Tompkins, Phillip K. and Elaine Vanden Bout Anderson. Communication Crisis at Kent State. New York: Gordon and Breach,1971. Malcolm, Andrew H., (1970, May 5). 60 years of quiet at Kent State are shattered in era of protest. The New York Times, p.17.
- 972: The 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 ...
- 973: The Immigration Experience
- ... group contributes what because each group has done so much. All this proves that Americans are not just one people. We are individuals from different cultures. We are different, but we are all Americans. --- Bibliography "Asian Americans" Grolier's Online Encyclopedia. 1991 ed. "Chinese Exclusion Act" Grolier's Online Encyclopedia. 1991 ed. "Ellis Island" Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. 1986 ed. Fallows, James. "The Mind of Japan" U.S. News and World ...
- 974: The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
- ... stead, gained from the demand of war materials in Europe and at home. When Franklin D Roosevelt came into office in 1932 America, along with the rest of the world, was going through the worst crisis in history. Unemployment was sky high and the banking system near a complete collapse. Roosevelt blamed it on the Republicans and launched his New Deal with hope of recovery. Roosevelt was a brave pragmatist and ...
- 975: American Foreign Policy Towards Cuba
- ... understand the American foreign policy towards Cuba that exists today, one must understand the history of the island, and of its people. American involvement began long before the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet it seems that American opinion about Cuba is shaped by these two events. A better understanding of the past is necessary to fully grasp our involvement with Cuba. The colonization of Cuba began in ...
- 976: Radical Reconstruction
- ... in the government, turned to terrorism and violence through secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan. In 1873, many Northern reformers lost interest in Reconstruction and started worrying about themselves because of the economic crisis. It allowed having traditional white leadership in control. Therefore, another secret society called the redeemers gained power and Southerners passed laws that restricted political rights of the blacks. The laws contained subtle discrimination; it allowed ...
- 977: World War I and Bringing People Together
- ... being communist. " My information showed that communism in this country was an organization of thousands of aliens, who were the direct allies of Trozky." (Red Scare Handout) Americans constantly blamed its immigrants for almost every crisis that came up. Because of this culture wars came about. Catholics hated Christians. The Women movement started, Progressive reformers came about, to try and rebuild America, by making what they claim a better America. The ...
- 978: United States and Imperialism
- ... was also played a part in American foreign affairs during the turn of the century. After the United States imposed the Wilson-German Tariff, Cuba, depending on imports heavily, fell in to a deep economic crisis. This caused the Cubans to launch a revolution in 1895. Though the Spanish government did provide modified reconcentration and promised some autonomy for Cuba. President McKinley was a known imperialist that wanted independence of Cuba ...
- 979: British Rule of The American Colonies
- ... causing the colonists to vigorously resist and try to avoid British authority. The colonists moves toward religious and commercial self-determination were overlooked while England dealt with the Seven years war and a domestic political crisis. All these factors highlighted the differences and miscalculations of the British and were the beginnings of the Revolutionary War. Resources Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Miller, John ...
- 980: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... strong evidence that some anti-Castro Cubans never forgave Kennedy for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, and many of these same individuals were furious at Kennedy over his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and over his shutting down of their para-military training camps. It should be noted that the militant anti-Castro exiles were almost exclusively under the control of the CIA. Richard Nixon was one of ...
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