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- 541: The Colonial Economy
- ... by sailing around Africa. Sailing West and thus avoiding North African pirates or the long trip around Africa was a possible, alternative way to obtain spices. Christopher Columbus found America when he attempted to reach China by sailing West from Spain. (The only way to get to the Far East by sailing West involved sailing around the tip of South America and crossing the Pacific; so sailing West was not an ...
- 542: The Immigration Experience
- ... s famous people are descended from immigrants if they are not immigrants themselves. People, like Albert Einstein, a famous physicist, and Henry Kissinger, who was Secretary of State, and helped to open up negotiations with China, were Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also from England, was a silent movie star. America is made of many different cultures ...
- 543: The Battle of Midway
- ... annexed by the United States in August 1867. Between 1903 and 1940, it served both as a cable station on the Honolulu-Guam-Manila underwater telegraph line and as an airport for Pan American Airways China Clipper. In March 1940, after a report on U.S. Navy Pacific Bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in importance, construction of a formal naval air station began. Midway naval Air Station was ...
- 544: The End of the 20th Century
- ... PROBLEM and 3)A LOOK AT THE FUTURE. This closing millennium had seen many things, good and bad. Millenium moments such as in 1095 when the first Crusades began. In 1271 Marco Polo headed for China. In 1347 the Bubonic Plaque swept through Europe killing 30 million. In 1776, British colonies in America declared independence. The 1800's saw America begging to come together. Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase in ...
- 545: The Vietnam War
- ... Harrison 109). Ho Chi Minh was not alone in the battle for control of Vietnam. He was backed by two Communist parties. The first which supplied him with advice, money, and access to weapons was China. The second party, the Soviet Union, was a great Communist power that was against the U.S. and was eager for Vietnam to adapt to communism(Doyle 95). The political strategy of Minh was to ...
- 546: The Industrial Revolution That Shaped The United States Into A Leading Econom
- ... labor to organize freely and bargain for fair wages was reasserted in the National Labor Relations Act. Electric utilities involved in interstate transmission of power were brought under government supervision. In 1935 Japan had invaded China, Germany had been allowed to violate the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States was about to pass some neutrality legislation. With Europe and Asia ablaze, President Roosevelt started giving special attention to foreign affairs ...
- 547: U.S Involvement In The Vietnam War
- ... communism. Or rather to confine communism in its present boundaries But most of all it was about politics. The presidential political involvement in Vietnam had little to do with Vietnam at all. It was about China for Eisenhower, about Russia for Kennedy, about Washington D.C. for Johnson, and about himself for Nixon ( Post ). The last two of which were the major players in America's involvement in regards to U ...
- 548: The U.S. Entering World War II
- ... various policies that would deter the Axis powers from being able to maintain the needs necessary to wage war on the Allies. One of these policies was the American financial and economic embargo, which supported China in its fight against Japan. It also, somewhat, forced neutral countries to side with the U.S. because it threatened that if any country would aid one of the Axis countries then that country would ...
- 549: English in the 21st Century
- ... themselves more powerful. Strong economy Other countries ask us for loans to help build their economy. An example is that Russia needs some money to build a capitalist instead of a communist economy. Japan and China ask for trade treaties so we can help them with their economic problems (a Japanese bank went bankrupt and needs our support to help rebuild the city). Most regions in the world have been experiencing ...
- 550: Dynamic Change In The U.S.
- ... immigrants. Thousands of Chinese immigrants flooded the U.S. in search of gold at first and then railroad jobs. Most workers were single, males who intended to make plenty of money and then return to China where they could afford to get married and buy land. There drive to achieve their dream pushed them harder than the ordinary American worker, and landed them in very dangerous working conditions with low pay ...
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