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- 1741: The Tuskegee Airmen
- The Tuskegee Airmen In 1939, many nations of the world were engaged in the Second World War, and the United States was on the brink of entering the war. It was a time of hostility and belligerence between many countries. However amidst the warfare, such hostility was also evident within the United States of America. For many years, African-Americans longed for the day ... stood amongst them a group of men, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, who demanded the right to fly for the United States Air Force, as the inevitable came when America engaged herself in the war. The airmen weren’t granted the right to fly instantaneously however, as there were many barriers, which prevented it from happening too quickly. Even still, after granted the right to fly, their superior officers ...
- 1742: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery bus boycott changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and love for your enemy. "Love your enemies, we do not mean to love them as a friend or intimate. We ...
- 1743: Dulce et Decorum est: Analysis of Military Life
- ... of catastrophic death, destruction, and terror that one will probably never find in an incentive brochure. Owen's powerful words are not only a far cry from the positive images that some associate with the war and dying, but an outcry for human beings to stop spreading the notion that men and women who die in battle also die in honor. Most of the men going off to fight during the ... fog, but also "blind" in the sense of not having the foresight or understanding of what was next. The descriptions of these young men not only showed the psychological effect, but the physical aging that war has on a human being. While one could easily develop the basic "War is hell!" theme from this poem, Dulce et decorum Est" does more than any anti-war poem before it and few after it has done: it penetrates a solider's psyche and perspective and ...
- 1744: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... a position he held until 1920. He was an energetic and efficient administrator, specializing in the business side of naval administration. This experience prepared him for his future role as Commander-in-Chief during World War II. Roosevelt's popularity and success in naval affairs resulted in his being nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio. However, popular ... votes. The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal. . These measures revived confidence in the economy. Another flurry of New Deal legislation followed in 1935 including the establishment of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) ...
- 1745: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... special skill in detail to capture and portray illustrations that accurately reflected the emotions felt in the hearts of Americans at the time. Rockwell made several illustrations exhibiting events like the Great Depression and World War I. In fact during the second World War Rockwell was motivated by President Roosevelt himself to create one of his greatest projects, The Four Freedoms Paintings, illustrating each of America s fundamental freedoms and revealing the reason behind the United States participation in the war. This Four Freedoms Project is one that reflects Rockwell s great generosity and kindness as a person. Rockwell agreed to this project and devoted much of his time to this great endeavor not because ...
- 1746: 1984: The Plot
- 1984: The Plot "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." This is the slogan of the Ministry of Truth, a branch of the totalitarian government in post-war London. The figurehead of this government is Big Brother, who employs a vast army of informers called the Thought Police who watch and listen to every citizen at all times through a device called a ... into the reality of the world in 1984. In a complex work such as 1984, there are numerous structural relationships upon which the author bases his central themes and ideas. Orwell comments on politics, economics, war, love, and truth among other things. In the microcosm of 1984, the love which develops between Winston and Julia is exemplary of the struggle of those who have to exist in a society which ...
- 1747: History Of Coca-Cola
- ... 1831. At the age of 17, he attended the Botanical Medicine School of the State of Georgia.2. After school he owned a drug store in Columbus, Georgia and fought for the confederacy in the Civil War. During the war he became addicted to morphine from an injury.3. After the war ended, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia and kept up his pharmacy business at home. He created such patent medicines as Globe flower ...
- 1748: Louis XIV Had A Greater Impact On European History Than Peter The Great
- ... of the balance of power principle spoken of by Eugene Weber in The Western Tradition lectures. Only he took the power, for France. “Louis military excursions can be neatly separated into four distinct conflicts: the War of Devolution with Spain, the Dutch War, the War of Palatinate and the War of the Spanish Succession—the last of which might be called the first truly global conflict of the modern age. His most spectacular successes came early, while he was ...
- 1749: Guerilla Warfare
- Guerrilla Warfare The term guerrilla (Spanish, “little war”) originated in the early 19th century during the Peninsular war when, after the defeat of Spain’s regular forces, Spanish irregulars and civilians rose up against the French occupying forces. The practice of guerrilla warfare, however, dates from antiquity; for example, the Bible tells of ... South America, from the slave revolts against the Portuguese and Dutch in Brazil in the 17th century to the ranger raids behind Union lines led by the Confederate solider John Singleton Mosby during the American Civil War. In early 19th century Latin America, guerrilla actions such as those led by the South American patriot Simon Bolivar and the Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo Costilla were instrumental in throwing off the Spanish ...
- 1750: Shiloh
- ... in a tie. Lasting for two days, April 6 and 7 of 1862, casualties for both sides exceeded 20,000. The Battle of Shiloh was a message to both the North and South that the Civil War was for real. General Grant was anxious to maintain the momentum of his victory at Fort Donelson. His army had moved up to a port on the Tennessee River called Pittsburg Landing in preparation for ... the power" and that he was "the only man he could lean on with entire confidence" (The Papers of Jefferson Davis, 1995, p 132). Since the succession of the South and the beginning of the War Between the States, both side were expecting one battle to decide the war. Reports to newspapers from Shiloh suggested the enormity and importance of the fight. "The great battle to which the whole nation ...
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