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- 3541: The Biography of Husband E. Kimmel
- ... on December 7, 1941. The book The Accused, follows the events of his courts-martial and subsequent appeals. The book gives a brief history of his naval career from the time he enlisted before World War I and the present. He served with honors aboard several ships and sustained some combat injuries during his time. Husband Kimmel graduated in the midst of his Annapolis class in 1912 and was awarded the rank of Lt. J.G. He quickly rose in ranks during the 1st world war and earned a command post on a light cruiser. During this time, his C.O., while under going maneuvers, was injured when a fighter strafed his ship, hitting the bridged. Kimmel, then a Lt. Cmdr ... the position of Captain and then later to Commodore. He maintained his position as an aide to the Fleet command until his superiors retired or were sent into the Atlantic at the onset of World War II. Once he entered the position of Fleet Commander, he tried to maintain the efficiency of the fleet by ordering training maneuvers for preparedness conditioning. It was at this time that the Purple Machine ...
- 3542: Kent State University Incident
- Kent State University Incident The End of the Innocence After a long period of fighting a defensive war in Vietnam, on April 29, 1970, President Richard Nixon launched a full scale attack in Cambodia, which greatly accelerated America¹s involvment in this conflict. The reaction from the American college student population was one ... following day Governor Rhodes was accused by the campus senate of bringing the troops in for political reasons, and the entire nation was outraged about what had happened. There were countless protests held against the war and this incident. Also, memorial ceremonies were held all over the country. Nixon released a couple of statements that showed no sorrow for the victims, but rather implied that that they got what was coming ... Four Deaths at Noon² Life 68:30-35 My 15 ^Ì70 3. ³Kent State Continued: Justice Department Summary of FBI Investigation² Time 96:16 N 9 ³70 4. Olson, James. A Dictionary of the Vietnam War. West Port, Conn:Greenwood Press,1988 Word Count: 939
- 3543: Conformity In The 1950s
- ... extent. It became evident through the medium of culture, society and politics throughout the era of the 50s. When WWII ended, Americans were left in the hands of Harry Truman. Known as an aggressive Cold War fighter, he led Americans against the rise of Communism. Spurred by McCarthyism, he initially began to discharge suspected Communists within the government. Due to fear of being blacklisted, Eisenhower, the proceeding president, was reluctant to confront McCarthy. The Red Scare of the 1950s was thriving and the presidents waged war against foreign Communist powers in order not to be accused of being sympathetic towards the opposition. They conformed to public opinion and shaped politics in America into a Cold War. The public conformed towards the American Dream. Everyone wanted a home in Levittown, a car, a television set and a functional nuclear family. To be different from the norm put Americans in danger of ...
- 3544: Constantinopolis
- ... led to the development of space frames, which are simply trusses or other elements arrayed three-dimensionally. Advances in the art of analyzing structural behavior resulted from the demand in the 19th century for great civil engineering structures: dams, bridges, and tunnels. It is now possible to enclose space with suspension structures-the obverse of vaulting, in that materials are in tension-or pneumatic structures, the skins of which are held ... cities of Babylon and Ur were not discovered and excavated until the late 19th and 20th centuries. See Mesopotamian Art and Architecture. Early Persian architecture-influenced by the Greeks, with whom the Persians were at war in the 5th century BC-left the great royal compound of Persepolis (518-460 BC), created by Darius the Great, and several nearby rock-cut tombs, all north of Shìraz in Iran. See Iranian Art ...
- 3545: The True American Cowboy
- ... seem to have been treated much more fairly than their relatives in other regions of the country, it must be understood that at this point in history the United States was rebounding from a traumatic Civil War. This left a bitter taste in the mouth of many Americans and hostile feelings towards Negroes were still inundating the country. These conflicts could be seen the West. These feelings were simply blurred by the ...
- 3546: Emperor Constantine I
- ... Constans. Constantius, his father, was in charge of the Roman Province of Britannia. When Constantius died Constantine he was immediately proclaimed emperor by the army. However, it took many years of political struggle and actual civil war before he could consolidate his power. Constantine finally became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE when he defeated the eastern Emperor Licinius. Of Constantine’s major accomplishments I feel that the ...
- 3547: Nelson Manndela
- ... He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods). At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress Youth League. Mandela soon impressed ... the 1948 all-white elections on the platform of Apartheid, inspired ANCYL to create the Programme of Action. The Programme of Action was simply a sub-committee of the ANCYL. The weapons of boycott, strikes, civil disobedience and non-co-operation was accepted as official ANC policy. In 1950, Mandela was elected to the NEC at national conference (Apartheid). The ANCYL programme aimed at attaining full citizenship and direct parliamentary representation ...
- 3548: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, Reform
- ... deal with the unemployed adults, and its chief purpose was immediate relief rather than long-range recovery. Other legislation passed by Congress included the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), and Civil Works Administration (CWA). Roosevelt’s other short - term goal, recovery, was also off to a good start in the first 100 days of FDR’s administration. There were many legislative acts passed by Congress in ... Labor by children under sixteen, and if it was dangerous, under eighteen. In the relief section of the long - term portion of the New Deal, FDR created the Works Progress Administration as well as the Civil Works Administration. The purpose of the Works Progress Administration was employment on useful projects. Although the agency ended up spending $11 billion on thousands of public buildings, bridges, and hard - surfaced roads, the money was hardly put to waste. Nearly 9 million people were employed over a period of eight years as a result. The Civil Works Administration, which was a branch of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the winter emergency. Finally, in the reform division of the New Deal, the best ...
- 3549: American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions
- ... much character after winning the battle and striking against the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 with their peak membership of one hundred thousand. They called for work stoppages in the middle of World War I which led to a government crackdown in 1917, and essentially destroyed them. (Department of Humanities, 3) A powerful reform called Progressivism swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century. The goal ... Labor in the president’s Cabinet was established. Congress also passed the extremely important Clayton Act in 1914, which ceased the use of antitrust laws and court injunctions against unions. The federal government created the War Labor Board during World War I to settle disputes by arbitration. The board made advances in wage increases, the eight-hour work day, and collective bargaining. They favored unions, and this led to a huge increase in the union ...
- 3550: 1984
- ... of two satires that attacked the idea of totalitarianism. The novels and essays and such written in the 1930s established him as an influential voice of the century. Orwells’ parents were members of the Indian Civil Service; he went to college in London and after wards joined the imperial police. During his service, he wrote his first novel, Down and out in Paris and London (1933), was the start of many ... government, these two novels brought him his first fame as a writer. 1984, a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having corrupt thoughts about the governments of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. Winston ...
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