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- 3541: World War 2 and Executive Order 8802
- ... the massive build up in preparation for war. Because of widespread discrimination, however, few minorities were receiving any jobs. Randolph indicated that they were prepared to bring, "ten, twenty, fifty thousand Negroes on the White House lawn" if their demands were not met. After consultation with his advisors, Roosevelt decided to appease the Black leaders and issued Executive Order 8802 - "There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in ...
- 3542: The 1950s-1990s
- ... they listened to and through the movie stars and films that were made. A major similarity between family roles in the 1950s is that the majority of women still do the cooking cleaning and other house work. Entertainment although different because of technology, shows many similarities as people still enjoy television and radio. There are many similarities and differences in Entertainment between the 1950s and the 1990s. Television, radio, and film ...
- 3543: Government Lies From Vietnam
- ... the grave disadvantage that in attempting to damage the adversary they must also deceive their own public. Shortly before sending General Paul D. Harkins off to Vietnam, President Kennedy meet with him at the White House. In addition to being a general, Harkins was also the head of the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG). In this meeting, Kennedy gave explicit instructions that he wanted to be fully informed on ...
- 3544: Reconstruction
- ... Tenure of Office Act said the president could not remove a federal official without the Senates agreement. In 1868 Johnson was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act and was impeached by the House. At the Senate trial he was acquitted by one vote. In the South during the Reconstruction period the new state government was dominated by scalawags. These were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and who used ...
- 3545: The Boston Tea Party
- ... for the majesty's troops in the colonies. However, his plan did not pull through (in Defence of the Public Liberty). The tea bill made Ben Franklin extremely angry. Ben was a member of the house of commons where the issue of tea taxes was often discussed. Ben Franklin once said, "it was thought that at the Beginning of the Session that the American Duty on tea would be taken off ...
- 3546: Bombing in Oklahoma City
- ... Janet Reno gives prosecutors permission to seek the death penalty against McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Both of them are found guilty and they are transferred to a federal prison in Englewood, Colorado. The U.S. House of Representatives passes a watered-down version of the anti-terrorism bill. It includes an amendment to allow a closed-circuit broadcast of the trial in Denver for Oklahoma City residents directly impacted by the ...
- 3547: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... Wilderness, he slipped around Lee's right flank (as he would do for the rest of the campaign) and again marched south. Lee anticipated Grant's movements and sent a covering force to Spotsylvania Court House. Union elements arrived on May 8th. Spotsylvania (8-18 May) During the first phase of the battle (May 8-12), both armies struggled over more maneuverable terrain while Lee built up his position into a ...
- 3548: The Monitor and the Virginia
- ... yet to be added to the hull, but it was still a grand event. Her double armor, 8 and a half inches thick, made her almost inpeitrable. Although she had a weakness, the elevated pilot house at the bow of the boat made a deadly target for the Virgin's cannon-balls. The Union troops stationed at Hampton Rhodes, the destination of the Monitor and the famous battleground, thought very little ...
- 3549: The Clinton Scandal
- ... a simple affair between a regular married man and a regular woman. You are the President of the United States of America, and you have been accused of having improper sexual conduct with a White House intern, quite possibly in or around the Oval Office! In the real world, people like you and I would call this abuse of power to influence sexual favor from an employee nothing less than sexual ...
- 3550: Life In The 1900's
- ... and despise it if we had to live in the 1900's. During the 1900's horses played a significant role in the everyday life. A horse drawn carriage would bring a docter to the house of where a baby would be born. A hearse was pulled by horses to the cemetery when somebody died. Farmers used them to pull their ploughs while town dwellers kept them for transportation around town ...
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