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- 5971: October Crisis/War Measures Act
- ... was overall supported but widely criticized by Quebec nationalists, and by civil libertanians throughout the country. (Oct, 1) Three days before the issuing of the War Measures Act, Pierre Trudeau did an interview outside the House Of Commons. He talked generally about the, “emergence of a parallel power… one that would challenge the elected representatives of the people”. (Des, 187) The F.L.Q. was this power, and they did try ...
- 5972: The End of the First World War
- ... this happened shortly after the Russian collapse, better known as the Bolshevik Revolution. During the winter of 1917/1918 the allies wanted a comforting type of moral support, so President Woodrow Wilson along with the house devised the Fourteen Points on January 8,1918. But as all know that only one of the fourteen passed. The German front finally failed in July of 1918. Then Germany appealed to the United States ...
- 5973: The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan
- ... General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan District, “recommended that this be done”. [4] After President Roosevelt’s death, it fell to Stimon to brief the new President about the atomic weapon. At a White House meeting on April 25 he outlined the history and status of the program and predicted that “within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history ...
- 5974: The Start of World War Two
- ... Bailey, Ronald H. The Home Front: U.S.A. Morristown: Silver Burdett Co., 1977. Elliott, Brendan John. Hitler and Germany. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War, 1931-1945. New York: Random House, 1987. Keegan, John. Who Was Who in World War II. New York: Crescent, 1984. Wernick, Robert. Blitzkrieg. Morristown: Silver Burdett, 1977.
- 5975: Kosovo
- ... terrorist groups"attacked military patrols south of Prizen. The UN refugee agency warned of a "very grim situation" along the border with Macedonia, where hundreds of people displaced by fighting were afraid to return. The House of Representatives backed the deployment of U.S. troops on a peace keeping mission to Kosovo.President Clinton plans to send 4,000troops to the Balkans as part of a 28,000 strong NATO force ...
- 5976: The Invasion of Spain
- ... of Charles had been discussed, both at home and at Rome, especially in view of two facts: the scandalous condition of the imperial government at Constantinople, and the acknowledged grandeur and solidity of the Carolingian house. He owed his elevation not to the conquest of Rome, nor to any act of the Roman Senate (then a mere municipal body), much less to the local citizenship of Rome, but to the pope ...
- 5977: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... Scali that he would convey the message to the "highest Soviet sources." But the most important occurrence on the 26th was a letter from Khrushchev to Kennedy. The letter began to arrive at the White House at 6:00 p.m. but because it had to be translated, it came in four separate parts, the last of which arrived at 9:00 p.m. The letter was clearly written by Khrushchev ...
- 5978: The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
- ... micro/186/42.html [Accessed 14 February 1999] “Sir William Wallace” http://www.mcallister.com/clan/wallace.html [Accessed 20 February 1999] Delderfield, Eric, King’s and Queen’s of England and Great Britain, Brunel House, 1994 “Wallace, Sir William” Britannica Online, http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=micro/629/61.html [Accessed 14 February 1999]
- 5979: The Effects of the Great War
- ... war pulled the American citizens together for one general purpose and succeeded. The war proved to the public the great uses of the government with new social issues such as women working out of the house, organized labor, prohibition, and the desire for "normalcy". It also provoked what many call the second industrial revolution. Overall the nation endured a great economic change. We saw greater production, a steady climb in wages ...
- 5980: Russian Revolution of 1917
- ... military loses. These reverses were because by many to the alleged betrayal of Empress Alexandra and her circle, in which the pasant monk Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin was the dominant man. When the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliment, protested against the crapy conduct of the war and the arbitrary rules of the imperial government, the tsar Emperor Nicholas II and his ministers just didnt really care. All of this ...
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