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- 1311: Cold War 3
- ... for a spiraling cycle of mistrust.” (Heilbrunn) In 1947, Ernest Bevin, British foreign secretary, “believed it essential to construct a defensive military alliance in Western Europe; and in December of that year he proposed to George C. Marshall an alliance that would guarantee Western European security and prevent further Soviet aggrandizement.” (Heilbrunn) This proposal was realized in the North Atlantic Treaty and the establishment of NATO in 1949. Only an alliance ... This phase has ended, but conflicts continue. The Soviet Union may have called off the war, but the U.S. is continuing as before, even more freely with Soviet obstruction a thing of the past. George Bush celebrated the symbolic end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, by immediately invading Panama and announcing that the U.S. would overturn Nicaragua’s election by maintaining its economic stranglehold ...
- 1312: Culture 2
- ... political, social and economical transformation. Britain’s transformation was of great importance to the development of new attitudes towards India. The designs of the English “became more imperial and their attitude more haughty and aloof” (George,44). The social gulf that existed between the “diplomatic pundits” and the English scholars began to widen. The attitude of the average Englishman changed from one of disapproval of “Hindu superstitions” and “Mussalman bigotry” and of philosophic and cultural interest in Hindu mythology, and of historical curiosity in Moguhal domination; into one of contempt for an inferior and conquered people (George, 44). The English had “developed from the pettifogging traders quarreling over their seats in church, to imperial swashbucklers and large scale extortionists” (Spear, 23). The British no longer relished the ways of commerce; their appetites ...
- 1313: Cuban Missile Crisis 2
- ... would aid any country that asked for help in resisting communism. The Truman Doctrine became known as the basis for containment, the policy to keep communism from spreading to other countries. After the Truman Doctrine, George Catlett Marshall, Secretary of State, proposed the Marshall Plan, the European Recovery Program through which the United States provided aid to Western Europe after World War 2, in June 1947. The Marshall Plan was offered ... had ended. Nuclear war had been averted, but the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis didn t end the Cold War. The Cold War didn t end until the early nineties, when Mikhail Gorbechev and George Bush ended the superpower rivalry.
- 1314: Civil War
- ... were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an ... peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well ...
- 1315: Britain And America Revolution
- ... citizenship by the act of owning land. Its government system wasn t based on birthright and a monarch, they were for individual freedoms and the right to participate in government. But when the tyrannical King George jumped in demanding control of the colonies, they were angered and looked for a way to keep their liberties. Second, America was taxed by the British government to decrease its national debt. Due to their ... over-population in some areas. Over-population led to the cramming of frontier citizens into the established cities. When the Sugar Act was passed, isolated acts of violence occurred, such as the Boston Massacre. King George was infuriated by this and pressed Parliament to pass the Quartering Act to punish the back-water Americans. Now not only were the frontiersmen crammed into the cities looking for work, but the British army ...
- 1316: Bill Gates Roadway To His Succ
- ... s. Yet this is an office, not a dorm room. And, while everyone calls the complex of 25 buildings a campus, it is not a college or university. It is the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. And the person is no grad student. He is William H. Gates III chief executive and co-founder of Microsoft. Mr. Gates has changed the way we live through his first computing experience, the roots ... The company finally went out of business in March of 1970. The Lakeside Programmers Group had to find a new way to get computer time. Eventually they found a few computers on the University of Washington's campus where Allen's dad worked. The Lakeside Programmers Group began searching for new chances to apply their computer skills. Their first opportunity came early the next year when Information Sciences Inc. hired them ...
- 1317: Bill Gates 2
- ... Is it possible he has made too much money and has too much power? You can decide after reading this. William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in the Seattle suburbs of Washington. He grew up with his two sisters in a family of descent wealth, his father William Gates Jr. a Seattle attorney, and his mother Mary Gates, a school teacher, University of Washington regent and chairwomen of The United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school in Seattle before moving on to the private Lakeside school in North Seattle. There he began cutting classes to hang out at ...
- 1318: Battle Of Hurtgen Forest
- ... about 50 square miles. It was densely wooded, with fir trees that reached 20-30 meters into the air. Lack of sunlight turned the forest floor into a dark, damp place devoid of underbrush. Sgt. George Morgan, 4th Division, describes it best: "The forest was a helluva eerie place to fight. You can't get protection. You can't see. You can't get fields of fire. Artillery slashes the trees ... German forces almost to the Roer River before pulling back to the top to defend the hill. It was 0830 hours when the Rangers took the hill. An hour later, the first counterattack began. Major George Williams said of the counterattacks, "In some cases Germans were in and around the bunker on the hill before the Rangers were aware of their presence. Once on the hill they attempted to rush the ...
- 1319: Babe Ruth
- ... 28 made in World Series games. Among them were his record of pitching 29 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play and his total of 714 major league homers not including 15 World Series homers. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 6, 1895. His father, a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In 1914, through the help of one of the priests who taught at the school, Ruth began to play with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League ...
- 1320: Andrew Carnegie 2
- ... build typewriters, bicycles, railroads, stations, bridges, tractors, barbed wire, and even made the framework for the Home Insurance Company building in Chicago. Carnegie s proudest accomplishment was the use of his steel to build the Washington Monument, which was completed in 1884. Carnegie usually held a close relationship with his employees, but as the number of workers grew, his relationship between the workers decreased. In 1887, a strike broke out at ... age of 65, Carnegie decided to do what he had planned to do thirty two years ago. He would now contribute his money to educational buildings, libraries, and colleges. He developed the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which provided money to international educational courses. To conclude, Carnegie contributed to American society and the world by developing a method of producing steel assiduously and inexpensively. By developing this product, it allowed for other ...
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