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- 831: Assassination of JFK: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- Assassination of JFK: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman? Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.". Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example ...
- 832: Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
- ... was shown this letter. In June of that year Geiger's close associates published an article describing a possible way to produce a chain reaction and a "uranium machine". Export of uranium was banned in Germany as a result of this article. Szilard and scientist Wigner figured the Germans knew much more than they were saying and believed the United States government wasn't even in the race. They went to ...
- 833: The Cold War
- ... Union and the United States both plundered the German V-2 rocket sites for materials and personnel. In 1946 the MVD was responsible for the rounding up of 6000 scientists from the Soviet zone of Germany and taking them and their dependents to the Soviet Union. The political conflicts of the 1930's and World War II left many educated people with the impression that only communism could combat economic depression ...
- 834: Between the Wars: 1919-1941
- ... scrap metal, oil, and aviation fuel to Japan because of its intolerance for Japanese military presence in European colonies in Asia. Japan’s dependency on these materials from the United States would be crippling. When Germany turned the forces of its blitzkrieg on France, and France subsequently surrendered, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared an “unlimited national emergency” for the United States. The European conflict created the need for an absolute effort ...
- 835: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... I the U.S. government lent its European allies $7 billion, and then another $3.3 billion by 1920(end note 30). By the Dawes Plan of 1924 the U.S. started lending to Axis Germany. American foreign lending continued in the 1920's climbing to $900 million in 1924, and $1.25 billion in 1927 and 1928(end note 31). Of these funds, more than 90% were used by the ...
- 836: The Civil War
- ... to die for the Union was Captain Constatin Blandowski, one of many immigrants who earlier had fought for freedom in Europe and then joined Lincoln's army. Born in Upper Silesia and trained at Dresden, Germany, he was a veteran of democratic struggles - a Polish revolt at Krakow, the Polish Legion's battles against Austria, and the Hungarian fight for independence. Some nationalities contributed more than their share of Union soldiers ...
- 837: Is FDR to Blame for the Bombing at Pearl Harbor?
- ... they controlled the Pacific, it would put a strain on America’s resources for copper, rubber, tin, and other valuable goods. These imports from the Pacific were all essential to America’s economy. Japan, like Germany, was on a rampage. They had one goal, to take total control of the Pacific. America and FDR knew that the country would be in trouble if they attained a mildly threatening amount of power ...
- 838: Jews in America and Their History
- ... of the United States of America. By the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, there were only 2500 Jews in America. For forty years beginning in 1840, 250,000 Jews (primarily from Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia) entered this country. Anti-Semitism and economic woes in Eastern Europe went from bad to worse after the pogroms of 1881- 1882. Almost three million Eastern European Jews left between 1881 and ...
- 839: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-gunman?
- The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-gunman? Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example ...
- 840: The Broadcast of "War of the World" in 1938
- ... and terrorizing more people. President Roosevelt was debating whether to go to war or not. Most of the American people did not go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due to war threats and viewed everything that went on around them as a sign that war would break out. Therefore, when the people heard ...
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