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- 4271: The Cold War
- ... unite Europe under American leadership. To do this, he proposed the Truman Doctrine in 1947. The Truman Doctrine provided public consensus against the Soviets and provided aid to anticommunist forces. Once Stalin threatened to take control of West Germany, Truman helped organize the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish an Independent West Germany. Nikita Khruschev provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He was on the leading board when the ...
- 4272: Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing
- ... in a country and have a balance between economic development and social development. Difference in economic developments among different countries triggers a war between them. We must learn from our past to be able to control the nuclear threat and strive towards maintaining peace in the world or we might destroy ourselves with the new technology.
- 4273: The Battle Of the Monarchs: Can Cathrine Really Be Worthy Of The Title Great?
- ... Thus , giving Cathrine the upper hand at the time. Louis wanted to expand France but other European rulers disagreed with him and ruled againsthim with other countries.Cathrine seemed very good at keeping and gaining control of land. Cathrine the Great was one of the few few female monarchs. She was very involved in Russia's intellectual life. She sponsered andedited the journal Vsyaka Vsykaya in 1769 and also very concerned ...
- 4274: The Vietnam Era
- ... The Vietnam Era marked a complete turn around in the culture of the United States. Previous decades were all about being obediant while this era was all about rebellion. Teenagers came out from under the control of their parents and society and became their own person. They were not hindered by what they were supposed to be or what society expected of them. No one expected "hippies" to amount to anything ...
- 4275: England's Territorial Expansion
- ... of defiance towards England. The colonies had begun to see themselves as a separate entity. The opposition to these acts led to England passing even more laws, but this time they were in order to control, rather than tax, the colonists. The first of these decrees was the Declaratory Act in 1766. This law stated that England had the right to pass any laws they wanted and the colonists would have ...
- 4276: World War I
- ... a certain area of war mobilization. Among the first war agencies that were developed was the War Industries Board, headed by Bernard Baruch, a stock speculator. Under his direction, the War Industries Board established centralized control over raw materials and prices. Having to feed its allies, Wilson created the important Food Administration, headed by Herbert Hoover. Like the other American war administrators, Hoover preferred to rely on voluntary compliance rather than ...
- 4277: The Holocaust
- ... about racial and religious differences at the time of the Holocaust. Students will learn it is wrong to have racial injustice by studying the Holocaust. They will learn the consequences when prejudice gets out of control. We see the beginnings of this sort of violence already occuring even in Bexar County as evidenced by gang disturbances such as drive by shootings and the killing of law enforcement officials. The study of ...
- 4278: The Battle of Waterloo
- ... Mont-Saint-Jean in total destruction. Once at Waterloo, the battle began at 11:30 AM with a trick by Napoleon at Wellingtons right. This maneuver was unsuccessful, and was followed by an 80-gun French bombardment designed to weaken the allied center. At about 1 PM, Napoleon saw advance elements of Blςchers army approaching from the east. Once again the emperor dispatched a message to Grouchy, apprising him ...
- 4279: Davy Crockett
- ... you my child". He arose no more the backwoodsman or bear hunter, but the most amiable, independent and courageous man in the Tennessee legislature, and such he proved himself to be. His first, or original, gun is in Jefferson County and has been since 1806. His rifle "Betsy", presented by the Whigs of Philadelphia in 1834, is at Nashville, Tennessee. The tomahawk, or hatchet, presented in 1834 with a rifle, is ...
- 4280: Napoleon and the Battle of Moscow
- ... who carried out these ideas. His name was Napoleon Bonaparte. He was emperor of France, but that did not make him happy. He was greedy and power hungry, and wanted all of Europe under his control. He especially wanted Russia. France and Russia had problems over trade as well as economic agreements. Russia began to let up helping France against England, their enemy, because Alexander was beginning to side with England ...
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