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- 1381: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... government they had some very powerful supporters. Among them were Foster Dulles, Secretary of State who had once been their lawyer, his brother Allen the Director of Central Intelligence who was a share holder, and Robert Cutler head of the National Security Council. In what was a clear conflict of interest, the security apparatus of the United States decided to take action against the Guatemalans. From May 1st, 1954, to June ...
- 1382: History After 1820
- ... 100,000 soldiers. With 25,000 causalities, both sides completely realize the horrors of this war. As a result of this battle the Union wins control over the northern portion of the Mississippi River. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Rebel forces, takes his army on the offensive on September 17, 1863 at the Battle Antietam. Having 24,000 causalities this battle was called the "bloodiest one day of the ...
- 1383: Civil War
- ... conquered people. Lincoln replied that he no longer gave direction in military manners but went on to say: "If I were in your place, I'd let 'em up easy, let 'em up easy" (Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence Clough Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol 4. New York: The Century Co., 1887). THE CHASE BEGINS Lee's forces were pushing west toward Amelia and the Federals ...
- 1384: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... un-American to them to stand by when reports described how a Spanish general was slaughtering Cubans. Rioting had broken out in Havana. American Consul General, the former Confederate cavalry leader Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Robert E.Lee, did not scare easily. He reported conditions to Washington, and the battleship U.S.S Maine steamed into Havana Harbor. At three o'clock in the morning the telephone tinkled at President McKinley ...
- 1385: Slavery in the Eyes of the South
- ... democracy, owned slaves. Even though its not said in American history books, the rebelling American colonists were in some ways radicals for rebelling against England. It could be said that men like Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens were rebelling radicals just like Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were 90 years earlier. But it was not the Confederates who were the radicals of the Civil War, instead ...
- 1386: Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S.
- ... movement in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. --- Bibliography Brown, McAfee, et al. Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience. New York: Association Press, 1967 Gaullucci, Robert L. Neither Peace Nor Honor. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Gettleman, Marvin E. Vietnam and America: A documented history. New York: Grove Press, 1985. Lewis, Lloyd B. The Tainted War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood ...
- 1387: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- ... footing with everyone else. Article 5: New States gave a precedent to for later territories. Eventually, the people of the United States settled all the way across the to the Pacific Ocean. (Billington) Bibliography Berkhofer, Robert E. "Jefferson, the Ordinance of 1784, and the Origins of the American Territorial System." William and Mary Quarterly, 29 (April 1972): 231-262. Billington, Ray Allen. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. New ...
- 1388: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... cultures of their time: the North and the South, it ended the Confederates' second and last major invasion of the North and it was a missed chance for the North to end the war. General Robert E. Lee made the historic decision to divide his already outmanned and outgunned Army of Northern Virginia. This apparent violation of basic strategic principles was undertook at great risk, and only for the reason that ...
- 1389: The Ku Klux Klan
- ... South about these masked men. Many people loved the idea and wanted to be involved. The Klan quickly grew. A leader was soon needed to control the large group. Their first choice was Southern General Robert E. Lee. Although he supported the group and its cause, he was very ill and could not handle the task. Their next choice was a man named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, although he wasn't ...
- 1390: The Manhattan Project
- ... to lead the project, and he immediately purchased a site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for facilities to separate the necessary uranium-235 from the much more common uranium-238. He also appointed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as director of the weapons laboratory, who ordered the construction of the headquarters on an isolated mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After much difficulty an absorbent barrier suitable for separating isotopes of uranium ...
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