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- 1081: Timeline of Art
- ... bare the mechanics of pictorial creation and destroyed the artificial barriers between abstraction and representation. It still remains the pivotal movement in the art of the first half of this century. Abstract Expressionism: Since the World War II the paintings' movement had gathered considerable momentum. The political realities of the time- from 1943 to early 1950s- the War, the Holocaust in Europe, the apparent threat of the world destruction by atomic bomb, the conservative reaction of McCarthyism in United States and even intensified hurly burly of city life-resulted in a movement ...
- 1082: Soldiers Home
- ... religious"home"(71). Moreover, as Robert Paul Lamb notes, the story is also about "a conflicted mother-son relationship"(29). Krebs' small-town mother cannot comprehend her son's struggles and sufferings caused by the war. She devotes herself to her religion and never questions her own values; she manipulates her son. She is one of the Hemingway "bitch mothers" who also appear in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife ... avoid. Furthermore, a careful reading of "Soldier's Home" reveals yet another story discernible beneath the main one. Krebs' indifference towards the girls in the town seems to reflect his disillusionment not only with the war and his parents' marriage, but also with another experience--Krebs' breaking up with a lover: Now he would have liked a girl if she had come to him and not wanted to talk. But here ... Descriptions of Krebs' lack of involvement with the local girls occupy one fourth of the story. These descriptions converge around the word "complicated," repeated four times in this context. The girls live in "a complicated world" (148); "They were too complicated" (148); "it [to talk to a girl] is too complicated" (149); and "He had tried so to keep his life from being complicated"(152). The latter quotation suggests that ...
- 1083: 1963: The Hope That Stemmed From the Fight for Equality
- ... the years. Escaping slaves, underground railroads, court cases, demonstrations, sit-ins, and marches all played into the ever-complicating history of this struggle. The intense hatred of whites for Negroes grew out of the Civil War. One of the reasons for the war was the issue of slavery. When the Confederates lost the war, their position in the political world was taken away. Any position held by someone connected with the Confederacy was given to a northern man. In many cases, the new man was a Negro. The ...
- 1084: The Spanish American War
- Introduction The Spanish American War marked the emergence of the United States of America as a world power. The war which lasted only 10 weeks between April and August of 1898 took place over the liberation of Cuba. In the course of the war the U.S. won Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine ...
- 1085: Kurds Vs Turks
- ... Turkey abusing its power was in April when six Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes, the Turks responded with killing 27 Kurd rebels, which is more than four times the number of killed Turkish soldiers. World Wide Scope: The Spanish Involvement: The Spanish Constitutional Court has suspended a move by the Basque regional parliament to allow Kurdish separatists from Turkey to convene a parliament-in-exile in the region in July ... a peaceful way, adding that at the same time Ocalan gave his men instructions to defend themselves. Oglo said his client is very anxious, but is relatively normal despite being totally isolated from the outer world and exposed to psychological pressure. The British Involvement: Although the British authorities have shut down the world's sole Kurdish-language television station, its director has vowed to find a way to bring it back to life. The decision came as a great shock to us," the station director, Hikmet Tabak, ...
- 1086: Great Depression Timeline
- 1920s (Decade) During World War I, federal spending grows three times larger than tax collections. When the government cuts back spending to balance the budget in 1920, a severe recession results. However, the war economy invested heavily in the manufacturing sector, and the next decade will see an explosion of productivity... although only for certain sectors of the economy. An average of 600 banks fail each year. Agricultural, ...
- 1087: Terrorism 2
- In June 1914: A young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol. The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war began. In the 1940s: The French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. In June 1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in Central France, German SS troops take revenge, massacring 642 villagers. In August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the world's first nuclear weapon. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them civilians. Within days the second world war has ended. Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved ...
- 1088: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... in the region that it would remain pro-American. The Guatemalan adventure can be seen as another of the factors that lead the American government to believe that it could handle Casto. Before the Second World War ended, a coup in Guatemala saw the rise to power of Juan Jose Arvalo. He was not a communist in the traditional sense of the term, but he ". . . packed his government with Communist Party ... control of the invading force. With its success in Guatemala, CIA had the confidence that it could now take on anyone who interfered with American interests. In late 1958 Castro was still fighting a guerilla war against the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista. Before he came to power, there was an incident between his troops and some vacationing American troops from the nearby American naval base at Guantanamo Bay. During ...
- 1089: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... in the region that it would remain pro-American. The Guatemalan adventure can be seen as another of the factors that lead the American government to believe that it could handle Casto. Before the Second World War ended, a coup in Guatemala saw the rise to power of Juan Jose Ar,valo. He was not a communist in the traditional sense of the term, but he ". . . packed his government with Communist Party ... control of the invading force. With its success in Guatemala, CIA had the confidence that it could now take on anyone who interfered with American interests. In late 1958 Castro was still fighting a guerilla war against the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista. Before he came to power, there was an incident between his troops and some vacationing American troops from the nearby American naval base at Guantanamo Bay. During ...
- 1090: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... Roosevelt stood out as the most dynamic and imaginative contender for the presidential nomination. Despite these assets, FDR faced formidable opposition at the convention, from House Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas; former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker of Ohio, a potential compromise choice; and former Governor Smith, who still cherished ambitions of his own. For three ballots Roosevelt held a large lead, but lacked the two-thirds margin necessary ... personal concern about the problems of black Americans, as well as his quest for the black vote, and his worry about the damage that American racial practices did to the nation's image in the world moved him to act. Nearly all Southerners opposed him, however, and Southern senators filibustered effectively against his legislative proposals. In 1947, Congress overrode Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which Truman said unfairly ... action in 1946. Steel did in 1952. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the president has inherent powers to seize firms in emergencies. Faced with a steel strike during the Korean War, Truman had seized steel mills to keep them operating. 34. President - Dwight David Eisenhower Term - January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961 The initial domestic objectives of the new administration were to balance the ...
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