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- 10791: The Truman Doctrine
- ... U.S. lost about 60,000 troops. What results did we get? No border changes, a minor containment of Communism that probably would not have made much difference to the U.S. anyway. Only the death of Americans was gained. The next result of the Truman Doctrine was the Vietnam War. This was another anti-Communist containment war. Ho Chi Minh had invaded South Vietnam. It began with the Gulf of ...
- 10792: The Vietname War in "America's Australia: Australia's America" and "Into the Dark House"
- ... Little research has been provided on Australia's and America's relationship during the period, and the place of the Australian soldier on the battle field (not the Australian politicians who doomed our boys to death ). Therefore to find works which answer the question of Australia's and America's role and relationship within the War, and a soldiers perspective on the conflict is a treat. The Vietnam War proved disastrous ...
- 10793: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... slaves in the area would rebel and come and get the guns. Marines surrounded them. When Brown wouldn't surrender the Marines stormed him and captured him. He was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. Another Famous Abolitionist was Harriet Beecher Stowe. She wrote the famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was a book about the way slaves were treated. At this time many northerners had never even seen ...
- 10794: Terrorism in the US
- ... It is easy to realize that this is a scary time to be alive in the world. With all this terrorism going on in the world surely American's are doomed to die a terrorist death. The Government is trying to do something about it, but can they do anything? It can't prevent Americans from possessing guns, that right is guaranteed by the Constitution. It is simply impossible to prevent ...
- 10795: The Slave Trade and Its Effects on Early America
- ... continued, but thousands of Africans still lost their lives on the journey to the new world. When slaves would try to rebel on the ship, they were immediately killed and thrown overboard. Some slaves preferred death over slavery. Watching their chance while on deck, they often jumped overboard to drown themselves (Davis, 67). Africans were brought to America to work. They worked the cotton plantations of Mississippi and in the tobacco ...
- 10796: King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis
- ... to see how they failed to see. He ends this part of his argument by stating that "One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.". He trying to show that when a person breaks an unjust law, it will be to show the world that it is unjust, not to simply break it and try to get away with it ...
- 10797: The Defining of a Nation
- ... country as a whole. Religious persecution in England caused a religious group, known as Puritans, to venture to America. Once there, they established their Puritan churches and towns and shunned anyone who was different. A death sentence was handed out to Atheists and Jews. A little over three-hundred years later Americans fight against a genocidal German army determined to wipe out the Jewish population. Not even one-hundred years after ...
- 10798: American Involvement in the Cuban Revolution
- ... totally unacceptable, too casual, too nonchalant" on this "forming" leader? Castro was like an inexperienced murderer with a gun in his hand: any rustle in the background could set off his nervous trigger finger causing death, destruction, and liaisons with the U.S.S.R. When America expressed dislike of the trial procedures Castro was holding, of course he (Castro) would try to prove he was able to run his country ...
- 10799: The Cold War
- ... many involved in the federal administration at this time. This included the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, who did not like competition from a rival intelligence organization. With the death of Roosevelt in April of 1945, the OSS was disbanded under Truman and departments were either relocated or completely dissolved. Soviet intelligence began with the formation of the Cheka, secret police, under Feliks Dzerzhinsky at ...
- 10800: The 1960s: Happenings, Causes, and Effects
- ... that might otherwise never have presented itself. president johnson pleaded, "i ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck dr. King." he went on to say that to bring meaning to his death, we must be determined to strike forcefully at the consciences of all americans in order to wrest from tragedy and trauma, the will to make a better society. The Student Movement Americans who were young ...
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