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- 131: Immigration
- ... Japanese immigration was limited Chinese immigration was stopped in 1892 & 1902 1968-Present Cuban immigration picked up sharply during the 1950's as a result of increasing political turmoil in Cuba Many of the first Cubans to flee Castro's dictatorship in the early 1960's were from wealthy families and were well educated The U.S., granted asylum to these ... for work A major influx of Cuban immigrants was the arrival in 1980 of the Marielitos The Marielitos were about 125,000 people that the Cuban government wanted out of Cuba They included many unskilled workers, criminals, and mentally ill people These people were put aboard boats at the Cuban port of Mariel, and sent to Miami The U.S. government ... these people to enter, not knowing that some of them were criminals Some were placed in U.S. prisons Many of them were rehabilitated and released Few were returned to Cuba Laws Restricting Immigration America must be kept American President Coolidge signing immigration quota law in 1924 1607-1830 In the 17th and 18th centuries, the control over the admission ...
- 132: Crittenden Compromise
- ... slave expansion into the Caribbean. If the South was allowed to expand into the Caribbean, Lincoln felt it was only a matter of time before "we shall have to take Cuba as a condition upon which [the South] will stay in the Union." He meant that if slavery were permitted to extend itself to Cuba, then the South would threaten to secede if the North did not agree to admit Cuba to the Union. Also, regular citizens voiced their opinions in the newspapers during the time period. One such citizen, identifying himself only as "The Major," proposed his own plan ...
- 133: Fidel Castro
- Fidel Castro Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, on a small farm in the municipality of Mayari on the eastern tip of Cuba. His education moved him through most of the country as he went to many prestigious schools. He attended public schools, prep schools and a couple of military schools. He stood ... revolt and on July 26, 1953 his forces tried to take the military barracks outside Santiago. The weakness of his plan was that it mostly relied on the people of Cuba rallying to his cause on their own after his attack. Fidel, his brother Raul, and coconspirator Abel Santamatia split into three sections. Abel and Raul took up positions in nearby ... destroyed several arms plants. On November 25, 1958, Fidel and his soldiers set forth to take back his impoverished country. The boat was pushed off course and Fidel finally reached Cuba on the wrong day in the wrong place. They were cut down by the local patrol. Well that's a twist isn't it? Didn't see that one ...
- 134: A New Generation
- ... substance. The Bay of Pigs ordeal was handed down to him from Eisenhower. Kennedy has been assured by CIA agents that the American forces that had been training to invade Cuba could bring down Communist Cuban President Fidel Castro down from power. He had doubts on this issue, which he did not express, but agreed to go through with it. The ... the invasion at the Bay of Pigs inn personal embarrassment for president. The Cuban Missile Crisis was another one of Kennedy's stylish foreign affairs. Soviet Khrushchev placed missiles on Cuba that were aimed at U.S. JFK devised the Executive Committee, which advised him. Obviously, he was unsure of himself and his decision. He threatened the Soviets with the result of WWII if they attacked the U.S. missiles were drawn, and JFK promised that the U.S. would never invade Cuba. He feared appearing weak, consequently risking war, and strongly so quickly. I believed from reading the book, that JFK's only major accomplishments were the Peace Corps and the ...
- 135: JFK Assination - Conspiracy
- ... full weight of his air force behind the Bay of Pigs affair and in addition they were bitterly disappointed that he had come to an agreement with the Soviets over Cuba. Kennedy had also stopped listening to the CIA after the Bay of Pigs affair and it resented being cold-shouldered by the President. Another popular theory was that the Mafia ... i.e police officers, magistrates and the President! Other implications included blaming the right-wing extremists to whom Kennedy was a communist as he attempted to build peaceful relationships with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Communists were also blamed for being involved as they saw Kennedy as a friend of industrials and held him responsible for the Vietnam War, the blocking of Cuba and many other things. These were just a few of the theories around at the time but it has to be remembered that none of them have ever been ...
- 136: Ernest Hemingway
- ... and the Sea can be looked at in many different perspectives. All the critics believed that his styling of writing was very defined. In 1944 Ernest Hemingway went to Havana, Cuba and it was there he wrote a letter to Maxwell Perkins which states he has a idea on a new novel called The Old Man and the Sea ( Nelson and Jones 139). Hemingway first got his idea for The Old Man and the Sea from the stories that he had heard in the small fish cities in Cuba by a man named Carlos Gutierrez. He had known of this man for about twenty years and the stories of the fighting marlins. It was then that he imagined that ... wrong for him because originally he started out going to fish for some dinner, then he caught the biggest marlin ever and it pulled him out in the bay of Cuba even more then he was. After he was pulled out, he hurt his hands and couldn't risk going to sleep because of the risk of sharks. When the ...
- 137: Elian Gonzales, The Way Socrat
- ... answer to Crito in this dialog by Plato. The dialog is also closely related with Elian Gonzalez situation because the people are split on whether to send him back in Cuba or let him in US. Socrates will answer this question based on the explications given to Crito. The dialog starts with Crito sitting on Socrates bed in prison. After he ... and thirdly because, after promising obedience, he is neither obeying us nor persuading Based on Socrates arguments I think it is very clear that Elian Gonzalez should go back in Cuba to his father, contrary to public opinion. In this situation the US government and the politician should take in consideration not the general public but what the laws that they ...
- 138: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... movement was going in full force with incidents breaking out. Specific attention gathered around a black air force veteran, James Meredith, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay of Pigs occurred, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan of events that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the Soviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida. The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. in competition to reach the moon. U.S. involvement in Vietnam ...
- 139: Christopher Columbus
- ... Cay, 105 km (65 mi) to the south. The landing was met by Arawak, a friendly local population that Columbus called Indians. Some days later the expedition sailed on to Cuba, where delegations were landed to seek the court of the Mongol emperor of China and gold. In December they sailed east to Hispaniola, where, at Christmas, the Santa Maria was ... Columbus set up a new colony, named Isabela, about 113 km (70 mi) to the east of Navidad's site. He left in April 1494, explored the southern coast of Cuba but did not prove it an island, discovered and circumnavigated Jamaica, and returned to Isabela after 5 months. Columbus tried to govern the colony until he returned to Spain in ...
- 140: The Life and Accomplishments of John F Kennedy
- ... in October 1962, when the United States learned that Russia had established missiles on the island capable of stirking U.S. cities. Kennedy ordered the U.S. Navy to quarantine Cuba. Navy ships were ordered to turn back all ships delivering Russian missiles to Cuba. Kennedy also called about 14,000 Air Force reservists to active duty. For a week, war seemed likely. Then, Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev ordered all Soviet offensive missiles removed ...
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