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- 211: The History of General Motors
- ... to an operating company, with all divisions but Saturn already in place. In the same year, GM also incorporated General Motors of Canada Limited. 1919: POSTWAR BUYING SPREES During World War I, the auto industry halved domestic production in favor of an outpouring of weaponry and military vehicles. The new Cadillac V-8 became the standard military vehicle in the U.S. army, and GM delivered 90 percent of its trucks, along with many armored cars and other specialized military vehicles, for war use. In 1919, in response to pent-up postwar demand, GM set up a financing arm that would help buyers purchase cars in installments. By 1920, the General Motors Acceptance ... designed a historic one-off: the Buick Y-Job. The world's first "concept car" prefaced a generation of dream cars and anticipated the styling of the 1940s. Featuring a revolutionary flowing look, it had power windows, a power convertible top, power door locks, and power steering. In the late 1930s GM changed the economy of trucks and trains by ...
- 212: Cinncinnati: Loveland: Paxton Woods
- ... but Cincinnati once sat in the heart of the Northwest Territory. In the 1700s, this area was the wilds, the untamed and unknown frontier. The British policy up through the Revolutionary War, while we were nothing more than “the colonies” to the queen, was to leave the area to the Indians, who were already angry about being pushed from their eastern territories ... artifacts, in fact, are still being discovered during excavations for new buildings. Burial grounds and serpent-shaped mounds are scattered throughout the region. When the Cincinnati/Northern Shortly after the Revolutionary War, however, the newly victorious American government declared the territory available for settlement. Ohio and all points west had nothing more to offer settlers than opportunity, although that was ...
- 213: Ben Franklin 2
- ... and the Constitution (1787)." Ben Franklin was never President but was very involved with the men who became President. He outshone John Adams as a diplomat in Europe during the Revolutionary War. Also, he beat John Adams to Paris in 1778 to negotiate the Treaty of Alliance with France. No other American was more involved with the birth of the U.S ... France was very important in the American Revolution, it guaranteed the support of soldiers and supplies from France to the U.S., it helped the United States to win the Revolutionary War. Franklin also received most of the credit for the agreement with England that became the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. Franklin was part of a five- ...
- 214: The Causes of the American Revolution
- ... Colonists started to develop their own government and became self-sufficient and detached from England. Another reason that the American Revolution began was a result of the French and Indian War. Despite experiencing the triumph and pride at its conclusion, the French and Indian War created a new host of problems and issues between the American Colonists and the British government. Thus, without this war, the succeeding Revolutionary War thirteen years later was probably unlikely. The French and Indian War was mainly over land and world denomination. When the British won the war they ...
- 215: Islamic Terrorism
- The Threat of Islamic Terrorism With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's and the cold war over, the international community seemed to be on the threshold of an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Instead, a new series of problems was created, like ethnic conflicts, weapons ... westerners while the middle class and intellectuals are drawn toward these radical groups in order to expel imported ideologies and forms of government(*). Radical Islamic organizations have declared a holly war , Jihad, in order to bring the Arab world together and take their place as a world power. In order to accomplish these goals, these Islamic radicals have mainly used terrorism ... violent international terrorists and radical Islamic groups.(13) The countries of the middle east have found terrorism beneficial for many reasons. First, terrorism is an inexpensive alternative to fighting a war, while still spreading their ideology and advancing their political agenda. However, defending against terrorism is very expensive; the United States spends approximately five billion dollars annually to guard against ...
- 216: Napoleon 4
- Napoleon Bonaparte's military career was launched by the events of the French Revolution. Called upon by various revolutionary governments to perform, Bonaparte was able to advance his career with each successive coup. When he became a successful commander in the French war against the counter-revolutionary armies in Italy, he put himself into a position to take over the French government. He was invited to join a coup to overthrow the Directory in 1798 and ...
- 217: John Trumbull
- ... windows into the past. John has a gift in that his paintings, architecture, and writings provide the people with a different and sometimes controversial view of American history, especially the Revolutionary War period. John’s works include paintings of the “Battle of Bunker Hill”, “The Surrender of General Burgoyne”, and “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia”. In addition, John was commissioned to execute monumental replicas of some of his Revolutionary War scenes for the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D.C. These glorious paintings are but a small part of John Trumbull’s contribution to American Society. John ...
- 218: Benito Mussolini
- ... He spent several years in Switzerland and took Rachele Guidi as is wife, they had five children. In 1913 Mussolini became editor of the Milan Socialist newspaper Avanti! When World War 1 began in 1914 he first opposed Italy's involvement, until he changed his mind, saying that Italy should take a stand with the Allies. This got him expelled from ... Il popolo d'italia, which became the backbone of his Fascist movement. He then served in the Army until he was wounded in 1917. In 1919 Mussolini and some other war veterans founded a nationalistic revolutionary group called the Fasci di Combattimento. His movement turned into powerful radicalism, obtaining support from landowners in the Po valley, industrialists, and many army officers. Fascist blackshirt squads carried ...
- 219: Michael Collins and Eamon De Velera
- ... Collins, Michael (1890-1922), Irish patriot and soldier, born in Clonakilty. From 1906 to 1916 Collins worked as a clerk in London, where he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary group working for Irish independence from British rule. He participated in the Easter rebellion of 1916 in Dublin and was captured and was interned at Frongoch (Wales), where he emerged ... arrested. Later, in spite of persistent attempts to capture him, he eluded the police and helped colleagues to escape. While still a fugitive, he was elected to the Sinn Féin revolutionary parliament and served as finance minister. From 1919 to 1921 Collins organised the guerrilla warfare that succeeded in forcing Great Britain to sue for peace. After de Valera left for ... in the 1919 Provisional Government of the RoI, and (6) Cabinet member in the first post-treaty government. He is best know for his brilliant work during the Anglo-Irish war in setting up the IRA's extremely effective intelligence and counter-intelligence unit that time and time again saved the IRA forces to fight another day. He and Griffith ...
- 220: George Washington: Biography
- ... a major blow at the army of Sir Henry Clinton at Monmouth, the his quick action on the field prevented an American defeat. In 1780 the main theater of the war shifted to the south. Although the campaigns in Virginia and the Carolinas were conducted by other generals, including Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan, Washington was still responsible for the overall direction of the war. After the arrival of the French army in 1780 he concentrated on coordinating allied efforts and in 1781 launched, in cooperation with the comte de Rochambeau and the comte d'Estaing, Yorktown Campaign against Charles Cornwallis, securing the American victory on Oct. 19, 1781. Washington had grown enormously in stature during the war. A man of unquestioned integrity, he began by accepting the advice of more experienced officers such as Gates and Charles Lee, but he quickly learned to trust his own ...
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