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- 121: Cold War
- ... civilian populations. Hiroshima, a city know for its military importance, evacuated non-essential citizens for fear of an American attack. The decision to drop the bomb was made by Harry Truman. Hiroshima was destroyed by the atomic bomb just a few days after the Postdam conference in which Truman announced the existence of the bomb to his allies in order to show military superiority. Cold War tensions increased in the early 1980’s resulted from the Soviet intervention in ...
- 122: Earthquakes
- ... on the peak of the mountain. May 8, 1980 the (USGS) predicted the earthquake would be soon and began evacuating the area. Many residents refused to go such as Harry Truman who said, "If I got out of here, I wouldn't live a damn day." Because it was their home for many years and they didn't believe it would ...
- 123: Iran Iraq War
- ... the invasion. Almost immediately, coalition forces moved toward Southwest Asia. By far the largest contributor to the force, the United States honored commitments to Saudi Arabia first made by President Truman. The result was Operation Desert Shield, which before it was over became the Desert Storm. Iraq was rather thoroughly trounced in the very short war, and under U.N. resolutions ...
- 124: Ethical Issues In U.S. Immigra
- ... States. And only 30 percent of those could be from eastern or southern Europe (Anderson, 1998, p.2). Again in 1952, we see the same kind of discrimination when President Truman signed the McCarran-Walter Act. Under this law, ideology became a criterion for admission. Political beliefs were questioned as the government sought to weed out people with even a marginally ...
- 125: In Cold Blood - Death Penalty
- ... violent crime. -The offender directed an accomplice to commit the murder or committed the murder at the direction of another person. (Flanders 12) In the novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the main characters Dick and Perry were guilty of several of the circumstances that eventually led to their demise: -The multiple victims included all four of the Clutter family ...
- 126: Government Spending
- ... person that can veto laws sent to him, and also has the power to call Congress back into session if he is unhappy with the current situation. This was President Truman’s "ace in the hole" back in 1948. A Neutral Proposal: As a neutral proposal, a group calling themselves the "Blue Dog’s" have won support for their budget from ...
- 127: George C. Marshall
- ... October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall was promoted to General of the Army. He spent a year in China in 1945-46 as President Truman's representative, attempting to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the nationalists and the communists. As Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic ...
- 128: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... interview show, one of the first of it’s kind. She was very loyal to herself and to the nation throughout the years. She served as a UN delegate throughout Truman’s two terms as president. She had one of the most wonderful and worthwhile experiences in her life when she served as one of five American delegates to the first ...
- 129: Albert Einstein 5
- ... Einstein became a friend and colleague of President Roosevelt. He wrote a letter to the president warning him of the potential use of his theories in military warfare. Soon, President Truman took over the war effort. Einstein, however, played no part in developing the atomic bomb which merely proved his theory of relativity (Magill 1036). As a matter of fact, Einstein ...
- 130: A Political Biography On Jfk
- ... was an overwhelming success. From there, Kennedy was re-elected in 1948 and 1950. He had a pattern of mixed voting, often disagreeing with many of the policies of President Truman. Kennedy agreed with the administrations Fair Deal policies, fighting for issues such as slum clearance and low-cost public housing. His views on foreign affairs were also strong, and was ...
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