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- 1941: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... jailed, and convicted of nothing more than being Japanese Americans. Why Pick On The Japanese Americans? Why did the American government go after only Japanese Americans? Were we not at war with Germany and Italy? Did German Americans or Italian Americans go to internment camps? The answer was no. The U.S. government did not do anything against the German and ... Asians to allow more trade. Commodore Matthew Perry, in 1853, forced the Japanese to trade, and to treat American sailors better. These actions opened Asia to the rest of the world. Soon thousands of Japanese began to come to America. These newly arriving immigrants took the jobs of unskilled American workers. These workers began to demand job protection from Congress. U ... would only get worse. The Munson Report With America's track record, in dealing with the Japanese, it is not too difficult to predict our behavior when Japan went to war. As early as November of 1941 President Roosevelt had a fear of Japanese Americans. Roosevelt had Special Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson to gather intelligence on ...
- 1942: The Boston Massacre
- ... independence, people in this land were, even sometimes unconsciously, beginning to gain a sense of self-motivation and loyalty to those around them that had accompanied them into this New World. The people had gained almost a new identity; one that strayed drastically from the places in which they had came from. This feeling is one that could be labeled as ... must look at the events that lead to the Boston Massacre to fully understand the state of mind that the colonists were in. Since the end of the Seven Years War against the French, the British had gone into a great burden of debt. England finally confronted the matter when it appointed George Greenville to Prime Minister in 1763. Facing a ... ways to gain funds without taxing the already heavily taxed English people.1 Greenville assessed the situation and determined that since the colonists had been a major beneficiary of the war time expenditures that the Americans should be the ones to pay a greater share of the cost for running the empire.2 The question did not dawn on Greenville ...
- 1943: Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation
- Ensuring Our Future Through Conservation The world's natural rainforests are one of humanity's only remaining hopes to continue its existence. Rainforests are vast forests filled with lush vegetation, teeming with life (both animal and plant ... the past. However, the size of theses majestic rainforests has diminished immensely over a course of about 100 years. Recent studies and estimates conclude that around two percent of the world's rainforests is lost each year. Unless we change this amount of deforestation, there will be little of our rainforests left in 50 years. Our rainforests are an integral part in our world's ecosystem, and therefore need to be conserved as best we can. The rainforests provide safety and life to millions of kinds of life, they may contain cures to ...
- 1944: Kosovo Crisis
- As this paper is being written, across the Atlantic Ocean, in Kosovo, there are missiles being fired, houses burning, and people dying. But to understand this senseless war, one must look at how it started. As was seen in the U.S.S.R and Checkoslovakia, due to different nationalities, regions of countries demand sovereignty and independence. This ... from a few non-NATO member countries, headed by Russia. Russia, taking the role of a peacekeeper, vowed not to fight to defend Serbia, relieving many of the fear of World War 3. The very involvement of NATO in Yugoslavia raises some ethical, moral and political issues. What business does this organization have in entering a civil war in an independent ...
- 1945: Iran Before And After The Revo
- ... they were now willing to lose their lives, for everything they wanted. They began spreading the word and taking a stand against the Shah. More and more people joined the war against the Shah and by the late nineteen-seventies, Iran was virtually in a civil war. People began bombarding the streets all over Iran and many of the two-year soldiers walked away from the army to join in the fight for freedom. At this point ... government they now appreciated. Soon, however after the ten minutes of glory the people enjoyed the new “Islamic” government began the crackdown on the opposition groups in Iran. With the war going on they could capture the revolutionaries and most were killed and jailed. The fact was that the newly established government of clerics in Iran wanted a completely strict ...
- 1946: J.P. Morgan
- ... progressive, saw him as "a beefy, red-faced thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power." Despite conflicting opinion on his persona, his influence and character shaped the business world more so than any other person at the turn of the century. Morgan was a banker, railroad czar, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, yachtsman, and ladies' man. He was king to a ... had "many admirable qualities for a worker" To the company, J.P brought an energetic and enterprising spirit, mathematical wisdom, great confidence and a useful tie with the English banking world. In less than three years Morgan went from clerk to cashier in the company. Although, he was denied a promotion when his father requested one, he did receive a promotion ... of houses in New York, Philadelphia, London and Paris. He was the commanding figure in international finance. Pierpont Morgan was an imposing figure on Wall Street and in the financing world but was virtually unknown to many until 1869. That year a war over railroads began including Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, both famous financiers. Gould already had dominant control ...
- 1947: The Immigration Experience
- The Immigration Experience They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we want, to own ... and probably spread more disease than the people he checked. From an eyewitness account, his gloves were not sterile, and he did not change or even wash them between examinations. I, myself, found this disgusting, and dangerous. Then, immigrants filed into lines by nationality to be questioned. The questions scared many people. Should they tell the truth or lie. Which answer ... the nationalities traveling to America were Jews. They were treated somewhat differently. This was probably because many of their countries would not accept them. The first Jews in the new world were Morranos from Spain. They fled their homeland because of the inquisition. They traveled from Spain to South America, and then to New Amsterdam. They, at first were rejected ...
- 1948: Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
- ... his commission by the time he was 20. Five years later, as a military observer for the King of Württemburg, he traveled with the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was in that service that the young count had gone aloft in military observation balloons. During Zeppelin's military career, he fought in the Seven-Weeks War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), serving in the armies of Württemburg, Prussia and Imperial Germany. In 1890, Zeppelin retired from military service as a brigadier of cavalry, but the 52 year old ...
- 1949: Documentary...the Cuban Missil
- The documentary that I viewed entitled, The Cuban Missile Crisis, brought about one of the most threatening times in United States History. Produced by Films For The Humanities Inc., the film shows how the ... of Cuba is far from a mystery, people know the truth and what it cost Cuba as a Nation. The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis is heard around the world, in perhaps many different versions, with many different endings and opinions. The effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis still continues to linger in our country today, with consequences of a ... end something that was going on that shouldn’t have been. He was a soldier of the moment who’s only objective was to do what he thought was right. I found the length of the film to be too short to adequately include more of the details of the crisis. The film did a superior job of capturing the ...
- 1950: The Immigrant Experience
- The Immigrant Experience They are our grandparents, our relatives, our friends. They are the immigrants. They came from all over the world for many reasons, such as, religious persecution and racial tension, but the largest reason for coming to America was for freedom. The freedom to live where we want, to own ... and probably spread more disease than the people he checked. From an eyewitness account, his gloves were not sterile, and he did not change or even wash them between examinations. I, myself, found this disgusting, and dangerous. Then, immigrants filed into lines by nationality to be questioned. The questions scared many people. Should they tell the truth or lie. Which answer ... the nationalities traveling to America were Jews. They were treated somewhat differently. This was probably because many of their countries would not accept them. The first Jews in the new world were Morranos from Spain. They fled their homeland because of the inquisition. They traveled from Spain to South America, and then to New Amsterdam. They, at first were rejected ...
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