The all-black, 332nd Fighter Group consisted originally of three fighter squadrons, the 100th, the 301st and the 302nd, and prepared for combat at Selfridge Air Base, Michigan from March 1943 until December 1943. ... After the 332nd Fighter Group departed Selfridge Field, Michigan in December 1943 to go overseas, the remainder of the black airmen personnel on the base comprised mostly of the 477th Medium Bombardment Group. ... As white air units downsized and personnel were discharged, retired, etc., Tuskegee Army Air Base remained segregated and continued to train new airmen for segregated ...

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In December 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, announced the Sinatra Doctrine which stated that the Braznev Doctrine would be abandoned and that the Eastern European countries could do what the liked. ... Cold War, Eastern Block & NATO The cold war (September 2, 1945 - December 26, 1991) was the conflict between the USA and its NATO allies - loosely described as the West - and the former Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies - loosely described as the Eastern Block. ... In December 1989, the Sejm approved the government's reform program to transform the P...

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Following the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese Empire in December 1941, other Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. ... The government also kept Japanese Americans from military service by changing their draft status from 1-A draft eligible to 4-C, "enemy alien. " (American Valor).  ... After eight campaigns in Italy and France, the soldiers of the 442nd Regiment received one Congressional Medal of Honor, three Presidential Unit Citations, nine Legion of Merits, eight Soldier's Medals, 238 Bronze Stars of Valor, 30 Division Commendations...

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Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . ... In December 1905 Stalin and Lenin met for the first time, at a Bolshevik conference in Finland. ...

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In December 1939 Poland requested assistance from Britain to enhance their air courier capabilities with decent aircraft, but the Allies ultimately determined a ground route was more suitable. ... The most successful courier circuit to be established in Poland was done by Krystyna Skarbek, a young woman from the upper class in Warsaw who traveled to London upon the breakout of the war to volunteer her service as a special operations agent. ...

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They purchased war bonds and signed up for army service at the same rate of other American ethnic groups. ... Congress allowed a $500,000 relief fund in December 1947 and then again in 1958 provided a $88 million Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act. ...

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As Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "(1) - Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) - Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures" (Universal Declaration of Human Rights). ... The General ...

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