History tells us that almost every strong nation in this world has at least, tried to stamp its dominance over a weaker country. ... Another great aggression of weaker states was that of Germany, Italy and Japan, which led to the Second World War. ...
The stitches that bind America's fabric of history have been sawn with illegal threads. ... The history of the Italian-American organized crime families is as deep and humble as America's history is falsely illustrated to portray. ... Organized crime had its origin in the great wave of immigrants from southern Italy, especially from Sicily, to the United States between 1875 and 1920. ... Throughout history these strong families have served each other and Sicily as a whole. ... They had become folk heroes and role models for the kids in the Italian ghettos, many of which were to s...
The development of a new steel navy also focused attention overseas, during both centuries. (19th and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. ... The lynching of eleven Italians in New Orleans in 1891 brought America and Italy to the brink of war; the crisis was defused when the United States agreed to pay compensation. ...
For this first time in America's history the economy was growing exponentially and so was the population. ... Cultural backgrounds of immigrants expanded to Italians and Central and Eastern Europeans around the early 1890s. ...
