Kennedy speech writer Theodore Sorensen called "the gun barrel of nuclear war", the death of history as we know it (The Cuban Missile Crisis). ... Kennedy and his men were being forced make one of the most difficult decisions in American history. ... The United States made it their main issue to stress that the public not find out about taking the missiles out of Turkey and Italy. ... But also, to express that there will be no quid pro quo made with removing our missiles from Turkey and Italy. ... The Soviets took their missiles out of Cuba and we eventually took ours out of Turkey and Ita...

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The thoughts and feelings on disease are very accurate and understandable, but once again, as we have seen throughout history, religious beliefs have always been, and will forever be a controversial issue. Italians were another minority looked down upon by Riis. He thought that Italians were dumb, and "learn slowly, if at all" (Riis, 37). ... Riis states that Italians, much like the Chinese, are born gamblers. ... Italians are shown to be lighthearted and inoffensive unless they are provoked. ...

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Due to unresolved anger with the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of dictatorship in Europe, and United States isolation countries around the world took part in history's bloodiest and most widespread war, World War II. ... It was written by the Allied powers, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, and Germany. ... In 1925, Benito Mussolini became the dictator of Italy. ... By the 1930's, Italy was beginning to be seen as a large world power that would have a large influence in the world. ... This lead to Italy supporting Germany against its war with Britain an...

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England and Russia during the time that Japan attacked the United States were in a war with German and Italy. ... So in our Nations best interest we agreed to help them and enter war in Europe against Germany and Italy. ... At that time Russia was also fighting the same war against Germany and Italy. ... The United States in return declared war on the Triple Alliance which included the countries Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. ... Looking through history, the United States seems to only have started wars in national defense. ...

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Even with all of the history, landmarks, and entertainment Illinois has to offer, like every other states it has its flaws. For example, Illinois has had a history of racial problems. ... Chicago was also home to many organized crime gangs; lead the popular Al Capone and the South Side Italians (2010). One of the most infamous incidents of organized crime happened in Chicago when Capone and the South Side Italians lined 7 members of the rival North Side Irish gang and executed them in what is known as the "St. ... Illinois is a state rich in history that helped mold America into the county tha...

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When it comes to military aspects, the United States can prove itself easily as a unipole; in 2007 the US spent 623 billion dollars, while the rest of the world combined summed up 500 billion dollar in military expenditures.3 Taking a look at the US history after the Cold War one can see that a unipolar system can be very troubled and full of conflicts. ... Put another way, the first two decades of unipolarity, which make up less than 10 percent of U.S. history, account for more than 25 percent of the nation's total time at war.... First World War was the formation of the Triple Alliance...

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American History Module Two Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities Reviewing Key Terms - On a sheet of paper, use each of these terms in a sentence. 1. ... John Cabot- John Cabot was an Italian navigator that hoped to find a western route to Asia. ...

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(Prange, 80) When Japan signed an agreement with Germany and Italy, the United States increased its forces in the Pacific to keep Japan in check. When Japan signed the pact with Germany and Italy it was given control of Greater East Asia.... ("Into the Eyes of War: The Mind of Japan", 2) The United States asked in return that Japan withdraw from China, and stop collaborating with the Axis, (Germany and Italy). ... One day after congress had declared war on Japan, both Germany and Italy as partners of Japan in the Tripartite Pact declared war on the United States. ... Pearl Harbor is just ...

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Following his reelection in 1940, President Roosevelt moved ahead with the dual policy of building up U.S. defenses while giving assistance to those countries resisting the aggression of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... He was convinced that the security of the United States depended on the defeat of Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... Nixon became president during one of the most controversial events in American history: Vietnam. ... On December 17, 1972 Nixon bombed Hanoi and Haiphong in the most severe aerial assault in history. ...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... England has been a force to be reckoned throughout most of its history in all categories of life. ... The colonization of the original 13 colonies of modern day USA influenced the creation of the most technologically advanced, economically fueled, and politically savvy superpowers in history. ... Such attacks, as those in Northern Africa, Italy and France were all conglomerated forces of British and Americans. ... Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Ita...

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Historical Background of Racial Profiling It is difficult to trace the history of racial profiling but the principle of targeting those based on race and/or ethnicity existed well before, during and after slavery here in the United States. American History details that profiling based on race was prevalent during slavery, but as the slavery era ended, different forms of racial profiling continued in the United States. ... During the time of the Jim Crow era, the Italian physician and criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) began to identify patterns of criminality based on the physical app...

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. @ Vichy o Led by Marshall Henri Petain (WW1 war hero) May 26-June 4, 1940 Allies successfully evacuate 350,000 of the 400,000 trapped by the German defeat of France (blitzkrieg) o Among the evacuated is Charles De Gaulle Forms the basis for a Free French government-in-exile July 10, 1940 Beginning of the BATTLE OF BRITAIN o Hitler attempts to bomb England into submission in preparation for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade due to his losses inflicted by the RAF o He mistakenly concentrated his air force upon London and other population...

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the worst catastrophes in United States history. ... However, to understand why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor you have to trace history all the way back to the 1850's. ... In June 1940, accommodation was reached when an alliance was signed with the like-minded Germany and Italy. ... A decisive movement in Japanese history had arrived. ... Within a few days, Germany and Italy had also now declared war on the United States. ...

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(Lipsitz 3) " "Although reproduced in new form in every era, the possessive investment in whiteness has always been influenced by its origins in the racialized history of the United States "by the legacy of slavery and segregation, of Indian extermination and immigrant restriction, of conquest and colonialism (Lipsitz 3). ... "Although surveys showed that many Canadian, Italian, Israeli, and Irish citizens lived and worked in California without proper credentials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the popular campaign expressly targeted immigrants from Mexico and Cen...

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The First World War in history was due to three major causes: nationalism, militarism, and imperialism. ... Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made up The Triple Alliance. ... Such alliances consisted of strong countries like Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, known as the Central Powers, but also of smaller and less military developed countries like Italy. ...

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Americans should all be of the same opinion as most Italians with regard to Columbus. Columbus, who was an Italian, was not given any respect by his own country during his time because they knew the true nature of this horrible man, and that is why he was forced to go knocking on Spain's door for the opportunity to set sail across the Atlantic. ... James Loewen, a former history professor, wrote a book titled, The Lies My Teacher Told Me, in which he argues that almost all textbooks and teachers continue to place too much emphasis on the heroics of Columbus without mentioning his misdee...

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The paper below goes into the history and consequences of the Marshall Plan. ... In this Committee, which was the pioneer of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), 16 European states were represented: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Kissinger, T L). ... Of the $13 billion, roughly 3.1 billion went to Great Britain, 2.7 billion to France, 1.5 billion to Italy, just under 1.5 billion to the Federal Republic of Germany and the rest to other West E...

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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. ...

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Although Greece in its history was one of the first countries to come up with the ideal of democracy (i.e. ... Greece exports 59% of all exports to other European nations including Germany, Italy, and the UK. ... In regard to imports, Greece imports 59% from other European nations such as Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands, UK, and exports 3% to the United States of America. ...

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He was privileged to have befriended the headmaster at an elementary school where he studied writing, arithmetic, history, religion and Latin. ... He studied in classical and modern literature, in-depth studies of history that no doubt aided in molding him into the exceptional military person was that he was. ... The two of them journeyed together to Italy to further study and assess the Spanish control over his hometown of Caracas. ... Past history had proven to Bolivar that it is harder to for a nation to recover from being ruled than it is to enslave an entire nation. However, he believ...

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Dualism: The Struggle To Find Order and Meaning The struggle to find order in the world and to distinguish humans from other forms of life has been the primal exercise of philosophers throughout recorded history. ... Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosophe...

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Roosevelt was confronted by not only one but one of the greatest challenges of American history. ... In the Summer of 1939, Germany attacked its neighbors without warning and triggered of the greatest war in the history of mankind. Soon Britain and the Soviet Union got engaged against the combined forces of Germany, Italy and Japan. ... If you analyze the period of the American history just from 1933 to 1941 then looking upon the start and end of the great depression, we conclude that Franklin D. ...

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The following are some literary examples from various periods in American history. ... One of the more famous literary works from the Puritan age was A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. ... France, Germany, and Italy were big influences, but this became a literature of our own. ... America is changing so fast at this point in history. ...

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Although the name Billy Mitchell may not be a familiar one to many people, one thing is for sure, this one name changed the course of history by pushing himself to the limits until he couldn't go any further, and finally got his point across. ... (Source #3, pg. 2) Mitchell lead the greatest air offensive attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel by commanding 1,476 aircraft and twenty balloons, assembled by 101 American, British, French, and Italian squadrons in 1918. ... www.thehistorynet.c ationhistory/articles/1997/0997_text.html or, Aviation History Magazine September, 1997 ...

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The following are some literary examples from various periods in American history. ... One of the more famous literary works from the Puritan age was A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. ... France, Germany, and Italy were big influences, but this became a literature of our own. ... America is changing so fast at this point in history. ...

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