The 1972 approached and ended with Richard Nixon the victor with one of the biggest political landslides in US History. ... In the early 1970's President Nixon visited Russia. He was the first U.S. president to visit Russia since it became communist. While in Russia president Nixon signed the Salt I treaty, which showed a cooling down of tensions between the U.S. and Russia. ...
These achievements made his presidency one of the best in US history. ... Taxes have always been a major part in American history. ... The Tax Reform of 1986 was the first time in American tax history that both the top and bottom rate were increased at the same time (BookCaps, Chapter 4). ... Russia for the most part stayed dormant after WWII and spread communism around like the plague. ... Both Soviet Russia and the US had many stockpiles of nuclear weaponry, with capabilities of turning most of Planet Earth into a nuclear wasteland. ...
When asked to evaluate how many troops were available if and when the United States would get involved, the army could only gather a mere one hundred thousand, while the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. ... In September 1939 the Air Corps had only 800 combat aircrafts again compared with Germany's 3600 and Russia's 10,000 . ... They probably would have not because at that time in history America needed a boost to return to its earlier status of being economically stable which Germany and its allies so effectively provided. ... Towards the end of the war Walte...
A child of the American Revolution, John Quincy Adams was the first President of American History whose father, John Adams, also served a term as President of the United States of America. ... Within the first nine years of his life his father and mother paid particular attention to his education where he learned such subjects as: mathematics, languages, and the classics of American History. ... This marked another first in American History; Louisa Catherine Johnson was the first and only foreign-born First Lady. ... President James Madison then appointed him from 1809-1811 to be...
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. ... He addressed the Russian people by television. ... One that held a spot in history was a demonstration at Ohio's Kent State University where national guard troops killed four students. ...
Nixon's Foreign Policy: A Global Balance of Power Period: 7 Background Richard Nixon entered office in the midst of one of the gravest foreign policy crises in American history. ... Global balancing strives for peace through stability, and the only extended periods of peace in our history is when there has been a balance of power. ... It would definitely be safer to have a healthy United States, Europe, Japan Russia, and China each balancing each other, and not playing one against the other. ...
Though these restrictions proved difficult to enforce due to fringe dealings with Russia and China and other trade through secret and non-sanctionable channels, the lack of Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction would indicate their success. ... This dialogue proved effective, initiating the most progressive negotiations between the nations in their motley shared histories. ...
Alfred Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History and The Interest of America in Sea Power spelled this notion out (Doc C). ... Famed cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1885 cartoon "The World Plunderers," published long before the United States became an imperial power, depicted European powers Britain, Germany, and Russia with their "grab-bags" of colonies (Doc A). ...
A new problem has risen in the thick of the on-going war. President Bush approved a plan that allows the government to try suspected terrorists in private, without the normal laws of a fair trial. Many people living in all corners of the world are now questioning if this lives up to America's repu...
