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administration was under pressure to stem the loss of American manufacturing jobs from Japanese imports and in 1985, Secretary of ...

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

and all important rights related to that (1997). The second was the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor," which outl...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...