... his new regime, Santa Anna sent an expedition north to Texas, where a small American militia captured and drove back Mexican troops in San Antonio. Under the leadership of Sam Houston, American Texans routed the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto and captured Santa Anna, who was forced to sign an agreement recognizing Texan sovereignty and independence. Now a free republic, Houston ... pioneer of progress... If these regions ... do not soon become a portion of the United States ... some other nation, stronger than Mexico, will grasp them." Meanwhile, Walker opened recruitment off...

• Word Count: 3500
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ," a time when China did not possess the power to object (McDevitt, 2014). After World War II, all territory under the Treaty of Shimonoseki was transferred to the Treaty of San Francisco, giving control to American forces. The Senkaku islands were then used as an American bomb-testing site throughout the mid twentieth century. In 1972, the United States removed their occupation ... ...

• Word Count: 2908
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , Berkeley, and the Menninger Foundation. Erickson then returned to California to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto and later the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, where he was a clinician and psychiatric consultant. Erickson's interests were spread over a wide area. He studied combat crises in troubled American soldiers in World War II, child-rearing practices among ... ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. The representatives of 50 countries at the United Nations Conference drew up the United Nations Charter on International Organization, which met at San Francisco from 25 April to 26 June 1945. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the ... ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of Japanese American citizens to internment camps, recorded the efforts of women and minority workers in wartime industries at California shipyards, and covered the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco. Only illness prevented her from completing a 1940 Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant to travel the country photographing the American people. Dorothea Lange is a brilliant photographer, she portrayed the life during the ... ...

• Word Count: 273
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... as an affiliated agency of the League. The League of Nations ceased its activities after failing to prevent the Second World War. In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China ... ...

• Word Count: 3307
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. The Organization officially came into existence on October 24, 1945, when China, France, the Soviet ... ...

• Word Count: 1068
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... discussed at this meeting and partially planned out. The "Big Three" also decided upon asking France and China in the founding of the United Nations that was to occur in San Francisco in April of that same year. Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. After the fall of Germany and Japan in 1945 ... ...

• Word Count: 1715
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... dropped dramatically in the amount of goods received from Japan. Despite a breach in diplomatic connections between Japan and China, trade began moving again of its own accord. In 1952, the San Francisco peace treaty went into effect and business men between the two countries began establishing economic ties once again. Japan shipped over manufactured goods and textiles, while in exchange the Chinese ... ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , Berkeley, and the Menninger Foundation. Erickson then returned to California to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto and later the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, where he was a clinician and psychiatric consultant. Erickson's interests were spread over a wide area. He studied combat crises in troubled American soldiers in World War II, child-rearing practices among ... ...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate