... insisted that Nixon publish the tape. Nixon did so, and his support in Congress virtually disappeared. Facing certain impeachment and removal from office, Nixon resigned effective at noon August 9 (Watergate info). Landing on the moon: Apollo 11 was the first lunar-landing mission. Launched on July 16, 1969, the crew of Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins flew the ... ...

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... in the 1920s shifted to deeper military isolationism, with a promotion of world peace through diplomatic means. In 1928 the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, and United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellog tried to outlaw war. The Kellogg-Briand Pact, eventually signed by 62 nations, renounced war as a means of solving international disputes. Unfortunately, however, like the League of Nations, it ... ...

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... , Pennsylvania submitted the winning design for the memorial in 1989. After some problems on agreeing with the design, ground breaking took place in November 1993. World War II veteran, Sculptor Frank Gaylor was chosen to sculpt the figures and Louis Nelson was chosen to create a polished wall of faces. The memorial was dedicated by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam ... ...

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... people felt threatened by change rather than embracing it, and this led to the eventual collapse of communism in the USSR. The Sinatra doctrine is so called as a reference to Frank Sinatra's song, I Did It My Way. It came about when the Soviet foreign ministry commented that Eastern Europe was doing it their way. This was the end of the Brezhnev ... ...

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