... factories began making tanks and airplanes. U. Manhattan Project Established (1942) The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because much of the ... a sense of optimism. The Second New Deal set up the Social Security Act of August 1935 and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). B. World War II had major effects on the economy, resulting in factory conversion to wartime products and the rationing of meat, sugar, shoes, and other items. Soc...

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... in Washington, and being romanced by the social elite of both the U.S. and Great Britain. Joseph Kennedy, Jr. vigorously opposed U.S. involvement in World War II while at Harvard Law School, but once Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, he enlisted in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program, and was soon ... the right word. He demanded it." In JFK, the Joe Sr. found a willing vehicle for his ambition. Harbor would drag America into World War II. The Rising Politician JFK's political career began where he had been born--in Massachusetts, where his father had numerous contacts, and where a p...

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... raiding Indian food supplies. 2. 1610- Relations were even more strained when Lord De La Warr arrived. He destroyed Indian towns, until a peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614, sealed by a marriage between Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe. 3. A weak peace lasted for 8 years until the Indians struck back after settlers continued to press inland. ... some sort of religious toleration. Church of England was dominant. 4. Because tobacco farming stripped the soil, and because settlers settled along rivers, there were constantly confrontations with Indians. II. Settling...

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... of their work towards fighting oppression and to justify what it is they are doing. Orwell's Vision of a One-Way Conversation Born in 1903, Orwell had lived through World War II but hadn't served on the front line. Poor lung conditions having suffered treatment for tuberculosis removed him from active service (Bastian H, 2006). Nonetheless he signed up to commit to ... enabler A supplier of the means to engage in activism. Airstrip One A area in state in 1984 formally London. Antonyms A word opposite in meaning to another. Atomic Global War The great war in the novel 1984. BBC British B...

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... brought her photographic vision to bear most memorably on the living conditions of Depression America's rural poor and Japanese Americans detained in World War II interment camps. Fighting battles and excelling at her craft were two activities that Dorothea Lange devoted her life toward. Throughout her life ... . (Time Life) Lange continued to work for the federal government until it turned its attention away from the depression and onto World War II in 1940. Her marriage to Dixon broke up in 1935 and shortly thereafter she married her partner, Paul Taylor. Lange retained custody of ... ...

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... brought her photographic vision to bear most memorably on the living conditions of Depression America's rural poor and Japanese Americans detained in World War II interment camps. Fighting battles and excelling at her craft were two activities that Dorothea Lange devoted her life toward. Throughout her life ... . (Time Life) Lange continued to work for the federal government until it turned its attention away from the depression and onto World War II in 1940. Her marriage to Dixon broke up in 1935 and shortly thereafter she married her partner, Paul Taylor. Lange retained custody of ... ...

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... . The Thirteen Colonies I. Virginia - In 1606, James I the King of England grants permission to The London Company to start a colony in Virginia. II. Plymouth - In 1606 a group of Separatists were being persecuted in England and fled to Holland seeking freedom of religion, however, in Holland they began ... . 4. The harbor would make an excellent naval base to establish control over the area. - In 1664 the English, under King Charles II, sent a fleet of war ships to New Amsterdam, under the command of James, the Duke of York. Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherland at the time .....

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... Dutch control was ending. The English noticed that it was growing very quickly and passed the Navigation Act of 1651, in order to smother it. Charles II then decided that he had enough Dutch presence in the New World and on Monday, August 25, 1664, launched the Guinea, an English ship, to ... . These people included: large property owners, government employees, merchants, and the Anglican clergy. New York did not vote for the Declaration of Independence. The Revolutionary War had begun. Many battles occurred and the Americans lost control of New York to the British until 1783. The effec...

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... broad new authority to use wiretaps, electronic eavesdropping, and other information-gathering techniques. Additionally, a new proposal aimed at expanding these powers, which has been dubbed by some as "Patriot II", seeks to collect and store information on individuals in central databases and then use data-mining techniques to detect possible terrorist and criminal activity. All three government efforts emphasize the ... more employees remote connections to ensure they can work even if buildings become inaccessible. The use of technology and the implications for National Security, both i...

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... lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right to demand their will. He also failed in preventing China from Japanese invasion.(3) Sino-Japanese War During the Sino-Japanese War of 1937 - 1945, within 3 months Shanghai and Nanijing had fallen, showing GMD's useless leadership skills and lack of tactics and efficient battle experience, against Japanese harsh, better equipped ... used this situation to persuade the people of China and therefore by receiving the support from the majority the communists were able to come to power. Periods of War - Communist ...

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... of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature.""{Doren, 58} Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother, George, was wounded and in a hospital in Washington, D.C. He found George nearly recovered but saw other soldiers badly in ... a hospital volunteer. Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote the volume of poetry called Drum-Taps', published in 1865 {Benet, 187}. After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. In 1873, he fell ill, sufferi...

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... The Guatemalan adventure can be seen as another of the factors that lead the American government to believe that it could handle Casto. Before the Second World War ended, a coup in Guatemala saw the rise to power of Juan Jose Arvalo. He was not a communist in the traditional sense of the term, ... CIA had the confidence that it could now take on anyone who interfered with American interests. In late 1958 Castro was still fighting a guerilla war against the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista. Before he came to power, there was an incident between his troops and some vacationing American t...

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... he is truly an inventor of the late twentieth century. His ideas could have saved the U.S. millions of dollars during the Spanish American War, and World War I and II. If Mr. Tesla would have had more money, he quite possibly could be remembered today as one of the greatest inventors of all ... Niagara. A decree may be entered for an injunction and an accounting as to all the claims in the suit." (Cheney, 1983) With the war of the currents out of the way, Westinghouse's company was elected to harness the power of Niagara. In 1895, the Niagara Falls project was completed ... He understo...

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... immigrants were members of the upper and middle class in Haiti. They started to establish themselves here in the turbulent 1960's, when the United States was involved in the Vietnam War and was troubled at home by the swelling protests of civil rights and black power activists against inequality in American society. Several young Haitian immigrants were indeed drafted and some ... are naturalized American citizens; others have a legal immigrant or nonimmigrant status; some are undocumented aliens and refugees; and still others are children born in the country of Haitian parents. Section...

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... as each group wanted control of specific territories and illegal activities (illegal alcohol, bookmaking, extortion, and gunrunning). The 30's and 40's had a strong presence of European-derived gangs. After WW II, African-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American gained power, especially in the northern cities. In the 50's, gang warfare between African-American and Hispanic gangs peaked in big cities like ... gangs and often would carry weapons for them since they were generally less likely to be searched by police officers. The national focus in the 60's was on the Vietnam War, civi...

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... possible, through opening up the game to a growing market of working class people to attend games. When night baseball was introduced in the mid 1930s and later on post World War II, most people were a part of the working class where their hours were on a strict schedule. To adhere to the schedule workers showed up in the early hours of the day ... ...

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... thought she wanted, but soon society lost interest and she went into obscurity, never loosing her desire to tell her stories. He voice was silenced during the depression and World War II, her stories of poverty and a women's struggle did not interest our society at that time. Today with the resurgence of women's rights her voice is being heard again, as a validation ... ...

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... the greatest players ever in the game was Ted Williams. Williams played with the Sox from 1939-1960. His tremendous career was interrupted twice -- once when Williams served in World War II from 1942-1946, and again in 1952-1953 when he missed almost the entire seasons serving in the Korean Conflict. Nevertheless, Williams still amassed 521 home runs, including a dramatic farewell ... ...

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... Syncopation, Joy, and Animation: The Closing of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom by Russell Gold, it states that the Municipal Archives "gloss over the strife of cultural politics in Harlem during World War II." Gold also attributes the closing to racial separation and cultural subordination in a racist society. Although, the Savoy was originally investigated for prostitution in January of 1943, the rumor is still ... ...

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... , for the most part, like little adults, but in the mid twentieth century, American culture became stratified along generational lines (Veith G.). The generation prior to the baby boomers, after World War II, had extra ordinary prosperity and better living through technology, may have spoiled their children a little. The baby boomer generation never concentrated on learning their parent's skills and disciplines, but worked ... ...

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... Canal by Craig Colten and Peter Skinner, the knowledge was out there. It's just that corporations like Hooker/Occidental didn't give a damn. The economy was booming during and after World War II, and no one really wanted to be bothered with little things like hazards to human health. Certainly, Hooker/Occidental was negligent in its dumping; the real problem was (and is ... ...

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