... the context of moral, economic and political issues. Regardless of the historical event, an underlying belief in manifest destiny, our nation's fate and duty to settle our North American lands coast to coast, underscored each territorial acquisition. It seems certain most Americans believed in a special manifest destiny for the nation, and this philosophical foundation enabled the United States to spread westward with ... American sailors in the port of Valparasio in 1892 made hostilities between the two countries seem inevitable. The threat of attack by Chile's modern navy spread alarm...

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... April 1961. The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. It was seen as a beachhead for Soviet influence in the Western Hemisphere . The attempt on the invasion of Cuba was a total failure . It was an embarrassment to the United States ... convince the Soviet leader to withdraw the missiles. On April 17 about 1500 exiles, armed with U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahí de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Hoping to find support from the local population...

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... more and more stable, the country began to expand. First, it captured places in the South, and then began its move West. By the late 1800s, America reached from one coast to the other, yet Americans still wanted more, so they looked to their neighbors. The expansionism of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century was mostly a continuation of ... and over again in American history. And in each instance, it seems like people almost always were moving west. European powers explored the Americas, America explored into the West coast, and the West coast explored the Pacific...

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... . The crowd quivers in anticipation. Then a thunderbolt of sound erupts from the amplifiers and the stage is illuminated with colors, pyrotechnics, and dense smoke. The band appears, clutching their guitars, drum sticks, and microphones, much to the tumultuous noise of the crowd. They are poised to unleash their mountain of music to the captivated audience under the luminescence of the spotlight ... ...

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... is important to us as a people. Maybe more in the sense of what is important to our leaders. The decision to drop the atomic bomb was just that...Atomic. It coast millions of lives, lives across the globe. August 6th of 1945 the was day the first bomb was dropped on Japan, but in no way was it the first bomb ... ...

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... came in the Battle for the Kokoda trail, in which a seriously outnumbered Australian force took on the advancing Japanese forces from the north coast on their quest for taking over Port Moresby. The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. This was the first ... ...

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... back that there was nothing to paint and negotiations were going well. Hearst responded "You furnish the pictures and I"ll furnish the war." The USS Maine mysteriously sank off the coast of Cuba, and a painting of this was sent to Hearst. Even though it was never discovered what made the USS Maine sink, Hearst printed a story that said Spain was directly ... ...

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... . The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba; just 90 miles off the coast of the United States and U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were authorized to use tactical nuclear weapons if invaded by the ... ...

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... piloted by Cubans bombed Cuban air bases. Two days later the Cubans trained by the United States and using U.S. equipment landed at the Bay of Pigs on the south central coast. The invasion force was unequal to the strength of the Castro lead troops, and by April 19 the CIA lead force was turned back. The Kennedy administration would suffer the ... ...

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... E.U. the ratification of Maastricht, the social problems of Union surfaced first in Denmark. The Danish making it absolutely clear that they are tired of Germans renting property along the Danish coast and how happy they were that Denmark beat Germany in a soccer championship match is fine. But to turn down the treaty that could bring lasting security to Europe for an ... ...

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... Japanese takeover of the Western Pacific after Pearl Harbor was shocking, and the fear of a Japanese invasion was very strong. False alarms of approaching Japanese submarines and bombers affected West Coast cities. Although no acts of sabotage by Japanese-Americans were ever reported, some believed the racial and cultural loyalties of this easily identifiable ethnic group would supersede their political allegiance ... ...

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... for the rich, lower prices on goods, and to help the poor. Great dream, but none worked. He lost much needed popularity when the Exxon Valdez spilled oil over the coast of Alaska and when Three Mile Island reactor overheated and almost made Chernobyl look like a firecracker. The Republican made it clear he was all for the environment but these incidents ... ...

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... Russia, Khrushchev tested his luck too far in that he under estimated the enemy and did not consider the possible consequences of his actions. Cuba, situated a mere 200km off the coast of Florida in the United States, was an ideal location for the Russians to establish missile launch sites in their efforts to keep up with their American rivals. In 1959 ... ...

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... "unduly seductive" (Coppola 35). Navy nurses lived and worked on hospital ships. The USS Repose and the USS Sanctuary were the most common. These ships sailed up and down the coast of Vietnam. They were also stationed at the bases at Danang and Cam Ranh (Marshall 4). Air Force nurses cared for the wounded on the country evacuation flights. The flights went ... ...

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... was not going in the right direction after the Bay of Pigs incident. The United States was now in a serious situation with an island less than a hundred miles of the coast of Florida with a communist dictator who didn't like the us. The United States had even more reason for concern when later that summer there was rumor that the soviets were ... ...

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... Cuba to assist in the invasion, but their plans began to fall apart. Nearly fifteen thousand Cuban exiles using American weapons landed at The Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of Cuba. Our intentions were to round up support from the natives but this didn't occur. For unknown reasons President Kennedy chose to not send in air strikes, and the ... ...

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... Eisenhower was surprised by how close Communism was to his country now; Cuba was the only Marxist nation in the Western Hemisphere (942, 956). Cubans were fleeing to the Miami coast as quickly as they could. Eisenhower knew he had to deal with the Communist threat. The CIA, in secret, trained a band of Cuban refugees for what we all know now ... ...

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... of electrically charged atomic particles). In 1952, Britain started to develop in nuclear weapons. On October 3, 1952, the first British test, code-named "Hurricane" was carried out off the northwest coast of Australia. A month later, the United States successfully tested "Mike", the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Pacific. On November 3, 1953, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear device (Andrei ... ...

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... he North and Capitalists in the South. In 1950, the Communist North invaded the South and in retaliation Truman sent troops to nearby Japan and battleships to wait off the coast. He also asked the UN to condemn the invasion. Truman eventually won back South Korea and the threat of actual violence between Russia and America, for the time being, faded ... ...

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... to nuclear war. From October 18th to the 26th, there was great fear that Russian nuclear weapons, stationed on the island of Cuba, less the two hundred miles off the coast of the United States, would be used against the Americans. This brief period is known as the Cuban missile crisis. How did this crisis happen however? How did Russian nuclear ... ...

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