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Harry S. Truman Essays and Term Papers
Atomic BombOn the morning of August 6, 1945, the first in history was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Soon after, on August 14, 1945, the Japanese abruptly surrendered, abandoning their ancient customs regarding honor in war. The fact ...
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Atomic Bomb 5On the morning of August 6, 1945, the first Atomic Bomb in history was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Soon after, on August 14, 1945, the Japanese abruptly surrendered, abandoning their ancient customs regarding honor in war. ...
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The Manhattan Projectwas 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, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United ...
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A Brief History of the FBIThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has been around since 1908. It was created by former Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency. The FBI’s focus has changed due to world tragedies shifting their focus. President Roosevelt approved the creation of the federal ...
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The Most Influential President EverIn 1982, forty-nine historians and political scientists were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: leadership qualities, accomplishments/crisis management, political skills, appointments, and character/integrity. At the top of the list ...
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The Vietnam Anti-War MovementThe antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Viet ...
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The Anti-Vietnam MovementAnti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of ...
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Vietnam WarAnti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of ...
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History Of The CountercultureThe 1950's in America were considered a true awakening of youth culture. If this is true then the 1960's was a decade of discovery. It was a decade marred by social unrest, civil rights injustice, and violence abroad. These were some of the factors that lead to a revolution that attempted to ...
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Richard M. NixonRichard Milhous Nixon came from a family with a strong heritage. His
father's side of the family were Methodists originally from Scotland. Then, in
the early 1600s, they migrated to Ireland, and to America in the 1730s. His
grandfather, George Nixon, died in the Battle of Gettysburg during the ...
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Dwight David EisenhowerThe taste of victory was fresh and sweet to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Just about a year ago, he sat in the drawing room of his Georgetown home
and spoke breezily about the office he would assume. "Sure it's a big job,"
he said. "But I don't know anybody who can do it any better than I can. ...
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Segregation And The Civil Rights MovementSegregation was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every
sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often
called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who
was an old, crippled, black slave who embodied negative ...
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US HistoryAP US History Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman
Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition):
Ch 29-37
Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
Progressivism:
The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to
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