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Immigration

... and become a citizen. One must go through several examinations and tests before he or she can earn their citizenship. The Act of March 3, 1891 was the first comprehensive law for national control of . It established the Bureau of under the Treasury Department to administer all laws (except the Chinese Exclusion Act). This Act also added to the inadmissible classes. The people in these classes were inadmissible to enter into the United States. The people in these classes were, those suffering from a contagious disease, and persons convict ...

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Australia In The Vietnam War

... it is not the conflicts that have drawn most outrage from Australian citizens, rather the insistence of other countries, for Australia to accept large numbers of post-war refugees. The introduction of conscription into Australia during the Vietnam War, caused much outrage in the Australian public. Vietnam was the first war ever to be properly televised, the public saw for the first time the true brutality of war. The public started to question Australia’s involvement in the war. Moratoriums were held around Australia in protest agains ...

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Emperor Constantine I

... and the honor in which he was held by his people. The one known as the emperor Constantine was born Flavius Valerius Constantinus in Naissus, a town in Serbia, on February 27 probably sometime in the 270’s CE. His mother was a woman of humble background named Helena who would later become a Christian. Because of her good works, she was made a Christian saint after her death. Constantine’s father was a career military officer named Constantius. Constantine was married at least twice and had four sons: Crispus, Constantine II, Constan ...

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How Adolf Hitler Got To The To

... happened to her in order to restore family pride. Says Sirhan ". . . it's better to have one person die than to have the whole family die from shame." The beliefs and attitudes of Sirhan are not uncommon in Jordan; unfortunately nor are they among men in North America. Women constantly have to deal with disrespect and abuse from men. Men view women as inferior, and this stifles the growth of women as a whole throughout the world. In North America, treatment and expectations of women have improved, but they are not yet at the point that wom ...

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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion

... and its origins. Part I: The Invasion and its Origins. The Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961, started a few days before on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban military bases were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Baos and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other sites on the island. ...

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American Stores Antitrust And

... merger constituted an anticompetitive acquisition violative of § 7 of the Clayton Act and would harm consumers throughout the State. It was decided by the court to grant the State a preliminary injunction requiring American to operate the acquired stores separately from the ones already in business until the outcome of the suit had been found. Although agreeing that the State had proved a likelihood of success on the merits and the probability of irreparable harm, the Court of Appeals decided against the injunction on the ground that the re ...

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Air Force History

... significant figure in the development of . 2- In April 1949 Chief Barnes entered the U.S. Air Force, and received his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. After completing basic training, he attended Aircraft and Engine School and Hydraulic Specialist School at Chanute Technical Training Center, Illinois. During this time period the Soviet had controlled East Germany came into existence as the German Democratic Republic. In October 1950, he was assigned to the fourth Troop Carrier Squadron of the 62nd Troop Carrier Group at ...

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The Roosevelt New Deal Program

... for it must be sought in the same fashion. That meant that he thought the whole world was in the Depression and that the whole world would have to come up with a way to get out of it. Millions of people lost all of their savings. Many people ended up sleeping in a shelter for the unemployed and eating in soup kitchens. Seasons had a lot to do with what some people ate during the depression. They lived on farms and when the crops didn't grow their menus changed a lot. Many of these people lived in the Dust Bowl. A stretch of land in betwe ...

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American History Immigration And Discrimination In The 1920's

... I up untill the election of 1928. If there was one man who singlely used America's fear of immigrants to advance his own political goals it was Attorney General Palmer. The rise of Communism in Russia created a fear of its spread across Europe, and to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in America ...

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Character Differences Of Sadda

... differently? They are world leaders and determine war or peace. Their ability to lead depends on that persons character. Leadership is no good if people do not comply. Influences like Saddam Hussein and Gandhi lead only as well as their personal character permit them to. In the case of Mohandus Gandhi, his personal character allowed him to be a great leader. People wanted to be lead by him even though Gandhi held no real political office. At the beginning of his crusade to free India, he made his intentions completely known to the public. Not ...

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The Boston Massacre

... Massacre was a mob of men and boys taunting a sentry standing guard at the city's customs house. When other British soldiers came to the sentry's support, a free-for-all ensued and shots were fired into the crowd. Four died on the spot and a fifth died after four days. Six others were wounded. The presence of British troops in Boston had long been a sore point among Boston's radical politicians. Paul Revere wasted no time in capitalizing on the Massacre to highlight British tyranny and stir up anti- British sentiment among his fel ...

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Boxer Rebellion

... America got nothing. America was focusing largely on Guam and the Philippines and had missed the opportunity and so insisted on the “open-door policy” in China were commercial opportunities were equally available to all Western powers and the political and territorial integrity of China stayed intact. The imperial court responded to this foreign threat by giving aid to various secret societies. Traditionally, secret societies had been formed in opposition to imperial government; as such, they were certainly a threat to the Ch ...

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