The Katyn Wood Massacre (1940) remains a topic of interest as it questions the motives behind the hidden agenda of the USSR. The truth behind the massacre was hidden for more than fifty years‚ while the USSR upheld the guise that the Germans were responsible for the massacre. It is theorized that both the USA and Great Britain were aware of the massacre at the hands of the USSR‚ however‚ they protected the USSR as she was an allied force and they needed her aid. This poses the question of whether
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1950s Sports How well do you know the 1950s? The 1950s was the beginning of major things changing‚ from the way war is fought to the integration of sports and life itself. Even though war and segregation has been around for a huge part of history things were changing soon. The 1950s was a time of change and rebuilding‚ but it had its violent times as well.. Times were changing in the 1950s with African Americans standing up for their rights and wanting to end segregation. “The Montgomery bus boycott
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Foreign and Domestic Affairs and the Dual Realities of the 1950s One of the key strategic plans of the President Harry Truman’s administration is encapsulated in the National Security Council (NSC) 20/4 of November 1948 and NSC 68 of April 1950‚ among others‚ stressing the containment of Soviet Union from controlling Eurasian territories‚ an approach which President Dwight Eisenhower continued using his own methods. During Eisenhower’s 1952 presidential campaign‚ he strongly attacked Truman’s national
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societies occurs in everyone’s daily lives. This concept is relevant in the 1940’s in Cairo‚ Egypt and 1950’s in Columbia. Both societies are highly traditional and are reluctant to change. The society in the 1940’s of Cairo is depicted by Naguib Mahfouz in the novel Midaq Alley which is about society’s adherence to change in things similar to typical tradition. Gabriel Marquez portrays the Colombian society in the 1950’s in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by illustrating the death of Santiago
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The Mexican war was mainly a war that President Polk wanted in effort to obtain more land for the United States. The people who wanted the war were mostly Democrats and Southerners. Southerners supported the war because they were in hope that more land would be acquired meaning more states would be admitted into the union as slave states. For this same reason the Whig Party opposed the war because they were abolitionists. Abolitionists opposed slavery so with the addition of new slave states‚
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November 2013 Television Shows of the 1950’s and Mass Culture During the 1950s‚ the average American was an optimistic reflection of the traditional values of the times. Then as the world around them began to change‚ so did the types of television programming they were exposed to. The era of the 1950s was an extremely confusing time as America was trying to adjust to its new role as a competing superpower and still trying to maintain the strong foundation of American society while at the same time trying
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Mexican Revolution Many people have wondered what led to the Mexican Revolution and who started it. The negative things you do as a president can negatively affect your country. Before and during the Revolution many citizens of Mexico disagreed with President Porfirio Diaz on the way he ruled their country‚ which later on led this conflict to begin. In the end‚ Mexico was in the right to start this revolution because of the way President Porfirio Diaz ruled. President Porfirio Diaz was in office
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included people that already had jobs and people that did not have jobs. In this time period men mostly made up the sports field. The effects on basketball‚ baseball and football in the 1940’s were greatly affected by the United States getting involved into World War II. Body 1- Baseball B. During the early 1940’s‚ the time that the United States was in the World War II‚ baseball
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650 miles away from where the earthquake had struck. Beds were banging against walls. People still wearing their pajamas ran from their homes and they gathered in frightened groups. The violent shaking had made a second national emergency for the Mexican government agencies. They had already been trying to get ready for Hurricane Katia on the other side of the country. The storm was thought to strike the Gulf Coast in the state of Veracruz on a late Friday night or an early Saturday morning. The
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The civil war during the revolution era was followed by eleven more years of sporadic uprisings and assassinations. Unlike other forms of populism‚ Mexican populism had to incorporate the population because they had mobilized to fight the Revolution. This resulted in the Cárdenas presidency‚ which was an era of union organizing‚ land reform‚ cultural innovation‚ and nationalism. Cárdenas built a coalition
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