becoming a prominent actress‚ she was married to Friedrich Mandl‚ a munitions manufacturer for the Axis powers‚ and secretly gathered information about torpedo technology during conferences that Mandl held at their house. Lamarr hated the Nazis and wanted to develop a solution to prevent enemies from jamming the systems and locating Allied torpedos. She fled from Austria and her husband‚ and later co-invented a system of “frequency hopping” with George Antheil in America. Originally her invention
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Stephen Hamilton Professor Charlie Dee History 236 24 April 08 The United States of America is the longest lasting democracy to date‚ but America did not get there in holy grace as many believe it to have done. The fact is America got to where she is through failures‚ miscalculations‚ terrorism‚ conspiracy‚ and lying to its very own people through many facets of foreign policies and actions in other countries. The Vietnam War‚ specifically the Gulf-of-Tonkin Resolution and the Gulf-of-Tonkin
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What Really Happened At Pearl Harbor? Everyone thinks they know the whole story of Pearl harbor‚ but do you really know what happened that tragic day? One of the worst attacks in our county’s history happened on a small island territory called Oahu‚ Hawaii at 7:45 AM on December 7th‚ 1941 by the Japanese navy and air force. This attack was a complete surprise to America and was aimed at shaking her to its core with all the deaths of American servicemen. President Roosevelt addressed the nation after
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The History of the H.L Hunley The H.L Hunley submarine was the first sub to sink the USS Housatonic‚ the first successful use of a submarine sinking an enemy vessel in battle. Horace Lawson Hunley became a famous engineer for building the submarine from being a lawyer. Horace Lawson Hunley was born on December 29‚ 1823 in Sumner County in Tennessee. Hunley has one sibling‚ Volumnia Barrow. Hunley’s parents‚ Louisa Harden Lawson and John Hunley‚ decided to move to New Orleans. Hunley later went
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cruisers‚ twenty six light cruisers‚ seventy eight destroyers‚ a minelayer and a sea plane carrier (151 ships in total). The High Seas battle force had sixteen battleships ‚ five battle cruisers‚ six dreadnaughts‚ eleven light cruisers‚ and sixty one torpedo boats (99 ships in total). The German strategy was to divide and conquer: by staging raids into the North Sea and bombarding the English coast‚ they hoped to lure out small British squadrons and pickets which could then be attacked and destroyed
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This story all starts when hundreds of Japanese fighters‚ dive-bombers‚ and torpedo-bombers show up and start wreaking havoc on not only the Pearl Harbor‚ but also Pearl City. Pilot William Crowe and his brother Charlie Crowe are completely taken by surprise. Charlie himself is on the battleship USS Arizona. William Crowe is down on the airfield. As soon as the attack starts‚ Charlie mans the 20mm Oerlikon cannon on the Arizona‚ while Will gets into one of the P-40 Warhawks. “ Come on Crowe
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Liverpool on May 1st‚ under the control of Captain Turner. The sailing for the Lusitania went well until May 7th‚ 1915. On May 7th a U-boat named U-20 under the command of Schwieger had spotted the Lusitania. The U-20 shot a torpedo at the boat and it made a direct impact. “As the torpedo passed from the view below the edge of the deck…we all had a kind of hope that maybe it wouldn’t explode… In the next instant‚ 350 pounds of explosives detonated against the plates of the hull‚ at a point under the bridge
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Vietnam was merely a conflict between North Vietnam with the help of China and Russia‚ and South Vietnam with the help of U.S military advisors. It wasn’t until August of 1964 when the alleged attack on U.S navy vessel USS Maddox by North Vietnam torpedo boats‚ that Congress declared war on North Vietnam‚ which escaladed the war. Whenever LBJ entered office Americas role in Vietnam changed‚ he talked about how “the battle against communism must be joined in Southeast Asia with
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John Hummel 000236958 LUT1 - Language and Communication: Presentation Script March 28‚ 2012 Bombs‚ Booms and Bangs! How the U.S. Navy went from bottom of Pearl Harbor to the world’s most powerful naval power. In the aftermath of the worst year of war in the history of the U.S. Navy turn stunning failure into sustained success. We all know about the complete defeat the U.S. Navy suffered at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7‚ 1941. Whoever not many know that for the rest
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The years prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor were relatively difficult years for the American society due to the Great Depression which hit America in the 1930s (Jones et al. 533). Many Americans lost their jobs and wages were devastatingly low which caused many American families to live on the streets (Marcus‚ Giggie and Burner 186). However‚ the election of Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression brought about some desirable changes as a result of the implementation of his New Deal legislation
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