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The most important leader in my opinion is The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through World War II until his death in April 1945, just a few months before the war ended. Together with Winston Churchill and Roosevelt played a decisive role in holding together the Allied that ultimately defeated Nazi Germany.
Under Roosevelt's leadership, the nation rebounded from the devastating surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, nearly achieving victory in both Europe and the Pacific. Roosevelt was neutral at the war's outset, Roosevelt did everything short of actual fighting to aid the allies. The Lend-Lease Act which provided Britain with badly needed supplies and equipment and the oil embargo on Japan in response to their aggression in Asia were major components of his policy. He ...
The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in United States history. One of the more credible aspects of these events happens to be the bold, intelligent pioneers that paved the way for many other women throughout the United States to follow. An important battle foug...
I. The Great American Desert a. Used to describe the Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains. i. The term desert describes treeless and uninhabited land, not necessarily arid. II. Frontier a. A term referring to areas near or beyond a border. i. In these terms, the American Frontier, land gained by the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) Locat...
"We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth' it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood'we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear." This is the way that Cherokee Vice C...
In 1692, nineteen villagers were put to death in Salem, Massachusetts. The reason for conviction was the torment of teenaged girls by supernatural means: witchcraft. These teenagers had experienced "pricking" and "pinching" sensations, and some contorted into strange bodily positions, reaching unusual postures of extreme rigidity. The village doc...
Medgar Evers was a World War Two veteran and a very important martyr in the Civil Rights movement. He was the first field secretary and a chairman of the NAACP in Mississippi. Medgar traveled around the state to recruit members, organize voter-registration and boycotts. Just hours after President John F. Kennedy gave a speech on Civil Rights, Medga...
