German railroad engineers backed his boast by helping to build the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway and the Hijaz Railway from Damascus to Medina—neither of which was completed before the war, but both of which Britain saw as potential threats to India.Germany’s diplomatic sabre-rattling had inspired ...
House declares war against Great Britain, June 4, 1812Andrew GlassANDREW GLASS
Germany becomes the second nation to recover fully from the Great Depression, through heavy deficit spending in preparation for war. 1937 The Supreme Court declares the National Labor Relations Board to be unconstitutional. Roosevelt seeks to enlarge and therefore liberalize the Supreme Court. This att...
Proclaiming themselves "states," they issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The rebellious states de- feated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence.[9] A federal convention adopted the current United States Constitution on...
The USA generates more than a quarter of the world's GDP, has a defense budget ten times either of its nearest rivals (Britain and China), with Russia spending a mere 7 percent of what the United States spends on defense. The United States, in the phrase of Barry Posen, has “command...
on time, with the assistance of Iris Wilson spending an hour waking him up. Harebraynereadabout the detective, the Strand Magazine was sold to Germany as well. Sholmes actually can't watch the trial due to investigating Esmeralda Tusspells's kidnapping of the sculpture. But he and Iris ...
Collective bargaining over labour conditions between unions and employers is a key labour market institution in democratic societies, guaranteed by international and national law. Its coverage, organization and impact have varied over time and across cou
“Why? They’re all the same,” the patron declares. To which the attendant replies, “When I’m up there, I have to do what you say. But when you’re down here, you have to do what I say,” exercising what little power he can. Was this that case? Was the laundry man just ...
Canada, thinking resistance might bring better terms than abject surrender, declares war. The struggle was more spirited than might be expected—the bloody battle for Ottawa lasted 11 days—but might prevailed in the end, and Canada was annexed. Forty years later, older Canadians are still ...
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