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What event happened immediately after the Indian Removal Act? What did the Indian Civil Rights Act guarantee Native Americans? What were the major events during the Gilded Age involving the US and Native American tribes? What was the outcome of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act on Native America...
What are the major wars in US history, and what are their main causes? What was the most expensive war in world history? What conflict lasted 13 days and threatened global nuclear war? What happened in 1950 during the Cold War? Which battl...
The first week of the 1972 Olympics in Munich went off without a major hitch. The Soviet Union's women's gymnastics team took gold. And Americanswimmer Mark Spitz made historywhen he won a record seven gold medals. Only hours after Spitz's victory, chaos erupted. In the early morning hou...
Thinking that Fundamentalists might have a point in their attacks on the Inquisition, Catholics tend to be defensive. This is the wrong attitude; rather, we should learn what really happened, understand events in light of the times, and then explain to anti-Catholics why the sorry tale does ...
Inflation may be declining in many markets, but there’s still uncertainty ahead: without a significant surge in productivity, Western economies may be headed for aperiod of sustained inflation or major economic reset, as Japan has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century. ...
This was reinforced by the naming of the Tube station in Junction Road which was originally named Highgate when it opened in 1907 as the terminus of the Northern Line but was renamed Archway (Highgate) in 1939 and then just Archway in 1947. ...
Some years later, the name transitioned from Bamford & Martin to Aston Martin Motors, born from Martin’s name and the Aston Clinton Hillclimb in Buckinghamshire, where Martin would drive from time to time (no doubt spiritedly). The logo itself denotes speed (hence the wings), but it ...
What did Harry Truman do in WW2? What was Harry S. Truman like as a person? What are some major events that happened during Harry S. Truman's presidency? What did Truman demand at the Potsdam Conference? What did the Eisenhower Doctrine call for?
What was the Soviet Union's primary purpose in building the Berlin Wall? What was the significance of the Berlin Airlift? What problems did the fall of the Berlin Wall create? What year did the Berlin Wall come down? What happened during the fall of the Berlin Wall? What was the signifi...