Italians were the biggest group of immigrants to enter the U.S., and vibrant Italian American enclaves sprang up around the country. As the number of Italian immigrants grew, so did anti-Italian sentiment. Italians were painted as subhuman and undesirable, and employers often refused to hire pe...
Why did the Great Depression force the U.S to choose isolationism at the start of WWII? Why did Russia enter WW1? Why did the United States join World War 1? Why was President Wilson unable to persuade America to join the League of Nations?
America could not and did not want to compete with this and this was what force Nixon to seriously consider a quick withdrawal when he was elected as president. A withdrawal however is in no way a victory and so they were unable to defeat communism. The USA was unable to defeat Communism...
Why did Napoleon III enter the Franco-Prussian War? Why did the French and Indian War last so long? Why was Spain given the land from France after the French and Indian War? Why did France surrender to Germany in WWII? Why did the French lose the Algerian War?
“The whole point of both projects was to take theoretical ideas and make them a reality, which eventually both did. It didn't happen overnight with either, and both were incredibly expensive.” Peter Westwick, an adjunct history professor at the University of Southern California, believes that...
doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And then, I kind of evolved to, ugh, maybe Wagner wasn't supposed to be there. They needed plausible deniability. They couldn't say, "Yes, those are our guys." Because then it's like, "Well, then how did you know they were doing this...
it did not matter to Davis that the doctor whom he described as the “guardian of the health interest” of the German people had to be “Aryan” to be able to practice.1As we now know, however, this reliance on the benevolent and altruistic physician to act in accordance with the Hippoc...
Other feminist groups fell into a similar victim-blaming step. Southall Black Sisters, another charity committed to ending violence against women, did at least mourn the loss of life on both sides, butblamedit on “the Israeli government’s declaration of war on Gaza”. Elsewhere, Women for ...
Haritatos said the restaurant ultimately became legendary, and much to everyone's surprise, so did the Turkey Joints. The restaurant Candyland would continue to operate through good and very bad times over the course of 51 years, when in 1972, it finally closed its doors. Still, one thing ...
It was no slip of the tongue.Biden repeated himself in Brussels on Thursday: “Let’s get something straight … I did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter. The maintenance of sanctions — the maintenanc...