Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? Background to the Vietnam War: At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Ho Chi Minh and a small group of Vietnamese nationalists met with President Wilson and asked for his support for an independent Vietnam, but unwilling to cause conf...
This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year. E. Human cloning, on the other hand, may be technically feasible but legally and emotionally more difficult. Still, one day...
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Why did the French Wars of Religion start? Why did France give up North America in the Seven Years' War? Why didn't the Allies invade before the Battle of France? Why did France join the Crimean War? Why didn't France join the War of the Holy League?
Image:Anti-war protesters outside the DNC in Chicago, 1968. Pic: AP Then after the Democratic National Convention of 1968, where protests over the Vietnam War resulted in a protester's death and hundreds of injuries, Democrats in Iowa demanded reform of the state caucus system - to mov...
“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...
The Refugee Act of 1980 answered the obvious need in post-Vietnam America for an updated immigration policy. The legislation amended the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, raising the annual refugee cap from 17,400 to 50,000 and putting in place...
African Americans launched their literature in North America during the second half of the 18th century, joining the war of words between England and its rebellious colonies with a special sense of mission. The earliest African American writers sought to demonstrate that the proposition “all men ar...
Why did Guatemala political elites help fruit companies? Bananas for dollars: In the wake of the Spanish American war in 1898, the United States had taken an interest in South and Central America. Primarily, the US was interested in agriculture including the vast crops of fruit that many of ...
He recalls, “Sepon was the one place in Laos that we did not want to fly into. The village was at a crossroads of three highways leading in from Vietnam: the Mu Gia Pass, the Ban Karai Pass, and the Barthelme Pass. The highways then headed south to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It ...