... was trying to further his own political career. It was uncertain whether he would maintain his seat in Congress in the 1950 mid-term elections, so he needed a strong issue to campaign on. He had witnessed Richard Nixon become a household name in the United States, when he successfully prosecuted Algar Hiss, who was accused of passing government papers to the Soviets. McCarthy desired a national reputation and the Republican party used McCarthy to play on the fears that already existed in society about a communist threat to the United States to damage Truman's administration. It is not enough to simply blame the Republicans for the "Red scares". There was not ...

... Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1863.html The Battles of Chattanooga, in the U.S. Civil War, were a series of engagements fought around Chattanooga, Tenn., in September and November 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Braxton Bragg, and the Union forces were first under William S. Rosecrans, then George H. Thomas, and finally Ulysses S. Grant. Rosecrans maneuvered Bragg from Chattanooga in early September, but his Army of the Cumberland was met by reinforced Confederate forces and defeated in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19-20. Bragg threw an incomplete siege around Chattanooga and detached troops to attack Knoxville. Gran ...

... that he could get a free college education at United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The prerequisite for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911. The Coming of a Commander in Chief Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would later lead many military forces though the course of both world wars, winning decisive victories and helping push America forward even before his own presidency. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Eisenhower was promoted in the army ...

... behind U.S. involvement. As the human and material costs of the war increased, the American public questioned the objectives of the war. The nation became divided into two opposed groups: the “hawks,” who believed that the war must be won to prevent the spread of communism, and the “doves,” who believed that America should withdraw from the war to prevent further loss. Scholars discredited the president’s justifications for escalation. The war, they charged, was a civil war between the North and South Vietnamese, and not an effort by Soviet and Chinese communists to expand. Antiwar protests erupted across the nation, concentrated in college campuses. In th ...

... Shoshone and Mandans. Lewis and his crew spent a winter with the Mandans and learned to survive in the cold weather by learning to make moccasins, and also to use nature to keep themselves alive and healthy. The Shoshone let the crew rest in their village for some time and also gave them their first taste of salmon. Yet over the course of the expedition, Lewis and Clark developed a ritual that they used when meeting a tribe for the first time. The captains would explain to the tribal leaders that the their land now belonged to the United States, and that a man far in the east - President Thomas Jefferson - was their new "great father." They would also give the ...

... this was a dream of a truly equal America; for John F. Kennedy, it was a dream of a young vigorous nation that would put a man on the moon; and for the hippie movement, it was one of love, peace, and freedom. (Constable, 34) The 1960s was a tumultuous decade of social and political upheaval. We are still confronting many social issues that were addressed in the 1960s today. In spite of the turmoil, there were some positive results, such as the civil rights revolution. However, many outcomes were negative: student antiwar protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in a lack of respect for authority and the law. ...

... their parents based their lives on. Many parents didn't understand their children or know how to deal with them. My father had a friend named Leif who was a hard core war protestor and hippie. His parents were very important people in their town and very conventional. His parents viewed him as an embarrassment and sent him to a psychiatrist. his parents didn't try to understand him, they just gave up. They were more concerned what other people thought than what he thought. Many parents could not understand their kids because their lives were so different. It was more than just a gender gap. The generation of changed the way our contry worked. They ch ...

... and told them that action needed to be taken. In response, the people cheered and planned their attack. Urban II brought together all of the bishops and urged them to talk to their friends and fellow villagers and to encourage them to participate in the crusades. Small groups started to form and each group would be self- directing. All the groups planned their own ways to the Constantinople, where they would meet and regroup. They would attack the Turkish forces in Constantinople and hope to regain control of the city. The large Christian armies talked to Alexius I Comnenus, the Byzantium emperor, and agreed to return any of his old land that was recaptured. Th ...

... Woodrow Wilson who stated, "It is like writing history with lightning." With the President's support The Birth of a Nation opened to audiences around the country in March of 1915 and ran for 47 straight weeks including 280 sold out shows in New York. D.W. Griffith's film spawned a new generation of the KKK. William Simmons was the first to seize upon the white supremacist feeling that swept the nation. On Thanksgiving night in 1915, Simmons and some of his friends climbed Stone Mountain in Atlanta, Georgia. There, they stood before, "…a burning wooden cross and before a hastily constructed rock altar upon which lay an American flag, an opened Bible, ...

... up an army of 1,400,000. Great Britain had only all-volunteers army in Europe, had only 120,000 at the start of the war.?????dont under stand sentence???? By 1917 the British Army had increased tenfold the French land forces had been enlarged to 2,600,000 and in 1918 the American Army in France numbered 1,200,000. It was the addition of troops from the United States that made it possible to defeat German forces numbering about 2.5 million. Army organization for all the belligerents remained the same as it had been throughout the 19th century. They all had similar infantry and cavalry divisions, artillery brigades, engineering companies, supply units, and med ...