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Act Of 1964 Amount Of Money
1,588 words... industry was having large difficulties that the federal aid started to be put into the industry. The Housing Act of 1961 was to help the commuter rail services that were having financial difficulties. As always with the government, the ideas were not to make things right before they go bad, but to try and fix things once they have gone bad. That would be the basis on federal aid throughout the decades leading up until present time. President Kennedy addressed the need for public transportati...
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Battle Of Britain Lend Lease
2,785 words... eral Maxime Weygand, had nothing with which to screen it or Paris on the north and west. On June 17, Marshal Henri Philippe P'email, a World War I hero who had become premier the day before, asked for an armistice. The armistice was signed on June 25 on terms that gave Germany control of northern France and the Atlantic coast. P'email then set up a capital at Vichy in the unoccupied southeast. The Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, Hitler dominated Europe from the North Cape to the Pyr...
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Arab Israeli Conflict American Foreign Policy
2,669 wordsAmerican Foreign Policy It is not a secret that today America is the most influential country around the globe. Americas rise to world power is a consequence of the nations geographical position, natural resources, dynamic energy and successful foreign policy. (Carpenter, 74) For relatively short period, America became so strong that today it is a single superpower in the world. In 1938, the United States possessed the most productive economy in the world with one of the largest navies. However,...
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Arab Israeli Conflict Make More Money
1,847 wordsDependence on Foreign Oil and Its Effects on American Foreign Policy Back before the 70 s oil from the Middle East was very cheep, and in North America, it was about $ 4 a barrel. But then, the leaders of the Middle East discovered that everyone needed their oil, so they formed OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). Practically overnight, they jacked up the prices of oil by limiting the supply. This was the first oil crisis. It lasted for a while, but then they got greedy, and sta...
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World War Ii U S Government
3,862 wordsIn the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, the German armies marched into Poland. On September 3 the British and French surprised Hitler by declaring war on Germany, but they had no plans for rendering active assistance to the Poles. The Battle of Britain In the summer of 1940, Hitler dominated Europe from the North Cape to the Pyrenees. His one remaining active enemy? Britain, under a new prime minister, Winston Churchill? vowed to continue fighting. Whether it could was questionable. The...
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Arab Israeli Conflict American Foreign Policy
1,877 wordsRise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 Rise to Globalism, by Stephen Ambrose, is an enlightened work on the development of American foreign policy from World War II through the Reagan administration. It is an excellent one volume history, basic, but full of fact, that explains the trends in foreign policy that led America from its isolationist attitude of the first half of the nineteenth century to its position of global power and imminence today. The basic causes of the worlds ma...
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