.... in Congress he managed to get several things done. Such as a public housing bill, an expansion of social security coverage, and increased minimum wages. The Republican party was not in favor of the majority of this legislation. Thus when Eisenhower was elected they immediately made plans for cutbacks in the spending on these programs. Unfortunately for them the newly elected president was not opposed to the programs Truman had began and improved upon. Over the course of his administration Eisenhower often did not hold the same opinions as some of the members of his party. As the Chief Economic advisor to the President o .....

.... had begun to dissolve, were ill-equipped to repel them. It is even possible that some were invited by a Briton king to help fight the Picts in Scotland. Whatever motivated them and however they came, the various groups that settled over the course of the next few decades were not a single, homogenous unit, although most--perhaps even all--spoke a similar language. In his history, the Venerable Bede tells us of Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from Jutland), but these were by no means the only tribes who descended on Britain. There is scant evidence available concerning the Anglo-Saxon invasion or life in England during this unsettled time. Variou .....

.... held on September of 1814. Much of the organizing in the Congress of Vienna was not difficult. The Kingdom of Netherlands was established, adding Belgium and Genoa. Prussia received land along the Rhine river(a protection against a future French threat). Austria was given much of Northern Italy. The only conflict came when the control of Eastern Europe came to the table. Alexander I of Russia was firm in that he wanted all of Poland under his rule, Austria was not willing to give up it's share of Poland either, and Prussia was interested in the land of Saxony. This conflict came to it's height and there was even the fear that a new .....

.... Ellen Ann, were the third son and second daughter, respectively, of newspaper editor Joseph Whilden and his wife, Elizabeth Gilbert Whilden. The births of two more sons, Richard Furman in 1826 and William Gilbert in 1828, would complete the family, making seven children in all. Young Charles' roots ran deep into the soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683, today the oldest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. L .....

.... of the aristocracy as in France’s revolution. Given, there were the occasional mob torching of a wealthy tory’s home, but on the whole, it was very little like any other revolution in previous history. In this way, the American Revolution was unique unto itself. It was utterly different than the conventional revolution. It could almost be called an intellectual uprising. The fact that “The true revolution lies in the hearts and minds of all Americans.” (John Adams) is the key to understanding why the American Revolution may not necessarily seem to be a revolution in terms of guns and death, but in terms of enlighte .....

.... This was an examination system that had been restored in Sui and T'ang and was further elaborated and regularized. Selection examinations were help every three years at the district, provincial, and metropolitan levels. Only 200 out of thousands of applicants were granted the jinshi degree. This was the highest degree and appointed on government posts. From this time on, civil servants became China's most envied elite, replacing the hereditary nobles and landlords. The Song dynasty only extended over to the parts of earlier Chinese empires. The Khitans controlled the northeastern territories and the His Hsia controlled the northwes .....

.... church and state, opposition to the church was intolerable. The Inquisition caused Spain to become intellectually backward, and economically and industrially damaged. The powerful influence of the Inquisition forbade social influences, such as books from other parts of Europe, to enter Spain. Consequently, the universities remained stagnant, unable to produce graduates understanding the world around them. from the lack of information on the other civilizations in the rest of Europe. As a result of this, they came into the 20th century intellectually inferior and bankrupt. With the banished, tortured, and persecuted heretics in mind, it .....

.... imporatant part to the Nazi war effort. " The allies were particularly interested in the nearby camp called III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at//HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and S .....

.... roles in Canada's economy. While Canada's men were fighting, women picked where they left off in the wor kforce. They were key in the war effort, as well as keeping Canada's economy running. Resource industries in Canada also expanded and Canada's marketplace began to grow. During the war, demands for Canadian goods went up in Europe and in Canada. Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada to skyrocket, as prices on most products nearly doubled. The workers wages went up as well, but they didn't keep up with the inflationary prices. Workers therefore had to do with less. During this time the government expenditur .....

.... itself. Other believed that Europe's wars were no affairs of the U.S. As the war progressed, the U.S. found itself getting involved. They felt sympathy for the British after what happened at Dunkirk. They started helping G.B. with weapons and food. 50 old American naval destroyers were sent to Britain. Now it was clear the U.S. were on the Allies side but they still weren't physically involved in the big war. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Their aim was to strike such a severe blow that the U.S. would not rival the Japanese in the Pacific(boy were .....