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Xavier W

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | Office of the United States Trade Represe... - 0 views

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  • On January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico (NAFTA) entered into force.
  • All remaining duties and quantitative restrictions were eliminated, as scheduled, on January 1, 2008.
  • U.S. goods and services trade with NAFTA totaled $1.6 trillion in 2009
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  • NAFTA created the world's largest free trade area, which now links 450 million people producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services.
  • The United States has $918 billion in total (two ways) goods trade with NAFTA countries (Canada and Mexico) during 2010.  Goods exports totaled $412 billion; Goods imports totaled $506 billion.  The U.S. goods trade deficit with NAFTA was $95 billion in 2010.
  • The U.S. services trade surplus with NAFTA was $28.3 billion in 2009.
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    Nafta 
Paul F

Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending - History.com This Day in History - 12/8/1969 - 1 views

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  • Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed "Vietnamization."
  • Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States
  • In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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  • In 1972, the North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese forces reeled under the attack, but eventually prevailed with the help of U.S. airpower. After extensive negotiations and the bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973. Under the provisions of the Accords, U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists.
Gracie M

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  • 11 June 1963 speech broadcast live on national television and radio, President John F. Kennedy unveiled plans to pursue a comprehensive civil rights bill in Congress, stating, ‘‘this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free’’
  • King congratulated Kennedy on his speech, calling it ‘‘one of the most eloquent, profound and unequivocal pleas for justice and the freedom of all men ever made by any president’’ (King, 12 June 1963).
  • The bill passed the House of Representatives in mid-February 1964
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  • When the bill finally passed the Senate, King hailed it as one that would ‘‘bring practical relief to the Negro in the South, and will give the Negro in the North a psychological boost that he sorely needs’’ (King, 19 June 1964).
  • On 2 July 1964, Johnson signed the new Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law with King and other civil rights leaders present.
  • created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to address race and sex discrimination in employment and a Community Relations Service to help local communities solve racial disputes; authorized federal intervention to ensure the desegregation of schools, parks, swimming pools, and other public facilities; and restricted the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration.
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States
Brielle F

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  • The use of machinery increased productivity, while decreasing the demand for manual laborers.
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      Useful information about the advancement of technology. I would use another website to get more information about these main topics
  • Science, medicine and health advanced remarkably during the roaring twenties.
  • An interest developed in nutrition, caloric consumption and physical vitality
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  • The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time.
  • The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Under any moniker, the era embodied the beginning of modern America
  • Early in the 1920s the U.S. raised tariffs on imported goods, and free immigration came to an end.
  • Amendment 18 to the Constitution (1919) had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor
  • "Flapper"
  • The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors
  • A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
  • At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy
  • In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born.
  • Technology
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  • Henry Ford
  • The radio found its way into virtually every home in America
  • The year 1922 introduced the first movie made with sound
  • Charles A. Lindbergh`s pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 did much to stimulate the young aviation industry.
  • Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances liberated women from much household drudgery
  • New technology in the roaring twenties introduced a number of impacts on the American farm:
  • For the first time in the United States, more people were living in cities than on farms.
Nick B

On This Day: Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki - 0 views

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    On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
Nick B

Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact - Cold War - HISTORY.com - 0 views

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  • In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO
  • The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
  • Conflict between the Western nations (including the United States, Great Britain, France and other countries) and the Communist Eastern bloc (led by the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or USSR) began almost as soon as the guns fell silent at the end of World War II (1939-45)
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  • U.S. and its Western allies sought ways to prevent further expansion of Communist influence on the European continent.
  • NATO: The Western Nations Join Forces
  • Warsaw Pact: The Communist Alliance
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    this website talks about the origins and formation of Nato
Nick B

On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima - 0 views

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  • On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941. By 1945,
  • Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb as soon after Aug.
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  • The 8,900-pound bomb, called “Little Boy,” was to be carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets,
  • At 8:15 a.m. local time, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city.
  • It has been difficult to determine a definitive death toll. Between 70,000 and 80,000 of the more than 340,000 people in the city are believed to have been killed by the initial blast, and many more died in the following weeks and years from injuries and radiation. The official Japanese death toll, calculated a year after the explosion, is 118,661. Other estimates put the number of deaths at more than 140,000, while thousands of other victims have suffered from radiation sickness, cancer and other long-term effects.
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    this website gives the name of the Bomb, the plane, and the pilot who flew the plane. Also it give you the death toll of the explosion.
Nick B

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  • Einstein's 1939 letter helped initiate the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb, but work proceeded slowly at first. Two other findings in 1940 and 1941 demonstrated conclusively that the bomb was feasible and made building the bomb a top priority for the United States: the determination of the "critical mass" of uranium needed and the confirmation that plutonium could undergo fission and be used in a bomb. In December 1941, the government launched the Manhattan Project, the scientific and military undertaking to develop the bomb.
  • Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.
  • July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on the project were forbidden from consulting with Einstein, because the left-leaning political activist was deemed a potential security risk.
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  • August 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
  • On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, three days after bombing Hiroshima. By the end of 1945, an estimated 200,000 people had died in the two cities.
  • His famous equation E=mc2 explains the energy released in an atomic bomb but doesn't explain how to build one.
  • Nick B on 12 Mar 14
     
    This website talks about the product of the Manhattan project.  
Gracie M

First human heart transplant - History.com This Day in History - 12/3/1967 - 0 views

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  • On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s.
  • 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
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    First heart transplant in South Africa preformed by an American, Surgeon Christian Barnard. 
Gracie M

East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall - History.com This Day in History -... - 0 views

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  • the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
  • wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
  • Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, thousands of people from East Berlin crossed over into West Berlin to reunite with families and escape communist repression
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  • the government of East Germany, on the night of August 12, 1961, began to seal off all points of entrance into West Berlin from East Berlin by stringing barbed wire and posting sentries.
  • President John F. Kennedy believed that "A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war."
  • sealing off the two sections of Berlin.
  • Commanders of U.S. troops in West Berlin even began to make plans to bulldoze the wall,
  • concrete block wall began, complete with sentry towers and minefields around it.
  • attempt to reassure the West Germans that the United States was not abandoning them, Kennedy traveled to the Berlin Wall in June 1963, and famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!").
  • Since the word "Berliner" was commonly referred to as a jelly doughnut throughout most of Germany, Kennedy's improper use of German grammar was also translated as "I am a jelly doughnut."
  • meaning that he stood together with West Berlin in its rivalry with communist East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic was understood by the German people.
  • the Berlin Wall became a physical symbol of the Cold War.
  • During the lifetime of the wall, nearly 80 people were killed trying to escape from East to West Berlin.
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    Building of the Berlin Wall
Gracie M

First Man on the Moon - The History of How Neil Armstrong Became the First Man on the Moon - 0 views

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  • 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong
  • On July 19, at 1:28 p.m. EDT, Apollo 11 entered the moon's orbit.
  • July 20, 1969
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  • President John F. Kennedy gave inspiration and hope to the American people in his speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 in which he stated, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
  • At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Saturn V rocket launched Apollo 11 into the sky from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • three-day journey to the moon, called the translunar coast.
  • placed the United States ahead of the Soviets in the Space Race and gave people around the world the hope of future space exploration.
  • At 4:18 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, the landing module landed on the moon's surface in the Sea of Tranquility with only seconds of fuel left.
  • Armstrong reported to the command center in Houston, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Houston responded, "Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again."
  • six-and-a-half hours resting and then preparing themselves for their moon walk.
  • Neil Armstrong was the first person out of the lunar module.
  • set foot on the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT.
  • "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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    First moon landing. Neil Armstrong. 
Gracie M

John F. Kennedy assassinated - History.com This Day in History - 11/22/1963 - 0 views

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  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
  • As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. He was 46.
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    John F. Kennedy assassination. President Johnson sworn into office. Lee Harvey Oswald charged with the murder.  
Nick B

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  • Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote.
  • The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
  • Most important, almost 2,500 men were killed and another 1,000 were wounded.
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  • Pearl Harbor Awakens the “Sleeping Giant”
  • More than two years after the start of the conflict, the United States had entered World War II.
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    This website Shows what happens at pearl harbor and the effects. It also shows the response of the U.S
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    This website Shows what happens at pearl harbor and the effects. It also shows the response of the U.S
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