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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.
  • NAFTA created the world's largest free trade area, which now links 450 million people producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services.
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  • U.S. goods and services trade with NAFTA totaled $1.6 trillion in 2009
  • 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 
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
  • vital part
  • 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.
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.
  • Gracie M on 26 Feb 14
     
    First heart transplant in South Africa preformed by an American, Surgeon Christian Barnard. 
Ivy A

1930s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1930s - 2 views

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  • ck History Month Facts American History Trip Timeline 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 197
  • Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
  • Scientists Split the Atom
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  • The Dust Bowl
  • World War II Begins
  • Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
  • 1930s
Brielle F

Robert Goddard: American Father of Rocketry | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Reference: Robert Goddard: American Father of Rocketry
  • Liquid-fueled rockets
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    Robert Goddard biography. 
Gracie M

Super Bowl History - Super Bowl I - 0 views

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  • Green Bay Packers 35 Kansas City Chiefs 10
  • Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (13-2) against Hank Stram's Chiefs (12-2-1) and was played before 61,946 fans in Los Angeles' 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum. The television audience for this game is estimated to have been approximately 60 million viewers.
  • Max McGee
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  • McGee was later quoted as saying, "I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning and I could barely stand up for the kickoff. On the bench Paul (Hornung) kept needling me, 'What would you do if you had to play?' And I said, 'No way, there's no way I could make it.'" As fate would have it, Dowler did get hurt early in the game and McGee was suddenly thrust into a game he had no business being in.
  • he caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to cap off an 80-yard drive that gave the Packers an early lead. On the day, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns as the Packers went on to win the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
  • Gracie M on 26 Feb 14
     
    First American Super Bowl
Brielle F

Dr. Robert H. Goddard, American Rocketry Pioneer | NASA - 0 views

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  • Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was established on May 1, 1959.
  • By 1926, Goddard had constructed and successfully tested the first rocket using liquid fuel
  • Brielle F on 12 Mar 14
     
    First liquid fuel rocket
Nick B

Pearl Harbor - World War II - HISTORY.com - 0 views

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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.
  • Nick B on 19 Mar 14
     
    This website Shows what happens at pearl harbor and the effects. It also shows the response of the U.S
  • Nick B on 19 Mar 14
     
    This website Shows what happens at pearl harbor and the effects. It also shows the response of the U.S
Nick B

FDR dies - History.com This Day in History - 4/12/1945 - 0 views

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  • On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
  • it was about 1 p.m. that the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the back of my head and collapsed unconscious. One of the women summoned a doctor, who immediately recognized the symptoms of a massive cerebral hemorrhage and gave the president a shot of adrenaline into the heart in a vain attempt to revive him.
  • Eleanor delivered her speech that afternoon and was listening to a piano performance when she was summoned back to the White House. In her memoirs, she recalled that ride to the White House as one of dread, as she knew in her heart that her husband had died.
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  • By 3:30 p.m., though, doctors in Warm Springs had pronounced the president dead.
  • Eleanor then phoned their four sons, who were all on active military duty. At 5:30 pm, she greeted Vice President Harry Truman, who had not yet been told the news. A calm and quiet Eleanor said, "Harry, the president is dead." He asked if there was anything he could do for her, to which she replied, "Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now."
  • Indeed, Truman had rather large shoes to fill. FDR had presided over the Great Depression and most of World War II, leaving an indelible stamp on American politics for several decades.
  • Thousands of Americans lined the tracks to bid Roosevelt farewell while a slow train carried his coffin from Warm Springs to Washington, D.C. After a solemn state funeral, he was buried at his family's home in Hyde Park, New York.
  • Nick B on 19 Mar 14
     
    This website tells you about the death of FDR and the effect it had on his family friends and the vice president.
Ivy A

Timeline . Riding the Rails . American Experience . WGBH | PBS - 2 views

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    Timeline of the Great Depression
Nick B

On This Day: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor - 0 views

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  • “avoid a charge of ‘attack without warning,’
  • U.S. forces had not received warning by the time the first wave of Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor soon before 8 a.m. A second wave followed an hour later.
  • The American Response
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress formally declared war on the Japanese Empire just hours later.
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    this website gives an example of the reactions of the leaders of both nations involved in the attack and what happened.
Xavier W

World Trade Center bombed - History.com This Day in History - 2/26/1993 - 0 views

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  • At 12:18 p.m., a terrorist bomb explodes in a parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a crater 60 feet wide and causing the collapse of several steel-reinforced concrete floors in the vicinity of the blast. Although the terrorist bomb failed to critically damage the main structure of the skyscrapers, six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. The World Trade Center itself suffered more than $500 million in damage. After the attack, authorities evacuated 50,000 people from the buildings, hundreds of whom were suffering from smoke inhalation. The evacuation lasted the whole afternoon.
  • within days several radical Islamic fundamentalists were arrested. In March 1994, Mohammed Salameh, Ahmad Ajaj, Nidal Ayyad, and Mahmoud Abouhalima were convicted by a federal jury for their role in the bombing, and each was sentenced to life in prison.
  • The mastermind of the attack--Ramzi Ahmed Yousef--remained at large until February 1995, when he was arrested in Pakistan. He had previously been in the Philippines, and in a computer he left there were found terrorist plans that included a plot to kill Pope John Paul II and a plan to bomb 15 American airliners in 48 hours.
  • Xavier W on 26 Feb 14
     
    World Trade Center bombing in 1993
Ivy A

Letter from Albert Einstein to FDR, 8/2/39 . Truman . WGBH American Experience | PBS - 1 views

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    Einstein Writes a Letter to FDR About Building an Atomic Bomb
Nick B

Happy Birthday, Chuck Yeager, American Pioneer of Flight - 0 views

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  • Born on Feb. 13, 1923, and raised in the hills of West Virginia near the town of Myra, Charles “Chuck” Yeager entered military service as soon as he could, joining 17 classmates who enlisted after high school graduation to fight in World War II.
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier
  • Assigned to a host of test flights, Yeager was soon selected as pilot during the Air Force’s attempt to break the sound barrier; he would fly a super-sonic plane called the X-1, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis in honor of his wife. Rocket-like and so tight and compact that it had to be dropped from a cargo plane to conserve fuel, the X-1 was the United States’s chance to top Mach 1.
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  • Pushing the plane to Mach 1.05, Yeager witnessed the sky turn a “deep purple and all at once the stars and the moon came out—the sun shone at the same time. … He was simply looking out into space,” according to Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff,” chronicling America’s race for space exploration.
  • Recognized within the Air Force for his achievements, it was not until Tom Wolfe’s book was published in 1979, and the movie version was released in 1983, that Yeager’s name became internationally known.
  • Nick B on 19 Mar 14
     
    This website talks about Chuck Yeager's history and his famous accomplishments, like breaking the sound barrier. 
Brielle F

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  • The League of Nations was an international organization that existed between 1920 and 1946
  • American President Woodrow Wilson was especially instrumental in formulating and advocating the idea of a "League of Nations"
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    League of nations information/founding
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. 
Brielle F

Our Documents - 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920) - 0 views

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  • The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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    Overview on the creation of the 19th amendment.
Brielle F

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women\'s Right to Vote - 0 views

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  • Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Brielle F

Inherit/1925 - 0 views

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  • As America emerged from World War I, a collective nostalgia swept the country for the relative simplicity and "normalcy" of prewar society . In rural areas, particularly in the South and Midwest, Americans turned to their faith for comfort and stability, and fundamentalist religion soared in popularity. Fundamentalists, who believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible, locked into Darwin and the theory of evolution as "the most present threat to the truth they were sure they alone possessed" (1). With evolution as the enemy, they set out to eradicate it from their society, beginning with the education system.
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    Scopes "monkey trial"
Nick B

NATO History - 0 views

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  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union
  • Alliance’s creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes:
  • deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration.
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  • With this in mind, several Western European democracies came together to implement various projects for greater military cooperation and collective defence, including the creation of the Western Union in 1948, later to become the Western European Union in 1954.
  • Accordingly, after much discussion and debate, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed on 4 April, 1949. I
  • Nick B on 12 Mar 14
     
    This website give more about the history of NATO
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