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- 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General of the United Nations ... A very significant role that Lie played as Secretary General was through ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- | title=United States Secretary of War | term_start=August 1, 1831 ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=John Henry Eaton ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... easy" terms for reuniting the United States following the end ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium ... The war had become a stalemate and the treaty returned the two countries ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- | title=United States Secretary of War | term_start=September 12, 1789 ... assumed the same duties as the United States Secretary of War in Washington ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 January 2023
- | order=45th United States Secretary of War | title=54th United States Secretary of War | order2=46th ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations ... not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the genocide ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- U.S. political figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States ... It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- | title2=United States Secretary of War | term_start2=January 20, 1862 ... title= United States Secretary of War | years= January 20, 1862 – ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- journalist in the country during much of his life. He had a brilliant ... Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War and his aggressive political ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Austria. His family emigrated to the United States when he was twelve ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States (1841). He ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... ruler Joseph Stalin to conclude that the United States would not intervene ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States ... mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=John Armstrong, Jr. ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... which meant he opposed the expansion of slavery and was pro-free soil ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- | order3=10th United States Secretary of War | term_start3=October 8, 1817 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United Nations ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- League contributed significantly to the work of the League of Nations. During ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving ... for the dramatic geographical expansion of the United States. The large ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... | date of birth=October 4, 1822 | place of birth=Delaware, Ohio ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for international educational ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... organizer in his 20s, helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first ... his party's platform and vetoed several of their proposals. As a result ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister ... As a result of his charisma and promise, Canning early on drew to ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:08, 13 December 2023
- diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...17 KB (2,542 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... | key_people = Mary Ellen McNish, General Secretary ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served ... Before entering national politics, Arthur had been Collector of Customs ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. ... City as a youth and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for ... in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the ... UN had the courage to do what the old League of Nations had failed to do, to ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... helped to bolster support for the entrance of blacks into the military. They ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving ... Pierce served in the House of Representatives and Senate as a Democrat ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... presidential campaign, held in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting System ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States ... The noted states rights advocate John C. Calhoun was born just outside ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate States of America ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States ... A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- best known as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ... The Sand Creek Massacre was one of the most horrific atrocities committed ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- 1955) was an American newspaper baron, owner of the Chicago Tribune, and popularly ... A leading opponent of United States entry into World War II and of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... Japan also received the southern half of the island of Sakhalin from Russia. ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example ... Fossils of Homo erectus also have been found in Africa, Indonesia ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... the London County Council and in the House of Commons. Initially educated ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served ... appointed on a mission to Korea by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a ... Garfield is the only person in United States history to be a Representative ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat serving at various ... He received the Medal of Honor, although very late in his career. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 ... and to subdue it and that the pursuit of knowledge—in the arts as ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- England. He left school at the age of 16 to become a free-lance journalist ... they would publish answers on every question of general interest sent in by ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... French) and graduated after only three years of study. While at Harvard, Lippmann ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- He is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. Whitney also ... the South prosperity, but the unwillingness of planters to pay for its use ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... |align="left"|United States Secretary of War||align="left ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- The Eritrean War of Independence (September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991 ... energy and resources they used in a 30 year war on education and development ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
