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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
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War became ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- #039;s Youngest Ambassador" in the United States and the "Goodwill ... around the world through the simple act of writing a letter to the leader ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by ... affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- freedom to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- Red Cloud (Lakota: Makhpiya Luta), (1822 – December 10, 1909) was ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...13 KB (2,097 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, where he served ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... an increase in unemployment and his policy of wage rise restraints led to ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=Elihu Root ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- and U.S. Senator. In the Senate, he was one of the leaders of a group known ... Wade gained his reputation as a strong and outspoken opponent of slavery ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861, the ... The initial reaction in the United States was enthusiastically in ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament—fathered ... The background to the Taif Agreement consists of both the Lebanese ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the sixty ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, filling an ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the ... are purely designed to protect the citizens of the Russian capital. The U ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as ... The Ten Years' War (1868-1878) was the first of three wars that ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- leader, nurse, and fundraiser, all as part of her efforts to end slavery ... her a mission. She transcended barriers of both race and gender at a time ...11 KB (1,943 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... Union rejects aggression as a way for states to resolve disputes. With ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Following four centuries of colonization of the Western Hemisphere ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... second recipient that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- American civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association ... near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of a small farm ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during ... face court-martial upon his return to the United States, Doolittle was awarded ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- The Allegheny River is located in the Northeastern United States and ... of Lake Erie in southwestern New York. The river is approximately ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American ... At the time, the Navy was not as well developed as the United States ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... It faced another crisis leading up to World War II as the newly formed Soviet ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- It was initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Patriots' Day (so punctuated in several U.S. states, but Patriot ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...16 KB (2,205 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I. His health suffered in ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... Hall, leading to the resignation of Eleanor Roosevelt from the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The National Park Service is the United States federal agency that ... It is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, which ...24 KB (3,262 words) - 14:57, 11 November 2022
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- America. They originally inhabited the areas of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky ... against the British during the conflicts of the French and Indian Wars ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 13:23, 27 January 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- that first aired in 1980. The purpose of the network is to make information ... and Reese Schonfeld. The founding purpose of the network was to make information ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
- administered and funded by the government of the United States and by endowments ... the most historic artifacts from the age of flight, including the iconic ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- analysis, protection, and dissemination of information of both strategic ... advances have ensued as a result of military intelligence operations ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- The Battle of Inchon (also Romanized as "Incheon;" ... invasion and battle during the Korean War, conceived and commanded by ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- 1934 and 1953, while he was General Secretary of the Central Committee ... Kaganovich. Although he tolerated the use of the term by associates and ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism, prohibition ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- in every pulse-beat," and he is one of the most indubitably American ... was raised in a relatively poor family of Swedish immigrants in a rural ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- for his contribution to the development of the modern theory of social ... to continue to study at the University of Michigan. Lack of money, however ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- refuge in northeastern Alaska. The refuge consists of 19300000|acre|km2 largest protected Wilderness area in the United States. ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... disputes occurred between Canada and the United States. The border was established ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established the ... Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Reverend ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917 ... to be eventful. She was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii as Hawaii ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- | office = Mayor of Chicago | order = 48th Mayor of Chicago | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1976 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... press revealed that this burglary was one of several illegal activities ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... many, he believed in progress prior to World War I but the war served to disillusion ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, ... and Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family already ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- she succeeded in bringing to the attention of the British public the appalling ... in Great Britain. She was the daughter of an Anglican rector, and sister ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- soldier, geologist and the second director of United States Geological Survey ... an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He earned ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- Japanese army's brothels during World War II. Historians and researchers ... throughout the Japanese theater during World War II lay in the desire to meet ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- was a clinical psychologist. Her main areas of research included schizophrenia ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- and politician. Having risen to the rank of brigadier-general after distinguishing ... to support a pro-Western ally in their Cold War opposition to communism. However ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was ... grew up in the multiethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- – December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League ... in huge forward leaps for the business of football. Rozelle's accomplishments ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:05, 24 November 2022
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- influenced the philosophy and public life of Britain during the late eighteenth ... in 1771, Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt and Observations ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 00:43, 11 August 2022
- spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- scandal revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan ... While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... her daughter began teaching in at the age of 16. Education was the center ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between ... is regarded as the moment when the Cold War came closest to escalating ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... |significance = Commemorates war dead Honors military veterans (U.S.) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and magnetic ... 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the son of Ann Alexander Henry and William ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 00:41, 11 August 2022
- regarded as China's most important of the twentieth century. Some ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career ... Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the younger brother of ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. She has been credited as one of the main inspirations in encouraging ...13 KB (1,796 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... supported Mussolini during the Second World War and would be tried for treason ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- and Second Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence ... Adams was the author of the Massachusetts constitution, the new nation ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the ... The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in the minor Battle ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific inventors ... ==Overview of his life== Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in Chelsea ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- meaning "island") are a chain of more than 150 mostly volcanic ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... Roosevelt was a leader in forming the United Nations, the U.S. United ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... was unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the Intolerable Acts. Their ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... He improved pensions, and waged a "war on poverty." He pursued ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... Rutledge, he was later appointed a member of the first Board of War in 1776 ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... He can be credited with helping to shape post-World War II Europe ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally ... shocked and angered to come across the story of two Portuguese students sentenced ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the ... Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... China, and his efforts to end the Vietnam War. He is also noted for his ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and ... by American unreadiness drove United States Secretary of War William Eustis ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns ... general to take the field during the Civil War, but he, more than anyone ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of ... For over 100 years this site served as a memorial to the U.S. soldiers ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
