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Jewish and did not agree with their principles. The German scientists came back with information that the Nazis were working on making an atomic bomb. As a result the United States began working on building their own atomic bomb, which was finished in 1946. The Manhattan Project was the American program for research and development to build the first atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project made the first atomic bomb and in doing so it ended World War II, resulted in attacks on Japan and sent the…

Presidents of the United States have faced many dilemmas. Recently President Obama made the decision to violate a nations boarders to capture or kill this nation’s most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden. President Roosevelt’s first crisis was the Great Depression and his New Deal programs started the nation down the path to recovery. He also had to declare war on Japan because of the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. These are just a few examples of fairly easy, high profile…

What are the Nuremberg Trials? The Nuremberg Trials are a set of thirteen trials held to bring Nazi criminals and traitors to justice. The trials were held between 1945 to 1949; high-ranking officers, doctors, lawyers, and Nazi Party officials were held as the defendants. The trials at Nuremberg at a landmark for an establishment of a permanent international court; dealing with crimes against humanity, such as genocide. These trials lead to new technological development and strategies to deal…

(“Infamous Decade”). This led to the Peronist years. Peronism was a political movement that upheld populist and nationalistic policies (“Peronist”). The concept was born from the leadership of right-wing president Juan Peron, who came into office in 1946 after participating in the 1943 military coup (“Peron, Juan D.”). The movement is described as “...economic nationalism with private ownership in a totalitarian framework reminiscent of German Nazism and Italian Fascism.” (“Peron, Juan…

Bearing Company where he became the president and general manager in 1899. After 17 years, the company merged with the United Motors Corporation that soon became General Motors Corporation. Lee Iacocca was born in 1924 and began working for Ford in 1946. He was Vice President in a few operations in the corporation until he was fired in 1978. By 1981 he was hired by Chrysler in desperation that he could help them from…

demanded she give up her seat did not apply here. Upon refusal to give up her seat, Irene Morgan was arrested and charged, under a state law that imposed the segregation of passengers in public facilities and public transportations based on their race. In 1946, Irene was tried and convicted of being in violation of a Virginia segregation law on interstate buses and, was also fined $10.…

Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was accepted and began his studies during the summer of 1943. Carter exceled at academics and graduated in the top ten percent of hiss class in 1946. Before graduating, during the summers Carter would reconnect with and old childhood friend, Rosalynn Smith. After graduating, in June 1946 they got married.…

The salary cap in sports is nothing new. Its origin in basketball can be traced back to the league's $55,000 salary cap for the league's first season, 1946-47. Most players earned between $4,000 and $5,000, but there were a few exceptions. Tom King of the Detroit Falcons for example. He drew the league's highest salary, $16,500, not solely because of his playing ability, but also due to his front office duties as the team's publicity director and business manager. Philadelphia's star scorer, Joe…

later, and then he will be what he makes of himself” (Sartres, 1946). Sartre 's defends the difference between two types of existentialism. Sartre defines the two by stating “ There are, on the one hand, the Christians, amongst whom I shall name Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel, both professed Catholics; and on the other the existential atheists, amongst whom we must place Heidegger as well as the French existentialists and myself” (Sartre, 1946). The commonality with the mentioned philosopher is…

Chris Burden(April 11, 1946-May 10, 2015) an American artist working on performance, sculpture and installation art. He created “Urban Light” a sculptural work consisting of 202 antique lights. This display is outside of LACMA. The antique lights are solar powered. Metropolis II, 2011. Chris Burden, United States, 1946-2015. DC motors, electronic controls and sensors, custom die-cast cars, HO-scale train sets, neodymium magnets, steel, aluminum, copper sheets, brass, plastics, assorted wood…