August Spies

The lawyer could now only hope that his words would serve as a warning to Hatfield’s foes and thus as a deterrent to keep his worst fears from coming true” (Shogan, 155). Three Baldwin-Felts agents met Hatfield at the McDowell County courthouse on August 1st, 1921 and shot Hatfield down in cold blood along with a friend who was charged in another incident. This was to spark a major retribution of miners against the coal operators. Over 3,000 people attended Hatfield’s funeral. Miners were…

There are many events in history that stand to be crucial for new American citizens to learn about. This is because of how they impacted our world, both positively and negatively, and how we can learn from our predecessor's actions and decisions. The U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one example. It is a very important topic because of the tough choices that it brought to the table for not just the U.S., but for the entire world. These bombings, how they came…

specifically, war. In every war, soldiers, medics, spies and many others are captured and are forced to live in conditions that may either be worse than what is found in a common prison or better than what a civilian may have. They may be forced to work/ add sufficient manpower to help boost weaponry production or help boost the economy in the country that captured them. A Geneva Convention related to how prisoners of war are treated was help between August 1949 and October 1950. The first…

In 1959, the Cuban Missile Crisis began with the Bay of Pigs, when a guerilla warlord named Fidel Castro overthrew the current dictator of Cuba, General Fulgencio Batista. Originally, Castro promised the people of Cuba democracy, instead he instituted a socialist dictatorship. Over 100,000 Cubans fled their home with many coming to America in order to seek shelter from Castro’s regime. In April 1961, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) had a plan to invade Cuba using exiles as a trained Army…

government uses many approaches to interrogation. A former spy stated that there were a total of 16 best used and commonly practiced techniques. There is the “direct approach” in which a suspect is simply asked the questions. Other approaches include knowledge, where the interrogator, or officer tells the suspect…

in Chicago, thousands of strikers were beaten and attacked into submission by the United States Army infantrymen and police with fixed bayonets. The bloody suppression of of the 1877 strike caused another of the Haymarket martyrs, upholsterers August Spies, to join an armed worker’s self-defense organization. After the the beating of the Workingmen’s Party, a Chicago labor newspaper that day announced: "The Dies Are Cast! The First of May, Whose Historical Significance Will Be Understood and…

During World War II, America was involved in a bombing campaign with Japan. This was because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a United States naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. The bombing of Pearl Harbor took place on December 7th, 1941. This destroyed 20 American naval vessels, 8 battleships, killed more than 2,500 people, and wounded many others. The United States wanted to avenge Japan, so they used precision bombing. Precision bombing was not successful, and “fire-bombing”…

This battle took place on August 4th and last till the 16th of August. The city of Liege surrounded itself in twelve main towers. The towers were meant to stop the invading Germans. Nevertheless the Germans ended up capturing a tower. Later on the Germans would send a Zeppelin to bomb the city. As…

was the most enduring symbol of the Red Scare. McCarthy spent five years in vain to expose communists in America. During the Cold War suspicion of disloyalty was enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. Those who repented and named names of suspected communists were allowed to return to their business. Those who had their names on the blacklist were then known as traitors, and years had passed before they could have restored their…

The Jewish community in Hungary, which included his family, was facing major hardships during the mid-1940’s. With the concentration camps and the straight up murder, compliments of our “good friend” Adolf Hitler, Paul’s family was suffering, on August 1945, Erdős received a telegram giving details of his family. His father had died of a heart attack in 1942. His mother had survived while, quite remarkably, a cousin Magda Fredro had been sent to Auschwitz but had survived. In the end, one can…