August Spies

The Gulf of Tonkin incident happened on August 2, 1964, when according to Eric Foner of Give Me Liberty, “North Vietnamese vessels encountered an American ship on a spy mission off its coast… North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on the American vessel” (p.996). After the incident occurred Johnson went on TV and said, “Hostile actions against US ships in…

Throughout the history of humanity, there were many wars that rewrote the history books. Wars were fought for many reasons: conflicts, revolution, and coups. Usually, people start a war because of only one reason: to create a better life for themselves. A government wants more lands for their country, more people to work for them, and independence for their themselves. However, not every war is a good war. There are always terrible costs after the war. The Vietnam war was an awful war because…

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

missiles” to Turkey to try and intimidate the Soviets (GWU, n.d., p.1). At this time, relations between the United States and Cuba started to get rocky as well. Fidel’s Castro’s Communist belief put him and the American’s hot list. So much so that in August of 1960, the US underwent their first assassination attempt on Castro with a poisoned box of cigars (GWU, n.d., p. 2). This, along with several trade embargos placed on Cuba, made Castro grow paranoid towards the United States. He believed…

The revolutionary war ran deep in the structure of the British empire thus transforming the British state itself. The seven-year war also known as the French and Indian war, this war created unprecedented problems of finance and control for Britain. In the war's early years, the colonies traded with the enemy and refused to pay for British military operations. The War officially came to an end on February 10, 1763, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. France of properly given in all of its…

In August 2008, in Brussels addressed the issue of the introduction of economic, trade and financial and banking sanctions against Russia in connection with the events in South Ossetia. … We may recall the recent "spy scandal ", when Moscow refused to hand over Edward Snowden to Washington. It was the time when United States have intensified calls for sanctions…

On August 23, 1954 the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story about the Black Knight Satellite that angered the Pentagon who were trying to keep the information secret. NASA has released official images which apparently show…

Victor, and the Creature. The novel is about a skilled scientist, who in his search for greatness creates an abomination to nature and God. A lot of the aspects included in the novel are similar to those in Mary Shelley’s life. Mary Shelley was born august 30 in London England (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Biography). Sadly she never got the chance know her mother because she died shortly after giving birth (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Biography).…

the salvation of the Auca Indi-ans, Nate Saint’s story displays God’s sovereign control. Even though he knew he might not live to see the next sunrise, Nate knew God was calling him to minister to the ferocious Aucas. (154) Nate Saint was born on August 30, 1923, grew up in Philadelphia P.A. and his parent’s names were Lawrence and Katherine Saint. He and his siblings were curious children and their mother felt it would benefit them to try new things. She even let them sleep on the roof and had…

execution of King Louis XVI in the fall of 1792, was under threat from foreign invasion and internal rebellion. In July 1792, the National Assembly had declared “la patrie en danger”, which translated to English is, the fatherland is in danger, and in August 1793 it decreed a leve´e en masse , which was an order given to mobilizing the whole French nation to defend the country.…