Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Act gave the President of the United States broad powers to control the disbursement and administration of such materials as well as the terms and conditions of repayment to the United States. The wording of the Act allowed President Franklin D. Roosevelt the ability to aid nations engaged in hostilities with the Axis powers, most notably Germany. Initially, the aid would be funneled primarily to Great Britain but aid was eventually sent to many other nations as well. The Lend-Lease Act was…

During the time of the Great Depression America was facing a plethora of problems. The economy was at the point of collapse and a huge portion of the money was among a very small number of very wealthy individuals. People had resorted to living in villages called Hoovervilles where the houses were made up of whatever could be salvaged. Before the Great Depression began people took out loans carelessly without money to back it up; people were paid too little and goods cost too much. More goods…

President John F. Kennedy and Benjamin Franklin were two men who independently fought for a purpose that brought about change where they resided. President Kennedy fought in a life-risking war and saved his country from mass destruction which could have began another world war. Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of this Union who wanted people to be more efficient and resourceful to avoid being wasteful. Together, President John F. Kennedy and Benjamin Franklin took advantage of the…

It is not always actions that speak louder than words. As a young man transitioning into adulthood, one may be greatly influenced by society in their choices and actions. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is a young man learning to express his own beliefs, but lacks the confidence in himself to do so. Throughout interactions with others it is made overt that though one may have their beliefs and values, without the confidence to express them, one may be left feeling…

Pearl Harbor is the naval base in the U.S. territory of Hawaii, Japan surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941 before the attack, no one knew this would happened overnight, America was forced to the World War II by Japanese, this was a rough day to America. During the attack, nearly two thousands and five hundred Americans dead and one thousands and two hundred wounded. The attacked change the United States. Before the attack happened, none of the high-ranking officials knew.…

No one knows why incidents happen in life; they just occur. Adversity is a hurdle everyone goes through, whether it is a large hurdle or a small one. Regardless of the person, adversity is an inevitable struggle to face and can be dealt with in more ways than one. Three people presented with adversity who found ways to surmount the difficulty, each in different ways, are Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Yoshiko Uchida, and Aimee Mullins, a record setting athlete, actress, and model that lost her legs…

What makes something good? Can any event that involves the mass death of millions of people be considered good? World War II saw the annihilation of millions of Jews, Soviets, and Western Europeans. Numerous countries crumbled under the boots and tank tracks of invading armies as the war touched every inhabited continent and nearly every country on earth. The United States, along with the Soviet Union and Great Britain, defeated a tyrannical dictator and a destructive emperor bent on taking over…

Jerome David Salinger was born in 1919, in Manhattan, New York (Telgen 117). Similar to Salinger’s fictional character in his most famous novel The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger was never a studious student and flunked out of the prestigious McBurney School. Enraged by his lack of school interest, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania. Salinger became interested in a literary career after attending a short story course at Columbia University (117).…

The 1920s flourished with many new inventions, everyone was rushing to buy one for themselves. Except of course, the people who were too poor to afford one, which was “40 percent of the population” (Foner). The “Roaring Twenties” was only truly roaring for the rich, white, upper class. Not only was the 1920s horrible for anyone who wasn’t white, it’s instability had the Domino Effect. People were buying on credit, and were splurging on stocks. This went smoothly until the stock market crashed,…

America entered World War II, their primary goal - to defeat Japan; however, as America fought against the Japanese it became clear that Japanese Americans were affected. President Roosevelt approved several orders and committees that specifically targeted Japanese Americans on the West Coast, while war propaganda was created to instill fear and hatred of the Japanese in the American people. World War II not only exacerbated the racial tension within the American people, but also excused the…