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Deportation charges were brought up soon after the trial, but Marcello and his team of lawyers continued to fight to keep him in the country. A new enemy to the mafia was soon lurking in the shadows. Robert Kennedy had put together a team of trained personnel to rid the country of all mob bosses. Marcello was called to trial on March 25, 1959, but like his last appearance he was not forthcoming. Marcello was in the clear for now, but Kennedy was about to earn a new position and all the power…

Different from Garfinkle's point of view, history professor, Melvin Small, disputes with the author about the antiwar movement being a significant factor on the Vietnam War policies that contributed to the end of the war by several reasons. The first reason of the antiwar movement was the pressure it caused on Presidents Nixon's and Johnson's foreign policies. Professor Small explains how antiwar protests like the march on the Pentagon in October 1967 and 1969 affected the Johnson administration…

key moments in the life of the 35th president, as well as the events that led up to his death. Covering everything from Kennedy's experiences during World War II and the schemes of Harvey Lee Oswald to the Cuban Revolution and the alienation of Lyndon B. Johnson by the Kennedy brothers. The authors wanted to depict how the shocking assassination changed the course of history. “…how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the…

How accurate is it to say that the growth of the black power movement was the most important factor in the weakening of the civil rights movement? Black power is an umbrella term given to a movement for the support of rights and political power for black people in America during the 1960’s. Unlike Civil Rights, its motives weren’t necessarily complete equality between American citizens, but rather the goal and belief of black supremacy. Black Power is generally associated with figures such as…

On November 4, 2008, it was clear who the American citizens had chosen to be their next president. President Barrack Obama won the presidential election and became the president elect of the United States of America. It was a historical moment on 20th January 2009 for the citizens when Barrack Obama was sworn in as the 44th and the first black president of the super power nation. People appeared in large numbers at the West Front of the United States Capitol to witness the historic moment.…

Between the years of 1945 and 2000 a total of ten presidents served in the oval office through the 55 year period. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, and Clinton served the country during some of the most difficult years in this Nation’s history. However, the tale of ten presidents elected in a 55 year period is one that is filled with deception, war, and assassination. The question that is raised out of this time is what determined the success of…

The controversial nature of the Vietnam War is reflected in the overall design and in the creation process of the Vietnam memorial. The polarizing effects of the war left the United States divided and with no sense of closure. On one hand, one side desired a heroic and idealistic interpretation while the other side preferred to address the tragedy of the war. The legacy of the war left behind feelings of distrust, betrayal, and anger that led to contrasting memories of the war. Consequently, the…

The first time women history was celebrated, it was only for a week. In 1981 women’s history week was declared by congress as a national celebration, but the week wasn't truly celebrated until March 7, 1982. For the next five years it was celebrated as a week, but in 1987 the National Women’s History Project petitioned that the week should be turned into a month. Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 that turned the week into a month. Without all of the women that have worked and are still working…

Francis Bellamy produced The Pledge of Allegiance In the year of August 1892 and President Eisenhower, in 1954 and Congress added the phrase under God into the Pledge of Allegiance. 1954, in response to the Communist threat of the times, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," forming the 31-word pledge. However, their many people are against because they don't believe or does stand for flag and falling that protect and never came home. Which guide into a lawsuit…

“Iron-Jawed Angels” was a movie about women’s suffrage and those who helped to achieve the right to vote for women. The movie focused on Alice Paul and her friend Lucy Burns as they go through hardships and trials to get the amendment passed for women to vote. The women not only face judgement by men, but also by their fellow peers. In the movie, they showed how after the war was announced, everyone expected the women to stop picketing at the president’s door, and to focus on their duties as…