President of the Republic of China

1. Why did Congress try to impeach President Johnson? The impeachment of President Johnson seemed to be more of a political and dispute matter as opposed to Johnson conducting a high crime or misdemeanor. Although he narrowly escaped removal from office, it was very clear from the start that his policies and plans or opposition for reconstruction were unpopular with radical republicans and congress. Before we get into the legal reasoning for his impeachment, we have to understand his conflicts…

the 38th parallel latitude line became the division in Korea, splitting the tiny, East Asian peninsula into what we know today as North Korea and South Korea (Pierpaoli, Paul Jr., 1). In 1948, the Republic of Korea was established in South Korea, while in North Korea, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea took hold. The Soviet Union occupied the Northern half of Korea, and the United States occupied the Southern half. The government 's’ contrasting aspirations for their different halves of…

fueled many to oppose the military draft, which was a felony at the time. He was then sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years in 1967. Due to the massive unpopularity and movements against the war, President Nixon vowed to end the war in Vietnam “honorably”. His plan to end the war succeeded and in 1973 the Paris Peace Accord were signed which enabled the US to pull out from the war in South Vietnam. However, this lead to the fall of South Vietnam…

There are also two- to three-year junior colleges and vocational colleges. Elementary schooling is compulsory, with an enrollment rate of 100 percent. Compulsory middle school education for three additional years was implemented in 2002. * Secondary education According to APEC website, there are two types of high schools in South Korea, general and vocational. Combining the two types of high schools together, the ratio of middle school graduates advancing to high school was 99.7 in…

First off, the official language is Portuguese which makes up almost 100 percent of the population. Brazilians have a strong national ideology that their land is a “racial democracy”. As far as the Brazilian class system goes, people with darker skin tend to be economically and socially disadvantaged. Class is determined by economic status and skin color. Women make up forty percent of the workforce but are found with lower paying jobs than males such as teaching, nursing, and jobs with clerical…

The Bureaucratic Environment deals with the system of rules and procedures that involves the business of running an organization. The rules deal with imports, local manufacturing, and taxation. Under German law imports are subject to tariffs if they are not from countries from within the European Union. This tax rate adds 19% to domestic products and must be paid to the German Customs Authority. The only good part about this tax is that the tax can be deducted as a “input tax. ” Furthermore,…

Communism in the Soviet Union was greatly feared throughout the rest of Europe. From its beginnings in Lenin to the end of it when the Soviet Union fell and Boris Yeltsin became the government leader in Russia, the Red Scare ran throughout not only Europe but the whole world. Lenin was the first to come up with the Communist party, and it was enhanced by Stalin. Stalin became a totalitarian dictator of Russia, and used fear and terror in the Communist Party to enforce their ophilisoihpies.…

During the late 1880’s to the early 1900’s, the United States began to look overseas to expand their territorial control through imperialism in order to gain economic growth, military strength, political power, and social expansion. Imperialism is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories and was occurring as a major global trend around this time. There were a multitude of politicians, industrialists, historians, and even…

vote for their leaders and representatives. An informed electorate is one of the fundamental values in a democracy. One of America’s Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson said “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens” . This means…

Vietnam separated into two parts: the North and the South. The North side of Vietnam was occupied by the Viet Minh’s which was a communist group working with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, while South Vietnam was supported by the US and its allies. During this period the U.S President…