Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was sworn into office on April 12, 1945 as the thirty-third President of the United States of America. He did not win an election, but he was the Vice President under President Franklin Roosevelt who had died so Harry Truman became President. On August 6, 1...

In 1962, Cuban leaders became convinced that the United States was planningan attack on Cuba. Cuban leaders asked the U.S.S.R. for more military aid. The U.S.S.R. responded by sending missiles and materials to build launchsites. In October of that year, U.S. intelligence produced evidence that th...

Japanese - American Relations Japan had aided in the defeat of Germany by Allied powers, and the Americans seemed to them by preaching self- determination and an open door policy (Goldstein 35). Woodrow Wilson believed that Japand's entry into World War I, and its intervention during Russia's civil...

Webster-Ashburton Treaty:Daniel Webster was motivated to settle the boundary between Maine and NewBrunswick. In 1783, a treaty had been made that awarded the U.S. all land in the areadrained by rivers flowinginto the Atlantic instead of into the St. Lawrence. However, thediction of this treaty was...

Sun Yat-Sen helped the growth of Nationalism during the early 20th century. After experiencing and studying in Hawaii, he got a taste of what the western world was like. Sun wanted to help westernize China to keep up with the world's technology and economy. His goal was to nationalize China. He ...

After Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar seized control of the Cuban government in 1952, Fidel Castro became a leader of an underground antigovernment fraction. A Year later he was jailed for having led the 26th uprising against Batista. In 1955 he was released and went into exile in the United States and...