.... Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the Ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today's Iraqi borders were not created until then. There was also a further and more obvious blunder in a bid to justify this illegal invasion. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. Furthermore, Hussein claimed that Kuwait had illegally pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila and otherwise conspired to reduce Iraq's essential oil income. By invading Kuwait, Iraq succeeded in surprising the entire world. The USA ended her policy of accommodating Saddam Hussein, which had existed ....

.... gradual process and a series of strategic political decisions. The actual use of Blacks as soldiers in the Union Army was completed by a number of actions by the Black man that gained him the respect of becoming a soldier. The two are different in that it was to President Lincoln’s benefit to enlist Blacks as soldiers as he did. Whereas the later was the Black Man’s will to fight for his freedom and prove himself as equal as any White man. However, because the Black population was stopped from entering the army under a 1792 law, the Black Man becoming a soldier was not officially noticed until late 1862. 1 “There was strong anti-black prejudice among most people ....

.... riots in early 1964. Beatlemania had reached unbelievable proportions in England, it became a form of reverse lend-lease and spread to the United States. Capitol records followed the Beatles' single record with the release of an album, "Meet the Beatles," in late January of 1964. That event was followed by the Beatles themselves, who arrived in New York February 8, 1964 for three appearances with Ed Sullivan. The first show was scheduled for Sunday, February 9, the second was telecast from Miami a week later, and the third pre-taped for an airing in March. These concerts were the most watched television programs ever (70 million viewers) until recently. The Beatles ....

.... of states chose Jefferson Davis to be its new leader at the Confederate Convention in Montgomery. Both new Presidents were faced with difficult decisions very early in their administration of which the dilemma of Fort Sumter was one of the first and most important. Fort Sumter was constructed at the entrance of the Harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. In 1860 when South Carolina seceded, Major Anderson of the United States Military established his headquarters at Fort Sumter. The fort itself was militarily unimportant to either side, yet it later became a significant symbol to both the North and the South. In the controversy that surrounded Fort Sumter, bot ....

.... Vietnam was distributed to the Times and, later, the Post by Daniel Ellsberg, a minor writer in the Pentagon Papers. The Times published these papers bit by bit until the Nixon administration sought an injunction on the Times to stop publication. The Supreme Court found that the First Amendment did not permit an injunction against the Times. The issue here is weather or not the First Amendment applies to federal papers, and weather prior restraint is unconstitutional. Also, can the government seek an injunction on a press to halt publication of such documents, even in cases of national security. The Supreme Court Ruled 6-3 in favor of the New York Times, ....

.... for Hitler to construct his total dictatorship over the German people and country. It was alarming how swiftly he was able to achieve co- ordination and virtual lack of effective opposition he encountered. Hitler used an enticing slogan of "unity," that made the German people abandon their inhibitions and thoughts of opposition in the first few months of 1933 and they failed to realize to stand up against what was happening to them and their country On February 4, 1933 the Reich President Hindenburg issued an ordinance for the protection of the German people under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The ordinance allowed made it possible for Hitler to ban periodi ....

.... controversial over the years, it was more like the power going back and forth for many years, until in finally fell into the right hands, the hands it should have belonged to in the first place" The 36 years of civil war and military dictatorships, which ended in December of 1996, left the majority of people poor with the slow economy and bad country ecology. The Political situation in Guatemala today is stabile democratic goverman, with 4 years president election, congress and constitution.. The people of the country have a freedom of choice and even leftover from previous war the power struggle still continue, the people of the country stay and support the grow ....

.... in harmony, they carried out bloody purges of people who did not fit “their plan” for a perfect communist society. They carried out the liquidation of the Kulak class. Instead of having a gradual change from a society with classes to a classless one. Communists in Russia not only opposed people who shared different views than their own, but they also opposed other groups of proletariats. This directly contrasts the original idea of a united communism movement, as stated in the Communist Manifesto: “The Communists do not from a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. The have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. The ....