The US supported South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. South Vietnam did not want to come under the communist rule of North Vietnam because under communism people have no say…
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In the early 1900s, a group in Turkey called the Young Turks wanted to modernize and put life back into the dying Ottoman empire. They also wanted to keep Europe…
While Congress was voting on approving the Declaration of Independence, General George Washington was negotiating with Britain. Britain, however, would not acknowledge George Washington’s position or the States’ declaration of…
On July 10, 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore became the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary Taylor had died the day before, on June 9th, from a very…
North America stayed unexplored for a long time because trappers and explorers explored this new land from the coasts inward. This is why the Shoshone had never met a white…
Before freeways were built, most people travelled short distances and stayed close to where they lived. People who travelled longer distances took trains or planes like my mother did in…
In 1854, Congress voted on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill to let states decide to allow slavery or not. The Whig Party was so against slavery that it fell apart after this…
East Germany became communist state under the Soviet Union after World War II. Communism wants to have everyone work together with everyone having the same benefits and everyone being equal….
The gold standard is when a country has the same amount of gold stored away in storehouse as people have in dollar bills and coins. Before 1933, creditors made people…
In 1634, Jean Nicolet from France came to Green Bay. This made him the first European to visit this northern area that had so many lakes. The area later became…