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… rival Britain. In April, the Japanese signed the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact, eliminating a potential enemy and … to prepare America for war and support Britain and the Soviet Union throughout 1940 and 1941. Fighting isolationist …

… begun. It was far easier to commit the nation to opposing Soviet communism if communist totalitarians were depicted as …

… own legal counsel. Deportations have been a tool of anti-unionism ever since 1917, when armed vigilantes known as … of hundreds of immigrants of Russian origin to the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, at the height of labor … "Once Sept. 11 happened, [immigration] became an issue of national security." Ultra right-wing anti-immigrant fringe …

… has grown over the past three decades, governments, international organizations, and businesses across the world have … other endeavors by agricultural research institutions. The Soviet Union was the first to establish gene banks for crops. …

… by a U.S. citizen on American soil. Charlie King’s antiwar anthem highlighted the connections between American military … threads she has spun. But McVeigh’s prosecution, and the national media’s reporting of it, elided those connections. …

… Point Agreement pertained to efforts to ensure Chinese national security on its frontiers. Tibet has long been a … from Russian archives show that Communist forces used Soviet aircraft to bomb local monasteries in punitive …

… to act based upon what “my conscience tells me to be the national interest” and to protect “the First Amendment’s …

… not be accused of being soft on communism. He first came to national attention as a congressional investigator of … improve U.S. relations with Mexico, Canada and the European Union, and deprive Castro of one of the weapons in his … America … Caribbean … Cuba … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … Cold War … Nixon and China, Bush and …

… Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, OK in 2016. The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) … Health, and then in 1948 became the first director of the National Institute of Dental Research. A dentist and patient …

… central government." (p. 835) Lincoln, who saved the Union and purged slavery from the land, Howe writes, was … points out that the company Samuel Morse founded – Western Union – continued to send telegrams until 2006. More than …

… the seeds for the Boxer Rebellion by impinging on China’s national sovereignty. One reason all this matters now is … Now, as a century ago, competing visions of Chinese national sovereignty have been exposed, and radically … of Chinese who were not Boxers. They looted Chinese national treasures. They raped Chinese women. American …

… Israel's commitment to the settlements also angers international friends whose sympathy and moral support were … Politics, including the kind associated with international negotiations, is the art of the possible. Robert …

… was present both nights penned a graphic account—reprinted nationally—that characterized the uprising as an … turning point for the gay community. Thanks in part to the national attention his coverage received, he proved to be …

… Russian Orthodoxy for centuries, the islands are a Russian national park and have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site … of the darkest stories of the 20th century: the GULAG–the Soviet prison system. Today it is a working monastery once … history of the GULAG—the forced prison system of the Soviet Union—for many years now. And as many of my students will …

… for disaster to the letter. After Jackson’s killing of the national bank, many state banks were free to claim much … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… facilities, plenty of workers who weren't steeped in the union tradition, and plenty of ways to improve profit … the labor laws that gave our fathers the ability to earn union wages; the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mortgages … whole sections of New Orleans remain in ruins. The current national economic meltdown is making the situation even more …

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …

… scene is part of the American origin story, central to our national creed. Except that it isn’t. As Daniel Rodgers …

… democracy. There were political parties, independent trade unions, human rights organizations, independent newspapers, … backed down from his promises to disavow Shari’a Laws. The National Islamic Front (NIF) and its leader Dr. Hassan … occasioned by fighting among Arabs. (UNAMID is the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, inaugurated …

… governor of the nation’s most populous state and as an internationally famous actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …

… and 107 Ethiopians were killed. Even though an international team had established that Walwal was in fact 150 … populations. This use of chemicals violated the international treaty of Montreux, which Italy had signed in 1928, …