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5 days ago · The meaning of WAR POWERS ACT is restrained the president's ability to commit U.S. forces overseas. Whereas previously, both by constitutional right and by custom, the executive branch had exercised full authority to send troops abroad, under the provisions of this act Congress was to play a more prominent role in making such decisions.
5 days ago · When the president signed NSC 68 in September 1950, he indicated that it should be the foundation of U.S. national security for the next several years. Accordingly, defense spending rose. In the spring of 1950, the amount requested for military services was less than $13 billion; in 1951, that figure exceeded $60 billion.
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19 hours ago · The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the economy of the U.S., from the colonial era to the present. The emphasis is on productivity and economic performance and how the economy was affected by new technologies, the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy.
4 days ago · Dulles’s call for a “policy of boldness” is significant for two primary reasons. First, the policy became part of the Republican Party’s 1952 platform, which condemned containment as a “negative, futile, and immoral policy” that “abandons countless human beings to a despotism and godless terrorism.”. Republicans promised to ...
1 day ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the former Confederate States of America into the United States.
4 days ago · Publication Date: 2014-05-31. Mexican History : A Primary Source Reader by Nora E. Jaffary (Editor); Edward W. Osowski (Editor); Susie S. Porter (Editor) ISBN: 9780813343341. Publication Date: 2009-09-08. Presidents From Taylor Through Grant, 1849-1877 : Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents by Jeffrey W. Coker. ISBN: 9780313315510.
2 days ago · World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of these military alliances. Many participating countries invested all available economic ...
