The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States. ... 20th century. During the 1920s, U.S. Marshals enforced Prohibition. Marshals registered enemy aliens in wartime, sealed the American border against armed expeditions from foreign countries, ...

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.. The power of the presidency has grown substantially since the first president, George Washington, took office in 1789.

The Western United States (also called the American West, the Far West, and the West) is the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term the West changed. Before about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier.The frontier moved …

The United States' relationship with the Middle East prior to World War I was limited, although commercial ties existed even in the early 19th century. President Andrew Jackson established formal ties with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman in 1833. (The Sultan saw the U.S. as a potential balance to Britain's overwhelming regional influence.)

1971 - American Indian Movement held a protest in D.C., where they seized the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1972 - American Indian Movement was one of the sponsors of the Trail of Broken Treaties, a cross country protest and presented a 20-point list of demands from the federal government.. 1977 - Felipe Rose is discovered and recruited for the Village People

The modern synthesis was the early 20th-century synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity into a joint mathematical framework. Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics.It also …

Timeline; Topics; Military history; List of revolutions and coups d'état Haiti portal: The United States of America occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 United States Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, ... In the first decades of the 20th century, Haiti experienced great political instability and was heavily in debt to ...

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., doing business as 21st Century Fox (21CF), was an American multinational mass media corporation that was based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.It was one of the two companies formed on June 28, 2013, following a spin-off of the publishing assets of the old News Corporation as News Corp.. 21st Century Fox was the legal successor to News …

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Timeline. By 1943, penicillin was the treatment of choice for syphilis and becoming widely available, but the participants in the study were not offered treatment.. In 1972, an Associated Press story about the study was published. As a result, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs appointed an Ad Hoc Advisory Panel to review the …

This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, ... as part of a program of eugenics in the early and mid-20th century had their constitutional rights violated. ... United States v. Lyons, 731 F.2d 243, 245 (5th Cir.1984) (citing cases). Although appellant ...

Jul 16, 2019 · Follow the changes in this decade-by-decade timeline of the 20th century. The 1900s. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images. ... The Cold War continued as the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union began. The 1950s also saw segregation ruled illegal in the U.S. and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912, with over 1,500 fatalities, is probably the most famous shipwreck, but not the biggest in terms of lives lost.The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an estimated loss of about 9,400 people, remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever, …

Nov 28, 2022 · There were serious outbreaks of polio in Europe and the United States in the early 20th century; in the late 1940s, more than 35,000 people were disabled by polio each year. Scientists were compelled to develop a vaccine. Both the Salk and the Sabine vaccines came into use in the 1950s and are discussed more fully in this timeline.

The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force when activated for federal missions. It is a military reserve force composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a …