The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II).. The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special …

The economic history of Japan is most studied for the spectacular social and economic growth in the 1800s after the Meiji Restoration.It became the first non-Western great power, and expanded steadily until its defeat in the Second World War.When Japan recovered from devastation to become the world's second largest economy behind the United States, and from …

The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate.It meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Senators and representatives are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a …

The United States foreign policy during the presidency of John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963 included John F. Kennedy's diplomatic and military initiatives in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, all conducted amid considerable Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.Kennedy deployed a new generation of foreign policy experts, dubbed "the …

General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, during World War II.He was Eisenhower's chief of staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied …

Result: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong/PRG victory . Withdrawal of U.S. coalition's forces from Vietnam in 1973 after the Paris Peace Accords; Communist forces take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; Start of the boat people and refugee crises; Start of the Cambodian genocide and the Third Indochina War; Territorial changes: Reunification of North Vietnam and …

The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃]) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components were …

The Treaty of Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the best known of the European Communities (EC). The treaty was signed on 25 March 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and it came into force on 1 …

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of …

Background Initial planning. American planning for a post-war occupation of Japan began as early as February 1942, when President Franklin Roosevelt established an Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy to advise him on the postwar reconstruction of Germany, Italy, and Japan. On matters related to Japan, this committee was later succeeded by the smaller Inter …

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Oct 25, 2022 · Those who have a checking or savings account, but also use financial alternatives like check cashing services are considered underbanked. The underbanked represented 14% of U.S. households, or 18. ...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (/ ˈ ɒ p ə n ˌ h aɪ m ər /; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist.A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking …