One of the most well known skyjackings is that of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305. This skyjacking was pulled off by a man named D.B. Cooper. The hijacking of Flight 305 has led to a 41 year old case by the FBI and several death bed confessions by people claiming to be D.B. Cooper.
It was an American Political scandal and a conflict in the 1970’s and also led to the resignation of president Nixon. When president Nixon was running for re-election, there was burglary in the office of Watergate. They learned that the burglars were part of a plan Nixon had, and that the white house held proof. When the held the proof finally rise, congress pressured Nixon to tell them everything. But the proof was then destroyed, eliminating any links from the burglars to the president.
Once China entered the war Truman began looking for a negotiable solution to the struggle. General MacArthur resisted any type of military discretion and he wanted to attack China. In March of 1951, MacArthur indicated his unhappiness by sending a public letter to House Republican Joseph W. Martin that concluded with: “There is no substitute for victory.” He had a wide range of support and Truman relieved MacArthur of his command on April 11. His televised farewell appearance before a joint session of Congress attracted millions of viewers. Negotiations between the opposing forces began n Panmunjom in July of 1951 but those talks and the war carried on until 1953.
Galba was the first of the generals that were fighting for the throne to reach Rome and had himself proclaimed emperor. He was an old man of 75 when he became emperor.He was famous for the mistake that he refused top pay the soldiers the bonus that emperors usually paid them. Otho, a friend Galba had dissapointed, turned his soldiers against Galba and on January 16 69 AD Galba was killed and he only reigned for barely 7 months.The next emperor Marcus Salvius Otho, as soon as he became emperor Otho faced a revolt of his own as the praetorian guard supported him but the Legions in Germany supported a man named Vitellius. As a result ,the German legions marched on Rome to put Vitellius on the throne and to depose Otho.when he heard of this revolt, Otho sent his troops to fight Vitellius. Otho had sent his troops to late and his army suffered a horrible defeat.
He had no intention of ending slavery where it existed, or taking back the Fugitive Act Law. This statement made a lot of people angry, and the Confederation. They attack Fort Sumter, and the war broke out. The federal government didn’t know what to do with the escaped slaves. Some put them to work for the Union forces and
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. -Plato Over a half century ago, in the early morning hours of August 19, 1953, the United States successfully launched it’s first clandestine peacetime CIA sponsored overthrow of a sovereign nation. The Iranian coup d’etat deposed the first, and last, “ popular, democratically oriented government to hold office in Iran” (http://iran.sa.utoronto.ca/coup/web_files/markcoup.html). The regime that replaced the popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was a dictatorship led by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a ruthless tyrant whose oppressive rule lasted for the next 25 years. It is believed that his policies produced the tensions that led to the 1978-1979 Iranian revolution as well as laying the groundwork for the profound anti-American sentiment and the rise of the Islamic Fundamentalists and the multiple
Alexander: The Great Reconciler by Craig E. Blohm says, “In 327 B.C. Alexander was poised to invade India, a land thought to be the end of the world… Alexander was soon ready to cross the Indus River, but his troops were weary after years of war and refused to go on.” Alexander had conquered all of the known world and was willing to go further but his army insisted not to.
Julia Lewis English 103 November 29, 2011 Word Count: 2806 Pearl Harbor: Heinous Mistake or Tragic Conspiracy? There are historic moments in life that people will always remember: "Where were you on 9/11? "; "Where were you when JFK died?". For the members of the Silent Generation, it was "Where were you when Pearl Harbor was attacked?". It was dubbed the "Day of Infamy" by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: a terrifying day that would live on in Americans' memories for the rest of their lives.
Many argue that the U.S. did it mainly because of revenge of Pearl Harbor which was also a tragic event in history. On december 7th, 1941 Japanese Pilots attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. With the use of machine guns and bomber planes
Eric Dubin HIS-356 June 2015 You’re being watched On September 11, 2001, a shocking revelation surged throughout the United States of America: We are vulnerable to terrorist acts on our own soil. This sentiment had not been felt for some time, and arguable not at all in the same way. The last time in history Americans had been kill by an opposing military force on U.S. soil, had not been since the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese pilots on December 7, 1941. It was this attack on Pearl Harbor that led to the United States’ entry into World War II. Similarly, through provocation of the attack from Al Qaeda on September 11, 2001, the United States entered into the Afghanistan War in October 2001.