The U.S. decided that Diem's actions could not be tolerated and Diem was killed on November 1st, 1963 by his own military generals. Then, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson took his place. When Ngo Dinh Diem was alive the South was unstable, until June 1965 when Nguyen Cao Ky became president. President Lyndon B. Johnson raised the level of U.S. involvement in the war. On August 7th, 1964, the U.S. Senate approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave President Johnson the choice to escalate U.S. involvement in the war for what happened to the USS Maddox, w. America needed to act fast, but by 1965 Viet Cong controlled about 60 percent of South Vietnamese land.
He went into exile in 1937 and 1939 founded the leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party. The PRD was the first well organized political party of the Dominican Republic and the only one with a constructive program ready to implement after Trujillo’s death in 1961, Bosch won election of December 20, 1962. Bosch was overthrown in a military coup in September 1963. Another military coup, on April 24, 1965, led to violence between military elements favoring the return to government by Bosch and those who proposed a military junta committed to early general
Sankara cultivated ties with Libya and Ghana, adopting a policy of nonalignment with Western nations. He adopted a more liberal policy toward the opposition and increased the government's focus on economic development. In symbolic rejection of the nation's colonial past, Upper Volta became Burkina Faso in 1984; the name is a composite of local languages and is roughly translated as "the land of incorruptible men." The country's dispute with Mali over the Agache border was revived in 1985. In 1986, Sankara dissolved his cabinet and appointed civil servants to government ministries.
On Dec.12, 1974, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president of the United States. He won his party's nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention and was elected president on Nov. 2, 1976. He served as president from Jan. 20, 1977, to Jan. 20, 1981. During his presidency there were many critical moments when he tried to establish balance. On the domestic side, the administration struggled during the 1979 energy crisis which started when the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled the country amidst protests.
He became prime minister in 1987, shortly before ousting Tunisia's first post-independence ruler, Habib Bourguiba, in a bloodless palace coup. President Bourguiba was declared mentally unfit to rule. Ben Ali promised a gradual transition towards democracy, though in his first two presidential polls - in 1989 and 1994 - he was elected unopposed. When multi-party presidential elections were introduced in 1999 they were still one-sided affairs, with Ben Ali winning huge majorities. The constitution was changed twice so he could continue to serve.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Previously, he served as the 33rd Governor of California. President Reagan had many positive accomplishments during his tenure. The policies that he implemented during his two terms came with much success, but all success comes with a few shortcomings. From his economic to foreign policy, he accomplished a great deal.
Octavian was then granted the title of "Augustus" by the Senate[5] and took the title of Princeps or "first citizen". [3] Augustus (as modern scholars usually refer to him from this point) took the official position that he had saved the Republic, and carefully framed his powers within republican constitutional principles. He thus rejected titles that Romans associated with monarchy, such as rex. The dictatorship, a military office in the early Republic typically lasting only for the six-month military campaigning season, had been resurrected and abused first by Sulla in the late 80s BC and then by Julius Caesar in the mid-40s; the title dictator had been formally abolished thereafter. As the adopted heir of Julius Caesar, Augustus had taken Caesar as a component of his name, and handed down the name to his heirs of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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In 55, Romans conquer England and made it part of Roman Empire until A.D. 442. Cleopatra became the last independent Egyptian ruler of the ancient world in 51. In 46, Julius Caesar became dictator for life, and was assassinated two years later. Herod the Great made king of Judea by the Romans in 37. In 30, Cleopatra and her lover, Marc Anthony, both died of suicide.
In 1966, the dream of flourishing democracy was diminished when a series of massacres occurred, inter-country arguments came about, and a military coup started the first of a series of military governments. As a response to this take over, the Ibo seceded and declared the independent republic of Biafra. This secession began a civil war that lasted for almost 3 years. Nigeria won the war and the military government controlled both regions. BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://www.southernct.edu/organizations/hcr/2002/nonfiction/colonialism.htm http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0860005.html http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99387 http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/analysis/africa/10451-nigeria-50-years-of-