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Termine per una donna emancipata che bucked convenzionali idee di correttezza in abito e maniere durante gli anni venti.
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Libro del 1890 di Alfred Thayer Mahan che sosteneva che le Nazioni espandessero il proprio potere mondiale attraverso il commercio estero e una forte flotta. Influenzò fortemente i politici americani a favore dell'espansione.
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The ban of the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, adopted in 1919, established prohibition. The amendment was repealed in 1933, with adoption of the Twenty first Amendment.
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A distinctly American philosophy proposed by William James, it contends that any concept should be tested and its validity determined by its outcome and that the truth of an idea is found in the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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A Supreme Court decision in 1896 that ruled "separate but equal" facilities for African Americans were constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, it had the effect of legalizing segregation and led to the passage of much discriminatory legislation known as Jim Crow laws.
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Communist China's chairman Mao Tse tung sent a table tennis team to the world championships in Nagoya, Japan, and then invited an American team to compete in Japan in 1971. This small gesture paved the way for President Nixon's visit to China in February I972.
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Oil supply disruptions and soaring oil prices that the United States experienced in 1973 and 1979. In 1973, Middle Eastern nations imposed an embargo on oil shipments to punish the West for supporting Israel in that year's Arab Israeli war. A second oil shock occurred when the Iranian Revolution disrupted oil shipments to the western nations.
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Although a Catholic in a Buddhist nation and a leader with no popular charm, the American government manufactured Diem's 1956 election because of his anticommunist views. The American government gradually realized Diem's lack of popular support and stood by when he was assassinated in 1963.
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An organization formed in 1890 from two factions of the suffrage movement, it sought a constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote throughout the nation, eventually leading to the Nineteenth Amendment.
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