Examples of General Leonard Wood in the following topics:
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The Debate over Preparedness
- The Preparedness Movement was a frenzy of public concern over the lack of preparedness of the U.S. military, led by Roosevelt and Wood.
- General Leonard Wood, ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, and former secretaries of war Elihu Root and Henry Stimson were the driving forces behind the Preparedness Movement, along with many of the nation's most prominent bankers, industrialists, lawyers, and scions of prominent families.
- Roosevelt, Root, and Wood were prospective Republican presidential candidates.
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Last Efforts for Peace
- Former President Theodore Roosevelt, General Leonard Wood, and former Secretaries of War Elihu Root and Henry Stimson were among the driving forces behind the Preparedness Movement, along with many of the nation's most prominent bankers, industrialists, lawyers, and scions of prominent families.
- The Plattsburg Movement, which hosted approximately 40,000 men in 1915 and 1916, was aimed at social elites, ignoring talented working class youths and subsequently failing to generate support among the middle class leadership in small town America.
- The Democratic Party, especially Wilson, was also opposed to the Preparedness Movement, believing it to be a political threat because Roosevelt, Root and Wood were prospective Republican presidential candidates.
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Equality and its Limits
- In the mid-20th century, historian Leonard Woods Labaree identified a set of eight characteristics of the Loyalists that made them essentially conservative.
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American Arrival in Europe
- General Dwight D.
- Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), and British General Bernard Montgomery was named as commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all the land forces involved in the invasion.
- Hodges, and Leonard T.
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The Eugenics Movement
- Rather than scientific genetics, however, Eugenics is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements who desired so-called "scientific" evidence for prejudicial beliefs and government policies.
- Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, presided over the meeting of about 400 delegates from numerous countries – including British luminaries such as the Chief Justice Lord Balfour, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill – and served as an indication of the growing popularity of the Eugenics movement.
- Laws were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America to prohibit marriage and force sterilization of the mentally ill in order to prevent the "passing on" of mental illness to the next generation.
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The Nixon Shock
- On August 5, 1971, Congress released a report recommending devaluation of the dollar in an effort to protect the dollar against "foreign price-gougers. " Meanwhile, European countries began leaving the Bretton Woods international financial system, which had based the value of foreign currencies on the value of the gold-backed dollar.
- In May 1971, inflation-wary West Germany was the first member country to unilaterally leave the Bretton Woods system — unwilling to devalue the Deutsche Mark in order to prop up the dollar.
- On August 9, 1971, as the dollar dropped in value against European currencies, Switzerland unilaterally withdrew the Swiss franc from the Bretton Woods system.
- By December 1971, the import surcharge was dropped as part of a general revaluation of the major currencies, which thereafter were allowed 2.25% devaluations from the agreed exchange rate.
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Hooverville
- Homeless people formed settlements on empty land which generally consisted of tents and small shacks.
- Generally, however, Hoovervilles were tolerated or ignored out of necessity.
- Most people, however, resorted to making houses out of wood from crates, cardboard, scraps of metal and whatever other materials were available.
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Globalization and the U.S.
- Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet, and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities in nations around the world.
- After the Second World War, work by politicians led to the Bretton Woods Conference from July 1-22, 1944.
- Formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, the conference was a gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.
- One of the earliest institutions was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which initially led to a series of agreements to remove trade restrictions.
- In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of nation states.
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America's Early Role
- The AEF helped the French Army on the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive (at Château-Thierry and Belleau Wood) in June 1918.
- In May 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Major General John J.
- The Harlem Hellfighters fought as part of the French 16th Division, earning a unit Croix de Guerre for their actions at Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, and Sechault.
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White Terror
- They operated openly and solicited coverage from newspapers, and the members' identities were generally known.
- Generally in remote areas, the White League's show of force and outright murders always overcame opposition.
- Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became Grand Wizard of the KKK, claiming to be the Klan's national leader.
- The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods.
- Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods.