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North Carolina Congressman Claude Kitchin, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee argued that since Eastern businessman had been leaders in calling for war, they should pay for it. [39] In an era when most workers earned under $1000 a year, the basic exemption was $2,000 for a family.
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.
A list of unofficial Kirby media. Or a list of any unofficial media of any intellectual property, actually. The debate on whether Tracker is a Chihuahua or a potcake dog. (Note: It would generally make more sense for him to be a potcake.) A list of reasons why you think Stacy's mom has got it going on unless you are Fountains of Wayne.
Debates and discussions concerning gender identity and gender roles in relation to society became one of the main ways to discuss the war and people's stances on it [54] (Roberts 5). The war left people struggling to grasp the new reality. There were mixed reactions to the new way of life after World War I and how it affected both men and women.
Edith Louisa Cavell (/ ˈ k æ v əl / KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service through the spy ring known as La Dame Blanche.
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor [a] (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, for social-reform policies, for his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and for negotiating the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Women across the spectrum were much less supportive of the war [clarification needed] than men. [2] [3] Women in church groups [clarification needed] were especially anti-war; however, women in the suffrage movement in different countries wanted to support the war effort, asking for the vote as a reward for that support.
In Rwanda, an estimated one million people were massacred in the genocide, which included targets of Tutsis and moderate Hutu and Twa people. Terrorism rose in the late century; the Oklahoma City bombing killed 168. Dictatorship and the spread of nuclear weapons were other issues requiring attention. The world was still blighted by small-scale ...