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• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...States]] followed a foreign policy marked by [[détente]] with the [[Soviet Union]] and by the opening of diplomatic relations with the [[People's Republic o ...howed that Voorhis was collaborating with [[communist]]-controlled [[labor union]]s.
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...man Strike]] of 1894 in order to keep the railroads moving angered [[Trade union|labor unions]], and his support of the [[gold standard]] and opposition to ...he [[Conscription Act of 1863]], requiring able-bodied men to serve in the army if called upon, or else to hire a substitute.<ref name=graff14/> Cleveland
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• Directory:Harry S. Truman
  During [[World War I]] Truman served as an [[United States Army Field Artillery Corps|artillery]] officer. After the war he became part of ...day after [[Nazi Germany]] [[Operation Barbarossa|attacked]] the [[Soviet Union]], Senator Truman declared: ''"If we see that Germany is winning we ought t
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• Directory:Iran
  ...In September 1941, following the occupation of western Iran by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, Reza Shah was forced to abdicate. His son, Mohammad ...vital link in the Allied supply line for lend-lease supplies to the Soviet Union. After the war, Soviet troops stationed in northwestern Iran not only refus
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• Directory:South Korea
  ...to defend South Korea from DPRK attacks supported by China and the Soviet Union. An armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along a demilitar | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Army, Navy, Republic of Korea Air Force (Han-guk Kong Goon), Marine Corps, Natio
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...From February through September 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Balkans]] and the [[Middle East]] to gather background information In the spring of 1941, Kennedy volunteered for the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]], but was rejected, mainly because of his troublesome back. Nevertheless,
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• Directory:Pakistan
  ...handed over responsibility for governing to the commander in chief of the army, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, who became President and Chief Martial L ...red martial law, and suspended portions of the 1973 Constitution. Chief of Army Staff Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq became Chief Martial Law Administrator and p
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• Directory:Venezuela
  ..., NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO ...ational Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales or FAN): Ground Forces or Army (Fuerzas Terrestres or Ejercito), Naval Forces (Fuerzas Navales or Armada;
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...States|income tax]], set up the [[War Industries Board]], promoted [[labor union]] growth, supervised agriculture and food production through the [[Smith-Le ...church. The father also briefly served as a chaplain to the [[Confederate Army]]. Wilson’s father was one of the founders of the Southern [[Presbyterian
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• Directory:Jon Awbrey/Essays/Inquiry Driven Systems : Fields Of Inquiry
  is born from the union<br> of our army is without limit;<br>
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• List of unusual personal names
  .... His father had participated in the [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]] as a Union surgeon during the [[American Civil War]].<ref>http://www.library.northwest ...' - Infant son of [[Jacob S. Coxey, Sr.|Jacob Coxey]], leader of [[Coxey's Army]].
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• Evil
  The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; and the So far as that construction may expose the Union to the possibility of injury from the State legislatures, it is an '' '''ev
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...over several ballots between [[Illinois]] Governor [[Frank Lowden]] and [[Army]] General [[Leonard Wood]], few delegates seriously considered turning to H ...ns in response to Hoover's appeals. "I suppose I could have called in the Army to help," he said, "but why should I, when I only had to call upon Main Str
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• Directory:United States of America
  ...r than [[Directory:China|China]]; more than twice the size of the European Union ...litical units: the Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth in political union with the US (effective 3 November 1986); the Republic of the Marshall Islan
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...hio State-Michigan]] football game, while attending a summit in the Soviet Union as President.<ref name="wakeup">{{cite web |last = Larcom |first = Geoff |u ...ossed over to humans. On [[February 5]], [[1976]], an [[United States Army|Army]] recruit at [[Fort Dix, New Jersey|Fort Dix]] mysteriously died and four f
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• Directory:Fred Thompson
  ...r, fred dalton thompson senator, fred thompson photographer, fred thompson army ten miler, fred thompson, fred thompson biography, fred thompson art, fred ...n senator]][[Keyword:=fred thompson photographer]][[Keyword:=fred thompson army ten miler]][[Keyword:=fred thompson]][[Keyword:=fred thompson biography]][[
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...New Deal policies as central to his legacy, and in his 1944 [[State of the Union Address]], he advocated that Americans should think of basic economic right ...ry and economic aid to Britain, the [[Republic of China]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...ieved that political success at home depended on the success of the French army in Europe:<ref>{{wikiref |id=Schachner-1951 |text=Schachner, '''1''': 495}} ...nderway, the [[Federalist]]s under John Adams started a navy, built up the army, levied new taxes, readied for war, and enacted the [[Alien and Sedition Ac
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  ...te L.B. Walker Carter (1832&ndash;1874) served in the [[Confederate States Army]]. ...k, studying nuclear physics and reactor technology for several months at [[Union College]] starting in March 1953. This followed Carter's first-hand experi
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• Directory:Carl Sagan
  ...y]], as President of the Planetology Section of the [[American Geophysical Union]], and as Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the [[American Association f ...oky [[Kuwaiti oil fires|oil fires]] in Kuwait (set by [[Saddam Hussein]]'s army during the first [[Gulf War]]) would cause a worldwide ecological disaster
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