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J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies

Western Civilization


The Marshall Plan: The American Strategy To Win The Cold War

The Marshall Plan was created by President Harry S Truman on April 3, 1948, and was known as the Recovery Act officially. This gave American allies from 1948 to 1951 financial support to remain independent nations after 1945. With the rise of the Iron Curtain, a total of $13.3 billion…

Albert Einstein and The Patent Office

Albert Einstein is unquestionably one of the most well-known and recognizable faces of the 20th century. There are a number of things that are, to coin a phrase, tolerably well-known about him and his life. He was, of course, known for this immense intelligence. The fact that his last name…

Fourteenth Amendment Ratified

Fourteenth Amendment Ratified on July 28, 1868

The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868: "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. Fourteenth Amendment Ratified The first time the Fourteenth Amendment was presented for their consideration, ten of the eleven states…

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