/u/Paulie_Gatto's posts
Woodrow Wilson, devotee of the Lost Cause and who reintroduced segregation to the federal government, commuted 10 death sentences in the Houston Race Riot after receiving tons of letters after the first set of executions. Why did he do ultimately do it, & how did his fellow southern Democrats react?
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So Worcester v Georgia wasn't meant to prevent the federal gov't from removing the Cherokees and others. Yet, why is it a fixture of American history that Jackson told the Supreme Court to shove it after the ruling?
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In comparison to other empires in the 11th century, how much control did the Song Dynasty exert over the economy? "The New Policies" of the government to take control of the economy at all levels to transform the empire seems very ambitious for the time.
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Gabriel Over the White House was a Hollywood film backed by the likes of Hearst to try to convince FDR to become a dictator to solve the problems of the Depression. For some critics, they deplored the fascist message - for others, it made the case for a 20th-century Lincoln. How did FDR respond?
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Is there a way to judge how much of an impact that the anthrax letters to Senator Tom Daschle had on the passage of the Patriot Act? Was he initially reluctant to support the wide-ranging security measure the White House wanted and only supported it after his office got the letter?
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After Albania withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in protest of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, why didn't the USSR and the other East Bloc nations just invade them as well?
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Polo is one of the oldest team sports and was an Olympic Sport from 1900 until 1936 - why did polo get dropped? How did the "sport of kings" fare in popularity after World War II?
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How accurate are depictions of nuclear readiness and effectiveness in the films "The War Game" and "Threads"?
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What impact did the resistance carried out by the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO) and other ethnic minorities (like the Hmong) have on the Vietnam War and the eventual Socialist Republic of Vietnam? Did their resistance against the Vietnamese achieve any of their goals?
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