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Author Archives: Sehyung
Posts: 6 (archived below)
Comments: 7
Coral Sea battle in WWII
This image is from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea
The Coral Sea battlis is one of major naval battle in South Pacific ocean near Australia during WWII. After the U.S had been attacked in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by imperial Japanese forces, The U.S and its Allies got into World War. While Japanese military forces invaded Tulagi in Southeasterrn island, the U.S naval and air forces attacked the Japanese aircraft carriers in May 4, 1942. Even though there was tactical victory that made the enemy’s ships sink by bombing, the war would not end up until Japan got totally destroyed later on.
Posted in 1941-1945, Political history
Tagged Coral sea battle, Navy, the Pacific war, WW2
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Radio Broadcast in 1906
This imge is from http://www.radiocom.net/Fessenden/
President George W. Bush celabrated 100years anniversary of the first radio station in Massachusetts. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden got this honor due to his invention of the world’s first radio broad cast. He worked for Thomas Edison in his New Jersey laboratory as a canadian engineer, and he tried to produce the “wireless telegraph” to carry human voice through the air. The first extended broadcast of human voice was transmitted on December 24, 1906 in Brant Rock in Massachusetts. As President mentioned about how the radio station have done the important role in American society, Fessenden had opened the technological improvement as much as the development in people’s standard of living.
Posted in 1900-1916, Cultural History, Social History
Tagged 1906, Fessenden, invention, Radio
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the political action of making accusation of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper evidence after Cold War. This is born by increase in fear of communist influence on American institutions and spy of the Soviet Union. Under anti-communist pursuit of the Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the U.S government accused of people being suspicious and they are investigated so badly despite inconclusive and questionable evidence. Soon later, it has become unconstitutional.
This is image from Youtube. It is hearing of McCarthy about anti-communist.
Posted in 1945-1953, Administrative, Political history
Tagged hearing, McCarthyism, Political
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Rosa Parks story.
On December 1, 1995, Rosa Parks had been arrested because she was a black woman and she refused to yield her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in Montgomery. Her arrest led to Montgomery bus boycott. Thus, African Americans’ inequality and racial justice had been issued internationally, and the civil right movement arose throughout the U.S as a whole.
Inequality and the gap of the wealth between whites and non-whites had been growing significantly even though America had turned to the golden age of its economy since the end of WWII. Ethnic discrimination of employment and housing was severe, and segregation and exclusion against blacks in pubic institutions enhanced their demand of equal rights movement. Parks’ event is a strong stimulation to enlighten people to desire their equal rights more seriously than before. This civil movement continued to 1960s. The congress finally passed the Civil Right Act in 1964 to prohibit racial discrimination by the law.
Parks’ event and the Montgomery bus boycott is definitely a huge turning point of America history so as to have people equal rights. Therefore, we can have real freedom now in America.
This image is from http://virlib.brinkster.net/aca/ACAIMAGES_DVD/DVD_Rosa_parks_story.jpg
Posted in 1953-1960, June 14 assignment, Political history, Social History, Uncategorized
Tagged civil rights, parks, rosa, segregation
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LAPD Negligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROn_9302UHg
This video shows that LAPD officers beat unarmed Rodney King, a african american riding motocycle in march 1991. The videotape quitely proved racism and police brutality in America and also this event brought Los Angeles riot.
Posted in 1989-2000, June 8 assignment, Social History, Uncategorized
Tagged LAPD, Racism, Rodney
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Subprime Mortage Crisis
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On April 2007, Subprime mortgage company went into bankruptcy with trillions dollars of consumer’s credit debt in mortgage program. It caused huge financial crisis of 2008 not only in U.S.A, as much as in global market.
This crisis brough the consecutive collapses of all kinds of financial companies such as banks, funds, insurance companies and other businesses. It affect high inflation of all goods, unstability of the price, high unemployment, and the decrease of productive capacity and a downfall of real estate market. The government economy also shrank up from financial damage and moreover, the entire world seemed to become a great depression as a whole.
Posted in 2001-present, Economic History, June 7 assignment
Tagged crisis, finance, subprime
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