Initially, in the 1948 war for its own independence, Israel secured the territory that the United Nations had proposed as land for a Jewish state.
In the Six Day War of 1967, Israel gained control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula in defeating Egypt. The Sinai eventually was returned to Egypt. Gaza became an occupied territory, with the Israeli military supervising the Palestinian-populated region, until 2005 when Israeli Defense Forces withdrew from Gaza. (Now Israel enforces blockades against the Gaza region.)
Also in the Six Day War, Israel gained control of the West Bank, which continues to have an Israeli presence in it as well as a Palestinian government.
And in the Six Day War, Israel gained control of two-thirds of the Golan Heights region overlooking Lake Tiberias, which Israel continues to occupy, citing security concerns in protecting itself.
There was a Federalist president and a Democratic-Republican vice-president and there were ties. Federalist John Adams defeated Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson. Despite the vituperation between their respective camps, neither Adams nor Jefferson actively campaigned for the presidency.<span>[3][4]</span>This became a long-standing tradition in American politics lasting into the second half of the 19th century. Jefferson got the second uppermost number of electoral votes and was chosen as vice president according to the prevailing rules of Electoral College voting. This election marked the formation of the First Party System, and recognized a rivalry between Federalist New England and Democratic-Republican South, with the middle states holding the balance of power
During the Pequot War, an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, burning or massacring some 500 Indian women, men, and children.
