New scientific knowledge helped the building of the Panama Canal, as fewer workers got sick from malaria and yellow fever.
The discovery that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes was made in 1891, but most sanitary officials didn't know or didn't give relevance to it.
However, captain William Gorgas did know about this and successfully helped to eradicate yellow fever and malaria in the Canal Zone, despite the opposition from U.S. officials who wanted to discredit his work.
President Theodore Roosevelt supported Gorgas and the Panama Canal was completed by 1914.
Answer: "One of Hitler's foremost goals was that Germany should become "a World Power" on the geopolitical stage, or as he stated, "it will not continue to exist at all". Biographer Joachim Fest asserted that Mein Kampf contained a "remarkably faithful portrait of its author"."
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The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944, when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The battle lasted until January 16, 1945, after the Allied counteroffensive forced German troops to withdraw.
Combatants: German
Start date: December 16, 1944
Part of: World War II, Western Front
End date: January 16, 1945
The New Deal’s urban projects might lead to more government interference in local affairs.
That is what I remember learning about last year in US history. Hope it helps a little bit :)
Was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson.
