Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military during World War II. They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work. Some were killed in combat or captured as prisoners of war. Over sixteen hundred female nurses received various decorations for courage under fire.
That river rich in history is the Euphrates River. The Tigris River and Euphrates River gave the ancient name "Mesopotamia" ("Land between the Rivers") to a region that was an ancient cradle of civilization. The lengthy Euphrates River originates in eastern Turkey, flows through Syria and Iraq, and then joins the Tigris River in the "Shatt al-Arab" ("River of the Arabs") which flows out into the Persian Gulf.
Answer: Reconstruction
Explanation:
Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states.
Answer: 1861
Explanation:
Texas formally seceded on March 2, 1861 to become the seventh state in the new Confederacy. Gov. Sam Houston was against secession, and struggled with loyalties to both his nation and his adopted state. His firm belief in the Union cost him his office when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new government.
