Manifest destiny. They believed it was their god given right to expand westward.
This battle was highly significant for Christian Europeans, If the Muslims had won, western Europe may need become a part of the Muslim Empire, Charles Martel's victory at Tours made him a Christian hero. ... Fearing defeat, he appealed to the Christian God. The tide of the battle shifted and also the Franks won.
Bilateral relations between Taiwan (the Republic of China) and South Korea (the Republic of Korea), whose official diplomatic relation has been severed since 1992. Historical bilateral relations between Imperial China and the Kingdoms of the Korean Peninsula, prior to World War II.
Thurgood Marshall
At the time, Thurgood Marshall was the head of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). There were four cases that were combined into the overall court case known as <em>Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka</em>, which was argued before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, and decided in 1954.
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to serve on the Supreme Court. He was the first African American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
