Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision effectively overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education.
The United States first began developing nuclear weapons in 1939, during World War II, under the order of President Franklin Roosevelt. Motivation was the fear that US was engaged in a race with Nazi Germany to develop nuclear weapon. This project is best known as Manhattan Project.
Answer:
These are three of Wilson´s 14 points:
- Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
- Freedom of the seas.
- An indedependent Poland.
Secret pacts with secret clauses were a common practive of European diplomacy; president Woodrow Wilson was against this practice.
Freedom of navigation and of the seas have always been important for an economic and major naval power like the USA.
Poland disappeared from the map of Europe by the end of the 18th century, but it was a large nation and such a proposal would be in agreeement with the principle of self-determination backed by Wilson.
Explanation:
The correct answer is D) The Selective Service Act increased the size and strength of the U.S. military.
The development that may have changed this perspective by the end of 1918 was the Selective Service Act increased the size and strength of the U.S. military.
The United States Army was not respected before 1917 in the international arena, as the German Officer quote says. But things changed after the signing of the Selective Service Act that increased the size and strength of the U.S. military. The Selective Draft Act was enacted on May 18, 1917. It allowed the federal government of the United States to organize a professional national Army to send it to World War 1. The act was drafted by General Hugh S. Jhonson.
