U.S. drive to spread democracy
the vice president leads the house and the speaker leads the senate
Some eleven to twelve million Africans were forcibly carried to the Americas. Of those, roughly one-half million (or about 4.5 percent) were taken to mainland North America or what became the United States.
1. Supported revolution in Panama (for the Panama Canal) = Theodore Roosevelt
2. Favored Dollar Diplomacy = William H. Taft
3. Intervened in Mexico = Woodrow Wilson
Kristallnacht was an important event as it is considered the beginning of the holocaust. Throughout Germany and Austria, a pogrom was initiated by the Nazis. Synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops were looted and ransacked. 91 Jews were killed and thousands of Jewish men were taken to concentration camps. This event became known as the November Pogrom or Kristallnacht.
