also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act; further boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college
Taft-Hartley Act
outlawed the closed shop
Closed shop
practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members
Right-to-work laws
outlawed union shops
Union shops
shops in which new workers were required to join the union
Featherbedding
practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs
Dixiecrat Party
a group of Southern Democrats who walked out of the Democratic Convention and were angry at Truman's support of civil rights (Strom Thurmond as presidential candid
Fidel Castro used the failed 1961 invasion of Cuba as an excuse to get more military equipment from the Soviet Union. This provided the basis for the next diplomatic crisis with Cuba, which was called the C. Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis revolved around the Soviet supplying of nuclear missiles to Cuba, only 90 miles from Florida. Kennedy squared off against Khrushchev and ultimately struck a deal with the Soviet leader at the eleventh hour: the Soviet Union would withdraw their missiles from Cuba and the United States would withdraw their missiles from Turkey. <span />
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a.They protested Congress's refusal for early payment of war bonuses.
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The Bonus Army March was a demonstration of the hunger march of World War I veterans who met in the summer of 1932 during the Great Depression in Washington, DC, with the demand to pay their contractual military certificates ahead of schedule. The law of 1924 gave them the right to receive veteran pension payments (bonuses) for certificates issued to them when they reached old age (they could not receive payments until 1945). Each certificate issued to a qualified veteran soldier had a face value equal to 1 percent of the promised soldier reward, per day. The main requirement of the Bonus Army was the immediate payment of cash certificates.
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Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound and it was from the Etruscans that the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions, from the spectacle of gladiatorial combat, to hydraulic engineering, temple design, and religious ritual, among many other things.
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