American history game

Petrie · **Reply #120 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:33:48 PM

I just thought of it....we had a big stake in Panama and we actually owned the canal until 1999....might it be Panama?

Nick22 · **Reply #121 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:49:30 PM

No, in the 1870's Panama was still part of Columbia. It didn't gain its independence until 1904.
Nick

Nick22 · **Reply #122 on:** January 06, 2005, 04:13:45 PM

It was the Dominican Republic, the vote in the Senate was 28-28, 1 vote short of passage.
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #123 on:** January 06, 2005, 06:12:14 PM

I guess you just post another one since nobody figured out your last one.

Try to keep it a little more simpler I guess because I don't think there was any way we would have figured that one out.

Nick22 · **Reply #124 on:** January 07, 2005, 01:06:52 PM

Alright, I keep forgetting that I know more about US history than most people. I'll try to make the questions easier. What was Woodrow Wilson's re-election slogan(note the events in Europe at the time)?
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #125 on:** January 07, 2005, 02:02:30 PM

Off the top of my head, I know it has to do with isolationism and staying of out Europe's problems because I recall the chant "He kept us out of war."

Nick22 · **Reply #126 on:** January 07, 2005, 02:37:19 PM

That's it. 'He kept us Out of War' was his slogan. He won re-election by a narrow margin, but declared war on Germany in 1917. Your turn Arvens
Nick

Petrie · **Reply #127 on:** January 07, 2005, 09:50:15 PM

Perhaps this year in 20th century American history was our most dire year as it easily could've seen the end of the nation. Name the year, and the event that could've possibly destroyed our country, had it been taken to the next level.

Malte279 · **Reply #128 on:** January 08, 2005, 04:28:33 AM

1962? The Cuban Missile crisis? Taken to the next level it would have probably destroyed more than "just" the United States.

Petrie · **Reply #129 on:** January 08, 2005, 12:13:34 PM

That's what I was looking for.

Malte279 · **Reply #130 on:** January 08, 2005, 05:24:08 PM

Of what did president Dwight D. Eisenhower warn in his farewell address to the nation? (A speech which I consider very important).

Petrie · **Reply #131 on:** January 08, 2005, 07:08:52 PM

Oh, boy this is on the tip of my tongue, and if I don't put something on the table now Nick's going to get when he comes on again.

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I think it's something about being prepared for a rough future in regards to the missle stockpiling versus the Soviet Union....

Darn...I know I've heard this before.....

Malte279 · **Reply #132 on:** January 08, 2005, 08:19:18 PM

It was not so much the Soviet Union he warned of, though it had to do with it. Still my pessimist side thinks that the warning in that speech is still VERY up do date, which is one reason why I broach the subject. They did talk about this speech in the US history lessons during my students exchange.

Nick22 · **Reply #133 on:** January 09, 2005, 03:11:55 PM

The proliferation of automic weapons due to the arms race?
nick

Malte279 · **Reply #134 on:** January 10, 2005, 09:50:34 AM

No, it was more basic, but nothing less important a warning.

Petrie · **Reply #135 on:** January 10, 2005, 07:12:10 PM

Don't start a battle you can't win or would bring destruction of allied partners?

Malte279 · **Reply #136 on:** January 11, 2005, 03:22:35 AM

No. It was more like a warning of a thread from within. A danger not entirely caused by other countries or their weapons.

Petrie · **Reply #137 on:** January 11, 2005, 07:48:51 AM

Hmmm.....I think you can tell by now I don't really know the answer.

: I'm going out on a limb here--something that really became a problem around then had to do with human equality and social justice...is it that?

Nick22 · **Reply #138 on:** January 11, 2005, 02:41:50 PM

Good guess,. I don't know if that's right, but Its still a good guess.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #139 on:** January 16, 2005, 11:33:34 AM

Quoting from Eisenhowers farewell address:

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Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

I think that this warning is still very much up to date if one considers who funds election campaigns and who profits from some unpopular policies of governments.