Henry H. Arnold

just ended. Lincoln wanted to get out of the White House to get a good laugh. Lincoln decided to see one of his favorite plays, Our American Cousin. Arriving late, Lincoln was seated in the Presidential Box along with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Rathbone, and Rathbone’s fiancé, Clara Harris. (Holzer) At exactly 10:15 p.m., Booth entered the private box, and shot his .44- caliber single- shot derringer into the back of President Lincoln’s head. Rathbone tried to stop Booth, but he was stabbed

influential scientist and biologists in Godalming, England on July 26, 1894. His father, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a noted teacher, biologist, and naturalist who was a supporter and follower of Charles Darwin's work in his theory on evolution. He also assisted in the schooling of the famous writer H. G.Wells. Aldous’ father was a teacher as well as a writer. And his mother, Julia, was a descendant of Matthew Arnold. He was the third son out of four in his family with his two older brothers, Julian and Andrew

The memoirs of Henry L. Stimson expressed the concern that the Japanese government would control all of the far east if the war continued (Doc A). Henry L. Stimson’s point of view was that the bombing of Hiroshima was a military measure to insure the surrender of Japan (Doc A). However, this is untrue because the Japanese were already

APUSH DBQ As World War II was coming to an end during 1945, the creation of one of the most destructive weapons known to humanity occurred within the United States. This weapon, known as “the atomic bomb,” was used on the two Japanese cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in a death toll unprecedented by any military weapon used before and an immediate, unconditional surrender. Some historians believe President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb in order to intimidate the Soviet Union whereas

help change the world of aviation by working with a crew to design a plane with navigational devices that would help pilot fly their planes in climate that people use to think that it was too dangerous to fly in. But sadly on September 27, 1993, James H. Doolittle died in Pebble Beach, California at the age of ninety- six and is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery. James Harold Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896, in Alameda, California. He spent most of his youth with his mother

A Life of Despair: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts to parents, David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, both were actors. David Poe, who died shortly after, abandoned the family before Poe was two years old, leaving his mother alone with the three kids. Not too long after, Poe watched as his mother slowly died of Tuberculosis, while coughing up blood. Unfortunately for Poe, this was just the beginning of a life full of despair. Though he was never

Through out the Great Depression there were many photographers, but one of the best was Dorothea Lange. Lange was born on the 25th of May in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey as the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn. She decided to become a photographer at the age of 18. She studied photography at Columbia University in New York. At the age of 20 she began to travel the world. Later in life she settled down in San Francisco, California, where she met her first husband, artist Maynard Dixon. She had

I. America Secedes from the Empire • The battles of Lexington and Concord called people together. On May 10, 1775, the 2nd Continental Congress with 13 colonies gathered to draft new appeals for the British people and help build an army/navy for them. A. Congress Drafts George Washington Thesis: The Continental Congress took a huge leap to choose George Washington to be their commander of Virginia and they made a great decision in doing so. George Washington was selected to lead

Ceci Carmichael Mr. Lewis A.P. US History Period 4 11/19/14 Spies of the American Revolution The American Revolution and the Revolutionary War was the starting point of America’s journey to become an independent country. The revolution was an aggressive movement to finally be free of Britain once and for all. There were a lot of components in a victory for the Americans: help from foreign countries, strong unity, home field advantage, and spies. Yes, spies. The spies who were in the American Revolution

war. With the bomb and the new fear we created, we no longer depended on Russia’s help to win the war with Japan (Churchill, Winston). Americas other political justification was that the bomb would order the complete surrender of Japan. According to Henry Stimson, if they had continued to fight, the war would have gone on until 1946. They believed that in bombing Japan, the war would end quicker. Leo Szilard even states that the war would have ended on its own in under 9 months. They killed millions