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The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. -- General Dwight D Eisenhower |
Treaty that ended the Mexican War, confirming the US victory. Mexico gave up California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevade, Utah, western Colorado and any claim to Texas, marking the US border as the Rio Grande, resulting in Mexico halving in size. In return the US paid Mexico $15 million. When the Senate come to ratify the treaty, the Wilmot Proviso, an amendment banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico, was rejected, a mark of the increasing tension over the issue of slavery.
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1775:
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |