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Calls to arms : presidential speeches, messages, and declarations of war /

Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War is a collection of presidential messages and speeches that called America to war from John Adams and the Quasi-War with France to George W. Bush and the fight against international terrorism in Afghanistan. The documents include...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buhite, Russell D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. John Adams: Quasi-war with France (1797-98)
  • 2. Thomas Jefferson: War with Barbary States (1801-1806)
  • 3. James Madison: War of 1812 (1812), War with Algiers (1815)
  • 4. Andrew Jackson: Intervention in Sumatra and the Falklands (1831-32)
  • 5. James K. Polk: War with Mexico (1846)
  • 6. Abraham Lincoln: Civil War (1861)
  • 7. Ulysses S. Grant: Korean Expedition (1871)
  • 8. William McKinley: Spanish-American War (1898), Philippine Insurrection (1898-1900), China Relief Expedition (1900)
  • 9. Theodore Roosevelt: Panama Canal, Dominican Republic, Cuba (1903-1906)
  • 10. William H. Taft: Nicaragua (1912)
  • 11. Woodrow Wilson: Intervention in Mexico (1914-1916), Intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (1914), World War I (1917-1918), Intervention in Russia (1918-1919)
  • 12. Calvin Coolidge: Occupation of Nicaragua (1927-1928), Intervention in China (1927)
  • 13. Franklin D. Roosevelt: World War II (1941-1942)
  • 14. Harry S. Truman: Korea (1950)
  • 15. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Taiwan Strait (1955), Lebanon (1958)
  • 16. John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  • 17. Lyndon B. Johnson: Vietnam (1964, 1967), Dominican Republic (1965)
  • 18. Richard M. Nixon: Invasion of Cambodia (1970)
  • 19. Gerald R. Ford: Mayaguez Incident (1975)
  • 20. Jimmy Carter: Iran Hostage Rescue Attempt (1980)
  • 21. Ronald Reagan: Marines in Beirut and Intervention in Grenada (1983), Strike against Libya (1986), Intervention in Persian Gulf against Iran (1987)
  • 22. George H.W. Bush: Intervention in Panama (1989), Persian Gulf War against Iraq (1990-1991), Intervention in Somalia (1992)
  • 23. William J. Clinton: Intervention in Somalia (1993), Strike against Iraq (1993), Intervention in Haiti (1993-1994), Intervention in Bosnia (1993, 1995), Intervention in Kosovo (1999)
  • 24. George W. Bush: Al-Qaida Terrorist Attack (2001).