Secretary Dulles also had a tendency to speak dramatically. Dulles claimed that by moving to the brink of atomic war, he ended the Korean War and avoided a larger conflict. During the Eisenhower years, the United States consolidated the policy of containment, although some critics have argued that the administration extended it too far. Secretary Dulles was the most prominent advocate of global containment and he traveled the world tirelessly to ensure its success.
In , assistance began to flow to the new nation of South Vietnam, created after the withdrawal of France from Indochina. Menu Menu. A Short History of the Department of State. For more information, please see the full notice. Caraway, born near Bakerville, Tennessee, had been appointed to the Senate two months earlier to fill the vacancy left by her late husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway.
An international panel overseeing the restoration of the Great Pyramids in Egypt overcomes years of frustration when it abandons modern construction techniques in favor of the method employed by the ancient Egyptians. Located at Giza outside Cairo, some of the oldest manmade In , Britain succeeded the Boers as the rulers of Natal, which controlled Zululand, the neighboring kingdom of the Zulu On January 12, , Henry Ford sets a land-speed record of Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
Though the creators and the stars of the On January 12, , Soviet troops create a breach in the German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for a year and a half. The Soviet forces punched a hole in the siege, which ruptured the German encirclement and allowed for more supplies to come in along Lake Ladoga.
After his Mormon bank fails in the Panic of , Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community. A sensitive and religious-minded man since his youth, Joseph Smith claimed the angel Moroni visited him in , when he The oil tycoon Blake Carrington John Forsythe prepares to marry his former secretary, the beautiful and innocent Krystle Linda Evans , in the three-hour television movie that kicks off the prime-time ABC soap opera Dynasty on January 12, Over the next eight years, the The storm came with no warning, and some accounts say that the temperature fell Shabazz believed that Farrakhan was responsible for the assassination of her father in , and sought to exact revenge through a hired killer.
Subsequently, Shabazz admitted her Born in Rosehearty, Scotland, Mercer studied medicine at the
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