American Government

  • slavery in America

    slavery in America
    It is estimated that approximately US had one million three hundred thousand black slaves in the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century, a total of eight and a half million inhabitants. Only a hundred thousand blacks were free. Slavery was not a homogeneous geographic distribution: it was almost nonexistent in the North versus South situation. In states like Virginia, could become half of its total population.
  • The Internal Armed Conflict

    The Internal Armed Conflict
    The internal armed conflict - or war in Guatemala (1960 - 1996) was the internal civil war occurred in Guatemala, Guatemala between the Army and civilians organized in a guerrilla rebels, whose 36-year conflict left 250,000 people dead or missing . The first stage of the war began after the attempt to overthrow the government of President Manuel Ydígoras, action undertook a group of young military HQ Justo Rufino Barrios -also known as Castillo de San Rafael de Matamoros, 13 November 1960.
  • The Attack of Pearl Harbor

    The Attack of Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories.
  • Area 51

    Area 51
    For decades, a U.S. military installation located roughly 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Las Vegas had been one of the worst-kept secrets on the planet. Area 51, as it's commonly known to UFO conspiracy theorists and aviation buffs who piece together the details of classified military spy plane prototypes, is a place whose existence the U.S. government long refused even to acknowledge. But in August 2013, the shroud over Area 51 finally lifted, at least a bit. Jeffrey T. Richelson, a resea
  • The assassinated of Kennedy

    The assassinated of Kennedy
    During the half century since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, you may have heard about a few conspiracy theories. Decades of investigations, hearings, documents, records, books and interviews have failed to satisfy conspiracy theorists
  • The Erthquake in guatemala

    The Erthquake in guatemala
    The 1976 Guatemala earthquake was recorded on Wednesday, February 4, 1976 at 3:01:43 local time The quake had a magnitude of 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale and occurred at a depth of 5 km, near the Los Amates, Department of Izabal, 160 kilometers northeast of the capital Guatemala city; in seconds third of the capital was reduced to rubble and thousands of buildings collapsed; the earthquake was also felt in Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico, as far as their telluric waves were felt.
  • The Environmental Inpact In guatemala

    The Environmental Inpact In guatemala
    The environmental impact is the effect of human activity on the natural environment . The concept can be extended to the effects of a catastrophic natural phenomenon. Technically, it is the alteration of the environmental baseline
  • Destruction of Twin Towers in U.S

    Destruction of Twin Towers in U.S
    The United States recalls Thursday thirteen years the attack on the Twin Towers, where nearly three thousand people died under the trauma of the threat of Islamic State and a future intervention in Iraq
  • sinkholes

    sinkholes
    stunning images of giants round holes suddenly opened and swallowed three buildings in a neighborhood of the capital of Guatemala circled the world. At least two people were dragged to the depths. Hours before Tropical Storm Agatha had hit the area and geologists who examined the phenomenon pointed out the existence of underground caves beneath the ground, but the exact cause of the earth to open in a perfect circle was a mystery. Which was exactly what caused the appearance of this deadly pit?
  • The poverty in Guatemala

    The poverty in Guatemala
    In almost half of rural municipalities in Guatemala (44 percent), the majority of the population (over 75 percent) live in poverty, according to the results of Rural Poverty Map 2011, released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE) and the World Bank. According to the Map of Rural Poverty, the departments of Alta Verapaz, Solola, Totonicapan and Suchitepéquez are those with the highest incidence of rural poverty in the country.