Korematsu v. United States - Korematsu v. United States During World War II, western Japanese Americans were forced to move into relocation camps. In the United States Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, 1943, the court ruled that the Japanese American Internment was not unconstitutional. During World War II, Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. Korematsu was a japanese man who decided to remain in San Leandro, California and knowingly violate Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 of the U.S. Army. He was arrested and convicted. The question presented to the court was: Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and restricting the.
Katyn Massacre - the forest near Katyn and accused the Soviets of having massacred them. The Allies were aware that the Nazis had found a mass grave, as the discovery transpired, via radio transmissions intercepted and decrypted by Bletchley Park. The Soviet government denied the German charges and asserted that the Poles, war prisoners, had been captured and executed by invading German units in 1941. In 1944, having retaken the Katyn area, the Soviets exhumed the bodies again. That same year, President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt assigned Captain George Earle, his special emissary to the Balkans, to compile information on Katyn. Earle did so, using contacts in Bulgaria and Romania. Earle too concluded that the Soviet Union was guilty. FDR rejected that conclusion, saying that he was convinced of Nazi Germany's.
Vermont - State nickname: Green Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Montpelier Largest City Burlington Area - Total - Land - Water - % water Ranked 45th 24,923 km2 23,974 km2 949 km2 3.8% Population - Total (2000) - Density Ranked 49th 608,827 24.4/km2 Admittance into Union - Order - Date 14th March 4, 1791 Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4 Latitude Longitude 42°44'N to 45°0'43"N 71°28'W to 73°26'W Width Length Elevation -Highest -Mean -Lowest 130 km 260 km 1,339 meters 305 meters 29 meters ISO 3166-2: US-VT Vermont is the 14th state of the United States, famous for its beautiful scenery, dairy products, maple syrup and progressive politics. USS Vermont was named in honor of this state. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Law and Government 3 Geography 4.
Kentucky - for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Commonwealth of Kentucky (In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Bluegrass State Other U.S. States Capital Frankfort Largest City Louisville Area - Total - Land - Water - % water Ranked 37th 104,749 km˛ 102,989 km˛ 1,760 km˛ 1.7% Population - Total (2000) - Density Ranked 25th 4,041,769 39/km˛ Admittance into Union - Order - Date 15th June 1, 1792 Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4 Central: UTC-6/-5 eastern counties in Eastern Timezone, western counties in Western Timezone Latitude Longitude 36°30'N to 39°9'N 81°58'W to 89°34'W Width Length Elevation -Highest -Mean -Lowest 225 km 610 km 1,262 meters 230 meters 78 meters ISO 3166-2: US-KY Kentucky is a southern state of The United States Of America and was the 15th state admitted to the Union. Kentucky and its residents.
Kensington, Maryland - total population of 1,873. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics 4 Economy 5 Law and Government 5.1 Mayor or City Executive 5.2 Representative body 6 External resources 7 References History Kensington was incorporated as a town in 1894. Geography Kensington is located in Montgomery County, northwest of Silver Spring, northeast of Bethesda, southwest of Wheaton, and southeast of Rockville. Its latitude is 39o1'48" N, longitude 77o4'30" W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 km˛ (0.5 mi˛). 1.3 km˛ (0.5 mi˛) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 1,873 people, 729 households, and 467 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,418.0/km˛.
Kemp-Roth Tax Cut - hoped for more significant tax cuts. These cuts are widely blamed for the deficits in the budget of the United States government in the 1980s and early 1990s, although deficits had been around since 1969. They are credited with helping the 1980s economic expansion however. The theory underlying the tax cut, the Laffer Curve suggested that there was a revenue maximizing tax rate, tax too much, and output (and tax revenue) decrease, tax too little and though output increases, tax revenue still falls. Controversy still remains as to whether in 1981 the United States was over- or under-taxed..
Kent County, Maryland - same name in England (see Kent.) Its county seat is Chestertown. A farm in Kent County, Maryland Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Law and government 3 Geography 4 Demographics 5 Cities and towns History \nIn 1642, the Governor and Council appointed commissioners for the Isle and County of Kent. This act appears to represent the creation of Kent County. Law and government \nKent County was granted home rule in 1970 under a state code. Geography \nKent County includes five municipalities, all classified as towns under Maryland law:\n#Betterton (incorporated 1906)\n#Chestertown (incorporated 1805)\n#Galena (incorporated 1858)\n#Millington (incorporated 1890) (This town is partly in Kent County and partly in Queen Anne's County.)\n#Rock Hall (incorporated 1908)\nThe United States Census Bureau recognizes no Census-Designated Places in Kent County, which is unusual for Maryland counties, which.
Veto - the power to veto legislation by withholding the royal assent is a rarely-used reserve power of the monarch or the representative of the monarch. The Queen may veto a law that has been given royal assent by the Governor-General within one year of the legislation being assented to. In the United States, the President is able to veto legislation passed by the Congress, but this right is not absolute. A 2/3 majority of both houses can adopt a law even against a presidential veto; however, if the proposed law has only a simple majority, the president's veto is decisive. The veto power in the United States Constitution was derived from the British royal assent. On April 5, 1792 President George Washington vetoed a bill designed to apportion representatives among statess. This.
Key West, Florida - name of the island, Cayo Hueso, meaning "Bone Island". In 1763 when Great Britain took control of Florida, the community of Spaniards and Native Americans were moved to Havana. Florida returned to Spanish control 20 years later, but there was no official resettlement of the island. Informally the island was used by fishermen from Cuba and from the British Bahamas, who were later joined by others from the United States after that last nation's independence. While claimed by Spain, no nation exersized de facto control over the community there for some time. In 1815 the Spanish governor in Havana deeded the island of Key West to Juan Pablo Salas of Saint Augustine, Florida. After Florida was transferred to the United States, Salas sold the island to US businessman John Simonton for.
Kerry Nettle - worker. She joined the Australian Greens in 1998 and was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, joining Senator Bob Brown. Nettle is a social radical as well as an environmentalist. She believes in Government ownership of essential services, which include banking, airlines, telecommunications, health and education and other areas privatised in the last two decades in Australia. She argues that private ownership of these assets is "social theft." She is probaly the most left-wing member of the Australian Parliament. When United States President George W. Bush visited Canberra on 23 October 2003, Nettle and Brown took their opposition to the war in Iraq to the point of interjecting during his address to a joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament. They wore signs referring.
Kevin Rudd - held until 1991, when Goss, by now Premier, appointed him Director-General of the Cabinet Office. These positions gave him experience of a wide range of domestic issues in addition to his foreign affairs experience. When the Goss government lost office in 1995, Rudd was hired as a Senior China Consultant by the accounting firm KPMG Australia. He held this position while he unsuccessfully contested the federal seat of Griffith at the 1996 federal election. In 1998 he contested the seat again, successfully. After the 2001 elections Rudd was elected to the Opposition front bench and was appointed shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this position he strongly criticised the Liberal government of John Howard over their support for the United States in the 2003 Iraq war, while maintaining Labor's position of.
KGB - from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. The KGB's domain was roughly that of the American CIA and the counterintelligence division of the FBI. In March of 1953, Lavrenty Beria united the MVD and MGB into one body, the MVD. Within a year, Beria was executed and the MVD was split up. The reformed MVD retained its internal security functions while the new KGB took on external security functions. The KGB was subordinated to the Council of Ministers. On July 5, 1978 the KGB was renamed the "KGB of the USSR" with the KGB Chairman given a seat on the council. The KGB was dissolved due to the participation of its chief, Colonel General Vladimir Kryuchkov, in the August 1991 coup attempt designed to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev. He used many.
Khmer Rouge - monarchy. Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed on March 18, 1970, and brought to power the pro-American General Lon Nol. The Khmer Rouge army (the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea), aided by North Vietnam and supported by Norodom Sihanouk, began a revolution in response in 1970, quickly gaining control over most of the country. In April 1975 they finally overthrew Lon Nol, to establish Democratic Kampuchea. The factors which led to the Khmer Rouge victory remain extremely controversial especially in the United States, where the Cambodian situation forms part of a broader controversy over United States involvement in southeast Asia. Some have argued that the rise of the Khmer Rouge was the result of the United States pullout from Vietnam and Congressional refusal to fund the Lon Nol government. In response, it.
Khalistan - Sikh concept of "halemi-raj," meaning 'humanitarian & just governance.' In this definition of governance, the citizens of the country with political authority are servants of the same ideology as normal citizens; and their position as an official of the government would grant them authority to make decisions based on the public, rather than self-serving power. It is supported by Sikh separatists as a homeland for the Sikhs and other communities. Since there is no historical claim to the land as a Sikh homeland, and on account of the portrayal by International media of Sikhs as radical, public opinion in India is against the proposal. The idea of a nation-state called Khalistan is no longer prominent in India, but is supported by some Sikhs in other countries, notably the United States. Sociologically,.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - birth has been variously reported as March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965. He attended Chowan College, a small Baptist school in North Carolina, for a few years (beginning in 1983) before transferring to the North Carolina Agriculture and Technology University and completing a degree in engineering in 1986. Subsequently he went to Afghanistan and joined the fight against the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (Some sources believe he was fighting in Afghanistan before he came to the United States.) While he was in the Philippines in late 1994 and early 1995, he said that he was a Saudi or a Qatari plywood exporter named Abdul Majid. He had parties with alcohol and spent lavish times with Manila women. He often went to go-go bars and karaoke clubs.
Kiribati - Demographics 7 Culture 8 Miscellaneous topics 8.1 External Links History Main article: History of Kiribati Since 1892, the Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate together with the Ellice Islands. They became a colony in 1916 and autonomous in 1971. In 1978, the Ellice Islands became independent as Tuvalu, followed by Kiribati in 1979. Following independence, the United States relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island which became part of Kiribati territory. Politics Main article: Politics of Kiribati The parliament of Kiribati, called Maneaba ni Maungatabu is elected every four years, and consists of 36 representatives. The president is both head of state and head of government, and is called Beretitenti. Each of the 21 inhabited islands has a local councils which takes care of the daily affairs..
Kingsbury Commitment - The Bell System and independent telephone operators reduced competition out of concern for government intervention. The government had been increasingly worried that AT&T and the other Bell Companies were monopolizing the industry. Under Theodore N. Vail from 1907 AT&T had bought Bell-associated companies and organized them into new hierarchies. AT&T had also acquired many of the independents, and bought control of Western Union, giving it a monopolistic position in both telephone and telegraph communication. It is also credited with using almost illegal methods to eliminate competition. Vail stated that there should be "one policy, one system (AT&T's) and universal service, no collection of separate companies could give the public the service that [the] Bell... system could give." Faced with a government investigation for antitrust violations AT&T had to act. In the.
Kievan Rus' - Soviet Union: Part I History of the Soviet Union: Part II Collapse of the Soviet Union Commonwealth of Independent States History of post-communist Russia List of famous Russians Kievan Rus' was the early Russian state dominated by the city of Kiev from about 860 to the middle of the 12th century. The reigns of St. Vladimir (980-1015) and his son Iaroslav the Wise (1019-1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity and the creation of the first Russian written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early History of Kievan Rus' 2 The Golden Age of Kiev 3 The Rise of Regional Centers 4 References Early History of Kievan Rus' According to the Primary Chronicle, the earliest chronicle of Kievan Rus', a.
King David Hotel bombing - people were killed, most of them civilians: 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 other. Around 45 people were injured. The attack was initially ordered by David Ben Gurion, who was in the United States, but he later changed his mind and ordered the bombing to be cancelled. But Menachem Begin, the head of Irgun, went ahead anyway. Both Ben Gurion and Begin would later become Israeli Prime Ministers. The attack was commanded by Yosef Avni and Yisrael Levi. The attack on the hotel was the largest attack against the British in the history of the Mandate. Some claim this act should be considered in light of the escalating violence in the region, and the continuing conflict between the three main forces in the region: British, Israeli, and Palestinian. In.
Kilkenny Township, New Hampshire - townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part on any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited). Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 66.4 km˛ (25.6 mi˛). 66.4 km˛ (25.6 mi˛) of it is land and 0.04% is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are no people living in the township.
