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Pre-Civil and War
Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900.
Pre-Civil War architecture in the region made heavy use of cobblestones for walls.
Mountain Whites were usually poor whites living in the Southern United States in Pre-Civil War America.
Pre-Civil War definitions of the South often included Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware as well.

War and photo
* 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
< imagemap > File: 1930s decade montage. png | From left, clockwise: Dorothea Lange's photo of the homeless Florence Thompson show the effects of the Great Depression ; Due to the extreme drought conditions, the farms become dry and the Dust Bowl spreads through America ; The Battle of Wuhan during the Second Sino-Japanese War ; Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes an American national icon ; German dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in Europe, which culminated in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II ; The Hindenburg explodes over a small New Jerseian airfield, effectively ending commercial airship travel ; Mohandas Gandhi walks to the Indian Ocean in the Salt March of 1930 .| 420px | thumb
Image: William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908. jpg | Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio
*" Armored Car Like Oil Tanker Used by Chinese " Popular Mechanics, March 1930 article and photo of armoured train of Chinese Civil War
Oblique aerial photo of March Field in May 1940, just before World War II, looking north to south.
Doolittle in a pre-World War II photo
This photo showed a bridge broken during World War II, with 10 men on either side of the broken span pulling each other across the dangerous gap by rope.
* October 18 – The first issue of Rolling Stone rolls off the press at about 5: 30pm, with a cover dated November 9 and featuring a photo of John Lennon in the film How I Won the War.
In 1860 he was visited at the Museum by Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales ; his photo ( the one pictured above ) was taken by famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady .< ref >
* The neo-Gothic Marienkirche, built between 1868 – 1872, was heavily damaged in World War II ( see photo above ), but was rebuilt after the war.
Wood's field jacket from the Spanish American War seen in above photo — on display at the National Museum of American History
The photo was used in a 1945 War Bond drive which raised $ 26. 3 billion.
Artists later used the photo as a model for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, commonly referred to as " The Iwo Jima Memorial ", at Arlington, and the U. S. Postal Service put the photo on a U. S. postage stamp.
# It is a historically significant photo of the event and one of the defining images of the Vietnam War.
* Betty Grable, American actress, singer, dancer, and pin-up girl whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number one pinup of the World War II era
* Article and photo describing launch of War on Poverty
With the advent of the Second World War aviation, field surveys began giving way to photogrammetry, photo interpretation, and geodesy.
When the U. S. joined World War II in December 1941, the photo made Hayworth one of the top two " pin-up girls " of the war years ; the other was the blonde Betty Grable.
alt = Black-and-white photo of three young men wearing World War I midshipmen uniforms carrying supplies for a picnic on a beach with three ships in the background.
Saarlandstraße ( today's Stresemannstraße ) looking towards " Askanischer Platz " with the ruin of Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof | Anhalt Station and the tower stump of the " Protestant Saint Luke's Church ", after the Bombing of Berlin in World War II | air raids during World War II, photo taken by Abraham Pisarek.
* Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway # 276594 — photo and short history of an example of a typical modern ( post-World War II ) steel boxcar.

War and Johnson
Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.
At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.
Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.
Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.
As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.
" The Situation ", a Harper's Weekly editorial cartoon shows Secretary of War Stanton aiming a cannon labeled " Congress " to defeat Johnson.
Johnson notified Congress of War Secretary Stanton's suspension and Grant's interim appointment.
Through his allies, Johnson maneuvered among the senators in an attempt to secure a favorable vote ; for example, a pledge was made to Sen. James W. Grimes to install a more highly respected War Secretary and to cease interference with Congress ' Reconstruction efforts.
To fulfill promises made during the impeachment trial, Johnson nominated John M. Schofield as War Secretary, who was confirmed.
" Johnson, Andrew ," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War.
The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".
Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:
* 1967 – Cold War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
* 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a " War on Poverty " in the United States.

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