Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.

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.

Following the First World War, the British Battles Nomenclature Committee was formed to decide on standard names for all battles and subsidiary actions.

As the Vietnam War rapidly escalated in the ensuing years, so did student activism at the University, particularly that organized by the Vietnam Day Committee.

Churchill chaired the War Cabinet and the Defence Committee.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

She was active in the peace movement and food boycotts, including the Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U. S. Congress.

The Second World War effectively ended the International Agricultural Institute, though it was only officially dissolved by resolution of its Permanent Committee on February 27, 1948.

The Second World War left the surviving remnant of Jews in central Europe as displaced persons ( refugees ); an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, established to examine the Palestine issue, surveyed their ambitions and found that 97 % wanted to migrate to Palestine.

Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into US weapons technology during World War II.

During World War II, Voroshilov was a member of the State Defense Committee.

In 1943 he was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to paint glassblowers at a Birmingham factory making cathode ray tubes for the early radar sets.

During World War II, Mead served as executive secretary of the National Research Council's Committee on Food Habits.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as Director of Shell-filling ( 1917 – 1919 ) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee.

* 1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

In July 1915 a Central War Industries Committee, established under the chairmanship of a prominent Octobrist Guchkov, included ten workers ' representatives-in which the Petrograd Mensheviks agreed to join despite the objections of their leaders abroad.

Early in that year, Guchkov had been taking soundings among senior army officers and members of the Central War Industries Committee about a possible coup to force the abdication of the Tsar.

* 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

In his War Memoirs, Lloyd-George wrote of meeting Weizmann in 1916 that Weizmann:

Prior to his inauguration, he led a meeting of advisors at Pearl Harbor addressing foremost issues ; agreed objectives were to balance the budget during his term, to bring the Korean War to an end, to defend vital interests at lower cost through nuclear deterrent, and to end price and wage controls.

* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

* 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

The signing meeting saw the first formal meeting of the heads of respective navies since before the 1991 Gulf War.

In late 1960s and early 1970s, student and faculty activists protested against the Vietnam War and MIT's defense research .< ref > The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on March 4, 1969 during a meeting of faculty members and students seeking to shift the emphasis on military research towards environmental and social problems.

* 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

* 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe

This statement was originally delivered at the same IOT international meeting which Carroll discussed in an article titled " The Ice War "< ref >

Widely read and loved in the Soviet Union, Bradbury relates the following meeting with Sergei Bondarchuk, director of soviet 1967 epic War and Peace, at a Hollywood award ceremony in Bondarchuk's honor: " They formed a long queue and as Bondarchuk was walking along it he recognized several people:

However, it should not be easily forgotten that Abstract Expressionism itself grew directly out of the meeting of American ( particularly New York ) artists with European Surrealists self-exiled during World War II.

In an effort to establish a university to serve Brighton, a public meeting was held in December 1911 at the Royal Pavilion in order to discover ways to fund the construction of a university ; the project was halted by World War I, and the money raised was used instead for books for the Municipal Technical College.

* July 30 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

** Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union's policies toward Eastern Europe.

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

* November 2 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders (" the Wise Men ") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort.

** Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.

* December 23 – First Anglo-Afghan War: At a meeting with the Afghan general Akbar Khan, the British diplomat Sir William Hay Macnaghten is shot dead at close quarters.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 asserted that even a small-scale regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.

He refused to accede to the demands of the Lutheran princes ; on the other hand, although the increase of sectarianism was discussed, no decisive steps were taken to suppress it, and the only result of the meeting was a grant of assistance for the Turkish War, which had just been renewed.