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Sept. `07
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Navy Expanding Fleet: New Enemies in Mind Reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding, from 2005 to 2020, Navy wants to increase the 281-ship fleet by 32 vessels –Cost $13 billion per year –Focus on destroyers and cruisers –Less emphasis on submarines
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Boxer Rebellion
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Nobel Peace Prize According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who –“...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses” The awards given to Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Mother Teresa, and Barack Obama have been much-debated Foreign Policy magazine lists Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vaclav Havel, Pope John Paul II and Corazon Aquino as people who "never won the prize, but should have”
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Nobel Peace Prize 3 sitting U.S. presidents won: TR, WW, Obama (Carter received for post-presidency work in ‘02) TR in 1906: for negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War WW in 1919: for pushing for a League on Nations as part of Treaty of Versailles Carter in 2002: for decades of untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights Obama in 2009: for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between nations –3 rd A-A: Ralph Bunche for Middle East peace efforts in 1950, MLK, Jr., in 1964
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Taft and Wilson Taft –Dollar Diplomacy Wilson –Missionary Diplomacy
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U.S. Navy Fleets
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Dunkin Donuts in Moscow http://dunkindonutsmoscow.ru /gallery/2
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