The 1929 “Cruiser Act” raised some controversy among those who believed that war had become obsolete, But the ships built under the act would be workhorses in the war to come.
Fans of The History Guy can check me out on tonight's (2/9) episode of History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames entitled "Islands" and Friday's (2/13) new episode of The UnXplained with William Shatner entitled "Mysteries of Ancient Africa."
The so-called “Torpedo Crisis” afflicted German U-boats in a critical part of the war, giving the allies much-needed time to improve anti-submarine tactics, and thus might have changed the course of the entire war.
Since 1928 the figures on bills printed for the general public have remained the same - Our familiar Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant and Franklin. But the United States has had many different kinds of federally printed paper money, and many different people have adorned it.