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Civilian Control of the Military

29 Jul 1932 – The Great Depression sent poverty-stricken Americans scrambling for any available source of income. Veterans of WWI certainly felt pinched, and cast about for ways to get cash, but, unlike Americans who hadn’t fought in the...

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The GI Bill

On 22 June 1944, during WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, an unprecedented act to compensate military members –known as GIs–for their efforts in WW II. As the last of his sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt created...

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