Al Capone

Examples of Al Capone in the following topics:

• Prohibition

  • Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone and his archenemy, Bugs Moran, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
  • By the end of the decade, Capone controlled all 10,000 Chicago speakeasies, illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold, and ruled the bootlegging business from Canada to Florida.
  • Alphonse "Al" Capone headed the largest criminal organization in the Chicago area during Prohibition.
  • A colorful figure notorious for a multitude of crimes related to his illegal alcohol operation, Capone was eventually imprisoned for tax evasion in 1931.

• Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

  • Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
  • One of the most notorious gangsters of the Prohibition era, Al "Scarface" Capone made millions running bootlegging and other illegal activities in Chicago.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • Gangsters such as Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Moe Dalitz, Joseph Ardizzone, and Sam Maceo were involved in bribery, extortion, loan sharking, and money laundering.

• The War on Terror

  • Originally, the campaign was waged against al-Qaeda and other militant organizations with the purpose of eliminating them.
  • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden signed a fatwā, as the head of al-Qaeda, declaring war on the West and Israel.
  • Bush delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban government of Afghanistan to turn over Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders operating in the country or face attack.
  • The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
  • The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.

• The Disputed Election of 2000

  • In the disputed and extremely close 2000 presidential election, Democratic candidate Al Gore lost to Republican George W.
  • Bush, then-governor of Texas, and Democratic candidate and incumbent Vice President Al Gore.
  • Al Gore of Tennessee was a consistent front-runner for the nomination.
  • Al Gore unanimously won the Democratic nomination at the Democratic National Convention, and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was nominated for Vice President.

• Al Smith and the Election of 1928

  • Democrat Al Smith, the first Roman Catholic presidential nominee, lost the 1928 election in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.
  • Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith was the Democratic Party’s candidate for president in the election of 1928.
  • Republican Herbert Hoover defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928 to become the 31st President of the United States.
  • Democrat Al Smith came from humble beginnings in New York City and rose through the political ranks to become a four-time governor of New York state.

• Policy in the Middle East

  • In May of 2014, the coalition led by then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was able to win 92 of the 328 seats in parliament, and he seemed poised to begin another term as the country’s ruler.
  • In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a radical Islamist militant group consisting of mostly Sunni Muslims and once affiliated with al-Qaeda, launched a military offensive in Northern Iraq and seized control of Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq and Syria.
  • On June 29, 2014, it proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph, the state’s political and religious leader.
  • Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S.
  • Al-Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.

• September 11th and the War on Terror

  • On that Tuesday morning, 19 members of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets.
  • Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda, and in 2004, the group's leader Osama bin Laden, who had initially denied involvement, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
  • Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited the United States's support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives for the attacks.
  • The United States responded to the attacks by launching the "War on Terror" and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who were accused of harboring al-Qaeda.
  • For that purpose, the United States began transporting men suspected of being members of al-Qaeda to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for questioning.

• Obama's Foreign Policy

  • The unrest grew out of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, escalating to armed conflict after President Bashar al-Assad's government violently repressed protests calling for his removal.
  • The war is being fought by the Syrian Government, a loose alliance of Syrian Arab rebel groups, the Syrian Democratic Forces, Salafi jihaidst groups (including al-Nusra Front), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, sometimes referred to as ISIS).
  • A demonstration in Homs, Syria against the al-Assad regime (April 18, 2011)

• The George W. Bush Administration

  • After two vote recounts, Democratic presidential candidate and incumbent Vice President Al Gore filed a lawsuit for a third recount.
  • The Florida Secretary of State certified Bush as the winner of Florida, and Florida's 25 electoral votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, enough to defeat Al Gore.
  • In October of 2001, he ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and capture Osama bin Laden on the pretense that "weapons of mass destruction" were being hidden by these groups.