Overview of the 1960s The 60s included all of the following: 1. Civil Rights Movement: From MLK to Black Power 2. Several Cold War foreign policy crises. 3. The Assassination of JFK‚ MLK‚ Malcolm X‚ RFK 4. Vietnam Conflict‚ Civil Unrest & the Woodstock Generation There were 3 presidents in the 60s: 1. John Kennedy: 1961 - 1963 2. Lyndon Johnson: 1964 – 1968 3. Richard Nixon: 1969 – 1974 The decade that began with the election of the youngest president and the quote
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Midterm essay Antebellum America was a period in American history where the nation was divided in two. The North‚ dependent on factories and manufacturing‚ lived an industrial lifestyle. Cities were overpopulated with people and living conditions were not the best‚ but the ambition to make money in the North brought people there. The South was not industrialized like the North; instead‚ it relied on an agricultural lifestyle with wide fields and acres of lands. It produced and exported cotton
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completely skewed compared to the evolution of the rest of the western world. This was mainly due to Russia being so big as well as having a much larger population than the rest of europe and having no government to match the sheer size of the masses. During the end of the 19th century into the 20th‚ the population of Russia was the fastest growing western nation‚ other than the U.S.‚ with their population more than double what it was in the early 19th century. As well as having a huge population “the
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy´s speech ¨Enemies from Within¨ take place between 1950-1951. The 1950´s was a time of the Cold War when people feared communists‚ which inspired Fahrenheit 451 to be set in 2053 to predict what the future would look like. Bradbury created a visual for what society could turn out to be like if Communism took over and everyone was the same‚ controlled by government. The conflicts of fear‚ government control‚ and propaganda in Senator Joseph R. McCarthy´s speech ¨Enemies from Within¨
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The 1960s Music and Drug Revolution The decade of the 1960s is most likely talked about because of the Vietnam War‚ but most over look what was going on in America. Back in the states the faces of angry anti- war activists were on every major street corner you looked‚ they protested for peace and to get their brothers out of the jungles where the vicious war took place. The sixties were also the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement for Black Americans to receive racial dignity‚ economic and
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The denotation for the American Dream can vary depending on the diverse cultures in America. The American Dream during the 1940’s had various definitions due to how each cultural group was affected. Such examples are: the Native American’s not being shown recognition for their input in World War II‚ the Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual‚ and Transgender (LGBT) community being unrecognized as a cultural group‚ women being pushed away from their jobs after World War II ended‚ and etcetera. Thus‚ the average definition
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We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools” - Martin Luther King Jr. In America in the 1940’s Racial discrimination was a big issue that caused many conflicts throughout the years. African Americans had very little rights and were treated poorly by the rest of society. Society believed that the African Americans carried different diseases than them and that they violate every women they come across. The African Americans had lower paying labouring jobs with no
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defined by name or not: communism and capitalism. Their ideologies are inherently contrasting‚ and often hostile to one another. Throughout the hostilities‚ slander and governmental propaganda has become widespread creating fear and hate towards communism‚ although in some communist countries the same can be claimed. In this document‚ I will juxtapose these ideological differences and hopefully disperse any misconceptions you may have of the two systems. To understand communism‚ one must fully comprehend
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The Decade of Fear was essentially caused by one man – Joseph McCarthy. When he served on the Senate from 1947-1957‚ he seemed to make it his personal mission to eradicate all traces of communism from the earth (or at least America). Right away‚ he went after Hollywood‚ black-listing anyone involved in the entertainment industry whom he thought might be linked with communists. The following year‚ he released a list to the public with the names of 154 organizations he believed to have communist affiliations
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tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Fearing that the Soviet Union intended to "export" communism to other nations‚ America centered its foreign policy on the "containment" of communism‚ both at home and abroad. Although formulation of the Truman Doctrine‚ Marshall Plan‚ and the Berlin Airlift suggested that the United States had a particular concern with the spread of communism in Europe‚ America’s policy of containment extended to Asia as well. Indeed‚ Asia proved to be the site
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