Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview The final project for HIS 135 is a written essay consisting of an overview of what you consider to be the most significant events in the decades following World War II. You must select one event that you studied—social‚ economic‚ or political—from each of the following decades: 1950s‚ 1960s‚ 1970s‚ 1980s‚ and 1990s. The event that you select should be the one that you believe had an overriding influence on U.S. culture‚ economy‚ or
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History 135 Week 9 Final Project: “The Most Significant Events”: When most people are taught about U.S. history‚ we think of mostly the bad times like the wars‚ the civil rights movements‚ President Kennedy’s and M. L. King Jr’s associations‚ just to name a few. In this paper I will discuss those and more going into the start of the 21st century. The previous five decades consisting of the 1950s into the millennium happened during the U.S. History equally turbulent‚ but exciting. There
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America ’s Most Significant Events Jennifer Blaxon 135 9/25/2011 Gary Grimm America ’s Most Significant Events Introduction This paper will address each important event of a decade‚ starting from the 1950’s throughout the 1990’s. These are the events I feel were most significant to America at that time‚ and also helped to shape the America we live in today. Understanding each event and its purpose will lead to having a better
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The decades of the 50’s‚ 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s had many significant events that shaped America into the nation that it is today. The events of these decades shaped the United States into the nation that it is today consist of the Cold War‚ the Vietnam War‚ the Watergate Scandal‚ Reaganomics‚ and the end of the Cold War. 1950’s – Cold War After World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two new superpowers and as archrivals. The United States wanted to keep the Soviet
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Most Significant Events Final Project K A University of Phoenix: Axia College Jonathan Tietz November 28‚ 2010 Most Significant Events of the 50`s‚ 60`s 70`s 80`s and 90`s World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. This was a war that involved most of the world’s nations and all of the world’s greatest powers. When the war ended the events that followed over the next five decades had a great effect on the American people. There are some events that had more of an effect than others
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Terrorism Kristina Ransom HIS/135 March 17‚ 2013 John Spatharos Terrorism is the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence)
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Most Significant Events 1950s to Today April 24‚ 2011 HIS 135 Introduction: The history of the United States plays a huge role in how the nation‚ as well as the world‚ is today. Politics‚ social‚ and economic factors led our country to where it is now. The following paragraphs will explain how each of these factors has helped shape the world by covering the most important events from each decade beginning in 1950 and continuing until 2000. The topics covered will include the Civil Rights Movement
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In World War II‚ the Holocaust is one of the most important and significant events that occurred. The Holocaust was a horrible period in the history of the war. Jews were murdered in acts of oppression. During the second world war‚ the Nazis led by Hitler were determine to murder the entire Jewish population. About six million Jews were killed and there was no real threat to put an end to this and stop the Nazis from killing those innocent people. These people were mistreated and taken from their
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The most significant event in my life One day‚ when I was lying on the bed and started to relax myself. Suddenly‚ a question jumped out from my mind. What was the most significant event that I had experience in my life? At the moment that I was wondering what was the answer. An answer came in to my mind. It was a trip. It was my first visit‚ to a country that I had always been told was my great grandfather’s motherland. It was a land I knew no more about than what the travel brochures
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A significant event in my life‚ that has recently passed‚ was when I traveled to Costa Rica. At the end of my junior year of high school‚ I decided that I wanted to graduate a half year early and travel to do a volunteer project. After my early graduation I traveled with a volunteer group out of Europe to Costa Rica for two months. This event has taught me many knew things and has influenced me to look into more volunteer projects for the future. Trying to decide what volunteer project I wanted
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