Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... This oath was extremely important because if America did not hold to this promise the worlds view on America could be forever damaged. ... The antiwar movement had about 500,000 participants (Tune-in, urn-on and drop out packet p. 2). ... As the cameras pointes at the police the demonstrators chanted, "The whole world is watching." ... The war did not only affect the people in Vietnam but the people in the U.S. as well...

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From the Peace Corps has grown an agency of the federal government, which has changed views, ways of life, and people throughout American history, due to their devotion to world peace and friendship. ... Kennedy officially announced to more than fifteen hundred democrats, on November 2, 1960, his idea, thoughts, and dreams, about a Peace Corps that would be different from any other in the world. ... It is designed to permit our people to exercise more fully their responsibilities in the great common cause of world development (Kennedy)."" ... In the 1960's the Cold War was obviously a ...

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. ... Upon learning of this threat facing the nation President Kennedy immediately organized the ExComm, a group of his twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis. ... He also pulled the quarantine line back and raised military readiness to DEFCON 2. ... President Kennedy was able to maintain peace and keep the world from entering into what could possibly have been the very first nuclear war. This also proved to the people all over the world that negotiation and compromise c...

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1) The Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war. ... I honestly believe that these students help spark a fire in people to do something about it. ... The U.S. is the world power and it is our responsibility to protect others that are getting bullied into something. ... If Communism began to spread the world would have been dictated to instead of being a democratic society. ... I think this is the, along with their common goal, most important similarity and also why they both ended up shot. ...

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Medical breakthroughs were important in the sixties. ... Before President Kennedy came into office, a U-2 plane was shot down in the Soviet Union while spying on the Soviet Union, thus cutting all Diplomatic ties between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. ... He lead marches and spoke to millions of people. ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movement important to the sixties. ...

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The world saw this as a selfish move by the U.S. ... Potter raises the important question about "what the war has done for freedom in America?" ... Kerry says that he feels ashamed to have fought in the Vietnam War because of how negatively received war veterans are by the people of our country. ... In my opinion many of the problems that existed in the time of the war that are discussed by these powerful speakers have been addressed, but still exist in our world today. ... These men feel as though speaking about these issues in their arguments against the war is important because they may...

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Lyndon Baines Johnson "embodied the contradictions of political liberalism" in post war America, and he "orchestrated its triumphs, and endured its agonies"(Schulman 2). He was also the maker of its most important legislative achievements and a factor in its ultimate demise... (2) Classical liberalism took on a "negative view of freedom." ... The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. ... Third, it vowed to "defend the free world" from the advances of communism. ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union, which was aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. ... They enabled the youths to escape to a different kind of world. Because of the youths' great desire to achieve a universal sense of peace and harmony, drugs were sometimes a ve...

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Politics played an important role of his growing up. ... His most important era in his presidentency (1963-1968) was his progress of Civil Rights for blacks. ... The American people were outraged by this increase. ... I believe that the men who endure the dangers of battle-fighting there for us tonight are helping the entire world avoid far greater conflicts, far wider wars, far more destruction, than this one . ... What we won when all of our people united must not now be last in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of out people. ...

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Kennedy. 2. ... However, a few people still argue that the commission did a poor job on investigating the issue and suppressed important evidence that pointed to the conspiracy. ... He had very few, if any, close relationships with other people and he appeared to have great difficulty in finding a meaningful place in the world. ... They are believed to have suppressed important evidence such as John Wilkes Booth's diary. ... Although he knew about the Japanese secret declaration of war, he never told the people who needed to know such as Admiral Husband E. ...

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Figure 2 - JFK Image two the JFK portrait was done by Andy Warhol, he portrayed many celebrities in this way which also included Jackie Kennedy JFK's wife and Marylyn Monroe the worlds most famous actress, who JFK was said to have had an affair with. ... "It's not just Kennedy himself it's what people see in him. ... When looking back at JFK's presidency people see, the man who saved the world from nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, the lost leader who would of saved the agony of Vietnam. Although these view points can be challenged for example although he may have ...

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No people were really afraid. ... The military knew that they had it pretty much in control." 2. ... "I"d have to say the Vietnam War definitely had a big impact on society. ... I really want to reserve amendments to the constitution that are important to the whole society of people, and take prohibition as an amendment to the constitution. ... "If its so important then what about the human rights in China and other countries like that. ...

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Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. ... The trauma associated with losing a father is an important element that undermines emotional security, a trauma that would also affect Richard's father Francis. ... During this time Richard made the distinction between the "have-nots-, which he was, and the people who have everything and do nothing. ... His first two elections showed two important characteristics, the first was that for him winning is...

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an important innovator in ways of thinking and handling problems associated with society. ... During Kennedy's presidency he made enormous strides in improving the life of people in third world countries. ... Kennedy played an important role in getting the Civil Rights Movement headed in the right direction. ... He tried to resolve problems that high officials before him were scared to talk about like racism, equal pay for women, communism, foreign affairs, and hunger around the world. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a war hero, a true individual, and a fi...

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