At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. ... Many thought it was a "morally ambiguous conflict from the start, ostensibly a war against communism yet also a war to suppress nationalist self-determination." This war was also the first to be televised. Even though Americans at home could see the war from a new perspective, they were poorly informed due to the biased media that reported not only events, but their opposition towards the war. ... Since the start of the Vietnam War, a new form of counterculture had been bre...

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As the most treacherous incident in the history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inescapably enticed the observation of numerous diplomatic historians. With the dual superpowers wavering on the edge of nuclear war, the dispute of how to eliminate Russian arsenals from Cuba in October 1962, while conserving the harmony, epitomized the utmost trial of John F. ... The Cuban Missile Crisis was an undeviating and treacherous opposition amongst the United States and the Soviet Union in the course of the Cold War. It was the period of time when the two superpowers of the whole world were...

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As a nation amidst the Cold War, working through space exploration, with a clear racial divide growing wider, the political viewpoints as to how to go about the future began to grow further apart as well. ... President Kennedy's quote has remained relevant throughout the years, most recently becoming the rallying cry for a nation struggling to find itself amidst a party war. ...

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Kennedy made an address in Houston that focused on his religion, but he also was quick to point out that there were numerous issues in the 1960 election that required, in his opinion, more attention than his religion, such as the Cold War and the spread of Communism, poverty, and the Civil Rights Movement, and this outlook proved almost immediately that John F. ...

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The first major thrust of the argument focuses on Charles Rogers as a cold, calculated psychopath who bludgeoned his parents. ... Rogers carried out his covert missions in the manner of due diligence and efficiency with which carried out his duties as a Navy cryptographer during World War II. ...

• Word Count: 1988
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate