Kennedy was also a strong supporter of civil rights. ... Martin Luther King with his fight for civil rights. ... During the sixties, the Civil Rights Movement was in full force. 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. ... Martin Luther King was also civil rights activist who sought and fought for civil rights without violence. ...

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• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The Civil Rights movement, encouraged by the goals of WWII, which sought to destroy the racist policies of Nazi Germany, came to prominence during Eisenhower's administration and made tremendous strides toward equality. ... They did so by following Martin Luther King's philosophy of passive, non-violent, civil disobedience. ...

• Word Count: 3509
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If one were to discuss life after the Second World War, if they were not a historian would perhaps not talk much about Harry S. Truman as a major factor. Truman is ranked seventh among forty one presidents ranging from Washington to Clinton . Truman succeeded Roosevelt, after his death, and the day after his inauguration said "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."" After making the decision to end World War II by dropping to atomic bombs on Japan, Truman entered a period of time that he would not even out last. ...

• Word Count: 4238
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

As is defined in its charter, the UN aims to promote collective security throughout the world; advocate human rights and self-determination of peoples; achieve international co-operation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems; and function as a centre for co-ordination of all of these activities. ...

• Word Count: 5612
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

You Can Kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win" (Lowe 10). Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated...

• Word Count: 2963
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The Vietnam conflict only became a larger issue when a civil war broke out in Laos, We needed to find out how serious this problem was so we sent vice president Johnson to Vietnam to assess the issue. ...

• Word Count: 4657
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

He had great speech writers, who wrote for him, but he was a great speaker. " The south didn't take too lightly on him cause of his support of the civil rights movement." ... Did you support Jimmy Carters Human Rights policy? "If its so important then what about the human rights in China and other countries like that. ...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

In 1970 during the civil war between Jordan and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization), the United States and Israel prepare to join the side of Jordan if Syria backs the PLO. 1972, United States blocks the Egyptian President's attempts to reach a peace agreement with Israel. ... In 1981 Reagan began to support a guerrilla movement known as the Contras. ...

• Word Count: 3150
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Stalin's job was, basically, to manage relations between the various ethnic groups of the former Russian Empire and to develop some sort of coherent policy toward the questions of national secession and civil rights. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among them British, Czech, French, and American detachments). ...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When NATO launched its air strikes against Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia, the user- friendly story was that the "ethnic cleansing" undertaken by the aforementioned Milosevic was an unacceptably gross violation of human rights. ...

• Word Count: 4898
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography