Voorhis denies any ties to communist endorsements, furthermore no evidence has been found to corroborate Nixon's claims. Nixon exploited the fact that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was just beginning and that anti-communist sentiment was high. ... I just want to tell you that Jerry Voorhis is a communist."" ( ) "By using the "big lie,"" Nixon was able to trick people into believing that Voorhis was a communist sympathizer; with his dirty tactics, he won handsomely by a margin of 15,000 votes- (N v. ... In another ruthlessly fought campaign, Nixon managed to find a...

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• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The French were losing and were not able to control the communist North Vietnamese from invading South Vietnam. ... "Participants in the Geneva Conference were the four parties that had called for the meeting, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States; also present were China, Cambodia, and Laos; and representing elements within Vietnam itself were spokesmen Bao Dai's government and for the Vietminh. ... This is who America decided was a threat that they wanted to stop before all of Indochina became communist. ... With the help of the United States, there would hope...

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

In the late 1930's outside Gallup, New Mexico people lucky enough to have any food sat down to their evening meal of a can of beans and loaf of bread. Along Route 66 at this roadside encampment, police motorcycles appear guarding a large luxury car. The car stops in front of the onlookers and out ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A True American Hero In today's society what is wanted or accepted by most people is considered to be "popular culture."" The word popular is thought of as what is accepted by the majority, and the word culture, in relation to what is popular, refers to the people who decide for us what is good or bad. In our text, putting the words popular and culture together is said to be, "the products of human work and thought which are (or have been) accepted and approved of by a large community or population- (Nachbar and Lause 14). After researching popular culture I...

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• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

Castro and the Cuban government had become the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere by December 1960 (Finkelstein 26). ... The premier of Russia and the head of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, felt that the United States was a threat to the Soviet Union and decided to place missiles in Cuba in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey (Finkelstein 13, 23). ...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography

With Kennedy's political career rising, he met Jacqueline Bouvier at a dinner party in Georgetown. ... The plan was to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro and create a non-communist government. ... They were a communist country and the United States was trying to prevent the domino theory. ...

• Word Count: 3117
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School