Their organization was created in the early 1960's, and continues to be active on many college campuses today. ... Though less recognized by history, the Young Americans for Freedom were an important part of the culture of protest in the 1960's. ... The Young Americans for Freedom were strongly anti-communist, as were most Americans at the time. ... History does not normally recognize the significance of an organization of college students being able to have their voices heard enough to get a candidate nominated. If he had been elected, it can be supposed that more would have be...

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At this time, Americans were constantly looking for land to start farms or sell to incoming farmers. ... In response to this, 11 states seceded to form the Confederate states of America. ... During the war's early stages, anti-slavery Republicans grew more demanding. ... The Civil War was by far the deadliest war in American history. ... The Jim Crow Laws were created to punish African Americans legally. ...

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Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. ... In my opinion, this was truly the "end of history." After the tearing down of Russia, Europe as not broken out into war, thus making Gorbachev a key factor in European History. 2. ... But his economic reforms came at a huge price - his enforced collective farming led to a famine in the early 1930s that is thought to have killed at least six million people. ... Christopher Columbus Though Columbus' intentions were incorrect, h...

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After the speech many Americans were able to see why it was critical to "Contain" Communism, and therefore allowed billions and billions to be spend to reach that end. ... History including the Korean War, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion. ... The idea that the United States should pursue a less aggressive stance towards the Soviet Union and Communism was mentioned earlier in this essay. ... George Keenan is often over looked in American History, but the case could be made that his theory of "Containment" was a major factor in every presidency since 1946, in many cases a larger factor then ...

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Thirty million Chinese starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, making it one of the worst man-made disasters in history. ... Americans believed that Germany must get back on course before there could be a full European recovery. ... Europe's purchase of American goods and machinery because of the Marshall Plan helps boost the American economy. ... The North Atlantic Treaty is signed and Western Europe and North America become allies. ... The Soviet Union and the United States both had positives and negatives throughout the war which I explained earlier. ...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". ... The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. ... It was not until the early 1990s when the U.S.S.R. fell that people began to talk more about Communism, and even now it is still hidden in a shadow of the unknown. ... Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. ... Had American Democracy been u...

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Despite a similar history shared by Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins deeply rooted animosities, which have lead to the outbreak of all out, war in the past decade. ... As we have stated earlier, the Soviets had declared there role in the liberation of Yugoslavia was a major one when this was clearly not the case. ... Using his natural charisma and impressive war record, Josip Tito was able to do what few leader in history have been able to do. ... This country was like many of the utopian communities in America. In the utopian communes of America, there were always people from very differen...

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The US wanted to prevent Vietnam from turning into a communist nation so in 1964 they intervened militarily in the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. The Vietnam War is called by many today to be one of the only wars in the history of the United States that they ever been defeated in. The Cold War ended in the late 80's early 90's when the Soviet Union and communist fell and now most of the old Soviet Union is now know as Russia. ... On the Individual level, in the early parts of the Cold War it was a strict hatred and competition ...

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Ralph Vaughan Williams finished composing his famous tuba concerto less than a decade after one of the most impactful events of not only European history, but all of human history: the Second World War. ... On the other side were the democratic, capitalist, Western countries, like The United Kingdom, France, and later the United States of America, who entered into the war after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. ... After World War II was resolved, two countries had emerged as the world's dominant military powers: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...

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America had already taken military action against Germany when it dropped depth charges on a U-boat in the North Atlantic on the 10th of April. ... By early July, the panzers from the North divisions were within 80 miles of Leningrad and the central forces had taken Smolensk. ... Leningrad, one of the Germans main objectives came under siege in early September 1941. ... The Germans lost because of 4 main reasons, which they share with armies in history. ... The fact the Russians were supplied with vehicles from the US and Britain also aided them in their victory against the Germans, especially...

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