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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• Grade Level: High School

Kennedy was commonly called "Jack" by many people because it was a nickname for John. ... During World War II, at 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, PT-109, was hit by a Japanese ship in the South Pacific. ... The main purpose it served at the time was to create peace throughout many countries during the Cold War. ... The reason Latin Americans were fed up with the United States was that they felt the United States did not give them enough economic assistance after World War II as they did for countries like Japan and in Europe. ... Unfortunately, this plan was not a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. ... Suffragists under Catt threatened to discharge their traditional duties as homemakers and mothers in the increasingly public world of the city. ... Through the work of the abolitionists before the war, civil rights water sheds were established during Reconstruction. ... These people were the blacks, women, immigrants, and the many people...

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• Grade Level: High School

The 1960's was a decade that changed the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. ... On the third day more than sixty people came to the store for the sit-in. ... Despite the military presence, the violence continued which resulted in 2 deaths. ... There were an estimated 250,000 people who participated in this march. ...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or de...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate