Many Black leaders had sided with Kennedy in the presidential race because Kennedy claimed to be a strong believer in civil rights. ... 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. ... By early 1965 a new black leader had arose, whose name was Malcolm X. ... Another movement that started in the sixties, was the environmental movement. ... The Women's Movement took flight in the sixties also. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The most powerful and therefore, most important such institution, the United States Supreme Court, was no exception, and in fact, was the leader of such legal change. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginni...

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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...

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The tunnel system was an unexpected resistance movement dug by hundreds of East Berlin students with thousands more willing to help. ... Walter Ulbricht, who was the German Communist leader under the command of Stalin, organized the construction of a large wall to be built in order to restrain illegal emigration from the East to the West. ... Mikhail Gorbachev, who was then the leader of the Soviet Union, said that his country, and the world, was in need of reform. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ...

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This framework, which was agreed on by all three leaders, led to a peace treaty between the two nations and was signed in Washington D.C. in 1979. ... Thirteen of the American hostages were released soon after, however for the release of the remaining hostages, Iran demanded a U.S. apology for the acts committed in support of Iran's previous leader, his returning to the country to face trial, and the return of billions of dollars that he was said to have stashed. ... In 1981 Reagan began to support a guerrilla movement known as the Contras. ...

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The message from the leader was that only the strength that had won the war could win the peace.24 He stated; "the United Nations could not be relied on; the Big Three unity could not be assumed....

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The leaders of the nations specifically, the United states and Russia - realized that measures had to be taken, to ensure that no such war would ever happen again. ... The present world, the way we see things today, is founded on the principles that the various leaders of the two superpowers believed in. ... Another way of looking at it the underlying motive behind it was that NATO- guided by America- was trying to prevent the uncontrollable rise of a new Adolf Hitler, a leader who took a weak shattered country and made it more powerful than anybody could have expected or even imagined, anothe...

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Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... On November 9, 1989 East Germany's Communist party leader Gunter Schabowski, said that the Berlin Wall's border would be opened for "private trips abroad". ...

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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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School