Young people watched a greater number of hours of television than the hours they went to school. ... The families never raised their voice, and any problem that they had was always solved in half an hour, it is ironic to think that people actually believed that they were supposed to live like they did on the shows, but many of the children who watched television thought that they would grow up to have a family like those on TV. ...

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Ho Chi Minh, a communist Vietnamese revolutionary leader, returned to North Vietnam in 1959. This started the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1959 - 1973 when the U.S finally withdrew. More than 3 million people were killed; half were Vietnamese civilians. About 58,000 Americans were killed and over...

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided upon th...

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In the early mornigh hours of August 13, 1961, the top secret top-secret operationwas carried out by the military and police, under the direction of the future head of the German Democratic Republic, Erich Honecker. ...

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Cold War - The Changing Relationship of the Superpowers The United States and Soviet Union, the single most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This irony was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which forced them in this relationship. Onc...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four square miles of the city was reduced to rubble and more than 80,000 innocent civilians were killed on impact. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days...

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Should America Participate in Foreign Wars or Affairs Since the beginning of time war has been a part of everyone's life. People have been fighting for many different reasons, some simple like land or religion or reasons that we may never know. In this paper I will try to give support to my the...

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The mayor confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union did not happened in Europe. It started in the Caribbean. It took place during the call of the "Missile Crisis" in Cuba in October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States" a...

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I, Rigoberta Mench Mench , Rigoberta., I Rigoberta Mench , An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso, 1984 (edit by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray) I, Rigoberta Mench is the biographical account of the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Mench of Guatemala. The story of her life is the...

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Think Piece #2 Even before I was in high school I knew I wanted to become a high school history teacher. Ever since then I have day dreamed of what my future will be like and what strategies I will use to teach. I go to my own classes and highly critique the learning experience I receive and w...

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Anti-socialist movements in 1950's America fueled the hysteria and paranoia of the Cold War. Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, amplified the chaos and accused many Americans for being enemy spies. Innocent Americans were prosecuted for being communist sp...

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The Freedom Fighter is a movie based on the harsh realities of the Berlin Wall. It deals with an American soldier whose girlfriend is stuck in the eastern side of Berlin. Many tried to escape but over a hundred people died at the Berlin Wall. Victor Ross is the American Soldier in the Western p...

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The day was July 20, 1969 and the first human had walked on the moon. During the cold war era (1961-1970) the United States pumped billions of dollars into its NASA program with the sole goal of landing on the moon. With its goal came consequences. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched it...

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The amount made by the Filipino worker in a day is only a couple cents over the American minimum wage per hour; the job, however, opens doors to a previously unattainable lifestyle filled with technology, growth, and knowledge. ...

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The film begins with a short sequence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the sea of white crosses that marks the memorial to those who died liberating the country. From there, the film slips more than five decades back in time, to the second world war and June th...

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THE KOREAN WAR" WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA? "WHY DID WE FIGHT IN KOREA?" The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from ...

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