... On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while standing up but not while they were ... fellow students. By the next week their sit down had been repeated in fourteen cities in five deep south states. In the weeks to follow many new protests arose. After a black woman was beaten with a baseball bat in Montgomery, Alabama, 1,000 blacks silently marched into the first c...

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... and all. Thus, when the colonial powers returned to reclaim their former colonies, or impose their plans for a guided path to self government within a new 'commonwealth', they found themselves confronted by armed and aggressive resistance movements, many of whom had gained skill and experience in fighting the Japanese. Such was ... and to a lesser extent Hoa Hao continued to exist as religions. The Binh Xuyen on the other hand, took up banditry in the Rung Sat until they were finally suppressed or absorbed by the Viet Cong. Bao Dai was another figure on the political scene in the South. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and all. Thus, when the colonial powers returned to reclaim their former colonies, or impose their plans for a guided path to self government within a new 'commonwealth', they found themselves confronted by armed and aggressive resistance movements, many of whom had gained skill and experience in fighting the Japanese. Such was ... and to a lesser extent Hoa Hao continued to exist as religions. The Binh Xuyen on the other hand, took up banditry in the Rung Sat until they were finally suppressed or absorbed by the Viet Cong. Bao Dai was another figure on the political scene in the South. ...

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... of music. During this time, bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones began to sing about sex, drugs, and peace, which had not previously been done before. Because of these new lyrics, the younger generation of people began to form a movement where unity, togetherness, and rebellion against "the man " became of utmost importance. During the 1960's, The Beatles created a movement amongst ... to show their displeasure with the war. The most notable way this was displayed was in May of 1965 at UC Berkeley. Between ten and thirty thousand students and faculty sat on the college campus for t...

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... Vietnam and the French now wanted to take the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946. In 1954 the French was eliminated for good in Vietnam. The World's powers sat a Geneva Conference to decide the state of Vietnam and the country was split into two at the 17th parallel, southern was democratic and northern was communist. In 1956 an election ... in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. Anti-Communist forces were: South Vietnam, United States, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic and...

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... paid the bills. He did not go there expecting to play a role in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movements. His presence at Spelman brought a new spirit to the women that urged them to fight for what was right and that was their basic human rights as a citizen in this country. His first ... was a trip to a Georgia State Legislature session where he and his students were forced to sit in the colored section in the balcony when they purposely sat on the area reserved for whites on the main floor. They reluctantly moved, but this bold action would be followed by more and more resistance t...

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... governments (both totally different) and used propaganda to build the people up and improve the economy. Shortly after, Spain had civil unrest as it sat between the lines of totalitarianism and democracy while fellow fascist supporters (Russia, Italy, and Germany) aided Spain's path to totalitarianism (which ended up ... Japan and quickly took the advantage. Since the Japanese showed no signs of surrender even after almost imminent defeat, the United States used its new experimental atomic bomb to end the war early instead of sacrificing additional American lives. World War II had ended....

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... the color from their faces, and their eyes have that blank expression known as the "thousand-yard stare (99). The Vietnamese huts are made of thatch, but the Americans use a new material in construction, as houses are built completely with crushed beer cans. The Viet Cong exploit the Vietnamese children by having them sell Coke to Americans after glass and poison ... and the number of Americans killed as Caputo expresses "I was death's bookkeeper" (168-169). "Contact negative. All secure. Situation remains the same." Contact was severe when it happened. The battalion sat in the same pos...

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• Grade Level: High School