... The women who volunteered were often from small towns and blue collar communities all across America. These women were lifesavers, big sisters, mothers and angels. For the women who worked in hospitals, they have never been trained for the agonizing scenes they witnessed from burns to ... amputations to deaths on a daily basis. These women witnessed firsthand, the horrors and cost of this war. Nurses had to be officers and over the age of twenty-one to serve in ... non-medical workers, they counted 1300 of them. These women worked as secretaries and clerks, airtraffic controllers and ph...

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2-18-03 History Notes VIETNAM AND THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA THE COLD WAR AFTER KOREA- contest major in the 3rd world US vs. Soviet Union • Iran, 1953- The CIA successfully did an a coupe or a revolution against the leader. • Guatemala, 1954- The CIA successfully ... the leader. Gave an unwinding faith on the CIA. Ran into a big problem when trying to get rid of Fidel Castro. • Cuba- Castro came into power in 1959 still in power. The US first liked him, but he nat. people of am. He took back things, property. Am. Drove him to communism. Tried to get rid of ... forever. • Dien Bien Phu...

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... our prior erudition: hippies, flower power, peace, love, drugs, and Woodstock! All of the preceding are the very essence of the "60s in America; all of them had a distinct impact on the world. Presumably the most prominent aspect of the "60s was the evolution of the youthful generation ... was a hippie? Hippies were mostly young people who were often characterized by long hair and flowing skirts. They had very confident convictions, particularly in regard to the Vietnam War. Because this new generation possessed a blatant loathing for the affect of Vietnam on the country, they rebelled a...

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... placards that exhibited phrases like "We Want Liberty" and "Segregation is Dead." By late June some kind of public place in over one hundred and fifty different cities across America had been desegregated. John F. Kennedy was never able to gain enough support to pass a civil rights bill during his short ... ." Malcolm X was a former pimp, cocaine addict, and thief. He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. On a bright Sunday in a ballroom in Manhattan in full view of 400 blacks Malcolm was murdered. Three men casually walked down the aisle; and from eight feet ope...

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