... Hundred Cuban exiles launched an attack, invading Cuba's Bay of Pigs. After three days, it failed miserably for numerous of reasons. A lack of good intelligence from the CIA, poor planning on behalf of the CIA, and equipment mismatches and an assumed perception of the Cubans automatically throwing arms up against the Regime contributed to this failure . As a result of this failure Castro wanted ... defense pact and called for a war of total annihilation against the Israeli state. In response to these motives, Israel mobilized its troops to the border of Egypt, along the Sinai Peninsula. ...

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... violations ever committed were committed under this regime that received $80-$90 million dollars from the U.S. government within the first few years after the coup. That was $20-$30 million dollars more than the U.S. gave to all the rest of Latin America combined. Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos, and ... collapse it seemed that the world was taking a huge step towards the direction of peace, but it was not to be as the next twelve years would turn out to be a turbulent string of violence...

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... in the 80's, like Harry Chapin's "Remember When the Music." Music awakened people to what was "hip" or "unhip" in the world around us. Major issues aside from the war were written about including; a growing disillusionment of government ideology, advances in civil rights, increased influence of the women's movement, and a heightened concern for the environment. Many of the "radical" ideas of the 1960's gained wider acceptance in the 1970 ... Also it could be a protest against the rampant capitalism that was becoming increasingly evident in the 60's and 70's. Late artist Harry Chapin sum...

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... The 1960's were widely known as the decade of peace and love, not because the world had become a utopia but, in my opinion, because of the heavy use of the popular hallucinogenic drugs by the American youth. In reality minorities were struggling to gain freedom from segregation and thousands of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were being killed in the highly disputed war in ... shots to the chest. On March 12, 1965, U.S. Highway 80 was blocked by sixty state troopers who stood in a wall three deep 400 yards past the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama river. When bl...

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