The youth movement was characterized by young college students that had become political activists and were against political suppression by the government. ... The people of the counterculture were young college age men and women. Majority of these students were middle-class and attended nice universities across the country. ... Students all across the country became a part of a group called the Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) leftist group that was founded in 1959. These students were very strongly against the war and also very invested in the civil rights movement. ...

• Word Count: 3652
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Richard Nixon won the November 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humphrey with only 43.5% of the popular vote (Schulzinger 275). Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. Nixon adopted the technique of Vietnamization, which was a plan to replace American troops with South Vietnamese forces. The South Vietnamese army known as the ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was virtually non- existent. ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

That same year, James Meridith, a black college student, enters the University of Mississippi as the first black person to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. ... One type consisted of the small, informal women's liberation groups, which were first formed by female students active in the civil rights movement and in radical political organizations. ...

• Word Count: 4042
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

He did so, preparing three bills for that purpose, proposing three distinct grades of instruction which were elementary schools, colleges, and the University. ... In these learning environments as time passed the learning environment became a place to assimilate the native Indian, and keep the lower class of students into a certain knowledge base. ...

• Word Count: 3527
• Approx Pages: 14

Beginning with protesting mainly on college campuses, the anti-war, or peace, movements escalated into violent acts in which innocent lives of young Americans were lost. ... American resentment grew stronger with President Johnson's decision to escalate the war during the first half of 1965.10 Johnson's actions set off teach-ins on college campuses and the first of what would prove to be many demonstrations in Washington. In 1965, a protest at the University of Michigan was the first of more than thirty protests against the war on college campuses. ... As a result, the troops op...

• Word Count: 4768
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography

From the beginning of recorded history music in some form or other has told the story of life and its beauty, wonder, struggles, and causes. From the love between a man and a woman to the oppression of people, music and song have been supplying the soundtrack to life. Music has a tendency to questio...

• Word Count: 3343
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

U.S. History Interview Jason Paris 1. What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis on your community or family? " On me it didn't really effect me, I was at Ft. Rucker at the time." No people were really afraid. "The media would make it out to be more than it really was. The military knew...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

After public school Nixon went on to study at Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in history ( ).This is where Nixon first started becoming politically active, he was president of the freshman class, star of the debate team and in his senior year became the Southern California Intercollegiate Extemporaneous Speaking champion and class President ( ). ... Whittier College did not have the usual fraternities or sororities, but it did have the Franklins, a snobbish and high brow society, whose members wore black ties and dinner jackets to school functions, and which included ...

• Word Count: 3783
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

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 beginning. We wanted to help ensure that South Vietnam had a separate, independent, and noncommunist government. Not only were the Vietnamese affected but the American citizens her at home. ...

• Word Count: 4657
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School