History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 ... U.S. launched Echo 1, the first communication satellite. Echo 1 reflected signals back to Earth. The other communication satellites were launched in the follow years. Telstar 1, launched on July 10, 1962, by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was the first active satellite capable of transmitting telephone conversations, television pictures, and telephoto microwaves. Syn...

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... (YAF) is an organization of college students who are on the conservative Right of the Republican party. Their organization was created in the early 1960's, and continues to be active on many college campuses today. When most people think about the 1960's, especially in regard to protest ... should actively try to rid the world of it. One of the YAF's most successful examples of activism was their campaign to stop American companies from trading with the Soviet Bloc. They used demonstrations, letter-writing campaigns, and boycotts to make their message heard. These were specifically ... s...

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... convinced that he would abolish slavery. In response to this, 11 states seceded to form the Confederate states of America. When the American Civil War began, President Lincoln was not prepared to be commander in chief. Lincoln appointed many prominent politicians and ethnic leaders with little ... . This mass mobilization could not have taken place without a huge effort from Lincoln's appointed politicians and ethnic leaders. During the war's early stages, anti-slavery Republicans grew more demanding. They argued that slavery had brought on the war and that its survival would cause anothe...

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... gone too far, just like Hitler's movement did during World War II. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. The American view of the Soviet Union was well known. "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and ... the often repeated desire to provoke Communist revolutions in other countries had made that nation the object of American suspicion long before the coming of World War II or even Vietnam." The experience of the Korean War, which left the safety of South ... Korea dependent upon the presence of A...

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The Crucible Of the many plays Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible seems to be favored above the rest. The inspiration for this play came from an era during American history known as McCarthyism. In the late forties/early fifties, a senator named Joseph McCarthy began to fear the spread of communism from the expanding Soviet Union Empire to the United States. McCarthy, brash and irrational ... if they were communist and to inform McCarthy if any neighbors or friends were communist also. Those who refused were jailed. McCarthyism can be compared to a very similar time in history known as the Sale...

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Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". First of all let's explore where this popular idea came from. After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel ... was not until the early 1990s when the U.S.S.R. fell that people began to talk more about Communism, and even now it is still hidden in a shadow of the unknown. Communism vs. Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book. Now th...

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... the small Asia country even though they didn't have suppose of the American people. The Vietnam War is called by many today to be one of the only wars in the history of the United States that they ever been defeated in. The Cold War ended in the late 80's early 90's when the Soviet Union and communist fell and now most of ... of communism in East Germany and in the Soviet Union. The United Nation which was formed after World War II backed the United States. On the Individual level, in the early parts of the Cold War it was a strict hatred and competition between the two countries but in...

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... Army Group Center, which would advance to Smolensk and Army Group South which was ordered to push towards Ukraine. These initial German advances were a success. By early July, the panzers from the North divisions were within 80 miles of Leningrad and the central forces had taken Smolensk. In mid-July leadership debates over strategy arose ... an endless amount of Soviet troops flowing in. The Germans had no choice but to retreat. Leningrad, one of the Germans main objectives came under siege in early September 1941. Helped by the Finns, Germany surrounded the city setting the stage for th...

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... to urban communities in search of new jobs, and some to a new form of government. Although starting numbers were small, the communist party soon grew to 100,000 in the early 1930's.(Communism) Although a large number of people were turning to communism, a larger number were opposing it, and opposing people who support it. The current president of the United States was ... it.(Museum of Communism) Eisenhower put lots of money and effort into containing communism to Asia and Europe. Communism spread much more quickly in Europe than in America, but the American faction of communism was sti...

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... and totally functional. New architecture could solve social problems by creating a new physical environment, a recurrent theme in European Modernism. Motion pictures, the movies, were immediately popular when they were introduced early in the twentieth century. By the mid 1920s they had become the most popular mass entertainment, drawing larger audiences than the theater, vaudeville, and the music halls. The ... American film director D.W. Griffith showed that it was possible to make movies that were serious, sustained works of art. Birth of a Nation in 1915 and Intolerance in 1916 were...

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Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most important conflicts in Cold War history. It was the first time the United States and the Soviet Union had come close to a full-scale nuclear war. On October 14, 1962 US spy planes reported the presence ... is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The first sighting reported the presence of a ballistic missile launching site. It was later discovered that the Soviet Union began shipments in early 1962, and placed medium- (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic (IRBM) missiles in Cuba (as well as other weapons). Forty-two MRBMs (300...

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