... effects on US policy. The attacks on the south continued for many months and had the effect of dramatically changing US military and political policies towards the whole Vietnam War. At first Tet was a great success for the North Vietnamese. In Saigon, they took over many important buildings, including the US embassy (though only for a few hours before being repulsed by US marines ... one factor in producing growing opposition to the war. The anti-war movement became much stronger as the opinion polls showed almost 40% of Americans opposed the war. People saw events of the war on their t...

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... agreed with the choice. However, Diem was assassinated in 1963, and when no strong government was formed afterwards, the U.S. was forced to "shoulder'more and more of the burden of the war?18 By 1967, the Vietnam War was costing America seventy million dollars a day and by the wars end, two-three million Vietnamese and fifty-eight thousand Americans were dead.19 Prior to 1966 ... rights and peace at the time was Bob Dylan. Recently voted by Life magazine as one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century, his songs have been covered by literally hundreds of artists. The bul...

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... voicing their opinion. Brought about mainly by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, the citizens of the United States found it necessary to have a voice that could be heard. People cried out both for and against civil rights. This would be a revolutionary movement in the social workings of the nation. Protests would play an important part in the fight for civil rights. The ... issue that would have one of the biggest roles in the reform of America "the Vietnam War. This controversial happening helped spark the need to be heard. Finally, Freedom of speech would also be put to t...

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... the steel industry. Though he succeeded in his immediate goal, he alienated an important source of support. When he later called for a large tax cut to provide capital and stimulate the economy, conservative opposition in Congress destroyed any hopes of passing the deficit measure. The overall legislative record of the Kennedy administration was meager. The president made some gestures toward civil rights ... his death. President Kennedy was initially reluctant to press white Southerners for support on civil rights because he needed their votes on other issues. But events forced his han...

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... the world. This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on ... . The 60's were very volatile and unstable. I'm sure living in the 60's was exciting in way, but it also must have been depressing due to the long series of ... bleak events ... ...

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... to be eventful from bad to good. My father changed for the positive and understood that some of the events that were occurring in the world were for the better. He understood the positives of space exploration, walking on the moon and the technology advances that we got from that. He also ... answered pretty quickly. My father actually gave me more information that I had originally thought and we ended up taking about an hour talking about each of the ten questions. The thing that shocked me the most was how much detail he remembered from the past that I couldn't even remember about ... l...

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... boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. Eheu! It gives one pause-(Chalmers 21). As one can see, African-Americans didn't have it easy trying to gain their civil rights ... that followed the Greensboro sit-in more sit-ins occurred throughout the country. Thousands had taken place by the end of 1960 and many people had often gone to jail for it (Chalmers 21). The Kennedy Era, 1960 - 1963, saw many importan...

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... press tried to ignore the rising of sex discrimination, but it was too much to handle. On one occasion, a woman tried to take the podium from a speaker at a convention, but the chairman patted her on the head and told her "Run along little girl, we have important issues to talk about." This was one of the events that led up to the "Woman's Strike ... for Equality" on August 26th of 1970. At the event, Betty Freidan encouraged all housewives to stop cooking, cleaning, and even stop talking to their husbands ... . Another law was also passed that said that all college sports both male and...

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... boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. Eheu! It gives one pause"(Chalmers 21). As one can see, African-Americans didn't have it easy trying to gain their civil rights ... that followed the Greensboro sit-in more sit-ins occurred throughout the country. Thousands had taken place by the end of 1960 and many people had often gone to jail for it (Chalmers 21). The Kennedy Era, 1960 - 1963, saw many importan...

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... Coretta Scott, and aspiring singer. After completing his coursework, King began a dissertation in which he would compare the religious views of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus, setting off a chain of events that catapulted King to world fame. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to abide by one ... of Montgomery's laws requiring segregated seating on city buses. Because of this incident, several groups within the city's black community, unhappy with the treatment of blacks on public transport...

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