...With superior organizational skills, he became captain and went to Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In Panama Canal Zone, in Central America, Eisenhower served as part of the staff of Brigadier General Fox Connor, who was a man that inspired Eisenhower. At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he attended the Command and General Staff School to study military skills. In 1928, Eisenhower went to the Army War College and graduated with the top rank in the class. General Douglas MacArthur, an inspiring leader and army chief of staff and Eisenhower traveled to Asia and helped contribute to the government by building a strong navy and prepare the nation to be independent. There in the Philippines, Eisenhower stayed for four long years and became a lieutenant colonel when he returned to the United States. After reading about different biographies about Eisenhower, I learned about his rankings...
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...Rights Organisations. There are a few significant factors that occurred as a result of the Second World War. For example, the 'Double V Campaign' of 1942. Two months after the Bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese, the Pittsburgh Courier (the most popular black newspaper in America) published the campaign to everyone. It called for a victory on two fronts, it was a campaign for African-Americans to give their all in the war effort and for black people to fight racial discrimination back home in America. The editor of the newspaper wrote "We call upon the President and Congress to declare war on Japan and against racial prejudice in our country." This was significant because it gave African-Americans a chance to prove how much of a positive impact they could have on the war and this in turn could show current white racists a different view on them. Additionally, it could be argued that because it was quite a big newspaper, more people across America would see it, and therefore it could potentially have more of an effect on the general opinion. Another factor was the black soldiers who returned home as heroes after the Second World War. It changed the attitudes of white people all across America but more specifically, white soldiers who had fought alongside them in the war. Before the war, white servicemen were disgruntled by the fact that black people were fighting with them, afterwards they treated them as equals. This shows how significant the war was on African-American...
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...“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them”(Kennedy). John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He served as a U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before becoming the 35th president in 1961. He did everything in his power to help the United States but there were a few that made a big impact. John Fitzgerald Kennedy revolutionized America by fighting for everyone’s rights, showed his passion through his work and made big impacting decisions in the Cold War. No obvious civil rights legislation was signed by Kennedy. However, Kennedy did have a major input into civil rights history. He promised in his campaign speeches to act fast on Civil Rights for African Americans. And quote “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened,” (Kennedy) just shows that if just one man’s freedom is taking away everybody else’s might also be taken. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Also appointed unprecedented numbers of African Americans to high-level positions in the administration and...
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...The United States is one the largest countries in the world, and arguably the most powerful.In the time between the Reconstruction and the Great Depression, there were a multitude of events that largely contributed to America's development into a world power. They had a monumental effect on the way America ascended to the top of the political, social, and economical world ladder. Industrialization had a massive overall impact on the United States' growth as a nation. It carved the pathway to world domination. Industry is the core of any nation. Industry involves evryone. From the factory workers to the consumers, no one is left untouched. The United States is no exception. One of the most important. For a nation whose economy depended on railroads and urban development, steel was essential to the growth and affluence of its economy. 1 The Bessemer converter, which converts iron into steel, made it possible to produce steel in mass quantities. 2 This process was instrumental to the United States' economic prosperity. The world reveres the word of the United States due to our incredible economic power. WE have the economic ability to sbstanciate our claims......This time in the United States was a period of...
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...Jackie Robinson was a great leader for not only his team but for the civil rights movement, politics and social achievements. Robinson once said “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”. He was born January 31st, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie is most recognized for being the first black player in the major leagues. He was the youngest of 5 children raised in relative poverty, by a single mother, after his father abandoned the family. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College where he played four sports baseball, football, track, and basketball. He was named the region's Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie continued his education at the University of California, where he became the university's first student to win varsity letters in four sports. He was forced to leave short of graduating from UCLA because of financial hardship. He then moved to Honolulu Hawaii where he played football for the semi-professional Honolulu Bears. His season with the Bears was cut short when the United States entered into World War II. For two years he served as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Jackie achieved a lot on the field. He led his team to the ultimate glory, Winning the World Series in 1955 and making it to it a total of 6 times. He was also Named National League Rookie of the Year in 1947,. Jackie led the National League in stolen bases in 1947 and 1949. Led second basemen in double plays 1949, 1950, 1951 and...
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...President Eisenhower Eisenhower’s Doctrine and Beliefs 1/23/2012 Carlos Williams | In the history of international diplomacy the appearance of the Eisenhower Doctrine was an important and life changing document. Before January of 1957 there was no such notion in the entire world; it was introduced by President Eisenhower. Before that date all countries decided for themselves what political direction they were taking and were on their own in the political world arena. By that time the Soviet Union however was a powerful and ever growing country with desires to occupy more and more territories and to control as many countries as it could. Situation in the Middle East was a very favorable one for such actions of the Soviets that only waited for a suitable moment to contribute their political domination to those territories. Most of the Middle East countries were struggling for the independence and were trying to establish self-governing systems as in developed parts of the world. In the course of the history they frequently found themselves in the middle of fighting and misunderstanding between the nations, thus it was a rough process which was still continuing. In the midst of such conditions it was understandable that those countries were a piece of cake for the Soviet Union to make them communist "believers". The problem was not only based on the Soviet's desire, but mainly on the opponent‘s inability to resist the pressure of being involved in a new political...
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... Little Rock, Birmingham, the careers of Martin Luther Kingand Stokely Carmichael. However, some very important civil rights issues were covered in his presidency. Truman’s ancestors had owned slaves. His first recollection of African Americans was a household servants within his family - and he did not come from a prosperous family. While he was dating his future wife Bess, she claimed that he told her that he felt that one person was as good as any other as long as they were not black. He also criticised the Chinese in America, the Jews - to whom he referred to as "Kikes" and the Italians in America who he called "wops". Hence, Truman’s background produced what one would have expected and the young Truman would have had the same views as most other youths in Independence. When he got involved in politics at an early age, he did what any aspiring politician did in the South, he paid $10 to join the KKK. Public office changed Truman. Why? Did he feel that America could not claim to be the democratic capital of the world while African Americans were treated thus? Or were his motives political? The African American population was big enough to have some political clout. Was he out to fish for their votes with his adoption of the civil rights cause? Truman and civil rights legislation: Before he became president, Truman show demonstrated that he had some civil rights credentials. In his campaign to be re-elected senator for Missouri, he said the following in 1940: "I believe in...
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...Civil Rights in the Sixties The 1960s brought about social change in America. America elected the second youngest and the first Catholic president (John F. Kennedy) and the Anti-War Movement began. The Anti-War Movement was based on people mostly the youth of America protesting a war (Vietnam War) that they believed America could not win. At the same time people were protesting the war they were objecting to the social injustice surrounding minorities; thus began the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was instrumental in starting The Civil Rights Movement the yearlong battle for equal treatment on buses gave minorities the strength to fight for more equal treatment and gave rise to Martin Luther King Jr. who was elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to lead the boycott. During The Montgomery Bus Boycott whites tried to use the media to put out false stories by claiming the boycott have come to an end and that minorities settled for the same moderate desegregation plan that they received before the boycott. Public opion in Montgomery Alabama at first was against the boycott, but once the business community realized they were losing money because minorities were no longer shopping downtown their opion began to wane. Throughout the civil rights movement the media was a constant force some believe that without the media exposing the at times moving and often unsightly events of the movement that it would not advanced as much as it did. Some Southern...
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...Scheme: Candidates should have knowledge about the main features of ‘peaceful coexistence’ in the period 1953-61. Developments which helped to ease Cold War tensions might include: the end of the Korean War (1953); Soviet settlement of border disputes with Turkey and Iran (1953) and recognition of Israel (1953); Austrian independence and improved Soviet-Yugoslav relations (1955); the ‘Geneva spirit’ based on east-west summit diplomacy and Khrushchev’s visit to the USA in 1959. Developments which sustained Cold War tensions during the period might include: US attitudes towards communism in the 1950s (domino theory, ‘roll back’, Eisenhower doctrine); Soviet concept of peaceful coexistence based on long-term victory of communism; the impact of the Hungarian Rising (1956) and the launch of Sputnik (1957); the U2 spy plane incident (1960) and the issue of Germany (1958-1961). At Levels 1 and 2 simple or more developed statements will provide either only simple or more developed statements about peaceful coexistence with either only implicit reference to the extent tensions were eased or argument based on insufficient evidence. At Level 3, students should provide some sustained analysis related to the extent tensions were eased but the detail may be hazy in places and/or the material unbalanced chronologically or thematically. At Level 4, there will be sustained analysis of US-Soviet relations under peaceful coexistence with some attempt to reach a reasoned judgement on ‘how far’...
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...Impact of US Foreign Policy on the Vietnam War The Vietnam War is one of the most talked about wars in history. It began in 1959 and did not end until 1975. These years saw protests, conflicts, casualties, and confusion for the United States, as well as the terms of three presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. When U.S. involvement in the war began under Kennedy, it was originally put out as a plan for the United States to only aid the South Vietnamese, but, after his assassination, Johnson was put in charge. The path that the war took under Johnson was filled with controversy and large numbers of casualties. When Johnson did not run for a second term, Nixon was left in charge to ultimately turn things around. Soon, all of the American troops were removed from Vietnam, and the war slowly began to come to a close. But what was it about Nixon’s foreign policy that was so much more successful than Johnson’s? Was Nixon’s policy more closely related to Kennedy’s successful strategy than Johnson’s was, and, if so, why didn’t Johnson do a better job modeling his policy after Kennedy? These are all questions that political scientists still look at today as a way to solve the many questions that are still being posed about the war. I have looked deeply into these questions, and found answers through researching the history of Vietnam as well as the three presidents. As I read about each event that unfolded, it became clear to me why there were such...
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...Celebrity Marketing In the Cold War Christopher Sigler History 328 Dr. Reaves March 11, 2014 Post World War II America was a period of massive economic growth in America. Despite a brief economic recession from 1946 to 1947, the years following World War II saw the United States become the world super power that it is today. From 1940 to 1950 the American Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased 50% from $200,000 million to $300,000 million1 and by 1955 sixty percent of Americans identified as middle-class2. The exponential economic growth and social class shift during this period created several important changes to American culture. Many American families now possessed excess money; Money that was spent on single-family homes, entertainment, appliances, and cars, items that the general public could not afford before this period. The result of the influx of money not only changed the American family forever, but the marketing strategies used by companies as well. As Americans began to place a heavier value on entertainment, movie stars, actors, and other celebrities began to have a prominent influence on society. Post war-prosperity and the economic boom during the early cold war began the American, and eventually global culture of celebrity marketing. To understand the United States rise to a world superpower one must look at the aftermath of the widespread war of World War II. World War II was a global war that involved thirty nations and claimed the lives of...
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... . . never before Vietnam had the collective policy --no less stringent a term will serve--sought, by graphic and unremitting distortion, the victory of the enemies of the correspondents' own side." His point of view on the war summarized the effect of media on ending the Vietnam War. To obtain understandable on the roles that media played during this war, it is important to first explore the history of the war. The longest war in the history, a proxy war between those that support communism and those that did not. The United States supported the South against the North that advocated for communism. In 1954, Eisenhower wrote a letter to Ngo Dinh Diem offered to aid Diem in preventing Vietnam from being a communist country. Following Eisenhower’s promise to Diem, Kennedy aided South Vietnam with military support to fight against North Vietnam. The Vietnam War was a catastrophic since it fought against itself and destroyed its own people. It is significant to take notice of the fact that at the beginning many Americans supported United States in this war. Many Anti-war protests occurred on college campus across the nation because of events like the Tet Offensive and My Lai Massacre. United States finally withdrawn in 1973. Therefore, without the media, many lives would have suffered, killed, injured because of the continuation of the war. Many American soldiers and Vietnamese citizens were killed. This...
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...Castro had defeated the U.S. during those few days at the Bay of Pigs and America will not forget that event. The media played a huge role in exposing the events that surrounded the Cold War, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile crisis. People could see that the president took blame for the Bay of Pigs loss and that he originally tried to cover it up. This was a turning point in America’s history because it had unmasked the truth and revealed to many Americans the failure and disgrace of the United States actions. This event was one that helped the media reach people’s homes faster because of television and radio access. The exposure itself was what made America fight hard against Castro and the Soviet...
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...or multiple universities, giving them the nick name “land grant universities.” Every state in the young country agreed to the terms of the grant and began to develop these universities quickly. V. The Great Depression For the first few decades of its existence, the USDA seemingly ran smoothly. They protected the rights for those progressing Westward , revolutionized the rail system throughout the country and quickly started funding land grand universities all across the country. The department did not see any major changes until the Great Depression struck in 1933. The Great Depression is historically thought of as a devastating time period for the industrial manufacturers, but not much thought has been given on the impact that this time period had on rural America in particular the farmers. The farming market actually hit rock bottom about ten years earlier in 1921, but the Great Depression is usually associated with the 1930’s when the industrial markets fell. With this being said, farmers were forced to produce more crops while cutting back on input cost ( a problem still seen in modern crop production ). When farmers were unable to overcome the perpetual debt they were forced to give up their farm steads and leave the only life they knew behind them. Growing increasingly angry that the government was not stepping in and assisting them, farmers began to organize groups that went to local governments and demanded that they step in to save their farms. One group in Iowa went as...
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...LAIKIPIA UNIVERSITY (MAIN CAMPUS) FACAULTY: Humanities and developmental studies. DEPARTMENT: Public Affair and Environmental studies. COURSE TITLE: Technology, War and Peace. COURSE CODE: PEED 413 INSTRUCTOR: MR FREDRICK ODONDE PRESENTER: SALLY NTURANGI MBIYAIYU TASK: Discuss the technological advancement after WW2 and its implication on world peace and security. Submission Date: 5th march, 2015 INTRODUCTION The science of fifties gave as the most awful weapon ever developed. While the ultimate aim of any research was to find better ways of destroying the enemy during the World Wars, post-war lots of inventions were just as effective at improving lives. Military scientific research and technology advancement during World War 2 and post-war period brought advances that directly affected the daily lives of people across the globe, in medicine and electronics cutting across to deadly weapons as H-bombs. Innovation that came to fruition in the fifties offered mankind tremendous benefit improving life in all spheres of life. These inventions however did contribute to both positively and negatively. The atomic bomb race put humanity at stake since the world could be wiped within a day if any war could escalate which could be catalyzed by sophisticated modes of transport and means of communication like telephones and computers. On the other hand, life standard improved as military research led to invention of many electronics....
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