...1. Discuss when, why and how the Cold War began. Then cite at least one factor that perpetuated the Cold War in each decade from the 1950s-1980s and discuss how the item you selected affected America at home as well. Last, discuss when and why the Cold War ended. 2. Discuss the origins of the Vietnam War, the course of the war over thirty years in the 1940s, and wars' impact on the United States, both at home and in terms of foreign policy. 3. Write an essay on the civil rights movement since 1953 in which you discuss the major factors that have contributed to its success and its major gains. Be sure to discuss more than one group and to cite examples from each decade of the 1950s through the 1990s. 4. Discuss the reasons for America's economic growth or decline in each decade from the 1950s through the 1990s. Then explain how various presidents have dealt with economic problems and why they succeeded or failed. 5. Write an essay about the impact of television on the history of the United States over the past fifty years in which you describe in detail at least one historical event of national importance from each decade of the 1950s - 1990s that was affected by TV. Civil Right: The WWII can be recognized at the origin of the period when United States started it political and economical dominant compare to other nations. WWII reshaped Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people. The struggle against Nazi tyranny and its theory of a master race discredited...
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...accusation, and ultimately loss and distress when people feel threatened by change. Dating back from the colonial times to even present day, humans have shown a habit of trying to solve a problem the same way, time after time. By not learning from history, events recur in different forms, but are caused by the same actions and accusations. Unfortunately, there are almost always people persecuted as a result, who end up experiencing misery for, in this case, such irrational and biased beliefs. It seems inevitable for humans to break into hysterics once they feel intimidation. Nonetheless, history finds its way back to the present. Fear is timeless, and as stated in Source A, “The Salem witch trials of the 1690’s were all about the fear of women and their independence, seen by many in the community as a threat to Puritan values.” This proves that even from the establishment of America, people have felt fear and intimidation when change was foreseen. Similar events develop in later times as Source B confirms, “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed...
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...truth before adolescents, that the woman he thought was his siblings Florence was in fact his mother, who’s had rustin with west Indian immigrant Archie hopkins. Bayard Rustin was a Civil Rights organizer and a activist, best known for his work as adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950’s and 60’s. He moved to New York in the 1939’s and was involved in pacifist groups and early civil rights protests. Rustin attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, and Cheyney State teachers college( now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) in pennsylvania, both...
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...French Culminating Music: Popular music entered an era of "all hits", as numerous artists released recordings, beginning in the 1950s, as 45-rpm "singles" (with another on the flip side), and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the wide variety of records being made. Also, bands tended to record only the best of their songs as a chance to become a hit record. The taste of the American listeners expanded from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s to the Motown sound, folk rock and the Invasion led by The Beatles in 1964. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Sound began in this period with many popular bands coming out of LA and the Haight-Ashbury district, well known for its hippie culture. The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Music Clothing/Fashion: Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt which became one of the most popular rages in the late 1960s. Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Fashion The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots...
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...The 1950’s were a time of fear and paranoia within the United States. During this time Cold War tensions were beginning to intensify giving way to the infamous Red Scare and the communist allegations of Joseph McCarthy. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, the communal American fear of communist subversion reached its peak, colloquially known as the Red Scare. At this time, fewer than 50,000 out of the 150 million people, less than 1%, living in the United States belonged to the communist party, however the country remained in a state of panic. As a result of this hysteria, a senator named Joseph McCarthy began making accusations against alleged communist infiltration of government agencies. Therefore, the term McCarthyism, coined by political cartoonist Herbert Block, came to mean the movement to expose Communist subversives in the government and other important public institutions from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. A...
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...Margaret Mead, a social scientists who pioneered in the field of culture and personality, discovered the theory of Functionalism, which gave an absolute meaning and a sanctimonious value to the generic term woman’s role. I disagree with their theory of woman existing only for their analysis of sex-roles in the social structure of the United States because it contemplates no alternative for a woman other than the role of a housewife. When Betty Friedan wrote this novel on the Feminine Mystique it was in the 1950’s when woman were looked upon much differently then they are now. The Feminine Mystique was actually one start to the woman’s right movement and motivated woman nation wide to stand up for their freedom. Women were automatically given this image of a housewife in this time period and felt imprisoned, as if they had no other choice. Women sought for absolute equality between sexes and freedom to start any career they dreamt of. It is amazing how differently human beings thought of each other just a little over 50 years ago. Today people would never even consider a women’s only role to be a housewife. Women today accomplish just as much as men do and have practically the exact same careers equivalent to men. I find it hard to believe that functionalism was even believed to be a possible theory for woman just because they have so much more respect and freedom today then they did when The Feminine Mystique was...
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...It states that in 1870, the average American worked 62 hours per week, while in 2015, after WWII, Americans say they have on average, over 40 hours of leisure time. Globalization has allowed ideas focusing on the rights of the working class to be spread, and for action to be taken based on these ideas. Though Document 5 shows that some cartoons aim to devalue globalization by highlighting its disregard for the working class, portraying them as "Global Cheap Labor", the clear benefits that the working class is currently able to experience due to globalization speak for...
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...Human rights Background After World War 2 the universal declaration of human rights was taken into account and adopted by the united nation commission of human rights this was done so that the same acts would not happen again in the future. The convention was written and approved by the members of the council of Europe on November 1950 and was put into force on September 1953.The convention was created to protect human rights as well as freedoms. Due to this there was the creation of the Commission on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).The ECtHR was put in place to take care of breaches of the convention. This would be done by one sovereign state being able to take legal action against another sovereign member state who had breached the convention rights. The UK had approved of the Convention in 1951 but this only meant that they had to take it into consideration and did not have to act upon it, however it had to be incorporated in to the UK legal system, and this was done in 1998 through the Human Rights Act (HRA). From the case we can see that Charlie tyke can use the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) to challenge the decision of the chief constable (CC). Based on the HRA 98 Convention rights S 1(1) that states that the rights and fundamental freedoms set out in articles 2 to 12 and 14 of the convention. These articles that are mentioned could be used by Charlie tyke in his case to challenge the CC as under the ECHR...
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...The Social Events of the 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90s Introduction Over the past 50 years, there have been many changes within the social movement in the United States. Some of these changes have been for the better and some not so great. These changes were made with the hopes and dreams of making life better for all cultures, species, families, and environment. Now the question is, how did these change come about, and what were these changes about? Social Life of the 1950's In the early 1950's was a new beginning for the United States. With the end of the Great Depression and World War II, people felt that they could start living, and have things they thought they would never have, like a home, cars, a wife or husband, and children. With the new beginning, families started moving from large city life to the suburbs, for the reason that life in the suburbs was considerable less hectic and peaceful than what city life was like. Due to the Great Depression, many men and women put off getting married or starting families for the reason of lack of money or homes, and with the War, many were afraid they might not come home. However, with the new feeling of security and peace couples were able start the family they always wanted and so began the Baby Boom years. People moving to the suburbs triggered...
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...Axia College Material Appendix B The USA PATRIOT ACT Provisions Table Use the table below to organize information about the USA PATRIOT ACT. From the Electronic Reserve Reading article Update: USA Patriot Act, identify and classify characteristics of PATRIOT ACT provisions. Describe how each provision either poses potential risks to civil liberties, aids the War on Terror, or possibly both. While completing the table, consider what each provision means to you on a personal level. For example, Section 218 makes it easier for federal agents to open a criminal case on you or other citizens, should there be significant purpose to do so; yet, the same provision makes it easier for federal agents to gather information on a terrorist, and possibly prevent that terrorist from committing future crimes. |Provision |Risks to Civil Liberties |Aids the War on Terror | |Section 218 |Allows agents to obtain FISA warrants, requiring less |This provision makes it easier for agents to open a | | |evidence of wrongdoing, which can be subject to abuse |criminal case on terrorists, possibly preventing that | | |in domestic criminal cases. Only a significant |terrorist from committing future crimes. Reduces | | |investigative purpose is required to obtain a FISA |barriers between intelligence work and criminal | | ...
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...contemporary understandings of Marshall `s conceptualization of citizenship and its relevance to social policy. The main agenda of the paper is to realize a theoretically informed definition of citizenship advanced by Marshall and concentrate mainly on the rights and obligations of citizenship; but also address the increasingly multi-tiered nature of the framing of membership, both in national and supra-national contexts, as well as the emergence of new citizenship claims and claims making. Lake (1994) holds that citizenship is defined by the sociologist guru Marshall as a “status, given to all full members of a community.” The status establishes the rights and duties of the individual in the society to achieve equality for all citizens. Marshall`s contribution shaped the policy in politics, health, education and rights of women in society. According to Marshall (1950) there are three elements of citizenship rights namely civil, political and social which will be analyzed in this essay and their relevance to social planning will be evaluated. Marshall spoke of the development of civil, political, and social citizenship as an evolutionary sequence. The rights embodied in the first pointed to those of the second, and the second to the third. Each, in succession, was secured over the three centuries following the 1688 Revolution when constitutional monarchy was established. Some scholars challenged dimensions of Marshall’s progression arguing that rights need not be arranged in an orderly...
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...Since 1648 and the Treaty of Westphalia and the recognition of the sovereignty of each State, States have been commonly accepted as the key feature of world politics. Nevertheless, the Westphalian system did not prevent the outbreak of the two World Wars of the 20 th Century. After, the First World War emerged, at the instigation of President Wilson, a first try to set up a collective security system with the creation of the League of Nations, which would, eventually, not last long. After the Second World War, all “free” States affirmed their will “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom »1 thus establishing a new collective security system (CSS) which purpose was “To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law,...
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...What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the environmental movement? The environmental movement was formed right around the end of the 1700’s. The movement itself didn’t become well known until maybe twenty or thirty years later. Between 1950 and 1957 there was a tremendous increase in the amount of people that became aware of the environmental movement’s ability to stop problems with the environment. Around the mid 1950’s, there were several catastrophic environmental disasters that occurred. Because there were access to radio and media at the time, it was easy for many people to see as well as hear all about the environment and the disasters that it involved, and this made a lot of people more “environmental friendly”. 2. Explain the main point concerning exponential growth and whether it is good or bad. Compare exponential growth to a logistic growth curve and explain how these might apply to human population growth. What promotes exponential growth? What constrains population growth? Our planet has many problems concerning the exponential growth of human life. Our main problem has become a great big problem to deal with, and I am sad to say that eventually our population will be so big that humans will not have enough resources in order for us to sustain life on our planet. Without human life on the planet, it would cause other life forms to eventually become extinct. I doubt if exponential growth is desirable on Earth,...
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...couples. E.H.R.L.R. 2014, 2, 179-184 [European Human Rights Law Review] Publication Date: 2014 Subject: Family law. Other related subjects: Human rights Keywords: Civil partnerships; Greece; Right to respect for private and family life; Same sex partners; Sexual orientation discrimination Abstract: Comments on the European Court of Human Rights decision in Vallianatos v Greece (29381/09) on whether a Greek law affording legal recognition to civil unions between unmarried heterosexual couples but not same sex couples breached the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 arts 8 and 14. Notes that the court did not assess whether Greece had a positive obligation to introduce civil unions for same sex couples. Considers the potential implications of the ruling for the civil partnership institution in England and Wales. Legislation Cited: European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.8 European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.14 Cases Cited: Vallianatos v Greece (29381/09) Unreported November 7, 2013 (ECHR (Grand Chamber)) © 2014 Sweet & Maxwell Page1 European Human Rights Law Review 2014 Case Comment Civil unions - exclusion of same-sex couples Subject: Family law. Other related subjects: Human rights Keywords: Civil partnerships; Greece; Right to respect for private and family life; Same sex partners; Sexual orientation discrimination Legislation: European Convention on Human Rights European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.14 Case: Vallianatos v Greece (29381/09)...
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...they were affected. Civil rights have come a long way in the past century, and continue to get better. Child rights groups continue to fight and win wrongful rulings in, so the kids can someday redeem themselves. First of all let’s take a look at what victimology is shall we. Victimology is defined as “the study of crime victims and the psychological effects on being a victim.” (Dictionary, 2013) Let’s take a look at why victimology is so important know a days. Here are some startling numbers from 2010. “The city of Detroit, Michigan literally looks like a war zone and violent crime is thriving. So far this year in Detroit, car thefts are up 83%, robberies are up 50%, burglaries are up 20% and property destruction is up 42%. Lawmakers in Illinois say that violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard needs to be sent in. In just one night last week seven people were killed and 18 were wounded – mostly by gunfire. In fact, there have already been 113 murders in Chicago this year. There are approximately 12 million crimes committed in the United States every single year. That is by far the worst in the world. No other nation has more than about 6 million reported crimes per year.” (Michael, 2010) With these types of numbers, there is a very big need for the victims of these crimes. There have been victims of crimes since the beginning of man; however there was no thought to study the victims until the 1940s and 1950s when a group of people,...
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