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    Great Society. What had impacted the sequence of events following Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the legal language used in both the court decision and the law. More so‚ the sequence of the events following Brown v. Board of Education impacted the legal language used in Kennedy’s affirmative action executive order and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Civil Rights Movement had declined by the end of the 1960s‚ it is hard to ignore the significance and the impact

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    Spitfires‚ now we can build the houses.”) d) Nationalisation agenda: industries nationalised during the war remain nationalised‚ other new vital service providers (e.g. BOAC and BEA) founded as nationalised industries • Conservative backlash: (1951-1964) 1) While the people enjoyed the new welfare state‚ the Cold War also made them afraid of the Russians and their version of a “workers’ paradise” (Stalinist advertisement). Hence‚ the Labour party with their socialist rhetoric lost ground as people

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    see why the Birmingham Campaign is considered one of the most influential campaigns of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement‚ however‚ this is not the only reason for such. A little over a year after the end of the campaign‚ in July 2nd of 1964‚ the Civil Rights Act of 1964- the prohibition of discrimination based on age‚ gender‚ race‚ religion‚ or national origin- was signed into law by the 35th President of the United States‚ Lyondon B. Johnson; among the various other incidents credited for playing a

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    BAROTSELAND POSITION ON THE UNITED KINGDOM 1. The United Kingdom was a signatory to the International Treaty known as the Barotseland Agreement 1964‚ and benefitted from that Agreement by being relieved there-under from its responsibilities previously owed to both of the two separate former Protectorates‚ Barotseland and Northern Rhodesia‚ who were the other parties to it. Yet the Zambians have on the one hand repeatedly breached‚ abrogated and in 1969 purportedly expressly repudiated the Treaty

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    The National Museum of American History opened to the public in January 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology. It was the sixth Smithsonian building on the National Mall in Washington‚ D.C. The Smithsonian was established in 1846 by an act of Congress as an institution for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." By the 1850s the organization was called the U.S. National museum and housed in the first Smithsonian building. Smithsonian collections developed both as specimens and as historical

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    University of Phoenix Material Use the following table to complete the Motivation Concept Table assignment for Week One. You are encouraged to modify table formatting to suit your needs. Please consult with course instructor for additional assignment specifications. The completed table will serve as a resource for the remainder of the course. | | |Time Period Created | | |Theory

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    Bacrim‚ and ELN who are distributed as shown in Figure 2. “The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the oldest and largest group among Colombia’s left-wing rebels and is one of the world’s richest guerrilla armies. The group was founded in 1964‚ when it declared its intention to overthrow the government and install a Marxist regime. But tactics changed in the 1990s‚ as right-wing paramilitary forces attacked the rebels‚ and the FARC became increasingly involved in the drug trade to raise

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    from https://blackboard.case.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_53789_1%26url%3D Rosenberg‚ M. (2011‚ March 2). Baby boom: the population baby boom of 1946-1964 in the United States. Retrieved from http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom.htm The University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy National Poverty Center. (2011). Poverty in the United States frequently asked questions

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    This essay will examine the impact of the Conservative party during their period in office between 1951 and 1964. The assessments by historians of these thirteen years vary widely as the Conservative rule left behind a mixed feeling about its achievements. We will therefore be discussing to what extent their period in office can be described as “thirteen years wasted”‚ based on their performances in the political‚ economic and social sectors. When the Conservative Party came to power in 1951‚

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    of Vietnam which was supported by the United States. On August 2nd‚ 1964 the USS Maddox was on a secret intelligent mission on the North Vietnamese coast where in the Gulf on Tonkin they were attacked by torpedo boats. The USS Turner Joy was attacked in the same area two days later. Due to the second attack Congress declared the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which led to air strikes.In 1959 there were 5‚000 guerilla fighters and in 1964 the numbers jumped to 100‚000. At Pleiku on March‚ 1965 U.S Marine

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