Meghan Joseph The Kennedy Era Our 35th president of the United States‚ John F. Kennedy‚ was the leader of the Democratic Party from 1961-1963‚ believer in a strong Navy and even stronger country. He was wed to first lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy. Together the two had three children‚ his daughter Caroline‚ and sons John Jr. and Patrick. On November 22‚ 1963 in Dallas‚ Texas he was gunned down by an assassin during a midday motorcade. While the murder of any President is a national tragedy
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Capitalism · System of government is democratic · Property is privately owned · Driven by free enterprise · Wealth distributed unevenly · Education and health care provided by private entities · Freedom of the press Class distinctions: upper class‚ middle class and working class · Focus is on the individual and his/her own progress in life Communism · System of government is totalitarian · Property is owned by the state · No free enterprise is allowed · Wealth distributed equally · Education
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search Soviet ships. And a call for the Soviet Union to withdraw what was already there. It was chosen by Kennedy as he believed it would show that the USA was serious‚ but it would not be a direct act of war. He believed it would put the burden on Khrushchev to decide what to do next. The USA had a strong navy and could still take the other options if this one did not work. Another reason for Kennedy’s decision was that the ExComm group set up in order to deal with the crisis had limited down the
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1. What were the main reasons for World War I? 2. What were the results of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and what happened to the Romanov family? 3. What reforms were proposed by Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata? 4. What caused the end of the Manchu Dynasty in China? 5. What were the goals of revolutionary China? 6. What was the weakness of the League of Nations? 7. What were some of the new weapons used in WWI and what was trench warfare? 8. What was
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also gave a significant boost to the US dollar. Event #3: The formation of the Berlin Wall 1961 What happened? In August 1961‚ a physical partition of between East and West Germany was put in place in Berlin under the command of President Khrushchev. Significance on contemporary history: The Berlin Wall symbolized the acceptance of the status quo in Europe by both sides. The most significant aspect of the Berlin Wall is arguably the fact that it clarified worldwide the difference between
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Pepsi [pic] ASK FOR MORE!! INTRODUCTION At the 20’s and 30’s in the 20 century‚ Coca-Cola was the absolute leader of soft drink market. Pepsi-Cola was just a new brand at that time. Pepsi-Cola was thought of just a copy of Coca-Cola and its flavor is similar to Coca-Cola. So the Coca-Cola did not take any importance for it. But later Pepsi-Cola developed fast and became the strongest competitor to the Coca-Cola and now Pepsi shared 40% of the market. It is a big threat
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Though he has a negative connotation in the American political perspective for being a Leninist/Marxist and for provoking such incidents as the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ Fidel Castro was a positive leader in Cuba and made many improvements to Cuban society after the Cuban Revolution that he led in 1959. Due to such incidents‚ many of Castro’s social reforms in Cuba are ignored (or dismissed as completely communistic and therefore without any merit to the United States)‚ especially reforms that he made
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caught by American spy planes (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). JFK decided to confront the Soviets publicly by going on television and thought of surrounding Cuba with a naval blockade (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). The Soviet’s leader Khrushchev decided to remove their missiles from Cuba if America moved their missiles from Turkey (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). The US agreed with their plan and also agreed on not invading Cuba (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). The crisis was averted
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International A Wall Divides Berlin “Today the endangered frontier of freedom runs through divided Berlin.” President Kennedy‚ on July 22‚ 1961‚ three weeks before the Berlin Wall was erected. A grim convoy of tanks and troops wound through eastern Berlin in the predawn hours of August 13‚ 1961. By sunrise‚ East German soldiers had stretched barbed wire across the city‚ cutting off the Communist sector from the capitalist. The wire was soon replaced by a network of concrete walls and
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