History 135 Week 9 Final Project: “The Most Significant Events”: When most people are taught about U.S. history‚ we think of mostly the bad times like the wars‚ the civil rights movements‚ President Kennedy’s and M. L. King Jr’s associations‚ just to name a few. In this paper I will discuss those and more going into the start of the 21st century. The previous five decades consisting of the 1950s into the millennium happened during the U.S. History equally turbulent‚ but exciting. There
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The 1960’s was a decade of extreme changes and different contrasts. For many in the massive post-World War II baby boom generation‚ it was the best and worst for this time. In the 1960’s‚ deep cultural changes were taking place among the women in American society. Females‚ more than ever were entering the paid workplace. This increased dissatisfaction within women regarding gender disparities in pay and the concern for sexual harassment
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Terrorism Kristina Ransom HIS/135 March 17‚ 2013 John Spatharos Terrorism is the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence)
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Social Movements James Hodges 2-4-2012 Christine Hooper It appears that as the civil rights movement was developing in the 1960s other minority groups were joining the cause. The American Indians were one of these groups. One specific account of this movement was captured by an article in the New York Times. An American Indian woman living in New York started pushing for the responsible use of traditional Indian customs. She started to organize and promote these traditional customs in an effort
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In this archive file of HIS 135 Entire Course you will find the next documents:HIS-135-Assignment-Cold-War-Ideology-and-Policies.docHIS-135-Assignment-The-Vietnam-War.docHIS-135-Capstone-CheckPoint-End-of-the-Cold-War.docHIS-135-CheckPoint-Comparing-KennedyG History - General History ASHFORD HIS 204 American History Since 1865 If dragging yourself out of bed at 6:00 am is impossible‚ don’t torture yourself with 7:00 am classes. Most schools offer classes in a wide range of time slots
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The Vietnam War is one of America’s longest lasting wars beginning in 1955‚ and lasting until 1975. The United States became involved in the Vietnam War because of its efforts to stop communism in Southeast Asia. The United States feared that if communist took over Southeast Asia it would cause a domino effect around the world. The United States began sending financial aid and military advisors to South Vietnam to help stop a communist takeover. North Vietnam was run by communist leader Ho Chi Minh
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Final Project Overview and Timeline Final Project Overview The final project for HIS 135 is a written essay consisting of an overview of what you consider to be the most significant events in the decades following World War II. You must select one event that you studied—social‚ economic‚ or political—from each of the following decades: 1950s‚ 1960s‚ 1970s‚ 1980s‚ and 1990s. The event that you select should be the one that you believe had an overriding influence on U.S. culture‚ economy‚ or
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the right time to buy. The most important part of purchasing a home is the financial area with income‚ taxes‚ and annual percentage rates. The decision to purchase a house is one of the most important decisions that the average consumer will make in his or her lifetime. This decision‚ in the best of circumstances‚ must be weighed very carefully. In a fickle economy such as the one the United States faces now‚ the weight of this decision is even heavier. If one makes the wrong decision‚ it could
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University of Phoenix Material Environmental Movement Matrix Choose five items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1970s: • Cuyahoga River‚ OH (Cleveland) fire 1969 • Love Canal • Silent Spring • Population Bomb • Endangered Species Act (1966‚ 1969‚ & 1973) • Clean Water Act (1972‚ 1977) • Conservationism vs. environmentalism • Acid rain • Ozone layer • Rainforests • Depletion of fossil fuels • Climate change Event Significance Clean
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Week 9 Essay Our country has a wide variety of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities backgrounds. I have learned that each group has differences and similarities. These differences give us insight into other cultures‚ beliefs‚ and ways of life that we would not normally know. By embracing the differences through our diverse society‚ I have learned new concepts of living‚ new ways to thinking‚ and new ways to understand things that are different than my everyday life. Many of the groups that are
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