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- 1351: Vietnam War - The Vietnam War
- ... are inevitable. The memory of risking one's life will not fade quickly and is reason alone enough to drive one insane. As stated previously, however, the war in Vietnam provided additional stresses. A major stress was the fact that neither the citizens of the United States nor of South Vietnam accepted American interference. A solider was usually uninformed of the intentions of their government. Soldiers are taught to carry out ...
- 1352: Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
- ... Men who did not feel guilt in the face of slavery did so not because they were influenced by propaganda or the society in general. Instead, they were immoral from the beginning. But let me stress that this was not a common situation in the South. Slaveholders in general were guilt-stricken because they recognized themselves in their slaves, and understood, deep down, that what they were doing was wrong. Examine ...
- 1353: The Vietnam War
- ... are inevitable. The memory of risking one's life will not fade quickly and is reason alone enough to drive one insane. As stated previously, however, the war in Vietnam provided additional stresses. A major stress was the fact that neither the citizens of the United States nor of South Vietnam accepted American interference. A solider was usually uninformed of the intentions of their government. Soldiers are taught to carry out ...
- 1354: The Watergate Scandal
- ... Agnew resigned because of the charges on October of 1973. He was only charged of tax evasion and the others were dropped. This scandal was not connected to Watergate, but it put a lot of stress on Nixon. Nixon nominated Gerald Ford in place of Agnew. Ford did very little to salvage Nixon reputation. A couple of days after Agnew resigns, the federal court made Nixon hand over the tapes. Nixon ...
- 1355: Ku Klux Klan
- ... men from a small town in Tennessee accidentally began what has grown to be the largest and most feared "hate group" in the country. The men decided to make a club to help release the stress of the times. The men were all poor and could not afford to make gowns or great costumes for the group, so they decided to use linens. They wore the linens over their backs and ...
- 1356: Taxation & Democracy
- ... key to understanding the development of tax policy during that period was the strength of both labor and capital to represent and protect their own interests in their respective legislatures. In all three countries, the stress of World War II forced all political parties to pull together and compromise over revenue issues. Just how much money is to be made in the business of war? "The new taxes will be severe ...
- 1357: Richard Nixon
- ... whom he helped campaigned. He easily won the nomination on the first ballot at the convention and chose the governor of Maryland as his running mate. Vice-president Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, was placed under stress by Nixon from the unsuccessful war in Vietnams effects. Nearly thirty-two million votes gave him a clear majority in the electoral college. The most important issue Nixon faced when he became president was ...
- 1358: Puritanism
- ... were the ordinary stresses of 17th-century life in Massachusetts Bay Colony. A strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics, and rivalry with nearby Salem Town all played a part in the stress. There was also a recent small pox epidemic and the threat of an attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. Soon prisons were filled with more than 150 men and ...
- 1359: JFK
- ... of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In 1963, clashes between the police and demonstrating blacks in Birmingham, Ala., and elsewhere, especially in the South, induced the president to stress civil rights legislation. Kennedy's new civil rights message included bills to ban discrimination in places of business; to speed up desegregation of public schools; and to end discrimination in the hiring of workers on ...
- 1360: Puritanism
- ... were the ordinary stresses of 17th-century life in Massachusetts Bay Colony. A strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem Village fanatics, and rivalry with nearby Salem Town all played a part in the stress. There was also a recent small pox epidemic and the threat of an attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. Soon prisons were filled with more than 150 men and ...
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