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…helped Kennedy more than Nixon. Problems Facing the New President As Kennedy took office, cold-war tensions between Communist and Western nations increased. Communist forces pushed into Laos and threatened South Vietnam. The new president pledged…

…a difference. From Kennedy’s assassination to Vietnam to the Hippies, the 1960s were considered to be a chaotic time for America. Out of this mess, however, came a beautiful thing as blacks earned the equal rights they deserved and had fought a long time…

…abroad and peace and progress at home... An example of how Televisión Española presented the news can be seen the sequence of items covered in its program 24 Hours: killings in Vietnam, massacres in Dacca, protests in Warsaw, disturbances in Belfast, students…

…than 250,000 in the South (about two percent of the country's total population), the Civil War cost more human lives than all other American wars combined — including the Vietnam. In the Cotton Belt states, one quarter of the white male population fit…

…proved correct when Hitler committed suicide in a bunker with Eva Braun when the Allies victory became certain. This kind of wartime profiling of enemy leaders was possibly also used during other campaigns, including Vietnam and the Gulf War. >From June 14…

…, overseas investment and military expenditure, which had done so much for international liquidity after the war, had become excessive by the early 1970s. This was particularly so on account of the deficit financing of American intervention in the Vietnam War…

…expansionism and the strategic location of Afghanistan, the control of which could give USSR dominance in that region. "At the time and since, the Soviet venture into Afghanistan was compared to American involvement in Vietnam, a miscalculation which turned…

…was front-page news, often eclipsing the Vietnam War. The manuscript was read by many reporters that had covered Hughes and came to the conclusion that there was “no doubt in [their] mind [s]” that it could only have come from Hughes himself…

…to include Chicago and Los Angeles and was operating 7 days a week. By the early 1960's, Continental moved its headquarters to Los Angles, California and was providing air transportation for United States Military troops to the Orient during the Vietnam…

…abortion, and Mormons to propose bigamy, Transcendentalism has propelled individuals to oppose imperialism and oppression in India, racial discrimination in the Civil Rights Movement, mass genocide in the Vietnam War, slavery in the Pre-Civil War era, anti…