The Forever Changing Events of the 1950’s -1990’s

The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s end-to-end the last fifty historic period in that respect be some events that significantly shaped who we are today and changed the Statess future greatly. Throughout these decades the the Statesn experience has greatly varied. There were several struggle necks such as the Cold fight, Vietnam state of war, and the disconnectedness War either which took its own toll on the American people and their scrimping. The accomplished rights movement, protest, and demos throughout the decades were validated by the impact they left. Through the various presidents we witnessed many scandals and terminologies that remain and affect America today.McCarthyism, Cold War Ideology, Eisenhowers politics, The New Frontier, and Reaganomics will stick with the American people forever. These are chain of events that constantly shaped our demesne for what it is today. This paper will hit on a few of these events that had the most powerful effec ts on the American People and the economy. McCarthyism/ The Red alarm of The1950s Cold War ideology crystallized by and by the end of World War II. After World WarII, Americans began to be very afraid of communists taking over the United States. American referred to communist as reds this symbolized the communist as worse than urderers. At one storey during World War II the United States had an alliance with Russia and Britain however that alliance ended as America began to rebuild and Europe continued to struggle. A power struggle known as the Cold War began between the United States and Russia creating more fear in the American people of communism. Americans became more and more shadowed of the Soviets Americans thought macrocosm associated with the communist were as bad as being one yourself. The fear and fear p. 2 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s rose amongst the Americans fro communism which caused mass suspicion.The Truman doctrine was amaze into place b y chair Truman. The doctrine enforced loyalty against communism. Many were being accused of being connected to communism or communist with no real evidence, in that came the Red Scare. The Red Scare or McCarthyism Era is a termed used to describe anti-communism era of the 50s which was named after Joseph McCarthy. He was a former U. S. Senator who used the publics fears against communism to gain political standing. He claimed to provoke a list of suspected communists. He accused many in and out of governmental positions of being communist or having commingled ith communist. There was and is no real evidence to base his claims. This caused a great debate of miss trust for the American people and the government and caused a great deal of social issues. The senate held hearings and on with McCarthy and the HAUC many were black listed. McCarthyism had a major hand in the change in feelings America had somewhat both politics and society. The cultured Rights Movements of the 1960s In the 1960s racial challenges was discouraging and overtaking the society. The African Americans bore the antagonistic reaction to the economy and were racially segregated in every way from society.Their civil rights were violated and were not part of the national agenda for change. The African American race was usually referred to as Negro or Colored. The Civil rights of the 1960s came with a high price. In spite of The Declaration of license which states All men are created equal the injustice that the African Americans endured was one that wasnt easily speak out about. There were risk that took place in standing up for their right, many gave everything they had p. The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s and disoriented everything, if not their lives. They endured and stayed committed to change this injustice. In effort to build a coalition for racial equality many of races and creed gave up their place in society and thousands lost their lives. There were strong bla ck men and women that played key figures in the Civil rights movement they were Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, genus Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, and Dorothy Height. In 1967 The Detroit Riot took place because police raided a local illegal drinking hole for African Americans.In The 1963 March on Washington there was an estimated 250,000 people who gathered for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. This is where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous I Have a Dream speech took place. During the civil rights movement many demonstrations, protest, and riots took place and was successful in the coalition for racial equality. The Watergate Scandal of 1970s The 60s were full of chaos many thought that the chaos of the war and the social changes made would carry on into the 70s. The Vietnam War continued to divide the ountry. It was at war that many contested and by the early 70s many of the American people views were begining to chan ge. Daniel Ellsberg cancelled over secret Pentagon reports to new paper. chairman Nixon could not stop the publications of these pentagon papers and it infuriated him. chair Nixon had a group who were called the Plumbers because they fixed the leaks in The Whitehouse. They set out to discredit Ellsberg and with a job well make they were assigned a new job. They were in charge of derailing the democratic ticket. The Plumbers broke into the Democratic National . 4 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s Committee and bugged the office. A security guard descry the men and called the police. The Plumbers were apprehended. All of this was going on while chairman Nixon was seeking his second term as President. President Nixon was re-elected by a landslide. As the time passed and the break in was investigated it was traced back to the officials of the CREEP, which was the committee to re-elect the president. President Nixon denied any involvement to the break ins. The preside nt was forced to turn recordings which directly ndicated him and that he tried to acme the entire thing up. The break ins became known as the Watergate Scandal. Watergate was known for the fall of President Richard Nixon. In 1974 the courts named President Nixon as a co-conspirator in the obstruction of justice over the Watergate matter scandal. President Nixon feared impeachment and on August 8, 1974 he announced his resignation. 1980s Reaganomics In the 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president during what was considered the worst niche since the great deppression . He came in with a political platform to fix the deficit introducing The Economic Recovery Act.This plan would restore the economy over and within the coterminous three years. President Reagan truly turn overd that economy take awakening. In the Economic Recovery Act the income bracket would receive a twenty five percent appraise cut, breaking down to five percent the first year and ten percent the next two years. Many American felt as though the president was favoring the upper class by cutting the top rated tax by twenty percent yearly. Through the recovery act loaded people could grow more wealth and create more businesss therefore exhilarating the economy.By creating more businesss it would in turn create more jobs and drive the p. 5 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s prices down. Reagans Economy Recovery Act was passed on July 29, 1981 it did boost the economy but failed at repairing the deficit. Unemployment and poverty was on the rise, the president had taken a huge chance with the tax cut, and it was the largest tax cut ever. His theory was based on supply-side economics. Today we know it as Reaganomics Unfortunately President Reagan did not understand that in order for the tax cut to work spending would have to be cut.Budgets were cut but do to the high amount President Reagan spent on military issues the reckon did not balance out. Reagans Economy Recovery Act affe cted Americans in many ways intimately and bad. The people who benefited most from the tax cut were the wealthy. They seemed to becoming wealthier. The Lower income/poverty Americans had more trouble acquire ahead. It is all depending on what side of the economy you were on to say if reaganomics worked or not. 90s The Gulf War After serving as Vice President under President Ronald Reagan, President George W. supply became president in 1988. President scrubbing grimaced a world that was drasticly changing, after forty years the cold war had come to an end,The Berlin wall came down, and the communist empire was no longer. The hardest challenge President Bush was to face was when Iraq invaded Kuwait. On August 2, 1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait one of the major inunct producing countries in the Middle East. He was also threatining to move into Saudi Arabia. Americans were in fear because without receiving oil from Kuwait the prices would sky rocket.Iraqs invasio n came about after p. 6 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s Kuwait lowered the world price for oil takings by increasing its own oil production. Iraq was in debt to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and with low world prices on oil production Iraq would never be able to pay off their debt. President Bush called upon the United Nations and operation depart from storm began. America sent 40,000 phalanx and 118,000 military from allied nations.The United nations also sent a quarter of a million soilders to Saudi Arabia also known as Operation Dessert Shield. These troops were mostly Americans and sent to protect Saudi Arabia. Suddam Hussien had been highly naturalizeed in chemical war fare and was makin and testing chemical warfare wweapns of mass destruction. Suddam was testing these weapons on his own people and the American troops found and destroyed these weapons. Operation Desert Storm eventually conquard Iraqs million-man army. The war lasted exactly vitamin C hours and 40,000 troops were involved.Many of the soilders came home with what they call Gulf War Syndrome. Democrats protested the war, however it was needed and The President called on all to help. Ultimately Suddam was left in power and refused to allow the United Nations to conduct any and all inspections for chemical weapons of mass destructions. Suddam began harboring terrorist and providing training for them. With his own little terrorist army and a safe place to train the could prepare for retaliation. If you look back on these events from the 1950s 1990s you will see how they shapedAmerica as we know it today. All of these events had a dramatic impact on Americans, and our society socially, economically and politically. We are still very much affected by these and many p. 7 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s other events of these decades. As we go through our own eras and decades much of it seems to be the same, in many ways. Presently we ourselves are going through muc h of the same obstacles, war, recession, civil rights, unemployment and poverty. We will continue to face these things as we continue to grow as a country.In ten years I believe there will still be the same things effecting America for it seems that history just repeats itself. 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