B-24 Liberator

By 1966, Johnson was pleased with the progress he had made. But soon events in Southeast Asia began to overshadow his domestic achievements. Funds he had envisioned to fight his war on poverty were now diverted to the war in Vietnam. The year's first major shock - the Vietnamese Tet offensive on January 30 1968 - was all the greater for being a near-complete surprise. Tet revealed the failure of Washington's policy and shattered the consensus that had prevailed within the U.S. elite. Tet forced…

I think when people from the north part of the U.S. heard that JFK was going to Dallas people paid Oswald to shoot him because he lived in the south. Maybe other assassins from different countries paid Oswald. No one knows for sure what happened it has been a long time since JFK’s death and we still don’t have evidence. Why would anybody want to kill JFK? Maybe people didn’t like that he was a democrat or people might not have agreed with anything he’s said. Maybe other countries wanted Lee to…

In Vietnam, the country was temporarily divided into North and South, called the 17th parallel, where civilians could move freely between two states. Two years later elections were held to make a unified government. The U.S. government did not like this because the elections might not be fair and if the Communist won the Vietnam war, Communism could spread and it could be a bigger threat to U.S. Basically the Vietnam War started because of Communism. In 1950, the Indochina War begins. Also,…

started to come out about the Vietnam War because of the Pentagon Papers, the violence that accompanied putting down student’s anti-war protests, and the media’s involvement in broadcasting the horrors of the Vietnam War. The government both under Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon claimed to have tried to take action to end the war, but when Nixon finally struck a deal with the North Vietnamese,…

The CNN effect has affected many parts of today’s society. This goes from how we, Americans, view war today all the way to how veterans have been treated in the past. This can bring up a new discussion on whether or not TV news sources should be allowed to broadcast conflict. The CNN effect has brought many false causes of concern to the public which supports reasons as to why wars should not be broadcasted in the news, aside from what the government controls. The CNN effect was only just the…

President Lyndon Johnson said, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe you have been completely fair". Johnson’s quote depicts the potentials of affirmative action such as bringing equality to education and employment. Before affirmative action, Africans, Hispanics, and women were segregated into low wage jobs which sparked…

The Words that Healed a Nation Apart from media pursued celebrities, there's only a meager handful of individuals who have become household names in recent years. Such names whispered in charactor games in children's basements and light debates amongst adults. These names drag a flurry of preconceived notions, personal interpretations and endless pits of scandal for gossip. Few names have gained more reputation than our nation's fallen leader, John F. Kennedy. After winning the presidential…

The NWSA became the largest and most influential suffrage organization in the United States. Susan B. Anthony was the dominant figure of the organization from the year of its foundation to 1900. Susan B. Anthony worked hard to give women the right to vote. on the elections of 1872, she exercised her citizen right to vote but was sent to trial on 1873, for voting illegally. Before her trial Susan B. Anthony gave a speech that said: Friends…

On average, twenty veterans kill themselves each and every day (Shane III and Kime). Twenty men and women with lives, families, friends, and neighbors. Twenty men and women who fought for the very freedoms Americans are so accustomed to. For years, veterans have struggled to go back to a normal life away from the war. Protesting and anti-war movements made it even hard for the already damaged veterans. The number anti-war movements began to climb during the Vietnam war. American civilians…

President John F.Kennedy held a news conference on April 11,1962 to discuss the hike in steel prices.The main purpose of this speech is to persuade steel companies to not change their prices. Kennedy uses an emotional appeal to showcase the economical distress occuring during that period. This is shown in the second paragraph in his speech when he stated " When we are asking Reservists to leave their homes and families for months to end."He wants these companies to understand that a war is…