Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Chirayu Shah Mrs. McElroy APUSH 2, Sect. 2 31 March 2017 From 1945 to 1968, many groups of people were asking for rights, but the main focus was on the African-American community. They were asking for equality in the country, especially in the South. During this twenty-three period time frame, many events took place that changed their role in society. Although it did face great backlash, the government continued to work in their favor. Leaders in the African-American community unified the…

was not willing to change his story to fit the narrative of the government. Accompanied by several other war correspondents of the time, Halberstam was part of a growing movement of opposition for the Vietnam War. Even under pressure from President Kennedy, Halberstam was not willing to relinquish his position…

Egyptian hieroglyphs used picture symbols to represent objects which is really crazy. There wasn’t punctuation, spaces, vowels, and they were written in all directions. There are over 700 hieroglyphic picture symbols in the Egyptian alphabet. But in the 1960s pictures got more groovy. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s affected pop art in many ways. Some of the biggest historical events of the 1960s were Marilyn Monroes death, US sends troops to Vietnam, and the assassinations of…

President John F. Kennedy announced such news on the twenty-second of October, along with his plan of enacting a naval blockade around the coastal island. This plan demonstrated American readiness to bestow military action to prevent any and all potential threats to national security. The Cuban missile base simply could have been catastrophically devastating had the proper precautions been in order. A base so close to American shores could easily prove advantageous, should President Kennedy…

On April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to complete a mission in space. Their mission was to land on the moon and explore a hill called Fra Mauro. They were to gather samples of the moon’s sandy dirt and 4-billion-year-old rocks. It would take a total of four days to get to their destination. It was April 13th, 1970, the three astronauts only needed one more day to get started with their mission. Everything seemed as normal as a baby crying when it’s…

“Despite a united front among his advisers, Kennedy responded to the call for troops in Vietnam with an emphatic ‘no.’ “The war in Vietnam could be won only so long as it was their war,” he told an aide privately. “If it were ever converted into a white man’s war, we would lose.” (Santow, 2013). Unfortunately, Kennedy would not live to see the increase of advisors evolving into a full blown escalation due to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Without Kennedy to deescalate tensions, then…

was not initiated by Eisenhower. On January 20th, 1961 President Kennedy was inaugurated promising to “oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”. In April of 1961 newly inaugurated President Kennedy initiated the plan for the invasion of Cuba. While it seems that this was a quick and rash decision by Kennedy, history proves that this was not the case. In Kennedy’s memo to Secretary of Defense McNamara Kennedy uses caution and asks McNamara many questions about potential…

‘Test the Nation’ is a live television quiz show. The format is designed to allow viewers to answer a number of questions in order to measure their IQ or their ability in some other 'intellectual' area. Two hosts present 60 questions in front of a studio audience, a group of celebrities and the viewers at home. The studio audience who answer the questions along with the viewer, is broken down into fun categories often designed to challenge or affirm stereotypes. For example, in the United…

John F Kennedy John F. Kennedy was the 35th president. He became the youngest man and orthodox catholic to hold the office of the presidency. He was immensely popular with the citizens. His entire family was in politics. He was a huge opponent of communism and faced many challenges with foreign policy, this led to and escalated the United States involvement in Vietnam. He also oversaw the launch of the Peace Corps, which was a volunteer program for people outside the United States to help…

Well everything political and economic has an impact on other nations, like the Cold War the U.S. was facing the possibility that Russia was putting nuclear weapons on the island nation of Cuba and because of that our economic trade with Cuba was not allowed Americans weren't allowed to buy anything from Cuba or visit Cuba through U.S. airports and this effected Cuba because they got economic value through the U.S. because of tourism, trade, and exports to the U.S.. That affected the U.S.…