Ted Kennedy

The Vietnam War lasted from 1954 to 1975. The war was met by a mixed reaction from Americans, with the unpopular opinion being against the war. People of different race, gender and background went against the war and created a movement called the antiwar movement. This movement became one of the biggest social movements in U.S. history. How did the antiwar movement affect American culture? Established organizations had taken a stance against the war and some like SDS had become a major part of…

Apocalypse Now is a film that reflects on the ‘curse’ of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a civil war that occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from the mid 1950’s until the 1970’s. It is a revisionary film produced in the post-war US by American director and producer Francis Ford Coppola, which was first shown at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival where it took home the prized Palme d’Or. The story follows Captain Benjamin L. Willard, an unstable, self-destructive, alcoholic ‘assassin’…

Kennedy. . . called young Americans to offer their talents. . . to the world,” and this initiative grew into the Peace Corps of the modern era (“Fifty Years of Peace Corps”). From the beginning, the Peace Corps has sent volunteers into underdeveloped areas…

The Great Depression was a time of desperate need for a large fraction of the American people. In the beginning of this dark period, Americans were holding on to false sense of hope in the name of a very weak and apathetic president that we know today as Herbert Hoover. Hoover is infamous for having ignored the signs of the coming depression and was disapproved of on a wide scale for the majority of his presidency. Following the failed presidency of Herbert Hoover came one of the most beloved…

Different from Garfinkle's point of view, history professor, Melvin Small, disputes with the author about the antiwar movement being a significant factor on the Vietnam War policies that contributed to the end of the war by several reasons. The first reason of the antiwar movement was the pressure it caused on Presidents Nixon's and Johnson's foreign policies. Professor Small explains how antiwar protests like the march on the Pentagon in October 1967 and 1969 affected the Johnson administration…

The Dulles Brothers, John Foster and Allen Welsh Dulles were born into a power and influential family invited America’s highest political circle. The brothers served as diplomats and lawyers, having both attended Princeton University and George Washington Law School. Under the Eisenhower administration the brothers gained power within the United States with John Foster Dulles becoming the Secretary of State and Allen Dulles becoming the Director of Central Intelligence. John Foster and Allen…

On November 4, 2008, it was clear who the American citizens had chosen to be their next president. President Barrack Obama won the presidential election and became the president elect of the United States of America. It was a historical moment on 20th January 2009 for the citizens when Barrack Obama was sworn in as the 44th and the first black president of the super power nation. People appeared in large numbers at the West Front of the United States Capitol to witness the historic moment.…

Between the years of 1945 and 2000 a total of ten presidents served in the oval office through the 55 year period. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, and Clinton served the country during some of the most difficult years in this Nation’s history. However, the tale of ten presidents elected in a 55 year period is one that is filled with deception, war, and assassination. The question that is raised out of this time is what determined the success of…

Marilyn Monroe The late Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, more commonly known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She overcame a lonesome childhood without a family and became one of the world’s most famous sex idols. She lived a very adventurous lifestyle, which resulted in her mysterious death at the young age of thirty-six. According to the article of notable biographies Monroe’s childhood relationship with her mother was loveless. In 1933, Monroe’s mother was…

April 18th, 1961, CIA paramilitary groups landed on a beach in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Initially, they overwhelmed the local militia, however, within a few days, they surrendered and were put into Cuban prisons. On April 21st, President John F. Kennedy acknowledged the failure of the mission and laid the blame on himself. However, I argue that by evaluating the Bay of Pigs Invasion through the lens of the cognitive approach, we will be better able to understand the failure of the mission and…