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

The Forever ever-changing Events of the 1950s -1990s Throughout the last fifty days there are some(prenominal) events that significantly shaped who we are today and changed the Statess prox greatly. Throughout these decades the the Statesn experience has greatly varied. There were several wars much(prenominal) as the Cold warfare, Vietnam fight, and the Gulf War on the whole which took its own gong on the the Statesn plenty and their frugality. The accomplished rights movement, protest, and demonstrations throughout the decades were validated by the impact they odd. Through the various prexys we witnessed many a(prenominal) a(prenominal) scandals and frontierinologies that remain and affect America today.McCarthyism, Cold War Ideology, Eisenhowers political relation, The New Frontier, and Reaganomics will stick with the American people forever. These are chain of events that constantly shaped our country for what it is today. This written report will hit on a few of t hese events that had the most regent(postnominal) effects on the American People and the parsimoniousness. McCarthyism/ The Red Scare of The1950s Cold War ideology crystallized after the end of domain of a function War II. After World WarII, Americans began to be very afraid of communistics fetching over the fall in States. American referred to communist as reds this symbolized the communist as worse than urderers. At mavin point during World War II the United States had an alliance with Russia and Britain however that alliance ended as America began to re relieve oneself and Europe continued to struggle. A power struggle know as the Cold War began between the United States and Russia creating more misgiving in the American people of communism. Americans became more and more suspicious of the Soviets Americans estimation being associated with the communist were as bad as being one yourself. The fear and concern p. 2 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s rose among st the Americans fro communism which caused mass suspicion.The Truman doctrine was put into place by prexy Truman. The doctrine enforced loyalty a take a crapst communism. Many were being accuse of being connected to communism or communist with no concrete 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 have a list of suspected communists. He accused many in and out of governing bodyal positions of being communist or having commingled ith communist. There was and is no real evidence to base his claims. This caused a great deal of miss trust for the American people and the government and caused a great deal of social issues. The senate held hearings and along with McCarthy and the HAUC many were wispy listed. McCarthyism had a major hand in the c hange in feelings America had round both politics and club. The complaisant 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 non 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 extravagantly price. In spite of The Declaration of Independence which states solely men are created equal the injustice that the African Americans endured was one that wasnt easily spoken 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 lost everything, if not their lives. They endured and stayed committed to change this injustice. In effort to build a coalition for rac ial equality many of races and creed gave up their place in society and thousands lost their lives. There were strong shameful 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 vicious drinking hole for African Americans.In The 1963 March on uppercase there was an estimated 250,000 people who gathered for a peaceful demonstration to hike up 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 crazy house many thought that the chaos of the war and the social changes made would carry on into the 70s. The Vietnam War continu ed 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 change. Daniel Ellsberg off over secret Pentagon reports to new paper. chairwoman Nixon could not stop the publications of these pentagon paper and it infuriated him. president Nixon had a group who were called the Plumbers because they fixed the leaks in The Whitehouse. They make up ones mind out to discredit Ellsberg and with a job well done they were charge a new job. They were in charge of derailing the democratic ticket. The Plumbers broke into the pop National . 4 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s deputation and bugged the office. A security guard spotted the men and called the police. The Plumbers were apprehended. completely of this was going on while President Nixon was seeking his second term as President. President Nixon was re-elected by a landslide. As the time passed and the butt in dance in was investigated it was tr aced back to the officials of the CREEP, which was the committee to re-elect the death chair. President Nixon denied any involvement to the break ins. The president was forced to turn recordings which directly ndicated him and that he tried to go 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 recession since the great deppression . He came in with a figure to fix the deficit introducing The Economic Recovery Act.This plan would restore the economy over and within the beside three years. President Reagan truly believed that economy needed awakening. In the Economic Recovery Act the income bracket would take a twenty five percent tax cut, breaking devour 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 wealthy people could start out more wealth and create more businesss therefore stimulating 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 interpreted a huge chance with the tax cut, and it was the largest tax cut ever. His conjecture 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 run for spending would have t o be cut.Budgets were cut but do to the high amount President Reagan spent on military issues the budget did not balance out. Reagans Economy Recovery Act affected Americans in many ways good and bad. The people who benefited most from the tax cut were the wealthy. They seemed to change state wealthier. The Lower income/poverty Americans had more trouble getting 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.Bush became president in 1988. President Bush faced 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 capital of Kuwait. On August 2, 1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait one of the major crude producing countries in the Middle East. He w as also threatining to move into Saudi-Arabian Arabia. Americans were in fear because without receiving oil from Kuwait the prices would sky rocket.Iraqs invasion came about after p. 6 The Forever changing Events of the 1950s -1990s Kuwait first-class honours degreeered the world price for oil production by change magnitude 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 adapted to pay off their debt. President Bush called upon the United Nations and operation forsake storm began. America sent 40,000 troops and 118,000 troops 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 broadly speaking Americans and sent to protect Saudi Arabia. Suddam Hussien had been highly trained in chemic war fare and was makin and examination chemical warfare wweapns of mass destruction. Suddam was testing these weapons on his own people and the American troops found and undo these weapons. Operation Desert Storm eventually conquard Iraqs million-man army. The war lasted but 100 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 o f the 1950s -1990s new(prenominal) events of these decades. As we go through our own eras and decades much of it seems to be the said(prenominal), in many ways. Presently we ourselves are going through much 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 news report just repeats itself. 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