HIST 2020 M02

  Most people living during this time period expected conformity and feared anything that went against their perception of normality. During the late 1960s, many groups challenged these perceptions. Many like the Hippies, women, and anti-war protesters were the ones under the most scrutiny. With the Hippies, they threw out many norms and expectations that most middle-class Americans held so close. In a time where most individuals were on the straight and narrow, Hippies were notorious for their drug intake and their go with the flow attitudes. Most individuals during this time were working trying to make ends meet. They had to work so hard to pay off their homes, get their kids through school, and be able to retire. Hippies on the other hand were not working to the degree that their parents were. During this time, women were making a larger uproar than before. Women in the 60s were expected to be perfect little housewives. They were expected to cook, clean, take care of the kids,...

     The second wave of feminism was mainly about women's reproductive rights. This movement was started in the 1960's and after the John F. Kennedy's commission. The movement focused on several issues such as gender inequality, reproductive rights, sexism and workplace discrimination. At the time, women were to become housewives and act all the parts to being a more feminine. Betty Friedan wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique which gave others a more perspective view of how women felt about how they are supposed to act and like. Women were often told that they must clean the house, always make their husbands happy, care for the children herself, and if they had a job, they didn't receive the same respect as men did nor the right pay. Women felt unhappy because of how empty they felt doing the things that they did not enjoy. This led to what the doctor called "the housewifes's syndrome" where mainly housewives felt a sort of emptiness inside and not s...

The Vietnam War took place from 1955 to 1975 due to the communist influence present in North Vietnam. The U nited States s trongly felt that the Vietnamese needed saving from this communist influence and if we did not stop communism then it would spread to America resulting in the loss of our own freedom. Upon entering the war, American soldiers fe lt happy to be fighting for freedom and d id not care if it cost their life to achieve this mission. As the war continue d, soldiers were seeing increasingly more horrific scenes, casualties, and fear ed their life even in their sleep but they still f ound a way to make their mission in Vietnam enjoyable . To do this, soldiers ma de bets with their fellow members on who would be the first to kill an opponent with a weapon or which day would they achieve 10,000 deaths in their unit . At this point, the American soldiers still felt sorrow for the Vietnamese and still desired to achieve their mission in North Vietnam ; but,...

  The Cold War was a period of extreme political tension between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of World War II until the 1990s. During this time, the United States adopted a containment policy, aimed at preventing the spread of communism. The containment policy was based on the belief that if the Soviet Union was allowed to expand its influence, it would eventually dominate the world. To prevent this from happening, the United States used a variety of diplomatic, economic, and military strategies to contain Soviet expansion. One of the key elements of the containment policy was the Truman Doctrine, which was announced in 1947. This would later be known as the early Containment Policy. The doctrine stated that the United States would provide military and economic support to countries that were threatened by communism. This policy was used to provide aid to countries such as Greece and Turkey, which were under a severe threat from communist forces. Another signi...

Blog written by Grace Deck When reading these documents, I was astounded by the level of miss treatment to Japanese in America. Franklin D. Roosevelt had issued the order for no.9066 for the Japanese American to be put in prison camps. The unconstitutional way and laws were broken when this order went to infect. People were unlawfully held again their will, but still, no one could go against the order. A young Japanese American Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was at a party when the attack on pearl harbor happened and the treatment after. This was a frighting time in Yoshinaga life. His family had to destroy books with the Japanese language and hide any of their   culture, because of the belief that if the police seen any in your house, you will be taken to prison.   To   me, it was sad to see how people would label others that were nice to them Jap-lovers and the Japanese were treated with distain. It was heart breaking to read about how they had moved to a small house about 16 x ...

 A revolution, born from built up frustration over many millennia, finally burst into the light across the globe during the 20th century. This revolution made its debut in the United States during the 1920’s, though at the time, guys and gals alike were calling it “The Roaring Twenties,” due to the lavish lifestyles that could be pursued, and also, freedom and liberty had never been so prominent. It was a time of change from the traditional ways of old. However, no group in the United States was more impactful about bringing about this change than the everyday woman. Not only did they help bring about change, however, they were successful in bringing about their own personal freedoms, such as their right to vote, their right to work, their right to be as free as the working man. This revolution in the modern day is fondly known as “The New Woman Movement.”      In the document “Now We Can Begin”, written by Crystal Eastman, she explores the ideas of women's rights du...

    Imperialism is the act of a country using its power to rule over lands and even peoples. Historically imperialism was very common throughout Europe with Empires such as Rome conquering and ruling lands. However common Imperialism throughout the world The United States has abstained from any intentional global conquering. In the late nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, after winning the Spanish-Cuban-American War The United States found itself with a critical decision. The decision was to either hold control or leave the Philippines. The opinions of Charles Conant, Albert J. Beveridge, and Emilio Aguinaldo stand out more than others in this discussion. Their discussion poses an important question, should the United States use the power to enforce imperialism? Conant, Beveridge, and Aguinaldo all differ on the topic of American imperialism in the Philippines. Imperialism, as Conant believes, is important to the United States as it greatly supports the coun...