Saturday, May 14, 2016

Make Love, Not War

In the 1960's to 1970's America, from the war in Vietnam, started to get growing protestors for ending the war. The war has been going on for such a long time and more and more American lives are being lost, creating Americans at home to worry. More American friends and families were dying at war. Eventually the war does end with the first U.S. president to lose a war, being Richard Nixon. Before this had happened to end the war in Vietnam, there was unrest on other movements as well, and it started with one president in the 1960's. John F. Kennedy was running for president against Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential race. During that time, it was the first time in American history that Americans were able to see their presidential forerunners or candidates on live television, and it began with the first debate. The first debate was very crucial to their first impression on the American people watching, but one candidate didn't suppress the idea too much. Richard Nixon seemed nervous and unconfident next to Kennedy, and he made himself seem under ranked compared to Kennedy. That costed him the election majorly in the end. At this time, discrimination was also a problem and it was a big problems for the U.S. that communism actually seemed more allowing in equality than the equality-for-all claimed America. Later on came the protestors in UC Berkeley, trying o achieve freedom of speech, and they even used Martin Luther King Jr.'s method of protest.

3 comments:

  1. Very informative, you went super in-depth on a lot of different points. I would suggest organizing this chronologically next time to make it even easier to understand (ex. talk about the movements in the 60's, then the Vietnam war)

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  2. Great post! You included a lot of good information about the 60s and 70s which shows your knowledge of the subject. I agree with Sana on the chronological order of material. You could have also included information on the civil rights movements that happened during that time.

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  3. You gave a lot of really great detail on the effects of the War and Nixon's leadership on America. I really like how you didnt just list out the events, but you put them in chronological order and connected them all to eachother.

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