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When Joseph Stalin was in control on Russia it meant that the people lost freedom. Everything that was done in the USSR had to be approved by the government. The people of Russia had no access to the media. Stalin believed that capitalist societies were driven by self-interest and oppressed people. In Churchill's "Iron Curtin Speech" he is talking about the necessary actions to maintain peace in Europe. Stalin's response to him seems like he's provoking other European nations to initiate warfare against Russia. Stalin compares Chruchill's words to those of Hitler regarding "racial theory" and says "Churchill only calls to the English-speaking nations of the world" (Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill, 1946). When Stalin made this accusation, …show more content…

In reaction to this the African Americans started the civil rights movement during the 1950s and '60s. The civil rights movement was a strive for social justice for blacks to gain equal rights. Before World War II, many blacks were low-wage farmers, factory workers or servants. There were many events that happened during the civil rights act, one being when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. What Rosa Parks did cause a year-long bus boycott. In 1963, approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gave a speech saying, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ' We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal" (I Have a Dream Speech). Both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were trying to stand up for what they believed in, they got pushed around and yelled at; but in the end it helped Americans see that black people should get the freedom to do what they please just like everyone else. All these acts were nonviolent protests to make the government understand that blacks should be equal in the United States. Eventually in 1964 the Civil Rights Act passed that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national

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