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The Vietnam War: The Five Events Of The Great Depression

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The five events I have chosen are the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Moral Majority, and the Kenneth Starr investigation of President Bill Clinton. The Great Depression, which lasted from about 1929 to 1939, began when the American Stock market bottomed out. Even though only three present of Americans had money in the Stock Market, banks at that time were allowed to invest in the stock market . Therefore many banks fell , which included the loss of many American’s banked money. Factories shut down, and businesses closed, unemployment was reported at 25%, but in areas the experienced the Dust Bowl, this number seems optimistic. America caused a global depression as well. …show more content…

This was important for me because this event overshadowed my life from an early age until my teenage years. America’s participation in the Vietnam War was an extension of the Cold War. Since America said we would fight against communism, we did. We lost approximately 60,000 service men; some are still missing in action. In the end, it served no purpose, South Vietnam lost and became a part of the communist north. Many soldiers came back with PTSD and at that time they did not have a name or real treatment, for this disorder. Many Vietnam veterans suffered many side effects from the war, angent organge and other effects of weaponary. Today, we have in comparaion massive amounts of positive propaganda for military, nevertheless, in this war, verterns were treated poorly ,especially by the public. The collateral consequences of this war effected many families. Today, I know many people and families ,who have not recovered completely from this war …show more content…

Kennedy and the civil rights movement. JFK was a remarkable fighter for civil rights. I began elementary school in 1964, by that time the schools were fully integrated. I can remember my elementary PE teacher telling me that at one time he had been the Principal of the Booker T. Washington school. I found this alarming, why had this man been reduced to kick ball? That is when I first gained knowledge of segregation and separate but equal ideologies. I think if President Kennedy had lived longer he would have enacted and ensured more protection for minorities, perhaps lessening the counter cultures of the late sixties and seventies. Today inequity still exists, but from a capitalistic perspective, I am more inclined at this stage of my life to believe it is poverty that is largest factor that determines inequality. I often wonder if JFK had lived, would America have gone to Vietnam? I think

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