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    Resistance This paper will focus on the resistance movement for the Polish citizens during WWII. Also will argue how the resisters formed in several diverse ways to against the oppressors. Who was part of the resistance? How were they formed? How did the fighters able to get their resources? How did the Polish resistance operate? With their resources that the Polish resisters had, how can one assess their accomplishments? Alongside the occasions of the movements that succeeded. Do we define the resisters

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    The Jewish culture during World War II was primarily the target of terror. These people were brutally murdered, sent to concentration camps where they were sent to pretty much die, and also their way of life was almost destroyed. The Nazi’s ran terror on these citizens for years during the war. Even though all this was brought down onto the Jewish citizens, they were still able to fight back. What different acts of resistance was there? Who was all participating in the resistance? How were they able

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    The Vietnam War was known for its conflict with the United States and communism, but it was also seen as the period of a certain generation and of particular events. The Vietnam War was seen more than simply a war, but it was affiliated with hippies, the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. The Vietnam War had a great significance in the events that occurred in the United States, this era was a period of development, movements, reforms, protest and great revolt. Vietnam was central

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    your life?” The Vietnam War killed over fifty eight thousand Americans and over 61% of the men killed were 21 years or younger. Most Americans are conflicted with the fact whether the Anti War Movement

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    Due to the influence of the Vietnam anti-war movement , it had resulted in the government to gradually withdraw their troops. The anti-war movement in Australia during the Vietnam war had an influential, positive and negative impact. The first main impacts that the anti-war movement had influenced was that they had put an enormous amount of pressure on the government. However, the Vietnam anti-war movement hadn’t only affected the Australian governments but also their people. Another main impact

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    return for new civil liberties. The civil rights movement involved various sit-ins, protests, and marches to fight segregation and oppression. Teenagers freely expressed their opposition to the war as well as their dissent towards the establishment. Both the anti-war movement and the hippie movement revolved around a universal fight for peace. These various different social movements and their counterparts consumed the 1960s. However, these movements did not occur with agitation and preexisting problems

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    newspaper articles to large rallies, and during the Vietnam War, music was a prevalent tool in aiding the protests. Allowing political messages to be shared nationally, the music had touched the lives of the younger generation. Author Jerome L. Rodnitzky explains in his journal, “The Sixties between the Microgrooves: Using Folk and Protest Music to Understand American History, 1963-1973”, how music was “trying to be all things

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    Anti-War Movement 1 Anti-War Movement 2 The United States participation in the Vietnam War was a subject of much debate among the American public. While

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    transpiration of the Civil War. Between the years of 1861 and 1865, conflict between the North and South had emerged, causing bloodshed at America’s most dominant period of history. Throughout the year 1861, intense conflict between the North and South over issues of states’ liberties, federal power, westward expansion, and slavery had impelled the Civil War. By the end of war, the Civil War had proved to be the most disastrous war known to American existence. During war, antislavery movements had transpired

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    Music In Vietnam

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    Music within the Vietnam War The war in Vietnam, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, has gone down as one of the influential and controversial wars in United States history. The nation as a whole began an uproar over the war and the major consequences of the war. Public opinion steadily turned against the war following 1967 and by 1970 only a third of Americans believed that the U.S. had not made a mistake by sending troops to fight in Vietnam (Sperlich). Not to mention, many young people protested

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