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Post WWII Major Events


The latter half of the twentieth century is full of many remarkable events, some of which have made changes in history, and will stand out for generations to come. Throughout the most of the last half of the century, the United States was fighting a Cold War with the Soviet Union. Americans, afraid that communists were everywhere, even within their own government, conducted what were in essence, witch hunts for communists. American astronauts were the first to ever walk on the moon. An American President, for fear of impeachment, resigned. Another President's integrity was called into question for illegal arms deals. America also freed a country from the hands of a tyrant. This paper will touch on one major event from the 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's; which in the author's opinion are some of the most significant social, political, and economic events of those decades.
The Fifties in America
In 1945 at the end of World War II, the......

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