In retrospect, if it had not been for LBJ's involvement in Vietnam, his economic/domestic policy called the Great Society would have continued and he would have probably gone down in history as one of our greatest presidents.



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One significance of NATO was that it was the United States' first military alliance formed during peacetime, stating that an attack on one member would be considered an attack on all, therefore committing all member nations to military action.



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The tougher policy of roll back and massive retaliation can be described as working much better than the policy of containment.



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President Eisenhower was definitely more liberal and Truman definitely more conservative on the issue of civil rights in America.  This can be seen by Truman's integration of the armed forces and Eisenhower's timid stance on school integration.



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With Sputnik in 1957, the Soviets beat the United States into space, creating a perceived "missile gap", and the space race began.  It also sparked federal governmental support of education in the U.S., especially in the fields of math and science



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The most serious confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War era was Stalin's blockade of West Berlin that resulted in the immediate construction of the Berlin Wall.



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Examples of the militant and/or separatist black power movement of the 1950's and 1960's are: the Black Muslims, the Black Panthers, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).  



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A major "thaw" in the cold war came when President Richard Nixon carried out his foreign policy of detente with Leonid Brezhnev of this Soviet Union and Mao Tse Tung of Red China.  



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President Dwight Eisenhower's domestic policy of Modern Republicanism became the foundation of the modern Republican Party or G.O.P. today.  



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The rise of suburbia in 1950's had both positive and negative elements.  Among the negatives are an increased reliance on automobile transportation and resulting pollution, a decay of resources for the inner-cities, and an economic separation of the wealthy from the poor.  



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Because Americans during World War II feared the Red scare, patriotism reigned supreme in all areas of American life.  For example, labor unions, who made no-strike pledges, held to that promise for the duration of the war.



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Because both Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972 were elected president in overwhelming landslides, they both believed that they had received a mandate from the people to pursue their domestic and foreign policies.  



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The presence of people such as Joseph McCarthy and other Cold Warriors, of committees such as House on Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.), and of laws such as that as the Federal Employee Loyalty Program of 1947, clearly illustrate that the Red Scare following World War II was real.  Large numbers of Communists were discovered, fired, and blacklisted so as not to harm the country.  



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The imperial presidency, which has arisen since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  continued to gain power and prestige until its ultimate downfall in 1974.  With Nixon's resignation from the presidency amidst the Watergate scandal, each presidency since that time has concluded on a note of corruption and/or disfavor with the American people.  



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