Kennedy was most effective during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This crisis resulted from the Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba after the US put missiles in Turkey. The fear that the Soviet Union might attack the US with these missiles resulted in massive fear among American citizens.
However, over the course of thirteen days in October of 1962, Kennedy was able to navigate this crisis and organized a peaceful solution to the problem. The US agreed to take their missiles out of Turkey and the Soviet Union would remove their missiles from Cuba. If Kennedy did not negotiate a deal like this, the world would have experienced all out nuclear warfare for the first time.
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Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist British historian, wrote a book called The Short Twentieth Century. The 20th Century had been shorter than other centuries because it had begun in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and terminated of course early in November 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The problem however, and of course we historians we like problems, is that everybody knew what we had left behind with the fall of the wall, but nobody knew what we were heading towards. As Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, put it, “this was a system [the Cold War], this was a system under which we had lived quite happily for 40 years.” Or as Adam Michnik, again my Polish solidarity intellectual, put it “The worst thing about communism is what comes afterwards.” While our populations were in jubilation in front of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American author, at the time had a bestseller called the Bonfire of the Vanities and a British MP that I knew at the time famously rephrased that as the ‘bonfire of the certainties.’ All of the reference points with which we’d lived for half a century and which had organized our diplomacy, our military strategy, our ideology, were like as many props that were suddenly pulled from us.
Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee.
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Generally cities cause people to become more liberal, have a social hierarchy, and promote the general abundance of transportation.
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Socially, you can have tenements form, races can self and forcefully segregate, and people tend to become more liberal with exposure to other races.
Cultural is kind of related. People tend to clump into ideological groups (if you can give me the context of the question I can better answer).
Political life, like I said they tend to become more liberal. If your question is centered around the 1920's you could discuss child labor laws.
<span>The Farmers' Alliace was an organized agrarian economic movement amongst U.S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s. One of its goals was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers after the Civil War. As an economic movement, the Alliance had very limited and a short term success.</span><span>
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