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Xavier W

'Titanic' is a great film. It's also the movie that gave rise to hater culture | Inside... - 0 views

  • James Cameron’s Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time, and I have no problem saying that it’s also one of the most beloved movies ever made.
  • What’s special about Titanic is that the backlash happened so quickly, and became so widespread, and grew nearly as mythological as the movie itself. The film was released in December 1997, and a few weeks later, when it started to play around the country to surging, off-the-charts crowds, the voices of dissent had already begun to coalesce. For everyone who adored Titanic, and even (like me) thought that it was a heart-swelling masterpiece of old-fashioned Hollywood audacity, it seemed as if there was someone else who thought it was overrated and overblown.
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    Titanic movie
Gracie M

East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall - History.com This Day in History -... - 0 views

  • the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
  • wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
  • Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, thousands of people from East Berlin crossed over into West Berlin to reunite with families and escape communist repression
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  • the government of East Germany, on the night of August 12, 1961, began to seal off all points of entrance into West Berlin from East Berlin by stringing barbed wire and posting sentries.
  • President John F. Kennedy believed that "A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war."
  • sealing off the two sections of Berlin.
  • Commanders of U.S. troops in West Berlin even began to make plans to bulldoze the wall,
  • concrete block wall began, complete with sentry towers and minefields around it.
  • attempt to reassure the West Germans that the United States was not abandoning them, Kennedy traveled to the Berlin Wall in June 1963, and famously declared, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!").
  • Since the word "Berliner" was commonly referred to as a jelly doughnut throughout most of Germany, Kennedy's improper use of German grammar was also translated as "I am a jelly doughnut."
  • meaning that he stood together with West Berlin in its rivalry with communist East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic was understood by the German people.
  • the Berlin Wall became a physical symbol of the Cold War.
  • During the lifetime of the wall, nearly 80 people were killed trying to escape from East to West Berlin.
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    Building of the Berlin Wall
Gracie M

November 22, 1963: Death of the President - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 0 views

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    JFK Death
Gracie M

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1 views

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. 
  • The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights.
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  • summer of 1963.
  • The changes strengthened President Kennedy's original proposal in response to the tumultuous summer of 1963,which saw several incidents of racially motivated violence across the South.  The House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation on October 26, 1963, and formally reported it to the full House on November 20, 1963, just two days before President Kennedy was assassinated.  On November 27, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson asserted his commitment to President Kennedy's legislative agenda, particularly civil rights legislation.  The House of Representatives passed a final version of the Civil Rights Act on February 10, 1964.
  • The bill came before the Senate in February 1964. 
  • Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield filed a procedural motion to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • The Senate began debate on the proposal on March 30, 1964.
  • Senator Edward Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dedicated his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate to the consideration of the Civil Rights Act. 
  • passed on June 19, 1964, by a vote of 73 to 27. 
  • The Civil Rights Act paved the way for future anti-discrimination legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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    Information on the Civil Rights Act
Paul F

Kent State Shootings - 2 views

  • On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War.
  • Protests by students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio began on May 1, 1970. At noon, students held a protest rally on campus and later that night rioters built a bonfire and threw beer bottles at police off campus. The mayor declared a state of emergency and asked the governor for help. The governor sent in the Ohio National Guard.
  • On May 2, 1970, during a protest near the ROTC building on campus, someone set fire to the abandoned building. The National Guard entered the campus and used tear gas to control the crowd.
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  • On May 4, 1970, another student rally was scheduled for noon at the Commons on the Kent State University campus. Before the rally began, the National Guard ordered those congregated to disperse. Since the students refused to leave, the National Guard attempted to use tear gas on the crowd.
  • Because of the shifting wind, the tear gas was ineffective at moving the crowd of students. The National Guard then advanced upon the crowd, with bayonets attached to their rifles. This scattered the crowd. After dispersing the crowd, the National Guardsmen stood around for about ten minutes and then turned around and began to retrace their steps.
Ivy A

1930s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1930s - 2 views

  • ck History Month Facts American History Trip Timeline 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 197
  • Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
  • Scientists Split the Atom
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  • The Dust Bowl
  • World War II Begins
  • Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
  • 1930s
Nick B

On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima - 0 views

  • On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941. By 1945,
  • Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb as soon after Aug.
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  • The 8,900-pound bomb, called “Little Boy,” was to be carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets,
  • At 8:15 a.m. local time, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city.
  • It has been difficult to determine a definitive death toll. Between 70,000 and 80,000 of the more than 340,000 people in the city are believed to have been killed by the initial blast, and many more died in the following weeks and years from injuries and radiation. The official Japanese death toll, calculated a year after the explosion, is 118,661. Other estimates put the number of deaths at more than 140,000, while thousands of other victims have suffered from radiation sickness, cancer and other long-term effects.
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    this website gives the name of the Bomb, the plane, and the pilot who flew the plane. Also it give you the death toll of the explosion.
Gracie M

First human heart transplant - History.com This Day in History - 12/3/1967 - 0 views

  • On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s.
  • 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
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    First heart transplant in South Africa preformed by an American, Surgeon Christian Barnard. 
Nick B

On This Day: Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki - 0 views

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    On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
Gracie M

Super Bowl History - Super Bowl I - 0 views

  • Green Bay Packers 35 Kansas City Chiefs 10
  • Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (13-2) against Hank Stram's Chiefs (12-2-1) and was played before 61,946 fans in Los Angeles' 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum. The television audience for this game is estimated to have been approximately 60 million viewers.
  • Max McGee
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  • McGee was later quoted as saying, "I waddled in about 7:30 in the morning and I could barely stand up for the kickoff. On the bench Paul (Hornung) kept needling me, 'What would you do if you had to play?' And I said, 'No way, there's no way I could make it.'" As fate would have it, Dowler did get hurt early in the game and McGee was suddenly thrust into a game he had no business being in.
  • he caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to cap off an 80-yard drive that gave the Packers an early lead. On the day, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns as the Packers went on to win the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
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    First American Super Bowl
Ruby C

The 80s | National Geographic Channel - 0 views

  • DNA first used to convict criminals and exonerate innocent prisoners on death row.
  • November 9: Berlin Wall falls.
  • The first IBM-PC released.
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  • October 13: The first commercial cell phone call is made.
  • January 28: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lift-off.
Gracie M

http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf - 0 views

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    I Have A Dream Speech
Ivy A

Timeline . Riding the Rails . American Experience . WGBH | PBS - 2 views

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    Timeline of the Great Depression
Ruby C

1980s Timeline - History Timeline of the 1980s - 1 views

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    Time line of the 80s
Paul F

Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending - History.com This Day in History - 12/8/1969 - 1 views

  • Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed "Vietnamization."
  • Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States
  • In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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  • In 1972, the North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese forces reeled under the attack, but eventually prevailed with the help of U.S. airpower. After extensive negotiations and the bombing of North Vietnam in December 1972, the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973. Under the provisions of the Accords, U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists.
Brielle F

Roaring Twenties - 0 views

  • The use of machinery increased productivity, while decreasing the demand for manual laborers.
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      Useful information about the advancement of technology. I would use another website to get more information about these main topics
  • Science, medicine and health advanced remarkably during the roaring twenties.
  • An interest developed in nutrition, caloric consumption and physical vitality
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  • The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time.
  • The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Under any moniker, the era embodied the beginning of modern America
  • Early in the 1920s the U.S. raised tariffs on imported goods, and free immigration came to an end.
  • Amendment 18 to the Constitution (1919) had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor
  • At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy
  • The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors
  • A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
  • "Flapper"
  • In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born.
  • Technology
  • vital part
  • Henry Ford
  • The radio found its way into virtually every home in America
  • The year 1922 introduced the first movie made with sound
  • Charles A. Lindbergh`s pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 did much to stimulate the young aviation industry.
  • Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances liberated women from much household drudgery
  • New technology in the roaring twenties introduced a number of impacts on the American farm:
  • For the first time in the United States, more people were living in cities than on farms.
Nick B

On This Day: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor - 0 views

  • “avoid a charge of ‘attack without warning,’
  • U.S. forces had not received warning by the time the first wave of Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor soon before 8 a.m. A second wave followed an hour later.
  • The American Response
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress formally declared war on the Japanese Empire just hours later.
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    this website gives an example of the reactions of the leaders of both nations involved in the attack and what happened.
Gracie M

Berlin Wall B+G: awesome , awesome | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for ed... - 1 views

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    Creation of the Berlin Wall. Glog. 
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