AMERICAN HISTORY: give the context for, define, and tell the significance/after-

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AMERICAN HISTORY:

give the context for, define, and tell the significance/after-effect of each of the following, in terms of 20th-century US culture/history:

Cold War (1947-90)

McCarthyism (1950s)

Korean War (specifically the U.S. part of the U.N.-led "police action" in Korea, 1950-53)

atom-bomb shelters (1945-1960s) & "duck and cover" drills (1951-1960s), vs. "overkills" (1960s-80s)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (passed 1964, repealed 1970)

anti-war protests (1967-71) and the "counter-culture"

Tet Offensive (January 1968)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (dedicated 1982) [not covered in book; see http://virtualwall.org/]

Powell [Bush I] Doctrine (1991-2001)

U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (Nov. 2001 - Dec. 2014)

Explanation / Answer

Cold War (1947-90)

   THe cold War immediatly following World War2 .The main origin of cold War is Atomic Bomb on The Hiroshima and Nagasaki. in originally in between the Relations of the soviet Union and the allies (United States, Great Britain and France) . The cold war was Waged on political ,economic,and propanganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons .During this Cold War ,the US conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, between1945-91.

The soviet Union lanched the World's first artificial satellit into an elliptical low earth orbit

McCarthyism(1950)

  McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversionor treason without proper regard for evidence .The term refers U.S. Senator joseph McCarthy.The most notable examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself .

Korean War(1950-53)

koren War is conflict between the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea(North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives .The war reached international proportions in june 1950 when North Korea ,supplied and advised by the soviet Union , invaded the south .The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant , joined the war on the side of South Koreas and the peoples in china came to North Korea's aid the fighting ended in july 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.

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