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The Decade That Changed America
In the time period from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Vietnam War was a time of drastic change in America, The most prominent years of this time were the 1960s. The mold of a perfect family was broken, and the youth of the country started to break away from their parents, who had grown up in a different America. The cookie cutter, "Leave it to Beaver" family of the 1950s was replaced by shell shocked parents of rebellious teenagers. Drug use was reaching an all time high. Parents were losing control, and respect for them was dropping.
At the same time, the US was in extreme political unrest. The Cold War was at an all time low, Vietnam was raging, and being protested and Presidents were being assassinated. These two situations, political and social, intertwine greatly, each playing off each other to create the atmosphere of the decade.
Politically, the Cuban Missile Crisis had the world at the brink of a nuclear war. Socially, the young people of the country gathered to fuel the new hippie and anti-war movement. At the same time, they were appreciating the politically fueled music of the time at the largest concert/festival in history, Woodstock.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the culmination of two decades of unrest between the two world superpowers, the US and USSR. The small island of Cuba off the coast of Florida was now ruled by the self proclaimed dictator Fidel Castro. After a failed bay of Pigs invasion funded by the United States, relations between Cuba and America were at an all time low, the perfect time for Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR to use Cuba to his advantage. Fidel Castro had needed the Soviet's help when he was trying to take control of Cuba, and he owed them a favor in return. What the soviets had in mind was a far greater world issue than the status of a small island.
The USSR started, secretly, building short range nuclear missile silos in...
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