Television’s broad appeal, however, was about more than money and entertainment.
Television wasn't all bad and full of propaganda though. It served as an escape for the people and quickly became the new radio. I remember watching the programs on black and white with only 5 channels.
The reason is television.
The "tube" changed the way the masses could be reached. Being new it convinced a lot of viewers that everything they heard or saw on the tube was the truth and nothing but the truth. Thankfully, today we are taught not to believe everything we see on TV. However, the changes in family programming has lead to the nasty cultures we see on TV today. Propaganda is pushed all the time on biased news networks...CNN
The white killers were brought to trial. Although the evidence was damning, an all-white jury found the two not guilty. The two boasted of their crime, in all of its brutal detail, in Look magazine. “They ain’t gonna go to school with my kids,” Milam said. They wanted “to make an example of [Till]—just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.”
I just cant explain this horrific event. Biased people have no place in law and no place in government run agencies like the FBI (Comey). White men killing a fourteen year old kid whether they be black, white or brown is just horrible.
The United States had lagged behind, and John Kennedy would use America’s embarrassment over early losses in the “space race” to bolster funding for a moon landing.
We may have been second in the first satellite into space but our moon landing was so epic and awesome. A great representation of America's might.
Not only had hundreds of thousands of civilians been killed
Vaporized, blinded and blown up. The horrific sites of the explosion caused one of the pilots to commit suicide, sadly. However, the power of the atom was put on full display.
fighting erupted in Korea between communists in the north and American-backed anti-communists in the south.
Look at the fiscal and prosperity of the capitalist South Korea vs the communist North Korea. How many examples do we need to show our millenials who are pushing for socialism and communism.
In addition to the unemployment income and Social Security many critics complained was to “socialist”, the G.I. Bill, public schools, the post office, and even the and interstate highway system were examples of government spending for the public good.
It's okay to have socialist programs and thankfully we are a rich country that can afford these programs but it is capitalism that drives the economy and supports congress to AFFORD these socialist programs.
Eleanor Roosevelt with the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1949.
Human Rights is essential for the humanity of the world. It's sad that many human rights crimes still occur at an alarmingly high rate. Thankfully the abundance us mobile devices recording these crimes have helped expose them.
proxy wars” such as the Korean conflict of the 1950s and Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
The USA always seems to be involved in Proxy Wars with Russia. These two nuclear powers are always supporting different regimes. Syria is a great example.
“new guise of international Marxism
The cold war last too long and resulted in many proxy wars. If millenials could study socialism, marxism and communism in these times I believe they would be less inclined to support them. Socialism is a great idea until you run out of someone else's money.
American involvement in the Vietnam War began during the postwar period of decolonization
No matter what your opinion may be about the Vietnam war, I think we can all agree that it was a numbers game. Who killed more soldiers. The result was a miserable defeat, in my opinion that resulted in communists winning when the US pulled out.
The United States assisted the French with funds, arms, and advisors, but it was not enough.In 1954, Viet Minh forces defeated the French army at Dien Bien Phu.
Impressive, defeating a country with adequate military powers that was also partially funded by the USA is no small task.
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”,
I agreed with this policy. Despite what many believe, it doesn't matter if you're republican or democrat, when a good policy is put in place.
Clinton was a consummate politician with enormous charisma and a skilled political team.
So begins the Clinton era. Slick Willy was charismatic but the scandals in his presidency and his sexual allegations followed him all the way to Hillary Clinton's presidential run.
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush's speech on the New World Order was a very scary speech that perhaps led to the current clash of Globalism and Capitalism. Leading to the power that the UN has today and many of the "world organizations" that are funded by the USA. the WHO has good people but its leader's scandal with China over COVID-19 cannot be overlooked. Under the Obama administration the USA did not VETO a single UN resolution for the last 6 years of his presidency. Thank you Trump for Nikki Haley.
tear down this wall!
I remember this and it was a huge day in history.
The Reagan Doctrine committed the United States to supplying aid to anticommunist forces worldwide. Federal spending on defense rose from $171 billion in 1981 to $229 billion in 1985, the highest level since the Vietnam War.
The beginning of the USA's role in funding the world while it's own people and vets starve on the streets. $229 billion in 1985 is a lot of money
Evangelical Protestants led a campaign to protect the “traditional” family.
Today also many liberal agenda's like the open society foundation despise the "traditional family" and going as far as despising gender. Unisex facilities and propaganda are flooding our country and it was getting out of hand. Again why I believe 2016 resulted in the largest political upset in US history.
Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,
Today it seems that too many politicians and people treat government like some kind of savior. People today are more than willing to surrender their liberties for "security". Governments and government programs are great but they must be checked. The People must govern the people using their voted legislators. That is why I think Trump was elected because he echoed Reagan's themes.
more diverse, more liberal, less religious, and wracked by economic insecurity
Diversity is great and acceptance is parallel to liberty but the total liberal agenda pushing for welfare states and welfare socialism is what is really scary. Economic insecurity is something we all face but this generation has the lowest home ownership numbers.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, plunged the United States into a new series of seemingly interminable conflicts around the world
Including today's newest proxy war with Russia (Israel and Iran), the fight to keep the petro-dollar in USD, and many theories from credible engineers that thermomite was used along with the planes in the world trade center bombing.
and has in many cases pushed pollution off the table, which is unfortunate
The carbon tax that France wanted to impose led to the Yellow Vest protests that rocked the nation. In fact, many protests on government overreach due to inaccurate climate models have occurred prior to COVID-19
“regime change.”
I know this is such a debatable policy. The middle east was once stable, well as stable as it could get. However, regime changes have left the area in ruins with many malitia groups conducting horrible activities and kids being recruited into their military-like groups. I agree with Senator Rand Paul that regime change does not have a history of working.
For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government, representing the whole Vietnamese people, declare that from now on we break off all relations of a colonial character with France; we repeal all the international obligation that France has so far subscribed to on behalf of Vietnam and we abolish all the special rights the French have unlawfully acquired in our Fatherland
All diplomatic relationships with France appear to be over.
Our people at the same time have overthrown the monarchic regime that has reigned supreme for dozens of centuries. In its place has been established the present Democratic Republic.
Democracy over Monarchy
Instead of agreeing to this proposal, the French colonialists so intensified their terrorist activities against the Vietminh members that before fleeing they massacred a great number of our political prisoners detained at Yen Bay and Caobang.
What a horrible thing to do after the Vietminh League sought the French out for an opportunity to be allies.
Thus, from that date, our people were subjected to the double yoke of the French and the Japanese. Their sufferings and miseries increased. The result was that from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, from Quang Tri province to the North of Vietnam, more than two million of our fellow-citizens died from starvation.
Wow, what a never ending river of misfortune. Who separate countries basically handing your nation up for the other to control.
They have enforced inhuman laws; they have set up three distinct political regimes in the North, the Center and the South of Vietnam in order to wreck our national unity and prevent our people from being united.
So the French, for 80 years were in Vietnam?
They have built more prisons than schools.
Always a sad thing to hear or see in a text.
“All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I love this belief mentality. All men are created equally, full stop. This was such an important part of the foundation of the Declaration of Independence, in my opinion.
When Europe fell into war, Americans were glad to sell the Allies arms and supplies. And then Pearl Harbor changed everything. The United States drafted the economy into war service. The “sleeping giant” mobilized its unrivaled economic capacity to wage worldwide war.
The worlds leading weapons exporter is born?
Amazingly, the Cologne Cathedral stood nearly undamaged even after being hit numerous times, while the area around it crumbled.
Wow, a devastating scene here. Rather interesting that the cathedral was still standing.
It was the Soviet Union that broke Hitler’s army. Twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians died during what Russians call the Great Patriotic War, and roughly 80 percent of all German casualties during the war came on the Eastern Front.
I can't believe this. There are so many details that don't seem to come to light. Russia and Germany currently share an energy supply chain now that they buy energy from Russia.
But the Germans failed to gain complete air superiority, partly due to the deployment of RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) by the British. The technology had been developed in the 1930s and was advanced and finally perfected by Britain in the early 1940s and offered to the Americans in exchange for financial and industrial support.
I had no idea that this is where RADAR originated from. Very interesting.
An ambitious young commander named Mao Zedong recognized the power of the Chinese peasant population and began recruiting from the local peasantry, building his force from a meager seven thousand survivors at the end of the Long March in 1935 to a robust 1.2 million members by the end of the war.
Wow! From 7000 survivors to 1.2 million recruits. What an effort that must have been.
Japanese troops raped up to 100,000 women and girls and then shot or bayonetted most of them in what is now recognized as one of the worst atrocities of WWII.
What a horrible set of events. Those women and girls must have suffered so badly. War can cause some ugly and despicable events to occur. .
When we got off the bus we were, we lined up and were told which barrack we should go to, to leave our suitcases, then told to go to a certain area where we were issued a sack, long sack which served as the mattress cover, told to fill it with hay, which was, served as our mattress for the period that we were in the camps. It was devastating.
And this is what you may call extreme. Mattress was a sack and your comfort was hay.
We were treated with a sort of disdain. I think we were stigmatized simply because of, of our ethnicity. And I think that that’s one of the most painful experiences, the feelings about the entire wartime experience. That we were judged, not on our own character as people and persons, but simply because of our ethnicity, something that I think goes against the grain of democracy, of the Constitution and every right and privilege that we’re supposed to enjoy as American citizens.
This was a strong paragraph. This talks about a wartime experience and how it affected the Japanese Americans that were already living in the United States. War can change everything sometimes.
Perhaps the worst failure of the New Deal to aid African Americans came with the passage of the Social Security Act. Southern politicians worried that economic security would allow black southerners to escape the cycle of poverty that kept them tied to the land as cheap, exploitable farm laborers.
The fight for equal rights by both our brothers and sisters in the African American community the "equal rights supportive white brothers and sisters" against the powerful elite who were against equal rights is without question one of the longest and grueling political battles of all time. In my opinion.
In the first chat, Roosevelt described the new banking safeguards and asked the public to place their trust and their savings in banks. Americans responded and across the country, deposits outpaced withdrawals. The act was a major success. In June, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, which instituted federal deposit insurance and barred the mixing of commercial and investment banking.
All of these catastrophes in the Great Depression brought about federal government securities to the people and the banks. It's just a bummer that a catastrophe usually needs to occur before constructive change in legislation occurs.
Accompanied by local police, the U.S. Army infantry, cavalry, tanks, and a machine gun squadron burned the tent city and routed the Bonus Army. National media covered the disaster as troops attacked veterans, chased down men and women, tear-gassed children, and torched the shantytown. Several veterans were killed in the attack.
I wonder if today whether or not active military members would perform such a task against thousands of military veterans? I wouldn't be surprised given how an entire force of police officers or the national guard handle the orders of one government official over The People.
Ten billion dollars in investments (equivalent to about $100 billion today) disappeared in a matter of hours.
Wow! What a horrible and terrible event. All of that money and all of those lives and livelihood just wiped out in a matter of HOURS!
Questions often arise whether, in the face of the growth of these new and gigantic tools, democracy can remain master in its own house, can preserve the fundamentals of our American system.
Interesting part here describing how new discoveries may bring about powerful entities like businesses and wealthy people that could influence the country away from the founding father's American system.
The races and stocks of men are as distinct as breeds of animals, and every boy knows that if one tries to train a bulldog to herd sheep, he has in the end neither a good bulldog nor a good collie.
Horrible analogy, we definitely cannot compare ourselves with animals. This cult's viewpoints are on display with this sentence too. We are more than this.
It is up to you who have the supervision of us of less ripe experience to guide us sympathetically, and to help us find, encourage, and develop our special abilities and talents. Study us. Make us realize that you respect us as fellow human beings, that you have confidence in us, and, above all, that you expect us to live up to the highest ideals, and to the best that is in us
There comes a time when a child grows up and develops the mindset of "being treated like a child" isn't so cool or respectful anymore. In my opinion, this is when you start giving responsibility to the child. When your child comes to a point where they become an adult and they know twice as much you, then you know you did a good job. Young adults who do not criticize but work to understand each and every situation are the winds of change.
You! You parents, and grandparents, and friends, and teachers, and preachers–all of you! “The war!” you cry. “It is the effect of the war!” And then you blame prohibition. Yes! Yet it is you who set the example there! But this is my point: Instead of helping us work out our problems with constructive, sympathetic thinking and acting, you have muddled them for us more hopelessly with destructive public condemnation and denunciation.
We must respect our elders, and learn from their mistakes. We must also respect the opinion of our younger generations. Instead of destroying someone's image because they think differently, speak their opinions, etc. we must work together, constructively. Find the common ground and understand that what was "normalcy" 10-50 years ago does not need to dictate normalcy now. Don't let the past repeat itself.
By 1925, Ford’s factories were turning out a Model-T every ten seconds.
This is just an insane turnout figure. Think about getting a vehicle out every ten seconds with 1925 technology and communications! These fine people knew how to work on the floor. The hard hark and operations of this machine truly embodies the American work ethic. Pure effort. Too bad a car today doesn't cost the same as a 1925 Model-T
Coolidge also supported and signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which for the first time made Indians living on reservations U.S. citizens. Late in 1924, Coolidge spoke against “race hatreds” and “prejudices” and argued that tolerance of differences was an American value and an advantage in a nation of immigrants
After the mass genocide of Native Americans over the centuries, it was 1924, when we received citizenship on our own land.
“To Lynch Negro Tonight” and “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator.” A group of armed black citizens including several black business leaders arrived to prevent a lynch mob from taking Rowland from the jail. Shots were exchanged when the lynch mob arrived and tried to disarm the blacks defending Rowland, resulting in ten white and two black deaths.
Where is the Due Process? This is an example of why it is important to always remember due process. In my opinion, lynch mobs were horrible self righteous people who were fearful and cowardly.
On the other hand, many Americans fought harder than ever for equal rights and cultural observers noted the appearance of “the New Woman” and “the New Negro.” Old immigrant communities that had predated new immigration quotas, meanwhile, clung to their cultures and their native faiths.
It seems like this is a forever ongoing adventure. America being America means we get so many amazing cultures in once country. When the legislation needs to make a decision it should never favor one culture over another but equalize them all. Even now, we currently fight for what it means to be an American but we must also respect each other and we must always remember that this country is a Republic and our Constitution gives each of us a voice and rights.
That any employee or official of the United States Government who commits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who, in an abusive and violent manner criticizes the Army or Navy or the flag of the United States shall be at once dismissed from the service
Curious what unpatriotic language means!
When the United States is at war, the Postmaster General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or concern is using the mails in violation of any of the provisions of this Act,
Talk about a huge responsibility laid on the Postmaster General!
Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States
false witnessing is obviously very bad but I can't imagine what it would be like if your false witnessing interfered with the success of a military operation. Betraying your own countrymen.
utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States or the Constitution of the United States
I can understand not messing with financials but doesn't this conflict with the 1st amendment?
Our relation towards America is the same as the relation of a man who loves a woman, who is enchanted by her beauty and yet who cannot be blind to her defects.
In 1917, this may have had a slight difference in the power of this comparison. Not to say a man doesn't love a women differently but the courtship, language, and social aspects of a relationship were structured slightly different. What it means to me is that if you truly love someone or something (America) you won't just praise its positives but also rebuke its negatives. By doing this, it can only become something better.
She said, “If it takes lynching to protect women’s dearest possession from drunken, ravening beasts, then I say lynch a thousand a week.” Felton praised the killing of Sam Hose, saying he had deserved less sympathy than a rabid dog.
Anti-American who was apparently not upholding the constitution of the United States. What a horrible person to serve in the Senate.
Three black victims of a 1920 lynching in Duluth Minnesota . The men were suspected of a rumored assault that turned out to be false.
This is why due-process is so important. Terrible that this happened in Minnesota.
“A preponderance of female influence in the Church or anywhere else in society is unnatural and injurious.” Many feared that the feminized church had emasculated Christ himself. Rather than a rough-hewn carpenter, Jesus had been made “mushy” and “sweetly effeminate,” in the words of Baptist pastor Walter Rauschenbusch.
I hate this paragraph. The views of both men and women only helped to see both sides of Christ, Yeshua. He was both soft yet tough, compassionate yet ruthless(toward self-righteous people), etc. The point is that women and men may have different views on a topic but it's both of those views that, in my opinion, give an overall truth to the matter.
The need to protect working-class women was illustrated in 1911 when the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan caught fire. The doors of the factory had been chained shut to prevent women employees from taking unauthorized breaks. The managers who held the keys had saved themselves when the fire broke out, but left over two hundred women locked in the factory. A rickety fire escape ladder on the side of the building collapsed immediately. Women lined the rooftop and crowded the windows of the ten-story building to avoid the flames and smoke. Many jumped, landing in what newspaper reports described as a “mangled, bloody pulp”. Life nets held by firemen tore at the impact of the falling bodies. Among the onlookers, “women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept [and] hurled themselves against the police lines.” By the time the fire burned itself out, 71 workers were injured and 146 had died.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is nothing short of, horrific. I can't even imagine the site. 146 deaths resulted from ownership that was afraid of "time theft". The more I look into history the more I understand the horrific situations that brought about the work-related laws that protect us today.
Cheyenne, Wyoming where the first territorial legislature met and voted to allow women to vote and hold office in December of 1869.
Definitely a beautiful day in America.
Alcohol was blamed for domestic abuse, poverty, crime, and disease.
Drink in moderation.
She called the conditions caused by urban poverty and industrialization a “social crime.” Addams began pressuring politicians. Together Kelley and Addams petitioned legislators to pass anti-sweatshop legislation that limited the work hours for women and children to eight per day.
Addams seemed to be a very special woman who in my opinion was ultimately a very powerful woman because she helped pressure politicians to limit work hours for women and kids to eight per day. The things we take for granted have been fought for by previous generations.
Meat inspectors checking hog carcasses after The Jungle alerted the American public to the need for government oversight, 1906.
I had no idea that government oversight for food went this far back. In my opinion, although oversight could be costly to the owners it may have served as a marketing boost to label your food as "inspected".
British author Rudyard Kipling visited the Stock Yards on a visit to America. “Once having seen them,” he reported, “you will never forget the sight.”
Animals had no rights at this time period.
The Yards processed two million animals in 1870, and by 1890 they were processing 9 million animals a year. By 1900, after an expansion, the 475-acre stockyard employed 25,000 people and produced over 80 percent of the meat sold in America.
Was this increase primarily due to the explosion of population in the cities? it definitely appears to go side by side with the population increase in the major cities? One could also argue that dense cities bring big money and that brings jobs and a strong economy. As a politician, I assume you're more powerful overseeing NYC than Bemidji, MN.
That meant they were immigrants or the children of immigrants, overwhelmingly from either Irish or German-speaking families. Descendants of German immigrants, who arrived in great numbers just as the Midwest was opening for settlement in the mid-nineteenth century, still make up the majority ethnicity of a wide swath of middle America.
I wonder if the Irish, Germans, Norwegians, etc. are primarily located in the Midwest because of the climate and resources or rather that it was the only "opening for settlement"? For some reason there is a thought that they chose that area of America because of the climate similarities..
Panicked business leaders and friendly political officials reacted quickly.
Business owners and politicians work together frequently.