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Classist War

Appy argues that Vietnam was a “working-class war” because the majority of people who fought in the war were from the working-class. Most were men who were still teenagers or barely 20 years old who came from working-class families and had just gotten out of high school. Enlisting gave them a way to advance theirContinue reading “Classist War”

Was the North just as bad?

The civil rights struggles in New York CIty and Boston’s schools challenge the view that racial discrimination was only a problem in the South by demonstrating racial inequalities existed throughout the North. Typically the North liked to mask racism and racial discrimination as a Southern problem, when in reality it existed in both. New YorkContinue reading “Was the North just as bad?”

The little woman

Domestic containment gained adherents during the 1950s to establish what a proper democratic, capitalist American society was meant to look like during the Cold War. To combat the communist way of life, the true “American” way of life was domesticated around the country and centered around the female homemaker with a traditional nuclear family. WomenContinue reading “The little woman”

Missile Economy

The Minutemen Missiles in South Dakota are an example of the Cold War economy being based solely on the build up of the military and the industrialization for the military. During the Cold War defense and military spending greatly increased in an attempt to build up weapons and military personnel in case of actual warContinue reading “Missile Economy”

Lavendar scare

The lavender scare was the investigation of homosexuals by their jobs and the government for being gay. Any small suspicion of homosexuality was looked into, and could lead to termination by employers and overall ostracization by society if the information were to become public. The lavender scare was related to the Cold War “Red Scare”Continue reading “Lavendar scare”

Week 2 Post

National security state is the United States government’s use of bureaucracies to investigate possible threats or enemies of the United States and then report back to the U.S. government. These bureaucracies were fueled behind the intent of protecting the United States from threats to national security that were continually growing behind the fear of communism.Continue reading “Week 2 Post”