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Author Archives: Qi
Posts: 6 (archived below)
Comments: 9
The Great Depression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8yxBL21Pk
This is a video that I want to use in my movie. I write about a factory director and his family’s life during the Great Depression and the New Deal. This video portrays the big difference between the roaring twenties and the Great depression. High suicidal rate, starvation and poorness were showed in this video. By adding this video into my movie, I hope people can get a clear sense about what was the real life of a person who lived during the Great Depression.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged 1929, stock market crash, the great depression
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Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt Corollary was an additional policy to Monroe Doctrine by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. It showed that U.S. have the right to exercise “an international police power”in the Western Hemisphere against European intervention. The Roosevelt administration encouraged American banks to invest into Dominican Republic, Cuba and Costa Rica, and he believed economic control was the best way to spread American values. And this policy influenced economy and politics of these small countries a lot.
Posted in 1900-1916, June 29 assignment, Political history, Uncategorized
Tagged 1904, corollary, Theodora Roosevelt
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Dwight Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953-1961. He kept the containment policy in the Cold War and ended the Korean War in 1953. In 1954, his administration announced “massive retaliation” toward Soviet Union, that United States would fought back if US had recieved any attack from Soviet. He also decided to build Interstate Highway System to protect national security from attacking. His “Eisenhower Doctrine” provided aid and sent troops to the Mideast in order to prevent the spread of communism. Space Race started with Soviet after it launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957.
Posted in 1953-1960, June 21 assignment, Midterm Exam Review
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Free Speech Movement
The Free Speech Movement at University of California at Berkeley was a student protest that happened during 1964 and 1965. The students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom.The police arrested 773 students for occupying the administration building.
Students won in this movement, and the university chancellor established provisional rules for political activities on the Berkeley campus and opened a discussion area during certain hours of the day. It also made an effort of Ronald Reagan becoming California governor.
The Free Speech Movement had long-lasting effects at the Berkeley campus and was a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement in The Sixties. Since this event, the students began a wide range of new social movement which had big impacts on the established social system.
Posted in 1960-1968, June 14 assignment
Tagged civil rights, free speech movement, students
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Impeachment of Bill Clinton
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7721501368569649933#
On December 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the house of Representative. I think it is important because he was only the second impeachment of a President in American history, following the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868. I think being a president, one should watch out himself’s behavior all the time as being an example of all the Americans.
The Arizona Immigration law
This image is from L.A.Times. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill on illegal immigration into a law on April 23,2010. It allows police officers to make arrests and check individual status if they think a person is suspicious. This law leads a lot of protests and debate from the country as a whole.
This image is important because it has been the most strict immigrantion reform in the history. In some aspects,this law violates citizens’ civil rights, especially Hispanics’ rights, and discriminates against them. And the government should consider overall immigrants benefit when it is in a federal level. Image website:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/05/whites-older-voters-men-more-likely-to-support-arizona-illegal-immigration-law-poll-finds.html.
Posted in 2001-present, June 7 assignment, Political history
Tagged Arizona, Immigrant, Law
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