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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Potsdam (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS The 1960s: An Age Of Turmoil, language: English, abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s one of the most controversial policies of the Americangovernment was its intervention in the Vietnam War. A whole nation was divided into socalled doves and hawks, the former were fighting and demonstrating for peace whereasthe latter supported the government's policies concerning Vietnam.A very influential and large group of the Antiwar…mehr

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Potsdam (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: PS The 1960s: An Age Of Turmoil, language: English, abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s one of the most controversial policies of the Americangovernment was its intervention in the Vietnam War. A whole nation was divided into socalled doves and hawks, the former were fighting and demonstrating for peace whereasthe latter supported the government's policies concerning Vietnam.A very influential and large group of the Antiwar Movement was the New Left, the mainplatform of the white students.In the following, the author will give some information about this group and examine theactions of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) taken to harm or even destroy thatpart of the Antiwar Movement. These actions were manifested in the so calledCounterintelligence Program, which was shortened to the abbreviation Cointelpro.As there is just one source on which all the literature concerning this topic is based its notthat easy to evaluate in how far all the published material is really true or just serves someconspiracy theories, which were very common in that time. Especially in the Sixties, whenthe Cold War reached its climax in the Cuban Missiles Crises in 1963 and theassassination of famous people like John F. Kennedy in the same year and Martin LutherKing five years later supported the offspring of many conspiracy theories. So in theaftermath of that turbulent decade these theories continued to spread and were seen as trueby the majority of the American people because of the Watergate Affaire in 1972 andother revelations of scandals by the press. Even today after September, 11th 2001 a lot ofconspiracy theories arose. [...]
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