1336 résultats pour "wars"

• Richard Nixon

  As President Eisenhower neared the end of his second term, his vice president emerged as his logical successor, and the president endorsed Nixon in March. Nixonreceived an impressive vote in party primaries, and at the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago in July, he received all but ten of the delegates’ votes on thefirst ballot. Nixon chose as his running mate the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. An unusual feature of the campaign wasa serie...

• Fascism.

  values as coming before a radical political transformation. Others argue that a radical political transformation will then be followed by a change in values. Fascists claimthat the nation has entered a dangerous age of mediocrity, weakness, and decline. They are convinced that through their timely action they can save the nation fromitself. Fascists may assert the need to take drastic action against a nation's 'inner' enemies. Fascists promise that with their help the national crisis will end an...

• Erster Weltkrieg - Geschichte.

  (Schlieffenplan) vorzugehen. Dieser noch vom einstigen Generalstabschef Alfred Graf von Schlieffen entworfene Plan, seit 1905 nur mehr geringfügig überarbeitet, warlediglich für einen drohenden Zweifrontenkrieg gegen Frankreich und Russland konzipiert und sollte den Krieg in zwei Phasen zerlegen. Zunächst wollte der Generalstab Frankreich im Zuge einer „Niederwerfungsstrategie” innerhalb von etwa sechs Wochen besiegen, um anschließend – noch vor der endgültigabgeschlossenen Mobilmachung Russland...

• Geographische Entdeckungen - Geschichte.

  Gebietes. Noch immer aber war das Rätsel der Quelle des Nil nicht geklärt. 1856 machten sich Richard Burton und John Hanning Speke daran, den Tanganyikasee zu erkunden. Aufder Rückreise entdeckte Speke den Victoriasee, den größten Süßwassersee des Kontinents, und hielt diesen richtigerweise für die Quelle. Es kam zu ernsthaftenMeinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen den beiden Entdeckern, und erst bei einer zweiten Expedition von 1859 bis 1862 waren Speke und James Grant in der Lage zubestätigen, das...

• Geographische Entdeckungen - geographie.

  Gebietes. Noch immer aber war das Rätsel der Quelle des Nil nicht geklärt. 1856 machten sich Richard Burton und John Hanning Speke daran, den Tanganyikasee zu erkunden. Aufder Rückreise entdeckte Speke den Victoriasee, den größten Süßwassersee des Kontinents, und hielt diesen richtigerweise für die Quelle. Es kam zu ernsthaftenMeinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen den beiden Entdeckern, und erst bei einer zweiten Expedition von 1859 bis 1862 waren Speke und James Grant in der Lage zubestätigen, das...

• New France - Canadian History.

  the colony now consisted of a governor-general, an intendant , and a Sovereign Council, all located at Québec, with local governors at Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and law courts for all three districts. The senior official was the governor-general, responsible for military matters and for relations with the indigenous nations and theEnglish colonies. The intendant, a noble trained in law, was the official responsible for civil affairs: justice, law enforcement, and the maintenance of the colon...

• International Criminal Court.

  only exercise its jurisdiction when a national court is unwilling or unable to carry out the investigation or prosecution. For example, the ICC might intervene when agovernment’s judicial system has collapsed or is actively shielding a person from criminal responsibility. The court may hold accountable any person aged 18 or older at the time of the crime without regard to the individual’s official duties or functions. Therefore, heads ofstate, legislators, and other high-ranking government offic...

• Erster Weltkrieg - Geschichte.

  (Schlieffenplan) vorzugehen. Dieser noch vom einstigen Generalstabschef Alfred Graf von Schlieffen entworfene Plan, seit 1905 nur mehr geringfügig überarbeitet, warlediglich für einen drohenden Zweifrontenkrieg gegen Frankreich und Russland konzipiert und sollte den Krieg in zwei Phasen zerlegen. Zunächst wollte der Generalstab Frankreich im Zuge einer „Niederwerfungsstrategie” innerhalb von etwa sechs Wochen besiegen, um anschließend – noch vor der endgültigabgeschlossenen Mobilmachung Russland...

• Louis XIV I INTRODUCTION Louis XIV (1638-1715), king of France (1643-1715), known as the Sun King.

  he could defend against attack from his enemies. In the first instance, Louis worked to tighten central control over the array of departments, regions, and duchies that together made up France. To this end, he revivedthe use of regional intendants, officials who were sent to the provinces with instructions to establish order and effective royal justice. Although agents of the centralgovernment, intendants worked closely with the local nobility and legal institutions to establish efficient admini...

• Louis XIV.

  he could defend against attack from his enemies. In the first instance, Louis worked to tighten central control over the array of departments, regions, and duchies that together made up France. To this end, he revivedthe use of regional intendants, officials who were sent to the provinces with instructions to establish order and effective royal justice. Although agents of the centralgovernment, intendants worked closely with the local nobility and legal institutions to establish efficient admini...

• Adolf Hitler I INTRODUCTION Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German political and military leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators.

  A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...

• Adolf Hitler.

  A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...

• Adolf Hitler .

  A Economic Collapse At the end of World War I, the Allies (those countries who had fought against Germany) had demanded that Germany pay reparations—that is, payments for wardamages. The government refused to pay all that was demanded by the Allies. When Germany failed to pay enough, France and Belgium occupied the coal mines in theRuhr industrial area in west central Germany in January 1923. In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive resistance by a...

• Russian Revolutions of 1917 (Histoire) .

  as Marxists. They believed that the working class—with its struggles to organize trade unions and to bring about political reforms of benefit to the majority ofpeople—would become the primary force for revolutionary change. The Russian Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1898. By 1903,however, the RSDLP had split into two factions. The faction called the Bolsheviks (from the Russian word for “majority”), led by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, favored a more centralized a...

• International Law.

  merchants), modernized the rights of neutrals during maritime war, and required blockades to be effective. The Declaration of Paris also initiated the practice of allowingnations other than the original signatories to accede (become a party to) to an agreement. In 1864 a conference convened in Geneva, Switzerland, at the invitation of the Swiss government. The conference approved a convention for the proper treatment ofwounded soldiers on the battlefield and the protection of medical personnel;...

• Millennium: Kunst.

  Die Formen für eine angemessene Verbildlichung christlicher Lehren mussten erst noch gefunden werden. Eine besondere Rolle sollte dabei der Buchmalerei zukommen. DieVoraussetzung für ihre Entwicklung war im 4. Jahrhundert die Ablösung der Schriftrolle durch den Kodex, der heute noch geläufigen Buchform, bei dem die Seiten zwischenden Buchdeckeln flach bleiben und so eine Bemalung mit dicker aufgetragenen Pigmenten ermöglichen. Die bedeutendsten frühen Buchmalereien, z. B. die Wiener Genesis , s...

• Liberia - country.

  West Atlantic, or Kwa linguistic groups. D Education Education is free and compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 15. However, a scarcity of educational facilities means that few Liberians progress beyondprimary school. Almost all children of primary school-age attend school, but the figure drops to 23 percent (1999–2000) for secondary school-age children. Just 60percent of the population was literate in 2005. Higher education is provided by the University of Liberia (1862), in Monro...

• Armenian Massacres .

  Some of the Armenian revolutionaries and others hoped that the massacres would provoke the intervention of the European powers (Britain, France, Austria-Hungary,and Germany). Although the leaders of the European powers publicly condemned the actions of the sultan, they failed to intervene. Mutual rivalries and suspicions, aswell as the imprecise terms of Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin, helped produce this inaction. But these bloody episodes soon paved the way for the rise of a newnationalist...

• Kreuzzüge - Geschichte.

  4 DER 2. KREUZZUG Der Erfolg des 1. Kreuzzuges war hauptsächlich auf Streitigkeiten unter den muslimischen Fürsten zurückzuführen und deren Unfähigkeit, sich auf ein geordnetes Vorgehengegen den gemeinsamen Gegner zu verständigen. Die Siege der Kreuzritter hatten die islamische Seite weiter geschwächt, so dass die Kreuzfahrer in den erstenJahrzehnten nach der Eroberung Jerusalems ihre Herrschaften relativ ungestört konsolidieren und ausbauen konnten. Allerdings kam es unter den Kreuzfahrerstaat...

• Kreuzzüge

  4 DER 2. KREUZZUG Der Erfolg des 1. Kreuzzuges war hauptsächlich auf Streitigkeiten unter den muslimischen Fürsten zurückzuführen und deren Unfähigkeit, sich auf ein geordnetes Vorgehengegen den gemeinsamen Gegner zu verständigen. Die Siege der Kreuzritter hatten die islamische Seite weiter geschwächt, so dass die Kreuzfahrer in den erstenJahrzehnten nach der Eroberung Jerusalems ihre Herrschaften relativ ungestört konsolidieren und ausbauen konnten. Allerdings kam es unter den Kreuzfahrerstaat...

• Nationalsozialismus - Geschichte.

  wertvolles habe daher die Aufgabe, die Juden, die Inkarnation des Bösen, zu bekämpfen und den Lebenskampf zwischen den Völkern wieder zu aktivieren. Daraus folgte zwangsläufig die Legitimierung des Krieges sowie der Primat der Außenpolitik, dem alle anderen Bereiche der Politik zuzuarbeiten hätten. Konkret sollte derWeg zur Weltherrschaft folgendermaßen aussehen: Übernahme der Macht in Deutschland, weltanschauliche Indoktrination der Bevölkerung u. a. durch die Beseitigung derGegensätze innerhal...

• Filmgeschichte.

  4 DER STUMMFILM Zwischen 1909 und 1912 wurde der neu entstandene Industriezweig vollständig durch die „Motion Picture Patents Company” kontrolliert, einem Trust, zu dem sich führendeProduzenten zusammengeschlossen hatten. Sie begrenzten die Filmlänge auf einen oder zwei Akte und weigerten sich, die Namen der Darsteller im Vor- oder Abspann zuerwähnen. Im Jahr 1912 bekam dieses Monopol jedoch Konkurrenz; unabhängige Produzenten gründeten in Europa und den USA ihre eigenen Produktions- undVorführ...

• Somalia - country.

  A Agriculture Livestock raising is the principal occupation in Somalia. The size of livestock herds began to recover in the mid-1990s after falling during the country’s civil war. Sheepand goats are the most numerous livestock, with smaller numbers of cattle. The principal crops grown are corn, sorghum, sugarcane, cassava, and bananas. B Forestry and Fishing While most wood is cut for fuel, Somalia’s major forestry export products before the 1990s were frankincense and myrrh. Fish is an import...

• Kirchengeschichte - Religion.

  Die Araber bereiteten nicht nur dem Königreich von Toledo ein Ende, sie schwächten auch das christliche Byzantinische Reich, das den Aufstieg der Karolinger zuSchutzherren des Papstes anerkennen musste. Dieser Aufstieg fand symbolträchtigen Ausdruck in der Krönung Karls des Großen zum Kaiser („Cäsar”) am 25. Dezember800 durch Papst Leo III. in der Peterskirche in Rom. Die Missionierung Europas wurde vom karolingischen Großreich und dann von der ihm folgenden deutschenReichskirche fortgesetzt. De...

• Jasir Mohammed Arafat - Geschichte.

  Einen schweren diplomatischen Fehlgriff, dessen Resultat eine zeitweise Isolierung sowohl auf internationaler Ebene als auch innerhalb der arabischen Welt war, begingArafat 1990/91, als er sich während der irakischen Invasion in Kuwait (2. Golfkrieg) mit dem irakischen Staatschef Saddam Hussein solidarisierte. Dennoch wurde imOktober 1991 auf Vermittlung der USA und der Sowjetunion in Madrid eine erste multilaterale Nahostkonferenz eröffnet; Arafat verzichtete allerdings auf eine persönlicheTeil...

• Slovenia - country.

  Democratic Party of Slovenia, the Christian Democratic Party, United List, the Slovenian National Party, the Democratic Party of Slovenia, and Greens of Slovenia. Slovenia has eight trial courts, four appellate courts, and a Supreme Court. The Assembly appoints all judges, including the justices of the Supreme Court. Slovenia hasan extensive network of social service programs sponsored by the government, including low-cost medical coverage and retirement pensions. Slovenia had an army of 6,550 a...

• Chiang Kai-shek - History.

  Even one of Chiang's allied commanders, Zhang Xueliang, who had been expelled from Manchuria after the Mukden Incident, came to doubt the wisdom of Chiang'sapproach. In 1936 Zhang held Chiang prisoner in Xi'an until Chiang agreed to join the Communists in an allied front against Japan. Chiang later denied making anyagreement. On July 7, 1937, near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, a Chinese patrol and Japanese troops on a training exercise clashed, and full-scalewar broke out be...

• Andrew Johnson.

  As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...

• Andrew Johnson

  As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...

• Peter the Great I INTRODUCTION Peter the Great or Peter I (1672-1725), tsar and, later, emperor of Russia (1682-1725), who is linked with the Westernization of Russia and its rise as a great power.

  V LATER REIGN Before long, however, these and other reform measures had to cede center stage to the prosecution of the Great Northern War (1700-1721) against Sweden. Peter’sjourney west did not result in a great alliance against the Ottomans, but it led to one against Sweden. Russia fought together with Denmark and the union of Polandand Saxony against Sweden to win the Baltic coastline, the 'window into Europe,' and to break Swedish dominance over the northern part of the continent. At the tim...

• Peter the Great.

  V LATER REIGN Before long, however, these and other reform measures had to cede center stage to the prosecution of the Great Northern War (1700-1721) against Sweden. Peter’sjourney west did not result in a great alliance against the Ottomans, but it led to one against Sweden. Russia fought together with Denmark and the union of Polandand Saxony against Sweden to win the Baltic coastline, the 'window into Europe,' and to break Swedish dominance over the northern part of the continent. At the tim...

• Theodore Roosevelt.

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Theodore Roosevelt

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Mongolei - geographie.

  Partei (MDP), Bürgermutpartei und Demokratische Neue Sozialisten. Verwaltungsmäßig gliedert sich die Mongolei in 21 Provinzen und den Hauptstadtbezirk Ulan Bator. 6 WIRTSCHAFT Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts war die Wirtschaft durch eine nomadenhafte Herdentierhaltung geprägt. Ackerbau wurde so gut wie gar nicht betrieben. Die Industrie war aufein kleines Kohlenbergwerk und auf etwas Goldabbau beschränkt. Nach 1930 entstand ein Wirtschaftssystem nach sowjetischem Vorbild, das auf einseitige Rohstof...

• Reconquista 1 EINLEITUNG Reconquista (spanisch: Rückeroberung), Bezeichnung für die Kriege christlicher Heere im mittelalterlichen Spanien und Portugal zur Rückeroberung der seit 711 von muslimischen Mauren besetzten Iberischen Halbinsel.

  Toledo in Besitz; zuvor hatte er mit dem Herrscher der Taifa Toledo ein entsprechendes Abkommen geschlossen. Toledo war nicht nur die ehemalige Hauptstadt derWestgoten, sondern auch ein Zentrum des muslimischen Reiches in Spanien. Wenig später fielen einige weitere Städte zwischen dem Zentralgebirge und dem Tajo, wiez. B. Atienza, Guadalajara oder Talavera, unter die Herrschaft der Christen. In dieser Region erfolgte die christliche Besiedelung als Überlagerung der ansässigen Muslimedurch Bevölk...

• Angola (country) - country.

  Portugal in 1975, it had approximately 400,000 Portuguese settlers. The vast majority of the Portuguese community has since departed for Portugal. A Population Characteristics The 2008 estimated population of Angola, including Cabinda, was 12,531,357. The population distribution, however, was uneven, with about 70 percent of thepopulation concentrated in the north and along the coast. The rate of population increase was 2.1 percent annually in 2008. The population is overwhelmingly rural; only3...

• Willy Brandt - Geschichte.

  5.1 Ost- und Deutschlandpolitik Im Zentrum der Außenpolitik der Regierung Brandt stand die Weiterentwicklung der Ost- und Deutschlandpolitik. Am 12. August 1970 unterzeichneten er und dersowjetische Ministerpräsident Aleksej Kossygin den „Moskauer Vertrag über Gewaltverzicht und Unverletzlichkeit der bestehenden Grenzen”, in dem die Bundesrepublik u. a.de facto die polnische Westgrenze anerkannte und auf ihren Alleinvertretungsanspruch für alle Deutschen verzichtete. Das politische Ziel der Bun...

• Latin American Independence.

  be inferior and were not permitted a university education. In the lowest caste were the African slaves. As the Spanish monarchy tried to increase its authority, it was hampered by the power of the Catholic Church. The church, including various religious orders, hadacquired great wealth, including large holdings of land, in the colonies. The Jesuit order especially had gained extraordinary wealth and political influence, and it alsocontrolled much of the university and high school education in th...

• Washington, D.

  structures built according to L’Enfant’s plan. During the War of 1812, British troops set fire to the White House, destroying its interior. President James Madison and hisfamily lived in the Octagon while the White House was being rebuilt. South of the Federal Triangle is the Mall, a narrow park stretching roughly 1.6 km (1 mi) from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. Although the Mall officially endsat 14th Street, landscaped greenery extends to the Potomac. The Washington Monument, whose m...

• Lyndon B.

  A1 First Years in Office Johnson quickly made a two-fold reputation. He was a firm supporter of Roosevelt’s program, both domestic and foreign, and he was also a tireless worker on behalf ofthe voters he represented. Often the two activities coincided, as was the case when he helped to bring public power into Texas through the Rural ElectrificationAdministration and the Lower Colorado River Authority. He also secured funds for the building of dams, roads, and other public improvements in his di...

• Political Parties in the United States.

  quickly enabled the Republican Party to overpower the Know-Nothings. Although the Republicans lost their first campaign for the presidency in 1856, they triumphed in1860 with former congressman Abraham Lincoln. The Republican victory resulted in part from the division of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions,each of which ran its own presidential candidate, and in part from their success at attracting Whigs and Know-Nothings who had opposed the Republicans in 1856.During the C...

• Scramble for Africa.

  additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...

• Chinesische Revolution - Geschichte.

  2.3 Erneuter Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges Mit zunehmendem Erstarken der Kommunisten verschlechterten sich die Beziehungen zwischen Kommunisten und Nationalisten wieder. 1939 blockierten die Nationalistenerneut Yan’an und verstärkten ihre Truppen dort auf über eine halbe Million Mann. Im Januar 1941 griffen sie die Neue Vierte Armee weiter im Süden an und vernichtetensie; das bedeutete das Ende der „Einheitsfront”. 1942/43 wurden die Kommunisten noch weiter zurückgeworfen, als die Japaner ihre Stü...

• Afghanistan - country.

  D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...

• Dwight D.

  maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941, he played a leading role as a staff officer, adding to his reputation and securing him a promotion to brigadier general. On December 7,1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the next day the United States entered World War II against the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany, and Italy). A weeklater, the army’s new chief of staff, General George C. Marshall, called Eisenhower to Washington, D.C., and put him in charge of the War Plans Division. Opinions differed on...

• Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).

  homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...

• Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) - Histoire

  homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...

• Eritrea - country.

  1993 decree set up a formal transitional government under EPLF control. This provided for a National Assembly, a president, and council of ministers. Isaias Afwerki,secretary general of the EPLF, was formally elected president by the National Assembly in June 1993. A new constitution was approved in 1997. Under this constitution, the National Assembly is the country’s legislature. Its members are popularly elected to five-yearterms. A president, elected by the National Assembly to a five-year te...

• Christentum - Religion.

  In der Trinitätslehre wurde das Verhältnis der drei göttlichen Personen zueinander geklärt; in der Christologie geht es um die nähere Bestimmung des Verhältnisses vongöttlicher und menschlicher Natur in Jesus Christus. Nach einem Jahrhunderte dauernden Streit, in dem sich Theologie, Politik und kirchenpolitisches Vormachtstrebenunentwirrbar vermischten, wurde auf dem Konzil von Chalkedon 451 die Zweinaturenlehre als Glaubenssatz festgelegt: Jesus Christus ist wahrer Gott und wahrer Mensch.Damit...

• Protests in the 1960s - U.

  E Youth Culture Young people played an important role in the movements for social change during the 1960s. Numbers alone made them important; more than 76 million babies wereborn during the post-World War II “baby boom.” In addition, these young people spent more years in school and were more affluent than previous generations. In theearly 20th century, most young Americans had moved quickly from childhood to adulthood. In the 1920s only 1 in 5 Americans graduated from high school, and almostal...