Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's no question it was a fault line in 20th century history, nothing this side of it has been the same," comments Frankfurter Professor of Law Abram Chayes...
These weak attempts at legitimate historical analysis serve as examples of the commercialization of the Kennedy family this month on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination...
...20th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination certainly affords one the opportunity to reexamine his presidency and those images. Yet the media's coverage of the anniversary merits its own attention. Recent magazine articles, publications and planned television coverage suggest an average American's desire to recapture Kennedy's youth and promise. Lance Morrow writes in a recent Time magazine cover story...
LaFeber charges the United States in the 20th century with perpetuating a colonial style economy in Central America. Like many critics of U.S. policy, LaFeber sees the post World War II global economic system tailored entirely to U.S. and Western needs. The U.S. continues to look upon the Central American states primarily as sources of raw materials and markets for the resulting finished goods. The subsequent trends that have led to a drop in the he prices of agricultural products, like coffee and bananas, but an increase in prices of manufactured goods have pushed Central American into further misery...
...America was faced with perhaps the gravest Constitutional crisis of the 20th century. A series of crimes had been committed by the Nixon Administration, including theft, illegal surveillance, and obstruction of justice. Nixon's own intransigence and "imperial" style of executive leadership did not help his public standing either. Also, the bitter memory of Vietnam was still fresh in the national conscience--Nixon's part in it aroused mixed, but generally hostile, feelings. In general, a mood of antagonism to the Presidency reached an unsurpassed high in 1973, and a major result of this was the War Powers Resolution...