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During the cold war, Americans feared that communists were trying to infiltrate the United States. At this 1950 "loyalty parade", held to protest a May Day demonstration in New York, citizen groups such as the National League of Masonic Clubs voiced their opposition to Soviet communism, condemning it as an atheistic ideology intent on enslaving the Russian people.
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The United Kingdom acquired the island of Hong Kong from China in 1842, and in 1898 it signed a 99-year lease for the island. The island's location and deepwater port spurred it to become of the world's richest centers of trade and merchandising. The existence of a Western center of capitalism on a formerly Chinese island led to a series of street protests in the 1960s and 1970s, as Communist Party members demanded that the British cede the island...
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In 1968 Czechoslovakia attempted to establish a nominally communist state that protected individual liberties and encouraged free trade. Known as "Prague Spring", the move sparked a full Soviet invasion of the country and a rollback of its reforms. The Soviet invasion spurred worldwide protests and heightened cold war animosities.
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In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), popularly known as "Star Wars". Critics saw the program, which aimed to develop new weapons technology, as an escalation of the cold war rather than a means to its end. Not surprisingly, it sparked worldwide protests.
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During the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago, local police and National Guardsmen brutally clashed with student protestors. Much of the conflict was broadcast live on national television, and overshadowed the convention's nomination of Vice President Hubert Humphrey as the Democratic candidate for president. Political observers argued that the protests, along with an already deeply divided Democratic Party, helped Richard M. Nixon win...
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A power struggle between Muhammad Mosaddeq, the prime minister of Iran, and Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, resulted in anti-shah riots in Tehran. The shah went into brief exile, leaving Mosaddeq in control of the country. Pahlavi resumed power with the support of the United States.
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The first attempt at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, ended in disaster. Hosea Williams led the demonstrators across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they met a police force in riot gear. Major John Cloud told them to disperse and refused to speak further with the protestors. When the group kept moving, police descended on them with clubs. On what became known as "Bloody Sunday", seventy protestors...
11) Protestors Interrupt United Nations (UN) Session after Assassination of Lumumba in the Congo ca.1961
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The assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose anti-colonialist rhetoric earned him the support of the Soviet Union and China, triggered a wave of student protests throughout the world. His death soon became a symbol of African nationalism.
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Hunger and poverty were widespread during the Great Depression. In December 1932, 3,000 members of the National Unemployed Councils, a confederation of relief groups set up across the country by the Communist Party, marched on Washington, D.C., to protest the problem of hunger in the United States. Earlier that year, Washington had also been set upon by the Bonus Army, a group of World War I veterans who demanded prepayment of a bonus that had been...
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Almost 60,000 soldiers were killed in combat during the Vietnam War, widowing thousands of wives. In 1981, less than 10 years after the end of the war, the United States government cut benefits to war widows. The widows fought to have their benefits restored by lobbying their representatives. As Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) notes, these benefits were promised the soldiers and their families when they joined the United States military.
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During the 1950s, products of the cold war such as the House Un-American Activities Committee Investigations fed public fears of a communist take over. Initially, the American public supported the Vietnam War, which the Johnson administration portrayed as essential to curtailing the spread of communism.
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Despite the prevalence of images of anti-Vietnam War protests in the media, a Gallup Poll in the mid-1960s showed the country equally divided against and for the war. Supporters of the war were concerned the withdrawal of troops in Vietnam would allow communism to flourish.
19) Viva Cuba Libre
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A hard-hitting Cuban rap group takes on the Cuban state. They appear out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly. Their protest lyrics are catching on like wildfire, resonating with discontented Cubans. They get no airtime and their young fans face persecution from the police. An edgy, dangerous documentary with a powerful soundtrack. Viva Cuba Libre casts an unflinching eye over the troubling reality of modern-day Cuba.