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I watched this really interesting show on television last night about the Cuban Missle Crisis. That woulda been freaky to live through.
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nope? a little insight plese?
I'm in grade 10 of a Canadian school program and it is the fiirst year I get history
OMFG History is da bomb even if it is Canadian history (we still dabble in American history because it affects us as well) and my friend asks questions of what if in history and the changes almost always lead to something terrible and sometimes the end of the population on most of this continent. which is neat I wish I had some examples to show but they just aren't coming to me.
well I don't even remeber what my point was but History *nerd lingo* PWNS J00
nope? a little insight plese?
I'm in grade 10 of a Canadian school program and it is the fiirst year I get history
OMFG History is da bomb even if it is Canadian history (we still dabble in American history because it affects us as well) and my friend asks questions of what if in history and the changes almost always lead to something terrible and sometimes the end of the population on most of this continent. which is neat I wish I had some examples to show but they just aren't coming to me.
well I don't even remeber what my point was but History *nerd lingo* PWNS J00
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In 1962 (I believe, this is off the top of my head) Cuba was found to have been given nuclear missles from Russia. President John F. Kennedy gave them an ultimatum: get rid of the missles or face attack. The world waited on edge for 13 days, as Kennedy "stared" down Russia, and finally the missles were dismantled and gotten rid of.
I'm missing details, I know - but hey, I have a jumbled brain.
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I'm missing details, I know - but hey, I have a jumbled brain.
Bt
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i ll we do at my school is usa history
canada's history is our last unit go figure and im in alberta.
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i loveeeeeeeeeee history. well, i'm majoring in it, of course. but yeah. history is cool. i often ponder what ifs of history, and then go off on mental tangents. or, i'll be out with friends, and something will come up, i'll started ranting ... and then realize i'm among normals and quickly shut up.
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Yeah, when you start getting into those "what ifs", you can go on thinking about them for hours. There's all kinds of books out there written with alternate outcomes of many things in history. Things like what if Germany and Japan won World War II. A really good book I read on that was The Man in the High Castle.
But yeah, you can go back and say what if the dinosaurs never died out? What would things be like today? See what happens when you're bored?
But yeah, you can go back and say what if the dinosaurs never died out? What would things be like today? See what happens when you're bored?
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I understand the civil rights thing, and the Vietnam thing, but I don't understand the music thing. You want to explain that one to me?Steffi Evenstar wrote:one of the big ones my friends and i have discussed is, what if Kennedy had never been assassinated? would the US have gotten as heavily involved with Vietnam? what about civil rights? would the 60's have been nearly as turbulent as they were? and, would the music have been as good?
Now this sounds like an interesting idea for a game. The "what if" game!
What if a tough-line Republican had been in the Whitehouse instead of Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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the music thing - i was a music major for 2 years, took three semesters of music history, and one pattern i noticed in music was that it seemed to follow the times. therefore, if the 60's had not been a tumulutous as they were, would there have been all that great protest music, acid rock, and so on.
that's where i'm going with that.
and if there had been a hard line republican in office ... i think we woudl have bombed the hell out of cuba, then things would have gotten reallllllllll bad.
that's where i'm going with that.
and if there had been a hard line republican in office ... i think we woudl have bombed the hell out of cuba, then things would have gotten reallllllllll bad.
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