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#1 Post by Klytos » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:39 pm

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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#2 Post by Steffi Evenstar » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:54 am

unforutently, aside from what my parents have told me about living through it, i don't know much about it. i should after next semester though, after taking Recent US History ... but yeah. history programs rock.

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#3 Post by Senor Matt » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:47 am

Have either of you guys seen the movie Thirteen Days? It was made a few years ago and Kevin Costner is in it, and it's all about what happened in the white house during the crisis. My mother tells me it's pretty accurate from what she remembers. You should see it if you like good historical dramas.

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#4 Post by Steffi Evenstar » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:16 am

i hadn't seen/heard of it, but it's now definetly high on my list of movies to watch. thanks!

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#5 Post by Klytos » Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:44 am

Yeah, that was a great movie. Being a bit of a political enthusist, I enjoyed the portrayal of JFK and Bobby Kennedy. My old man reakons thats pretty close to how cool they were.

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#6 Post by AsianMusicGuy » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:03 am

nope.

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#7 Post by Quest For Glory Fan » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:08 pm

^^^^^^
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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#8 Post by Blackthorne519 » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:25 pm

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 ll we do at my school is usa history

#9 Post by AsianMusicGuy » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:01 pm

canada's history is our last unit go figure and im in alberta.

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#10 Post by Steffi Evenstar » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:06 am

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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#11 Post by Ghost_Rider » Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:01 am

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?

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#12 Post by Steffi Evenstar » Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:05 am

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?

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#13 Post by Klytos » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:26 am

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?
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?

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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#14 Post by Steffi Evenstar » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:59 pm

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.

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#15 Post by Quest For Glory Fan » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:46 pm

That is the major what if that I always thought of. Would America even be there anymore? It most likely would but it would be no where near what it is like today

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#16 Post by Senor Matt » Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:49 pm

Klitos wrote: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?
Then we would all now be living the computer game "Fallout" instead of just playing it. :|

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