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With these words Nina Ridenour begins her excellent history of mental health policy in the United States in the first half of the 20 th Century. It is a high and well-deserved tribute to Clifford Beers, the founder of what has become the Mental Health Association movement.
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Between the end of World War II and 1950 American policy makers debated how to interpret the Soviet Union’s takeover of countries in eastern Europe and what to do about it. Eventually, they concluded that the Soviet Union sought to eliminate freedom throughout the globe and bring nation after nation under its rule. They decided that the United Stat...
To understand America’s actions during the Cold War, it is essential to understand NSC 68 — the 1950 report, requested by President Truman and prepared by the National Security Council (NSC), that guided American foreign policy for nearly forty years. Through close reading this lesson examines key passages from the report’s critical early sections ...
Even during World War II, when the United States and the Soviet Union were allied against Nazi Germany, relations between the two nations were characterized by tension and distrust. When peace came in 1945, relations did not improve. In fact, they grew worse. The former allies disagreed on many issues, but the chief source of conflict was the quest...
Read the speech John Kennedy deliveredat the Berlin Wall on June 28, 1963. Write a brief essay that illustrates how it reflects the principles of NSC 68.
tranquility: peaceposterity: descendents (future generations)integrity: honor (and virtue)vitality: liveliness (energy and life)The founder of the mental hygiene movement, Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876–1943) launched one of the earliest client-advocate health reform movements in the United States. A former patient who was institutionalized for three years, Beers led national and international efforts to improve institutional care, challenge the stigma of mental ...
- Manon Parry
- 2010
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Summary. The 1950s have typically been seen as a complacent, conservative time between the end of World War II and the radical 1960s, when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted reform and undermined civil liberties. But the era can also be seen as a very liberal time in which meeting the Communist threat led to Keynesian economic policies ...
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