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Racial intolerance, anti-immigrant attitudes and the Red Scare contributed to social unrest after World War I.
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An improved standard of living for many, combined with technological innovations in communication, transportation and industry, resulted in social and cultural changes and tensions.
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Movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, African-American migration, women’s suffrage and Prohibition all contributed to social change.
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Yalta Conference
May World War II ends in Europe.
Aug. U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights.
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The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life.
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The continuing population flow from cities to suburbs, the internal migrations from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the increase in immigration resulting from passage of the 1965 Immigration Act have had social and political effects.
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Given the costs of confronting adversaries who have been all too obvious since the beginning of World War II, that is a condition worthy of greater appreciation than it has so far received.
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Secretary Baker met with President Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze in Moscow in February 1990. They discussed a range of arms control questions, making progress on conventional, nuclear, and chemical agreements. They also addressed Soviet emigration policy, German unification, and regional issues. On February 10, Secretary Baker testified before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme Soviet.
