I need a controversial historical issue! Please HELP!?

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It can´t be any of the Gulf Wars though, and it can be a controversial historical figure or war. Although I have to be able to find primary and seconodary sources, so please dont choose anything obscure. Please Help!

It has to be sort of contemporary

Answer 1

THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE IN THE UNITED STATES HISTORY:

Discuss the CAUSES of the American Civil War; the causes or origins of the Civil War are still VERY CONTROVERSIAL:

Some say the war was fought over slavery; others state it was a war about states' rights; and another segment believes a series of events or causes triggered the American Civil War:

Causes of the American Civil War: A Summary

There were a series of significant events which greatly affected States' Rights, the Union, African Americans and accelerated the American Civil War. These historical events are commonly referred to as the "Causes of the American Civil War" and are listed without significant order: States' Rights (Bill of Rights and the 10th Amendment), High Tariffs, Nullification Crisis, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Manifest Destiny, Dred Scott Case, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, Crittenden Compromise, John Brown, and President Abraham Lincoln's election (Lincoln didn't receive a single Southern electoral vote).

SOURCE, CREDIT AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://thomaslegion.net/causes.html

Answer 2

Controversial Historical Events

Answer 3

Women getting a vote in the US
African Americans being emacipated/freed
The Civil Rights Movement
The assassinations of:
MLK Jr.
JFK (John F. Kennedy)
RFK (Robert Kennedy)
Malcolm X
Abe Lincoln
"Gay" Marage
Stem Cell Research
Global Warming
American Revolution
Civil War
War of 1812
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Watergate
Jim Crow Laws

Historical Figures:

Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Sam Adams
Thomas Jefferson+Sally Hemmings (rumored to have kids together, even though Sally was a slave, and Jefferson was white, recently proven by dna testing.)
Naploeon
Adolf Hitler
Nostradamus
Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Lenin
Carl Marx (Communism)

MOST CONTROVERTIAL ISSUE:
RELIGION - Catholics, Christans, Jews, Muslims, Budists, Athiests, Satanists, (and a bunch more) and why they all fight with each other, and because this has been going on for a long time, you will have about 2000 years or more of information.

Holy Wars
The Crusades

Answer 4

A number of good possibilities above. Here are still more:

The impeachment of Clinton
The Kosovo War of 1999
The six Day War
Th Korean War
The stolen election of 2000
The Brown v Board decision

Some interesting and fairly recent historical figures:
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ronald Reagan
Nelson Mandela
Yitzhak Rabin
Anwar Sadat
Boris Yeltsin

Answer 5

The U.S. Civil War.
The main issue was not slavery as much as the autonomy of the states to make laws that they didn't consider the province of the federal government (called States' Rights in the history books. Slavery just happened to be a big issue also, as well as the secession of the south from the Union.

Was the federal government justified in going to war to compel the Dixie states to give up their rights or to compel them to rejoin the Union?
There are plenty of books about the Civll War.
Notice that the northern states took advantage of the Dixie states after the war. It was called Reconstruction. Many of these states still have high levels of poverty.

Answer 6

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RE:
I need a controversial historical issue! Please HELP!?
It can´t be any of the Gulf Wars though, and it can be a controversial historical figure or war. Although I have to be able to find primary and seconodary sources, so please dont choose anything obscure. Please Help!

Answer 7

If you want to go way back you can find alot of info on:
General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier.

Answer 8

How about...
The Vietnam War
The civil rights movement
Row v. Wade
The Stonewall riots
Watergate
McCarthyism

Answer 9

The french revolution is one of the bloodiest yet fascinating wars ever ocurred.

Another controversial war was the spanish-american war;

And the bay of pigs invasion, a failed american invasion to Cuba.

The Watergate scandal.

Answer 10

During the period leading up to WWII, jewish people in Germany could read the writing on the wall and wanted to leave. When they tried to immigrate, numerous countries (including the US) would not accept them and made them return to Germany.