Vietnam War
Imperialism
World War II
Ho Chi Minh
Domino Theory
Dien Bien Phu 1954
Geneva Accords
17th parallel
1956 elections
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Eisenhower? Kennedy?
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
August 7, 1964
Escalation
William Westmoreland
Guerrilla warfare
Tunnels
Mines
POWs, MIAs, KIAs
Napalm
Agent Orange
Search and destroy missions
“Living room war”
Credibility gap
Draft
Ways to avoid
Conscientious objector
Doves
Hawks
1968
Tet Offensive – January 20, 1968
Walter Cronkite
Lyndon Johnson
MLK Jr.
Robert Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
Democratic National Convention
Chicago
Election of 1968
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Counter Culture
Hippies
Woodstock
Vietnamization
“peace with honor”
Silent Majority
My Lai – March 16, 1968
Lieutenant William Calley
Cambodia – April 30, 1970
Kent State – May 4, 1970
Pentagon Papers
26th amendment
Christmas Bombings
January 27, 1973
Fall of Saigon – April 30, 1975
Results
War Powers Act
Seventies and Beyond
Feminism
Margaret Sanger
The Pill - 1960
Betty Friedan – “The Feminine Mystique” –
1963
NOW – National Organization for Women
Gloria Steinem
Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
Roe v. Wade 1973
Richard Nixon
Political party shift
Economy – stagflation
Yom Kippur War – 1973
OPEC
Oil Crisis
Real Politik
Détente
China – 1972
SALT I Treaty
Watergate scandal
June 17, 1972
Committee to Re-Elect the President
Cover up
Washington Post
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Deep Throat
FBI agent Mark Felt
Burglar’s trial
Senate Committee
“What did the president know and when did he
know it?”
tapes
“I am not a crook.” – Nov. 17, 1973
Some tapes released
U.S. v Nixon - 1974
August 5, 1974 – rest of tapes released
18.5 minute gap
August 8, 1974 – resignation
Gerald Ford
Pardon
Jimmy Carter – Democrat
Former Gov. of Georgia
Human rights activist
Panama Canal Treaty 1977
SALT II
Senate
Camp David Accords
Egypt and Israel
Iran Hostage Crisis – 1979
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Operation Eagle Claw – April 24-25, 1980
Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981
Assassination attempt
John Hinckley
New Right/New Conservatism
Moral Majority
Reaganomics
tax cuts
Iran-Contra Affair
Peace Through Strength
Strategic Defense Initiative – Star Wars – 1983
Sandra Day O’Conner
Cold War starting to thaw…
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Berlin Wall – 1989
START I
Soviet Union 1991
Persian Gulf War
George Bush
Saddam Hussein
Kuwait
Operation Desert Storm
Recession
Campaign quote
Bill Clinton – 1992
Impeached
Contract with America
Newt Gingrich
Republican shift
Environmentalism
“Silent Spring” – Rachel Carson – 1962
Clean Air Act of 1963
Environmental Protection Agency – EPA
Earth Day 1970
Three Mile Island – March 28, 1979
Election of 2000
Bush v. Gore
Supreme Court case
December 12, 2000
George W. Bush – 2000
September 11, 2001
Terrorist attacks
- World Trade Center (New York)
- Pentagon (Virginia)
- Flight 93 (Pennsylvania)
War on Terror
- Afghanistan
o Taliban
o Osama Bin Laden
- Iraq
o Saddam Hussein
o Weapons of Mass
Destruction
- Patriot Act
Hurricane Katrina Levee failure
Election of 2008
Barack Obama
-economy
- American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009
Osama Bin Laden
May 2, 2011
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Gates
Sam Walton
Estee Lauder
Robert Johnson
Lionel Sosa