1963-1988

__People__

 * 1) Reagan
 * 2) Nixon
 * 3) Johnson
 * 4) Bush
 * 5) Carter
 * 6) Ford
 * 7) Gates
 * 8) Armstong
 * 9) Day O'Connor
 * 10) Kennedy

__Events__

 * 1) Salt Treaty I and II
 * 2) Watergate/Nixon Resigning
 * 3) Iran Crisis Hostage
 * 4) MLK Assassination
 * 5) Moon Landing
 * 6) Three Mile Island
 * 7) Roe vs. Wade
 * 8) Kent State Shooting
 * 9) 26th Amendment
 * 10) Beatlemania

__Beatlemania (1960s)__
Influences...

1) Electric guitars 2) Drugs 3) Beatles 4) Hippies 5) European rock

Beatlemania is a term during the 1960s to describe intense fan frenzy toward The Beatles during the early years of their success. At the time The Beatles were by far the biggest band in the world.

__Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (1968) __
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Influences… On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was killed in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Similar to the JFK assassination there are conspiracies, but this assassination seems more concrete.
 * 1) Racism
 * 2) Civil Rights Movement
 * 3) White Southerners
 * 4) Vietnam War
 * 5) Cold War

__US Land on The Moon (1969) __
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Influences… On June 20, 1969 the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The first astronaut to step foot on the moon was Neil Armstrong. The second astronaut following Neil Armstrong was Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
 * 1) Cold War
 * 2) NASA
 * 3) Space Race
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sputnik
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Communism

__Kent State Shooting (1970)__
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- Influences
 * Campus Protest
 * Ohio National Guard
 * Invasion of Cambodia
 * Hatred of the US gov.
 * Vietnam

The massacre at Kent state was important because 4 students were killed and 9 were injured by gunshots from the Ohio National Guard. The protest began because President Nixon invaded Cambodia. There was already distrust in the government because of Vietnam, and this only made it worse.

__26th Amendment (1971)__
Influences...
 * 1) Student activists
 * 2) Vietnam
 * 3) Oregon vs. Mitchell
 * 4) Protesting
 * 5) Election votes

The 26th amendment made the minimum voting age 18. It was in response to student activism against the Vietnam War and the Supreme Court decision in Oregon vs Mitchell.

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-Influences
 * The Cold War
 * Hiroshima/Nagasaki
 * Russian Nukes
 * Communism
 * Total war

The Salt Treaties were very important because they limited the amount of Nukes both USA and USSR were able to have. This greatly decreased tensions between the two countries and there were still enough nucler bombs to destroy each other over and over again.

__Roe Vs. Wade (1973)__
[] [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Up until the Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade, abortion had been illegal in the United States with the exception of rape or incest when the mother was in danger. Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in the United States. ====

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Watergate/Nixon’s Resigning (1973) __
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Influences…
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Break into Watergate hotel
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Deep throat
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Nixon’s lying
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Covering up
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">FBI

The Watergate scandal was a scandal that occurred in the 1970s as a result of the 1972 break-in at the Watergate office complex and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up involvement. The scandal led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. The scandal also resulted in conviction and incarceration of 43 people, including dozens of top Nixon administration officials.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">__Iran-Hostage Crisis- 1979__
[] [] During Carter's Presidency, the Iranian government took American soldiers as hostages. Carter did not handle the situation well. He froze all oil imports from Iran and then froze over $8 billion dollars in Iranian assets in the United States.

__Three-Mile Island (1979)__
[] The Three Mile Island was a nuclear melt down at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28th, 1979. This event is documented as the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in history. When the explosion took place, radioactive gases and iodine were sent into the atmosphere.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Richard Nixon __
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Richard Nixon was our 37th President during the Vietnam War. He lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election, but won in 1968 and 1972. He did not finish his 1972 term because he resigned in 1975 due to the Watergate scandal.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Neil Armstrong __
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Neil Armstrong was an astronaut on the Apollo 11 and the first man ever to step foot on the moon. His famous words were, “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” After the landing he became a professor to teach aerospace engineering and such.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ronald Reagan __
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ronald Reagan was our 40th President during the end of the Cold War. He was elected President in the 1980 and 1984 election, serving both his terms. He helped put the final touches on mending our relations with the USSR and the Cold War ended only a few years after he left office.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gerald Ford __
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Gerald Ford was the first president to be sworn in because of the 25th amendment, because of the Water Gate Scandal. Ford increased the Detente policy but was generally an unpopular president because of recession, he pardoned Nixon, and we "lost" the Vietnam war when he was in office.

__Bill Gates__
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Bill Gates is one of the most important people of the technology world. He essentially created what we now know as the modern home computer. He first launched Microsoft Windows in 1985, and has never stopped since.

__Sandra Day O'Connor__
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Sandra Day O'Connor very important because she was the first woman to be a US supreme court Justice. In a country here women's rights were still relatively new, this was a huge step for gender equality.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">George H W Bush __

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In 1988, Bush launched a successful campaign beating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis. Foreign policy took over Bush’s presidency. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union fell off two years later. Bush signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed. Due to economic concerns, he lost the 1992 election to Democrat Bill Clinton.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Robert Kennedy __

RobertKennedy was a politician, senator, and a civil rights activist. He was a younger brother of John F. Kennedy. Following his brother's assassination, Kennedy served as Attorney General under President Johnson. In 1964, Kennedy resigned to become U.S. Senate and won in November. In 1968, Kennedy began campaigning for presidency and was the leading candidate of the Democratic Party. After a victory speech delivered just past midnight, Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan. He lived for 26 hours, but he died early in the morning of June 6.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">__Jimmy Carter__
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====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States. He was in charge of our country during the Camp David Accords and took part in the Panama Canal treaties. Also, Carter led our country through the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (S.A.L.T II). During his presidency, our country was in an economic stagflation as we went through the 1979-1981 Iran-Hostage Crisis, the Three Mile Nuclear Accident ====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">__Lyndon B. Johnson__
[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">Lyndon B Johnson took over the Presidency after the assassination of JFK. Once in office, he made sure that all of JFK's agenda was passed. In 1964, Johnson declared an "Unconditional War on Poverty." His "Great Society" called for new government agencies and policies, the creation of VISTA, Medicaid, and Medicare. During his term as the 36th President of the United States, Johnson also passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ====

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