Watergate
- Mark Felt- deep throat
- Money went back to Nixon's committee
- They tried to destroy the tapes
- country was falling apart
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
- Took over when Nixon resigned
- first president to not be elected
Assassination attempts
- all by woman,
- tried to shoot him
- happened in the same state
- 17 days of eachother
Election results
- 1976
- august 19
- fact that ford was Nixon vice president hurt him.
Accomplishments
- Education for all handicapped children act 1975
- Pardon of Nixon hurt him
- Continued detente with the USSR
- Ford anted to help South Vietnam when North invaded the South in 1974 but congress refused
- April 1975m Vietnam became communist
- Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance ace was passed to allow refugees to immigrate to the US
The Vietnam Conflict
- 1950-1975
- we wanted to stop communism
- all the people wanted was freedom but France didn't give it.
- French Connection
- France had gained controlled of Indochina in a series of colonial was in the mid-late 1800's
- After Japan surrender, french fought to retain control of the former colony against Viet Minh independence movement led by communist party leader Ho Chi Minh
- Viet Minh defeated the French army in the Battle of Dien Bien Prue in 1954 french withdrew, and colony was granted independence
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