Today we talked about the blog assignments that are coming up. There is the one where we define all the different terms. Then there is the other one due at the same time and i have to do the Iran Hostage Crisis. After that we talked about Bin Laden and how he was killed. Then we went back into the Powerpoint.
Nixon's accomplishments
-first nature friendly president
-abortion was legalized
-US astronauts landed on the moon- 1969
-Nixon approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program
-in 1972, president Nixon traveled to shina where the president was to have direct talks with Mao Zedong and Chou En-lai
-This eased relations with the US and China (not Taiwan) was recognized as the official China
Visit to Soviet Union
-went to Moscow in 1972
-SALT 1 was signed limiting nuclier weapons
-Anit-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed which banned the development of system designed to intercept incoming missiles
-This led to a new era of "peaceful co-exstance" and detente with the USSR
72 election
-rigged in a way
-nixon formed a organization called "dirty tricks" and "plumbers"
more accomplishments
-supported Isreal in the yom kippur war, where isreal was attacked by Egypt and Syria
-this support of Isreal led to the 1973 oil crisis where OPEC countries did not trade oil with the US as a result
-Nixon lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 mph
Watergate
-Five men were caught Breaking iinto Democrate party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972 to find dirt on the Democratic Party
-This became on the a series of scandalous acts involving the committee to Re-Elect the president
-FBI eventually confirmed that Nixon aides had attempted to sabotage teh Democrats--many began resigning and faced prosecution
-Nixon was involved by trying to cover up the Break In
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