Monday- Presentations
Tuesday- vietnam, present
Wednesday- present
Thursday- SEMESTER TESTS
Friday- SEMESTER TESTS
Notes:
- 80's
scandals
- iran contra affair
- ben johnson scandal
- pete rose booted for baseball
- Major events
- 1980- Reagan won election
- someone attempted assasination of him
- tried to impress an actress
- declared insane
- was re-elected in 1984
- nancy reagan- war on drugs
- 1988- George H. W. Bush won
- John lennon was assasinated
- tried to get his autograph
- murdered him to become famous
- Sally ride was 1st woman in space
- found titianic remains
- challenger disaster
- berlin wall falls
- symbolized end of cold war
- someone attempted assasination of him
- 1980- Reagan won election
- Vietnam
- Our goal was to stop communism from spreading
- Vietnamese were communist
- ho chi men
- leader of north vietnam
- our enemy
- dien bien phu
- vietnam thought that they were going to be free, but they werent
- geneva conference
- vietnam was split in 2
- north
- south
- no longer split, whole country is communist
- were going to be election to unify country
- vietnam was split in 2
- escalation- we slowly got involved in vietnam
- started to send military advisers
- used special forces for commando- operations
- regular troops were sent for defensive purposes only
- regualr troops were used for offensive combat
- continued to add more
- tonkin resolution
- congress gave president johnson power to declare war
- tet (a holiday and day of relaxation) offensive
- US helped south vietnamese
- our enemy was north vietnamese
- vietkong- gurilla forces we fought
- we forced them out and attacked, they did great while in the forests hiding
- made war unpopular in US
- anti war
- tet offensive
- government person shared info to the news
- the leak showed that the gov lied to the people
- injuring/killing innocent people
- supporting a bad government in south
- gov of south wasnt democratic
- we helped in the assasination of the leader of south
- the power of the press
- press printed about all the bad things happening
- kent st
- nixon wanted to end the war before ending it
- many colleges protested
- kent st was very popular
- people tried to get out of serving
- went to college
- moved to canada/sweden
- got married
- medically unfit for service
- joined national guard/peace corps
- claimed to be homosexual
- rich
- vietnamization- nixon slowly got US out of war
- "peace with honor"
- gradually pulled US troops out
- paris peace accords
- nixon announced suspension of offensive action in north vietnam
- paris peace accords
- were signed
- fighting stops
- we pulled completely out
- north/south would recognize each others independence
- we left
- country became communist
- Our goal was to stop communism from spreading
2009-present
- minorities
- legalization of marijuana - still going
- legal for gays/lesbians to marry in all 50 states of US
- major
- osama bin laden captured and killed
- sandy hook shooting
- haiti earthquake
- cargo ship capture
- boston marathon bombing
- robin williams committed suicide
- parkinsons
- isis
- brussels attack
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