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Start of the Vietnam War
and ms. Evans In December of 1956 a war started between the French and the Vietnamese. That was when the war started, but before the war tensions started rising. In 1950 the president at the time, harry S. Truman allowed a program where the United States would allow Military Aid to the French. The French then invaded Vietnam and started a war. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet5 Union put nuclear missile on Cuba. John F. Kennedy told the American Nation and said that his decision to put a naval blockade the area around Cuba and to make it obvious that the U.S was prepared. After people heard this news they were afraid that there was going to be a nuclear war. The crisis was avoided when the U.S agreed to remove U.S missiles from Turkey and the Soviet Union agreed to take their nuclear missiles out of Cuba. -
JFK assasination
John F. Kennedy was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling throught the town with Mrs. Kennedy, the governor of Texas and the governor's wife. -
Civil Rights Movement
In 1964 people maily African Americans protested for their rights. One protest by a woman named Rosa Parks is the most famous. She walked on the bus and sat in the front where the white people would sit (if no white person wanted the seat an African-American could sit there). WHen a whit e man told her to move so he could sit she didn't move.The bus driver then came and told Rosa to move and when she didn't he called the police and Rosa was arrested. This was one of the many protests for racial -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is an act that makes discrimination in voting illegal. It was signed by the President at the time Lyndon B. Johnson in the middle of the Civil Rights movement. -
Martin Luther King assasination
Martin Luther King was assassinatd at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennesse when he was 39 years old. He was rushed to the hospital and then pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. The man who assassinated was named James Earl Ray. Ray was senteenced to 99 years in prison. -
Man on the Moon
In 1969 the Americans were the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the first three astronauts to go to the moon. They got to the moon on the space shuttle Apollo 11. -
End of Nigerian Civil War
The war ended by the UK giving Nigeria extr support against the Biafrans. The Biafrans were a section in South Nigeria of people who were their own ethnic linguistic place. The Biafrans were the last group neutralised by the Nigerian central government. -
Oil crisis
This crisis started with the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. Egypt and Syria sent their militaries to Israel on one of the highest holy days in the Jewish religion. The U.S chosde to help Israel. The OAPEC decided to get their revenge by stopping their exportation of oil. The embargo lasted until March of 1974. -
first wave of vietnamese comming to America
2.) When the Vietnam War ended from “the fall of Saigon.” People who lived in Vietnam at the time feared reprisals by the communist party. 125,000 people from Vietnam immigrated to America. The Vietnamese got to America by military cargo ships and were dropped off in government base areas. This was called “Operation New Life.” The people were then safe in America. -
End of the Vietnam War
In October 1972, Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, concluded a secret peace agreement with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho. After reviewing the agreement, President Thieu demanded major alterations to the document. In response, the North Vietnamese published the details of the agreement and stalled the negotiations. -
First succesful Test-Tube baby
The first successful test tube baby was born in Oldham United Kingdom. -
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
There were 52 hostages being held in Tehran Iran. Jimmy Carter had the military go in and try to rescue the hostages as a last attempt because the diplomatic attempts the U.S had tried had ended in failure. The U.S sent eight helicopters and three crashed. After this the mission was cancelled and on their way back one of the remaining helicopters crashed into a transport plane killing eight soldiers and injuring 5 others. The hostages were released 270 days later. -
mt. St Hellen erruption
The first signs of activity at Mt. St. Helens were small earthquakes. After hundreds of these small earthquakes in mid-March the volcano erupted for the first time in more than 100 years. The explosion was produced of ash and steam. The steam created a large crater at the top of the volcano. A week later the crater had gotten bigger by a couple hundred meters and two giant cracks covered are. On average the eruptions happened every hour in March until April 22. The eruptions started again on May -
Econmy begins to recover
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Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place in Pripyat which was a former Ukrainian SSR Soviet Union. Chernobyl was classified as a level seven nuclear disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale. A level seven is the most severe level. The only other nuclear event classified as a seven is Fukushima Daiichi in 2011. 500,000 people worked to clean up and contain the nuclear waste and, it cost around 18 billion rubles and 538956000 American dollars. Chernobyl started at r -
Hubble Telescope Launch
The idea for a space telescope came from a german scientist named Herman Oberth. Later Lyman Spitzer proposed the idea to the American government. Spitzer spent 50 years of his life working on the telescope. When it was appproved by congress for funding it took 13 years for the telescope to be launched into orbit succesfully. -
Start of Rwandan genocide
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. Violence began almost immediately after that. Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at road -
End of Rwandan genocide
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. Violence began almost immediately after that. Under the cover of war, Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at road -
Start of Nigerian civil war
The Nigerian Civil War broke out on 6 July 1967. The war was the culmination of an uneasy peace and stability that had plagued the Nation from independence in 1960. This situation had its genesis in the geography, history, culture and demography of Nigeria. The immediate cause of the civil war itself may be identified as the coup and the counter coup of 1966 which altered the political equation and destroyed the fragile trust existing among the major ethnic groups. As a means of h -
gay rights/gay marraige
On April 1, 2001 the Netherlands allowed Same Sex Marriage. No other country had allowed this to happen IN THE WORLD. Their parliament had voted 107-33 to allow Same Sex Marriage. For the marriage to be counted the law says that at least one of the people in the relationship has to be either Dutch national or live in the Netherlands. Lots of people moved from other countries to the Netherlands to get married. Some didn’t and waited to see if their country would allow Gay marraige. -
9/11
19 people associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda took control of four airliners and flew them towards different major buildings in the U.S. Once in New York City the flew two planes into the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, which is just outside of Washington D.C., and the last plane crashed in a random field in Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people were killed in New York and D.C., over 400 of which were police officers and firefighters. The attacks and the effects of the -
Israel Pakistan cease fire
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Mass shooting
A gunman, 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho, goes on a shooting spree killing 32 people in two locations and wounds an undetermined number of others on campus. Then the shooter commit sucide shortly after. -
stock market crash
Stocks went downhill when the government rejected the $700 billion bailout plan for when the stock market crashed. Near the time when the government rejected the bailout one day the stock market went down 778 points. This was the greatest decrease that anyone has ever seen. According to the Dow Jones Willshire 5000 the stock market lost $1.2 trillion in value. This loss in value destroyed the USA and parts of the world's economies. After people took their money out of the stock market. -
First African-American President of USA
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank. After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of -
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
The oil spill on the gulf of Mexico was the worst oil spil in the United States. The spill killed 11 people and also killed many animals. Reaserchers found out that the B pipe under the water had a leak. It took workers 87 days to seal the pipes leak. The gulf of mexico is still not fully clear of oil even after 4 years.
