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Vietnam War Extended to Cambodia
April 30, 1970 marks the date of President Richard Nixon’s address to the United States stating that the Vietnam war would be mobilized to Cambodia, the neighboring country to the west. The invasion of Cambodia was not acted on a whim, but in fact, the United States had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. President Nixon advocated the invasion of Cambodia with Vietnam troops, while the citizens of the country were apprehensive. -
SALT Treaty Signed
What the treaty did was not to make each country stop making nuclear weapons or ICBM but It made both countries not produce any more then there current amount. Do to this "flaw" each country was able to study how to add more power to each rocket. They studied how to add more warheads and just over all increase the carrying casuistry. Also ICBM means intercontinental ballistics missiles, which are pretty much those one you fire from your backyard to destroy libya because you "know" it is the best -
Cease Fire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam's territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped at last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men, about the same as the previous year. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. South Vietnamese forces continued to take back village -
U.S. Helps overthrow Chile Government
It is seen as a fact that US had a direct impact in the destruction of Chile’s government in the Cold War. The United States destroyed Chile’s democracy by cutting off them economically. They did this first by making it so Chile couldn’t export copper so it crippled their economy. Then the United States cut Chile off from getting any international financing. After a while the US crippled Chile’s economy and made the citizens of Chile hate Allende and the way he was running his country. -
Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid
Syria attacked Israel supported by Jordan, Palestinian, Algeria, Morocco, Cairo and most importantly the Soviet Union. Israel was shelled, outnumbered and blasted for the first few days. U.S.A. tried to negotiate with mainly the Soviet Union to immediately stop all firing on Israel but after the Soviet Union and all other nations showed no interest in that proposition America started its own attack to aid Israel. The war ultimately ended after the UN forced all nations to ceasefire. -
President Nixon Resigns
In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. "By taking this action," he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
The Vietnam War, the first televised war, pitted South Vietnam and the United States against Communist North Vietnam. It was feared that the fall of South Vietnam would lead to the fall of other South East Asian nations to Communism as well, in what was known as the "Domino Effect." Yet, at the same time, it was feared that extensive military involvement would lead to Chinese and Soviet intervention, resulting in a nuclear World War III. And the antiwar movement defined a generation of Americans -
SALT II Signed
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Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis
The overthrow of the Shah's regime in Iran should be considered in light of the struggles of a small nation for national independence . For some 180 years, Iranians had struggled against considerable geopolitical odds to achieve a measure of dignified autonomy in a strategically and economically important region of the world. For its part, U. S. involvement in Iran was motivated by oil interests and Cold War strategic rivalries against the Soviet Union.
