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New Frontier
The New Frontier was basicly the start of a new decade. JFK said in his acceptance speach that the 1960s is the start of the new Frontier. JFKs plan with the New Frontier was to stop poverty. -
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unseccessful military invasion of cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 in April 1961. The US funded and trained a counter- revolutionary militia to overthrow the revolutionary leftiest government. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confermation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the USA on the other side. That was one of the biggest confermations of the Cold War. The Soviet Union leader had an idea to put nuclear missles in Cuba and USA did not want that, so USA made a military blockade and demanded that the Soviets dismantle the bombs. -
Hippies
Hippies started in the mid 1960s and was spread accross the world. The early Hippies inherited the contercultural vales of the beat generation. They used drugs such as LSD, magic mushrooms, and cannabis. -
Americanization
Americanization is the term used for the American culture. The term refers to process of acculturation by immigrants or annexated population customs and values. Just like how hollywood dominates mostof the worlds media market. -
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vietnamization
Vietnamization was when south Vietnam trained its people to fight in a war so and helped them to "get there act together" and USA helped south vietnam because north vietnam wanted to have a communist government and the south didnt so USA wanted to helpthe south so that vietnam didnt turn into a communist government. -
Gender Equality
Gender equality is when people think that both sexes should recive equal treatment. Gender equality started with the women sufferage movement whitch allowed women to vote and hold office. This was just the start of trying to make women as equal as men. -
First Earth Day
The Earth day was a day devoted to appreciating the earth and doing thingslike picking up trash and treating the earth nicely. -
Kent State Shooting
The shooting took place in Kent State University in Ohio. The gunman shot 67 times in a timespan of 13 seconds. he killed 4 people and wounding 9 others. Some of the students that were shot were protesting about American invasion of Cambodia. Many Colleges, universitys, and schools closed down because student were going on strike. -
Three Mile island Accedent
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history,[1] and resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. -
The new right
New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union and systems using Soviet-style "communism". -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair , also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies -
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear forces treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on May 27, 1988 and came into force on June 1 of that year. -
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–93).He was a Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–89), a congressman, an ambassador and Director of Central Intelligence; he is currently the oldest surviving President. -
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance. -
Free Trade
Free trade is a policy by which a government does not discriminate against imports or interfere with exports by applying tariffs (to imports) or subsidies (to exports) or quotas. According to the law of comparative advantage, the policy permits trading partners mutual gains from trade of goods and services. -
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009[4] and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, he was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
