1963-1988

Events
 * Watergate Scandel -BF
 * Tonkin Gulf Incident -BF
 * Tet Offensive -TH
 * Iran Hostage Crisis -TH
 * Apollo 11 - AH
 * Soviet War in Afghanistan - AH
 * Woodstock
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Detente

People
 * 1. Richard Nixon -TH
 * Ronald Reagan -BF
 * Bill Gates -BF
 * Jimmy Carter- TH
 * Lyndon B. Johnson - AH
 * Mikhail Gorbachev - AH
 * Neil Armstrong - ZH
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Jimi Hendrix - Holt
 * Timothy Leary - Holt

People


 * Martin Luther King Jr.**
 * Prominant African American leader during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement
 * "I have a dream" speech.
 * Non-violent protests/messages
 * Becameyoungest person to recieve a Nobel Peace prize


 * Neil Armstrong**
 * 1st man to walk on the moon.
 * Defining moment in the U.S. vs. Soviet space race
 * iconic quote: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Ronald Reagan

Why Hes Important... [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#.22Reaganomics.22_and_the_economy]
 * Had a huge part in ending the Cold War
 * Took more aggressive actions in order to deal with the USSR and communism
 * His presidency reinvigorated American morale
 * Pulled country out of the Economic Slumps during his presidency

Bill Gates

Why Hes important... []
 * Revolutionized the personal computer
 * Co-founded Microsoft, one of the biggest computer software systems in the world
 * Major Philanthropic
 * One of the richest men in the world

**Richard Nixon ** Why He’s Important... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon Taylor
 * Ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam
 * Used detente and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to settle tensions with the Soviet Union and China
 * Initiated wars on cancer and drugs
 * Enforced desegregation of Southern schools
 * Established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
 * Watergate Scandal
 * Only president to resign because he was going to be impeached
 * Jimmy Carter **

Why He’s Important... President during... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter Taylor
 * Created two new cabinet-level departments: Department of Energy and Department of Education
 * Camp David Accords
 * Panama Canal Treaties
 * Strongly emphasized human rights
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iran Hostage Crisis
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1979 energy crisis
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three Mile Island nuclear accident
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moscow Summer Olympics boycott by U.S.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

Why he's important...
 * Lyndon B. Johnson**
 * President from 1963 - 1969
 * Claimed major policy the Great Society
 * Created several social programs part of Johnson's "War of Poverty" Ex. Social Security Act of 1965, Medicare and Medicaid.
 * Political career destroyed by the Vietnam War


 * Mikhail Gorbachev**

Why he's important...
 * Attempted to reform with Reagan after the Cold War
 * Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
 * Calmed nuclear tensions worldwide
 * Head of State of the Soviet Union
 * Actions led to Russia dissolution

Jimi Hendrix
 * Credited as most influential rock guitarist of all time
 * Epitomized the counter culture music of the 60s
 * Inspired countless other bands and acts that followed.
 * Known for his drug use

Timothy Leary
 * Counter culture icon who pioneered the phrase "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out".
 * Conducted experiments with LSD at Harvard
 * Promoted and advocated LSD use

Events <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tet Offensive (January 30, 1968)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Influenced by... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it’s important... [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive#Background] Taylor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">United States entry into the Vietnam War
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Viet Cong develops in South Vietnam
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General Vo Nguyen Giap decides to make a surprise attack on South Vietnam
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communists create diversionary attack against American base on January 21
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communists attack about 100 major cities and towns in South Vietnam
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communists occupied American Embassy in Saigon for eight hours
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took about two weeks for Americans and South Vietnamese to regain control of Saigon
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took almost a month to regain city of Hue
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technically an American victory
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Caused major public distaste for Vietnam War
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eventually caused American to pull out of Vietnam War

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Iran Hostage Crisis (November 4, 1979-January 20, 1981)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Influenced by... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it's important... [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis#Start] Taylor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">United States backs Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. and British spies depose democratically-elected government and restored Shah as absolute monarch
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, overthrown in 1979
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jimmy Carter makes public toast to Shah on New Years Day
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created Iranian distrust of U.S.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Islamist students and militants took over American Embassy in Tehran for Iranian Revolution
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">66 Americans held hostage for 444 days
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Failure of Operation Eagle Claw which killed 8 Americans, 1 Iranian civilian, and destroyed two aircrafts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technically ended during Ronald Reagan's presidency
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Caused Jimmy Carter to lose presidential election in 1980
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beginning of U.S. legal actions against Iran

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Influenced by...
 * Spread of communism in Asian countries
 * Increasing U.S involvement in foreign countries
 * President Johnson's need for public support to get involved in Vietnam
 * The Vietnam War before america got involved

Why its important... []
 * Justified Americas involvement in the Vietnam war
 * Led to more control for the president which was controversial
 * Showed how manipulative the government can be
 * Led to the passage of The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Watergate Scandal

Influenced by...
 * The break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex
 * Nixon trying to cover up the event
 * Nixon's want to be re-elected
 * Nixon's use of unfair tricks during election time
 * Nixon paying money to the burglars for them to be quite

Why its important... []
 * Caused new laws to be formed on campaign financing
 * Was a major factor in the passage of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act
 * Caused new laws to be formed requiring new financial disclosures by key government officials
 * Lead to the resignation of the president
 * Showed that no one is above the law, even the president

Influenced by...
 * Soviet War in Afghanistan**
 * Support by the Soviets in the new Afghanistan
 * Soviet Reforms was not taken well by population influenced by Islamic Culture
 * "Civil War"

Important because...
 * Beginning of Battles
 * Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan


 * Apollo 11**

Influenced by...
 * US and USSR arms race
 * Turned SPACE RACE
 * John F. Kennedy

Why it was important...
 * First Successful spaceflight that landed the first humans
 * Reached JFK's goal to reach the Moon before the Soviet Union


 * Cuban Missile Crisis**
 * Thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other
 * During the Cold War
 * Close encounter, outcome could have been total nuclear war
 * A secret deal to remove missiles ended the crisis
 * Displayed how one wrong decision could result in MAD (mutually assured destruction

Detente
 * Woodstock**
 * Major icon representing the counter-culture movement against the Vietnam War
 * 3 day music festival featuring famous artists such as Jimi Hendrix
 * "3 days of Music and Peace"
 * Major step towards protest with music
 * 500,000 concert goers
 * Started by Nixon and eased relations with USSR and China
 * Tried to play the two powers off of one another by favoring China
 * Implemented Treaties such as SALT 1
 * Ended after Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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