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Vietnam War
U.S invovlment in the war was supposed prevention of communist control over the country. Many say that America had no need to be in the war, but that is speculated. Many American lives were lost, and many came back with handicaps and debillitating injuries. Helicopters, Agent Orange, and napalm saw wsidespread use in Vietnam. U.S forces end up retreating out of Vietnam and two years later Vietnam becomes communist. -
The Hippie Movement...Maannn
Sick of the conventional social norms of the 60's, the hippies emerged. Taken from the term "hipster" hippies believed in making love, not war. They lived on the roads in rv's, buses, and vans that took them all around the country. Most, portested against the war in VIetnam. -
JFK Assassinated
(Information on JFK assassination) While in Dallas, Texas JFK is assassinated in a parade. He is shot in the head by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S marine. He was pro-communist and it was thought that he was wroking for the Russians. -
Bobby Kennedy Assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy is shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. He is killed point blank, in the pantry of his suite and by a man named Sirhan Sirhan. He died 26 hours later. -
America Lands on the Moon
Americna sends Apollo 11 to the moon, commandeered by the famous atronaut Neil Armstrong. Having succesfully beaten the Russians to the moon, America is now feeling a great serge of pride. -
The Disco Movement
The disco dance movement was an underground movement in the early 1970's, but bloomed into a mainstream fad in the late 1970's. Many dancers were middle class white high schoolers, that just wanted to have fun and do drugs. This is were the disco ball was created. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
The United States was invited to the table tennis world championship in Nagoya, Japan. Hoping to relax politcal relations with China and other communist nations, the U.S accepted and sent taleneted ping-pong players. It was said to be one of the most effective ways of slowing down the Cold War. -
Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen first began in the seas near Africa, traveling westward it soon areached Mexicos as a category 4 hurricane and soon made its way northeast to the Gulf of Mexico. Affecting states such as Florida. It had a toll on the major fishing industries there and many fisheries had to hult buisness to make boat repairs. -
Beginning of Apple Inc.
As technology adavanced through the decades, there was need of a computer that could be aviable to the everyday American at an understandable price. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs created the Apple Computer company, along with their first device the Apple 1. But the success of Apple skyrocketed in 1977 with the invention of the Apple 2 which was made of plastic and provided a color screen. This success transformed Apple into what it is today. -
HIV Epidemic
HIV and AIDS was first pubically announced in the 1980's and became a disease of political, economical, and social fear. Starting 6 reported cases of gay men having it, There soon began to be cases of about 2 people getting the disease every day, and the Center of Disease Control and Prevention began to take action. Not knowing how to control the disease, and the rapid death of Americans that contracted the disease caused an epidemic. Having this disease was a death sentence, many were fearful. -
1980's Fitness Craze
Due to the inevntion of the vcr, many people began to become more pysically fit by watching in home fitness video programs. This started the craze ofwalking for cause, which means that people woul;d often jog or walk across the country advocating things such as cancer.
