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Throughout his career, Presley greatly helped in the popularization of rock 'n' roll music in the United States. For his gospel albums, he received three Grammy Awards. -
The SDS organized the first nationwide anti-Vietnam war demonstration. They held marches in favor of the United States' participation in the Vietnam War. To assert students' right to free speech, they organized the first sit-ins and teach-ins. -
Between 1965 and 1970, Napalm was used in the Vietnam War. Napalm is a jelly-like substance that adheres to any surface and can burn for up to ten minutes. The controversy with napalm is that while it was very effective in battle, it devastated civilians and their villages. When the damages of napalm was exposed on a massive scale by the media, the antiwar movement began to grow. -
Agent Orange was a herbicide the U.S. military used to clear leaves and vegetation for military operations mainly during the Vietnam War. The controversy with agent orange is that an estimated three million Vietnamese have been affected by the herbicide with physical injuries and illness, including at least 150,000 children born with serious birth defects leading into later generations. -
The Vietnam War was a long, expensive, and destructive struggle that pitted North Vietnam's communist government against South Vietnam and its main ally, the US. -
Charlie was another name for the Viet Cong, also known as Victor Charlie. Between 1954 and 1975, they served as soldiers for North Vietnam, where they were trained as both conventional soldiers and guerrillas. They were a formidable power, armed with arms from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. -
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th U.S. president. Because of his decision to prolong the Vietnam War, LBJ has a negative aura surrounding foreign policy. LBJ continued in the footsteps of his predecessors, pledging to keep South Vietnam independent and to achieve success in Southeast Asia. He believed in the "domino theory," which predicted that if Vietnam falls to Communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow suit. -
Beginning in the late 1950s, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was a part of the Cold War. Space would become another dramatic venue for this rivalry, as each side tried to show the supremacy of its technology, military firepower, and–by extension–its political-economic structure. -
Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States and is praised for his positive effect with foreign policy. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. -
While Nixon is known for his positive foreign policy, he is just as
well known for the Watergate Scandal. The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States. In May 1972, members of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President broke into the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office’s phones -
Ford, the 38th President of the United States, holds the distinction of being the first and only person to serve as President without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. He is best known for pardoning Nixon. -
Jimmy Carter 39th U.S. President established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.
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