THE NIXON, FORD, CARTER YEARS By Jackie Buck

THE NIXON, FORD, CARTER YEARS

Period: Feb 15, 1969 to Nov 10, 1981

The U.S. achieves the first moon landing

Jul 20, 1969

This was the first goal durning the apollo 11 mission when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon while micheal collins remained in the moons orbit.

Nixon becomes the first U.S. President to travel to China

Feb 21, 1972

president nixon meets with Priminster Chou En-lai

Televised Senate hearings on Watergate begin

May 17, 1973

It was the scandal of the break in at the democratic national committee headquarters.

Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. President to resign

Aug 9, 1974

Nixton was close to being impeachment and also after losing political support he resigned the day after giving a speach the day before.

Gerald Ford signs the Helsinki Accords on European security

Aug 1, 1975

Was the final act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe it was held in Finland. 35 states were present for the signing of the Helsinki Accords.

U.S. celebrates the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1976

It was a celebration and observances of the events that lead up to the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Jimmy Carter negotiates the Camp David Accords to promote peace in the Middle East

Sep 18, 1978

It was a peace treaty between egypt and Israel and it was witnessed by president Jimmy Carter.

American hostages held in Iran are set free

Jun 20, 1979

52 US citizens were held for 444 days and they were released the day Reagan was sworn into presidenty.

U.S. boycotts the Moscow summer Olympics

Mar 21, 1980

the United States and many other countries did not come to the Olympics because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.