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Nixon resigns and ford is sworn in as the new president
The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
spiro Agnew resigns & gerald ford becomes the new vice president
As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. -
Nixon refuses to surrender secret tapes
When President Richard M. Nixon stepped in front of the television cameras on November 3, 1969, he faced a nation sharply divided. War raged on in Vietnam, and American soldiers were dying. To read the daily newspapers and watch the nightly news was to see an administration under siege. Antiwar protesters took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands. -
The Watergate complex is broken into
June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. -
OPEC places an oil embargo on the united states
Several Arab OPEC nations stop selling oil to the US and Holland to protest their support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War. Later, the Arab OPEC nations added South Africa, Rhodesia, and Portugal to the list of embargoed countries. Arab OPEC production was cut by 25% -
The khmer rouge takes over cambodia
They restarted the calendar, renaming 1975 Year Zero. Their regime was murderous and, over the next four years, over 1 million Cambodians were killed and up to another 2 million died from starvation or exhaustion. The Khmer Rouge emptied the cities of people, forcing everyone to live off the land. Professionals, those who knew a foreign language and, at one time, even those who wore glasses were murdered. -
Ford & Brezhnev endorse the Helsinki Accords
Thirty-five states, including the USA, Canada, and all European states except Albania and Andorra, signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. -
Carter pardons vietnam draft dodgers
All in all, about 100,000 Americans went abroad in the late 1960s and early 70s to avoid being called up.the U.S. government continued to prosecute draft evaders after the Vietnam War ended. A total of 209,517 men were accused of violating draft laws, while another 360,000 were never formally charged. -
Carter announces the panama canal is panama's
The U.S. created a 51-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through a distant neighbor's "backyard" and called it the Panama Canal. -
carter helped negotiate the camp david accords
The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. The second of these frameworks, A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, led directly to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, and resulted in Sadat and Begin sharing the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979 under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The final troop withdrawal started on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Carter announces the U.S. will boycott the 1980 Moscow olympic Games
Heading into the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, public sentiment was in favor of President Jimmy Carter’s call to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games. The Soviet Union had recently invaded Afghanistan and assassinated the country’s prime minister -
Iranians take american hostage
The crisis has been described as an entanglement of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension".[3] In Iran, the hostage taking was widely seen as a blow against the U.S., and its influence in Iran, its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its longstanding support of the Shah of Iran, recently overthrown by the revolution.
