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The Army Republic of Vietnam launches a full invasion on the neighboring country of Cambodia.
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Occured at Kent State University in Ohio and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Gaurd. Four students were killed, and nine others were wounded. This event epitomized the division that the Vietnam War had created in America.
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Nixon created a policy that slowly allowed the South Vietnamese government to take over their own war, and pull American soldiers out of Vietnam.
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The film is about a 1940s New York Mafia family and its struggle to protect its empire from rival families as power is transferred from father to son.
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This was a scandal where five burglars employed by the Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon entered the Democratic National Committee offices at Watergate.
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Mark Spitz was an American swimmer in the 1972 Summer Olympics who won seven gold medals.
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This court decision declared that abortion was a right gauranteed by the Constitution under an implied right to privacy.
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Because USA supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War, OAPEC declared it would no longer ship oil to USA.
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Patty Hearst was kdinapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and was held for $2,000,000 ransom. She was also forced to join in their robberies.
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Nixon is near impeachment after many events such as the Watergate Break-In occur.
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To keep himself from being impeached, Nixon decides to resign from Presidency.
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Gerald Ford becomes Vice President of USA when Nixon's elected Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft after MITS agreed to distribute the Altair BASIC.
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam, and South Vietnam becomes a Communist nation.
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The US Bicentennial marked the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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This was the first personal computers(PCs) to be available to the public.
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Carter won against President Gerald Ford, and his presidency was filled with problems.
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Jimmy Carter pardoned most of the draft dodgers of the Vietnam War, including Bill Clinton.
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This show was a dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from his ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendents' liberation.
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This was an agreement reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority made by Bill Clinton.
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A nuclear plant in Harrisburg, PA suffered a meltdown and was forced to close down permanenty. No one was hurt, but this was the worst nuclear accident in American history.
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Iranian militants stormed the US Embassy and held 70 Americans captive for 444 days.
