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A battalion of the U.S. 9th infantry division leaves Saigon in the initial withdraw of U.S. toops. Last U.S. troops did not leave till after the Paris Peace Accords were signed.
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Occurred at Kent State University in Ohio and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. Four Students were killed, and 9 others were wounded. This event epitomized the division that the Vietnam War had created in America.
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President Nixon defends the U.S troop movement into Cambodia, saying the operation would provide 6-8 months of time for training South Vietnames force and would shorten the war. Escalated the war.
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Regarded as one of the greatest films in world Cinema. An American crime film based on the book The Godfather. A story of leaders of a powerful New York crime family.
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Hotel that held the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Cash found on the burglars were traced back to the offical organization of Nixon's campaign scandle rose that NIxon was involved.
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U.S. swimmer sets the record at 7 gold medals won at a single Olympiad.
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A pregnat single woman (Roe) brought class action challenging the constitutionality of Texas abortion laws, The court ruled the complaint not justiciable.
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The goal was to secure a steady income to the member states and secure supply of oil to the comsumers.
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Patty states " There was a person standing there. I was in the kitchen, and what i heard was that they has hit a car downstairs and said could they use the phone. With that the people just bursted into the apartment." Forced to the floor, Patty was gagged while her fiance was beaten with a wine bottle. Patty says that they were fireing machine guns, even though she was blind folded, she could still hear. They stuffed her in the trunk.
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The House Judiciary Committee approved its first article of impeachment charging Nixon with obstruction of justice, A second charge was abuse of power, and the third impeachment charge was contempt of Congress.
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After two years of bitter public debate over the Watergate scandals, President Nixon bowed to pressures from public and leaders.
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He had been the first V.P. chosen under terms of the twenty-fifth amendment.
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He had an early interest in softwear and began programing computers at age 13. In 1973 Bill became a student at Harvord University where he meet Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft chief executor. While still an undergrad., he wrote a version of the programing language BASIC.
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North Vietnam launched an attack against the lightly defend provence of PhuoLong. The United states promised the South help, but they never did.Again the Noth launched a new campaign and the U.S did nothing to help, leaveing total dissary.
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Series of celibration and observervances during mid 1970s that paid tribute to the historical event leading up to the creation of U.S as a independent republic with the 200th aniversory of the Declearation of Independence.
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The 39th President and served from Jan.20th 1977 to Jan.20th 1981.Announced his canidence Dec.12,1974
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100,000 young Americans went to surve the war. 90% went to Canada to avode the war, they were known as draft dodgers. 209,517 men were formally accused of violating the draft laws. They pardoned them and get off Scott-free.
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Movie that descibed slaveryand how it happened and how they were treated once they got to America.
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Was an American home computer and electronics manufacture company. Jack Trarniel was the founder.
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Result of 14 months of easy diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Isreal, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became president.
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Was a partial nuclear meltdown, which occured in one of the two United States worst accident in U.S commericial nuclear power plant in history. This included Raido active gases as well as Radio active iodine.
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A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, takeing more than 60 Americans hostages. The cause was due to President Carter's decigion to allow Iran's deposed shah to come to the U.S for cancer treatment.
