Vietnam and the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Kennedy in Vietnam Support Ngo Dinh Diem Send 16,000...

Vietnam and the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

Kennedy in Vietnam• Support Ngo Dinh Diem• Send 16,000 military advisors• Nov. 1963 Coup

Johnson in Vietnam• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Aug. 1964)• Operation Rolling Thunder (1965)• 1965: 184k• 1966: 385k• 1967: 485k• 1968: 538k• Gen. Westmoreland• Tet Offensive

Election of 1968• Democrat: Robert F. Kennedy• Republican: Richard Nixon• Assassination Hubert Humphrey• Result: 301-191– Minority President, 5% of Black vote

Agenda for April 111. Take out your notebooks2. Define the following terms:

1. Military Coup2. Ngo Dinh Diem3. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution4. Operation Rolling Thunder5. Tet Offensive6. Nixon Doctrine7. Vietnamization

3. Business: ASB Applications and Virtual Science Challenge Applications

4. Finish APUSH Lecture

Nixon in Vietnam• Nixon Doctrine• Vietnamization• Mylai Massacre (1968)• Bombing of Cambodia (1969)• Kent State (1970)• Jackson State (1970)• Pentagon Papers (1971)• Paris Peace Accords(1973)• Fall of Saigon (April 1975)• 26th Amendment (1971)

Mylai Massacre (1968)

Secret Bombing of Cambodia

Kent State University Protest

Jackson State University Protest

Pentagon Papers

Paris Peace Accords (1973)

Fall of Saigon

26th Amendment

War Powers Act (1973)

NIXON’S FOREIGN POLICY 37th President of the United States (1968-1974)

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Nixon Doctrine

Detente

Ping Pong Diplomacy

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)

Energy Oil Crisis & Arab Oil Embargo

OPEC - Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

NIXON’S DOMESTIC POLICY

New Federalism

Roe v. Wade, 1973

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Environmental Protection Agency

Three Mile Island Incident

90 Day Price Freeze

WATERGATE SCANDAL

Watergate Scandal• CREEP• Watergate Break-in• Woodward & Bernstein• Watergate Tapes• US v. Nixon (1973)• Impeachment• Nixon Resigns• War Powers Act

CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President)

Watergate Break-In

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

Watergate Tapes and US v. Nixon

Impeachment Proceedings

Nixon Resigns

PRESIDENT GERALD FORD’S DOMESTIC POLICY

1973-1976: 38th POTUS

Whip Inflation Now (WIN)

FORD’S FOREIGN POLICIES

Helsinki Accords

PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

39th POTUS: 1976-1980

Dept. of Energy & SuperFund

Stagflation

PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER’S FOREIGN POLICIES

39th POTUS: 1976-1980

Camp David Accords

Iran Hostage Crisis

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

40thPOTUS: 1980-1988

New Right/Moral Majority/Jerry Falwell

Reagonomics

Challenger Space Shuttle

Mr. King is born on April 10, 1985.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S FOREIGN POLICIES

40thPOTUS: 1980-1988

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

“Evil Empire” Speech

Iran-Contra Scandal & the Sandanistas

Mikhail Gorbachev

PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

41st POTUS: 1988-1992

“No New Taxes”

Americans with Disabilities Act

PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S FOREIGN POLICIES

41thPOTUS: 1988-1992

Persian Gulf War/Desert Storm/Desert Shield

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S DOMESTIC POLICIES

42nd POTUS: 1992-2000

Impeachment

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICIES

42nd POTUS: 1992-2000

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)