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Alex Marks is a tenth grader in Clear Springs high school. She is a assistant stage manager in Clear Springs tech theatre department.

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Vietnam WarVietnam War

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Weapon AdvancementsWeapon Advancements

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Space Race RoomSpace Race Room

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Revolutions and MovementsRevolutions and Movements

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InventionsInventions

"Pleiku Airstrip after Vietcong Attack." WGBH Open

Vault. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.

On February 6, 1965 Viet Cong ordered an attack on U.S. Pleiku airbase, also known as Camp Holloway Airfield. Nine Americans were killed and 128 wounded. In retaliation the U.S. launched an air operation called Operation Flaming Dart against North Vietnam.

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Viet Cong Attack on Pleiku Airbase

"Vietnam War: 'Kill Anything That Moves'" BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr.

2014.

The My Lai Massacre, which took place on March 16th, 1968, was one of the most infamous event of the Vietnam War. This massacre was caused by the United States who were looking for Viet Cong. The village had about 700 inhabitants. The number of people killed ranged from no less than 175 to as high as 504, and the ages of the people killed ranged from zero to eighty two years old.

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My Lai Massacre

"Factsheets : Hitting Sanctuaries: Cambodia." Factsheets : Hitting Sanctuaries:

Cambodia. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

In hopes of destroying the North Vietnamese hidden bases, President Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, sought retaliation for a communist attack from North Vietnam. This retaliation involved the bombing of Cambodia on May 18, 1969. The bombing was kept a secret. The entire operation was called Operation Menu.

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Secret Bombing of Cambodia

"Operation Eagle Pull." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 18 Apr. 2014. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.

This operation was designed to send U.S. troops by helicopters to evacuate U.S. embassy staff from Phnom Penh. This operation was put into affect from April 11th to April 13th of 1975 Return to

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Operation Eagle Pull

"The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968 - 1961–1968 - Milestones - Office of the Historian." The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968 - 1961–1968 - Milestones - Office of the Historian. N.p., n.d.

Web. 21 Apr. 2014.

In 1968, the United States, along with the USSR and 100 other countries sign a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. This treaty was established to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapon technogly.

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Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

"I-HLS Neutron Weapons and Sam Cohen - the Developer of 'sane' Nuclear Weapons." IHLS.

N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

The Neutron Bomb is a small thermonuclear bomb. After the neutron bomb was made, the Carter administration proposed to modernizing the nuclear arsenal in the United States by initializing Neutron Warheads on Lance missiles and artillery shells that were headed to Europe. The Neutron Warheads first camp out to the media in 1977.

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Neutron Bomb/Warhead

"China Lake Model | Weapon.ge - Modern Firearms Encyclopedia." China Lake Model | Weapon.ge -

Modern Firearms Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

After several attempts at trying to make a squad level repeating grenade launcher, US finally made the XM148 in the mid-1960s during the Vietnam War. It was a prototype for a 40mm grenade projector. Its was evaluated for the chance to go into to battle but however it was never actually used in the war.

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Grenade Launcher

•"The Lost Art of Machinegunnery? -." The Lost Art of Machinegunnery? -. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

After Germany was allowed to reinvest in small armed weapons the MG was developed. Many models were made however the MG3 was developed in 1968 and is still used today. It is not only used by Germany, like over weapons, this gun has been adopted by the armed forces of 30 different countries.

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Rheinmetall MG3

"Landings, NASA, and the Soviet Space Program." Amy Shira Teitel. N.p., n.d.Web. 22 Apr.

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Alexey Leonov as Russian astronaut was the astronaut to spacewalk in 1965. He spent twelve minutes outside his Voskhod Spacecraft on March 18th. After the walk Leonov was barely able to get back inside the airlock due to his space suit inflating in the vacuum space. He did not go back into space until 1971.

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First Spacewalk

"Milestones in Space Photography -– National Geographic." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web.

22 Apr. 2014.

The U.S. Lunar Orbiter orbits around the moon on August 23rd, 1996 and takes the first picture of earth from a distance.

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First Picture of Earth From a Distance

"Gagarin's Great Feat: 50 Space-Race Highs and Lows." Time. Time Inc., 27 Sept. 2007. Web. 22

Apr. 2014.

On September 15, 1968, the Zond 5 is launched into space and orbits around the moon and returns to earth six days later. This flight’s cargo was different, it included two Russian tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seed and other living matter. On September 21, 1968 the capsule crash landed into the Indian Ocean, the USSR space program was able to retrieve it and the cargo in it remained intact and alive.

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The Zond 5

"Boulder-based Company Plans to Offer Private Trips to Moon in 2020."KDVRcom. N.p., n.d. Web.

22 Apr. 2014.

On the Apollo 11 Mission, two US astronauts took the first steps on the moon. July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. Their walk on the moon not only sent the US ahead of Russia in the Space Race but also gave people hope for knew exploration.“That’s one small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind” Return to

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First Walk on the Moon

"Thread: Prague Spring Invasion, 1968." Military Photos RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

With political, economical, and social problems pushing into overload, the communist party in Czech made Alexander Dubcek as their new leader, in 1968. Dubcek became well liked by the people in Czech, for trying to get them additional rights, however the other countries in the Warsaw Pact did not take a liking to Dubcek. So on August 20, 1968 when troops from Russia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, the government declared that the invasion was a violation of International lay. After many people who initiated and supported the liberal reforms were forced into the Soviet Union, Dubcek was replaced in office, the replacement later gave an apology.

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Prague Spring

Lieberthal, Kenneth G. "Cultural Revolution (Chinese Political Movement)."Encyclopedia

Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.

From 1966-1976 China experienced a period of widespread social and political upheaval, which was launched by Mao Zedong, the chair man of the Communist Party of China. Mao insisted that “liberal bourgeois” elements needed to be taken away and the country returned to capitalism. He wants the thoughts and actions of China’s you (the Red Guards groups) to be mobilized. Mao himself declared that the Cultural Revolution was over in 1969 but from between 1969 -1976 the political instability and power struggles said other wise.

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Cultural Revolution in China

Linked citation "Night Lights Classic Jazz - Indiana Public Media | Dear Martin: Jazz Tributes To

Martin Luther King Jr." Night Lights Classic Jazz RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.

Martin Luther King Jr was a prominent leader of the African American Civil Right movement. MLK gave a speech about how he wanted his children and many others children to grow up in a world where there was no race discrimination. During the time of Vietnam War he began to publicly express his doubts about the war, he doubted the U.S. true intentions of the war. Then on April 4,1968 he was assassinated at his hotel in Memphis Tennessee. His death brought many riots within the United States.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Linked citation goes her"The 1960s and 1970s." ENVIRONMENTAL CORRUPTION IN THE UNITED STATES. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr.

2014.

The counterculture refers to an anti-establishment culture phenomenon that was developed in the U.S. and United Kingdom and spread throughout the western world and gained more momentum as the African-American Civil Rights Movements continued to grow. This movement was a movement where young people are rethinking the direction of the American and other democratic societies. They were also worried about the environment

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Counterculture of the 1960s

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In the 1964 Dean Toombs got together a team consisting of Jack Kilby, Jim Van Tassel, and Jerry Merryman to make a calculator that could fit in the palm of someone’s hand, but could perform the basic mathematical functions. By December 1966 they had a working model of a calculator that people could take around with them

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Portable Calculator

"Light-emitting Diode." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

LED stands for light emitting diode. The first commercially used LED light was developed in the 1960’s, which was only a normal light color. However as time went on and research continued in 1970 more colors, such as green, yellow, red and orange began to be developed in LEDs. LED’s are normally small lights.

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LED

Linked citation goes her"Rubik's Cube." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 23

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Invited in Hungary in 1974 by Ernõ Rubik, a sculptor and professor of architecture, the Rubik’s cube was originally called the Magic Cube. The Rubik Cube was sold by Ideal Toy Corporation. His initial attraction to inventing the cube was not to make a best selling toy puzzle but the fact that the structural design fascinated him.

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Rubik’s Cube

"MITPressLog." 'MITPressLog' N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014

The first project of working on a Personal Computer was made in 1962 by and Italian company, which was later launched in the 1964 New York World’s fair. By the 1970s people in academic fields had a chance to have a single use of a computer systems.

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Personal Computer

"The Yellow Post-It Note | Health for the Whole Self." Health for the Whole Self RSS. N.p., n.d.

Web. 22 Apr. 2014.

Invented by Scientist Spencer Sliver who was attempting to make a super-strong adhesive. The Post-It-Note was invented by accident, this was in 1968. In 1977 the post it note was names “Press n’ Peel” and was advertised in stores in four cites, the results of how many people bought it were disappointing, then in 1980 the “Press n’ Peel” was reintroduced as the Post-It-Note and this attempt at selling the product was more successful, a year later Post-It-Notes were in stores in Canada and Europe.

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Post-It-Notes