Billy Joel: We Didn’t Start The Fire

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Birth Control• The release of the birth control pill set

off many discussions among women, families, and doctors in the 19th century. Some were in favor some weren’t do to the risks of the new drug.

• Many women approved of birth control since they wanted to prevent a child’s birth to continue studying or working.

• 1960 there was Women’s Rights Movement do to the birth controls.

• Birth control actually helped reduced the population in America, there weren’t as many babies being born. “Baby Boom” (after the post war from 1946-1964).

• Finally “The pill” was approved in May 9 1960 by the FDA.

Ho Chi Minh• Minh was born in May 19th 1890.

• He was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader.

• His goal was clear; he wanted to put an end to the French oppression in Vietnam and wanted Vietnam to gain independence.

• Ho Chi Minh led the Viet Minh Independence Movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954.

• Chi minh died in 1969.

Richard Nixon Back Again

• Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California.

• Richard M. Nixon was one of the two most successful national politicians in American History.

• He won four national elections twice for the vice presidency and twice for the presidency.

• Nixon joined the Navy at the outbreak of the WWI and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander by the end of the conflict.

• He was elected in 1946 and re-elected in 1948 without opposition in the general election.

Moonshot

• In May 1961, president John F. Kennedy challenged American scientists to land on the moon within one decade.

• Moonshot tells the amazing story of the Apollo 11 mission, launched on July 16th 1969, in which NASA astronauts achieved this extraordinary goal.

• This story told in Moonshot stretches from the crew’s earliest days at NASA.

• Moonshot would be useful for high school and middle school classes on science and technology, Social Studies, and Astronomy.

Woodstock• Was an event that reshaped Music and

Society.

• In 1969 Woodstock was an event to promote music and show the world how empowering togetherness in the presence in the light music can be.

• Wavey Gravy helped people get fed when they were hungry.

• He now runs a circus camp for children in Laytonville California.

• This event was to bring people in peace an joy through music and it worked.

• Those who did not attend the event would describe it as uneventful but these statements were false due to the fact they were not in attendance.

Watergate

• Supporters and staff of United States president Richard Nixon were accused of breaking into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate hotel.

• Nixon was forced to resign from office after being caught trying to cover it up.

• Several of his staff members were sent to prison as a result of the Watergate break in.

Punk Rock• Was developed between 1974-1976

in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

• Hits the music scene with such groups as the Sex Pistols, who would spit at the audience.

• Patti Smith suggest in the documentary “25 years of Punk” that the Hippies and the Punk Rockers were linked by a common anti-establishment mentality.

• Joe Strummer’s outlook of Punk Rock was “Punk Rock is meant to be our freedom. We’re meant to be able to do what we want to do”.

Begin

• Menachem Begin was the Prime Minister of Israel.

• One of his most important achievements was the signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979.

• Served as an Opposition Leader longer than anyone in the history of modern Democratic politics.

Reagan “The Gipper”• He was the 40th President of the United

States.

• He was the 33rd governor of California from 1969-1975.

• In the 1984 election, Reagan won in 49 out of 50 states.

• Reagan is sometimes credited for ending or speeding up the conclusion of the Cold War because he took a “hard line” against communism.

• The foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1981-1989. It was characterized by a strategy of “peace through strength”.

• Reagan was an American actor from 1937-1965.

Palestine

• Palestinians protested unfair treatment by the Israelis.

• Between 1949 and 1950, according to historian Benny Morris, Israel had displaced and expelled between 30,000 to 40,000 Palestinians and Bedouin.

• Immediately after the Arab and Israeli conflict, Israel started on a process of nation building with the first general election held on the 25th of January, 1949.

Terror On The Airline Ayatollah’s In Iran

• In 1970-1980 airline terrorizing and hijacking was a big concern for people all over the world. Flying became an even bigger risk, and government pressured airlines to put in more security. They did this in order to find out what hijacking and bombings crossed the borderline of “terror”, and what actions were needed to stop them.

• In 1972 a government panel formed a group to make plans to protect the country from terrorizing and hijackings. At the time the president was Richard M. Nixon who was quoted saying “It is equally important that we be well prepared to act quickly and effectively in the event that, despite all efforts at prevention, an act of terrorism occurs involving the United States, either at home or abroad”. So really the government foresaw the threats on the airlines before they happened. They asked airports to invest in better security, but they could not afford it at the time and it was not their top priority.

• In 1967, a group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP) formed. This group was formed after the Arab-Israeli War, and it is currently listed as a foreign terrorist group. This group is important because they are known for their terrorist hijackings in the 70’s. On July 22, 1968, El Al Israeli Airlines departed towards Israel when it was hijacked by the PFLP. They let most of the 32 passengers go, keeping the crew and 5 Israeli passengers. They kept them hostage for 40 days until they exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. This attack was the first of many.

• Many of these attacks led to various injuries and deaths.

• Ruhollah Khoneini, the Iranian religious leader, was a Shiite Muslim. He was exiled from Iran in 1963, but returned during a revolution and declared an Islamic republic. His rule was marked by the holding of U.S. hostages from 1979-1981 and by way of war with Iraq from 1980-1988.

Russians in Afghanistan• Afghanistan hit the world’s headlines in

1979.• In 1979, a group supported by Soviet

troops, installed Barbak Karmal as president. In 1989, the emigration of over 5 million Afghans and harassment by U.S. supported rebels caused the Russians to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.

• The invading Soviet forces supported the Marxist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), who fought against the mujahideen resistance. The resistance gained support from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other nations with high percentages of Muslims. Like the Vietnam War, there was no definite battlefield; rather, there was a lot of guerilla warfare.

• The Mujahdeen proved to be a formidable opponent. They were equipped with old rifles but had a knowledge of the mountains around Kabal and the weather conditions that would be encountered there. The Russians resorted to using napalm, poison gas and helicopter gun ships against the Mujahdeen – but they experienced exactly the same military scenario the Americans had done in Vietnam

• America put a ban on the export of grain to Russia, ended the SALT talks taking place then and boycotted the Olympic Games due to be held in Moscow in 1980. Other than that, America did nothing. Why? They knew Russia had got itself into their own Vietnam and it also provided American intelligence with an opportunity to acquire any new Russian military hardware that could be used in Afghanistan.