70's/80's/90's/00's

Nixon/Watergate and Nixon Domestic programs

• In 1973 Richard Nixon canceled the draft making the US army a volentary thing.
• Due to the polution in the US nixon made the Enviornmental Protection Agency.
• Richard Nixon put 100 million dollars to go to resarch for the cure of cancer.

Nixon and Henry Kissinger

• Because of Nixon Kissinger is known as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.
• Because of Nixon's Presidency Henry Kissinger became was known by the US.
• Nixon and Kissinger had to go through the forein policy about the Native americans.

Nixon, China, and the USSR

• Nixon met with the presedent of china to have peace with them during the korean war.
• Because of Nixon the US and China trade equaly without war.
• Nixon went over foregin policy's with the president of China to let him know we wanted peace.

Ford/Carter/Iran Hostage Crisis

Election of 1976

• The US reached the 1976 election tired from all the war and scandel.
• The Election was Jimmy Carter versus Gerold Ford.
• Jimmy Carter won the election of 1976.

Energy and Fuel Crisis

• This crisis scared the US because they did not know what to do if they ran out of energy and fuel.
• They seen the price of gas go up so they were worried they would not be able to fill up there cars.
• This crisis is ongoing and probably will not get any better.

Iran Hostage Crisis

• There was a group of iranian people who stormed the american embassy takeing 60 american hostages.
• They say it was because the president sent back a iranian citizen that had been expelled from his country.
• They say it took them half a century to plan out how they were gonna capture the american citizens and take them hostage.

Reagan/Iran-Contra Scandal

Reagan's Domestic Policies

• Ronald Reagan started out as an actor in as many as 50 movies before he became president.
• Reagan said he would get the US out of the great depression.
• He said everybody would have a job when he was done and no one would even remember that there was a depression.

Iran-Contra Scandal

• Reagan wanted to make Iran free and not a communist country.
• Under the Reagan Doctrine the CIA trained many people to help.
• While Iraq and Iran were at war Iran wanted to by wepons from the US.

Policy On Nuclear Weapons

• Ronald Reagan did not want anything to do with a neclear war he was agaisnt nuclear weapons.
• He did anything he could to not have to go into a nuclear war with any country.
• Reagan had a great stategy with how to keep from going into a nuclear war.

Fall of USSR and Communism

Solidarity Movement of Poland

• He was the force of the russian govenment and told them what to do.
• He was also part of the Polish trade union.
• The origin of Solidarity traces back to 1976

Fall of the Berlin Wall

• The reason for the wall was to keep western facist from undermining east germany
• The Berlin wall stood until November 9th, 1989
• That night people on the east side swarmed the wall.

Tragedy in Tienanmen Square

• People applauded the reveling of pro-democracy statues they put up.
• China had to vilently take back the square from the pro-democratic people.
• It was a massacure in tienanmen square.

1980's Lifestyle/Issues with crime, drugs and aids

New Technology and Media

• They made a personal computer for people to have at home.
• They also made a CD for you to put in your personal computer.
• Another new technology was the video cassette recorder.

Crack Epidemic

• Crack date back to 3000 years ago.
• In the 1980's people started using crack to calm There selves down but little did they know it was bad for them.
• More crack was used from 1984 to 1990 then any other drug in the world

AIDS Epidemic

• HIV and AID's started in the year 1981
• Many people were scared because at first no one new about AID's
• AID's Started in New York and California and started moving its way to the middle of the US.

Space Shuttle Program/Space Stations/90's Technology

Space Shuttle Program

• In the 1990's NASA had 6 launches into space that ended good.
• They made the space shuttle reuseable so they did not have to make a new one every time.
• NASA made the US the first Country to have a person land on the moon.

Challenger and Columbia Explosion

• Three astronauts perished in an apollo 1 fire.
• In the Columbia they didn't even get to take off when they tried to start the engine there was a short and a fire in the cockpit.
• Those were the only two failed attemps NASA has had since then.

International Space Station

• The Soviet Union sent up the ISS so that them and the US could us it when in need.
• It has enough supplies for someone to live in it up to two years.
• The ISS is the first science lab in space.

Persian Gulf War/Clinton Years/2000 Elcection

Clinton's Domestic policies

• Clinton promised to focuse on the United States economics.
• He said he would help people that are unemployed get a job.
• He also said he would help everybody with there health care needs.

Operation Desert Storm

• This was the first major crisis after the US went throught the cold war.
• Kawait was a major oil suply for the US so they need to win the war.
• The United States Fought along side of Saudia Arabia during operation desert storm.

2000 Election

• George W. Bush had to go up against Al Gore for the 2000 Election
• George W. Bush got a majority of the votes from all the states.
• Al Gore only got 17 of the 50 states to vote for him but it was not enough to win the election of 2000.