Am. Hist II- Part 4
American History Final Review- Part 4
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- Saturday Night Live
- Ground breaking variety show of 1975, introduced LIVE television satire/paraody/current events, launched many careers
- Ho Chi Minh
- President of North Vietnam 1946-1969, lead Vietnamese war until death, ultimately ended under Vietnamese unification in 1975
- Tet Offensive
- Vietnamese military campaign in 1968, largest unified attack in conflict's history, proved U.S. victory impossible
- Malcolm X
- "by any means necessary", assassinated, fought for racial equality during 1960s
- Marlon Brando
- Don Vito Corleone in Mario Puzzo's Godfather, box office sensation in 1972
- Mustang
- "babe magnet" of 1960s, introduced sporty/collectable/non-family car to American society
- Apollo 11
- Lunar Landing, U.S. wins space race, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
- Richard Nixon
- Watergate, first presidental resignation, Vietnam War
- Afghanistan
- Cold War continues in 1979-1980 with Soviet Invasion of this country
- Michael Jackson
- King of Pop, singer, dancer, fashion icon, rocked music charts for over a decade
- Saigon
- Captial of South Vietnam, capture of this city marks the conclusion of the civil war in 1975
- Winston Churchill
- Prime Minister of United Kingdom during WWII, one of the big three,
- CREEP
- Nixon Whitehouse fundraising organization, laundred money in what came to be know as Watergate Scandal
- Sally Ride
- First women to reach outer space in 1983
- Kent State Massacre
- Four killed, nine wounded by Ohio National Guard during protest of U.S. invasion of Cambodia
- Birth Control
- pill that changed the United States, gave women freedom of home planning
- Bay of Pigs
- Cold War tension over Cuba, JFK attempts to overthrow Castro, plan falls miserably
- Stagflation
- 1970s version of inflation, slow to no economic growth, high unemployment, over extended period of time
- Desert Warfare
- British, U.S. troops fought Rommel during WWII back and forth over same land in Africa
- Roe vs Wade
- Controversal court decision giving women the right to choose