USA Since 1945 JFK Nixon

o Racial integration. o Promised end to Vietnam War.

o Tax reform. o Ordered troops into neutral.
o Medical benefits for the aged. Cambodia .
o Invasion of Cuba 1962 at o Landing of two men on the moon.
Roosvelt and the End of the War.
Cochinos Bay. o Antiballistic missiles system.
o Yalta Postam
o Orbital flight around the Earth. o Very conservative at home ( freeze
o Teheran Casablanca
o Cuban missiles crises. prices, wages and rents).
o El Cairo Moscow
conferences. o Agreements with China and USSR.
o Withdrawal from Vietnam War.
o Watergate affair.
Lyndon B. Jonson
Truman. o Civil Rights Act ( 1965 ).
o Taft-Harley Labour Act (1947). o Voting Rights Act ( 1965).
o Previous economic control abandoned Gerald R. Ford.
o “war on poverty” “Great
o Cold War. o Continuation of Nixon´s policy
Society”
o Marshall Plan. abroad.
o Economic Opportunity Act
o Korean War. o Arab embargo due to US support
(1964).
o NATO of Israel in Yom Kippur War.
o Vietman War.
o Rosenberg Case. o Pardoned Nixon´s previous
o Social and civil uprising.
o Smith Act ( 1940). crimes.
o Martin L. King and Robert o Economic recession
o McCarthy. Kennedy are shot dead.

Eisenhower James E. “Jimmy” Carter.

o Great industrial boom.
o Strenghtening oligarchies abroad.
o 1st hydrogen bomb.
o Missile research.
o Alaska 49th and Hawaii 50th States.
o Failed USSR negotiations.
o Honesty and morality campaign.
o Creation of Department of Energy (1977).
o Texas, Luisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska economies boomed ( oil resources ).
o Camp David Egypt-Israel. Anwar al-Sadat & Menachem Begin.
o SALT II.
o Iran Embassy hostage crisis.
Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton.
o Oldest man to become President. o Economic relief.
o Cut spending on social programs. o Peace troops in Somalia and Haiti.
o Anti trade unions and labour rights. o Oklahoma city federal building explosion. 169 killed.
o Oil Price bagan to drop. o Lewinsky scandal
o Deregulation of public companies. o Troops in Kosovo as peace keepers.
o Economic Recovery. o Nasdaq internet and technology stock bubble.
o 1987 deregulations lead to financial scandals.
o Cold War rethorics.
o Star Wars 1981.
o Aids to anti-communist Nicaraguan Sandinists.
o Space shuttle Challenger crash 1986.
o Lybian air raids. Gadafi government.
o Mikhail Gorvachev launches Glasnost. George W. Bush.
o Florida vote recounting.
o Economy recession.
o Abandonement of Kyoto Protocol and anti ballistic
missile treaties.
o World Trade Centre aircraft crash.
George Bush o Osama bin Laden.
o Invasión of Panama supporting Manuel
o Afghanistan occupation.
Noriega.
o 2nd Iraq War. ( massive destruction weapons theme ).
o Personal Gulf War.
o Sunni forces uprising un Falluja.
o Operation Desert Shield (1990).
o Shiite upheaval in An Najaf.
o Operation Desert Storm.
o 2nd Shuttle crush 2003.
o Crisis on manufacturing industry crisis.

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