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John Glenn

1st American in space

Neil Armstrong

1st man on the moon

NASA

American space agency

Measles is a viral disease that causes high fever and rash. There are a few dozen to a few hundred cases each year in the U.S. there have been 318 cases this year in the U.S. The measles is not deadly there is 1 death in every 1,000 cases. To not get measles you need to get the MMR vaccination. The MMR vaccination is 90% effective.

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NLF (National Liberation Front)

Brought together communist and non communists in an umbrella organization to try to find common ground and bring together Vietnam

Berlin, Germany

City of turmoil in 1961

The My Lai Massacre was on March 16, 1968. 100 U.S soldiers were sent to destroy the village of My Lai, which was was suspected hiding Viet Cong fighters. The villagers were killed by riffles, machine guns and grenades, and the houses were set on fire. A total of 400 villagers were killed and Lt. Talley was charged with premeditated murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison but 2 days later Nixon released him and sentenced him to house arrest.

DISCUSSION: My Lai Massacre

Republican Richard Nixon was elected after Nixon. He had a secret plan for ending the war. His plan was Vietnamization, he wanted to take U.S troops off the ground in Vietnam and put them into the air and rely on Vietnam troops on the ground but the U.S still helping Vietnam.

DISSCUSSION: Who was elected after Nixon? What was his plan?

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

First human in space

Cesar Chavez (Mexican/Latino movement)

Founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW), driest to strike for equal rights and pay in the fields

3 minutes

How long did it take a missile to reach the U.S?

13 days, nobody would back down or launch a missile

How long did the missile crisis last? Why?

58,000

How many Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam war?

Over 600

How many assassination attempts did Castro survive?

Over 200 billion

How much did the U.S spend on the Vietnam war?

Domino theory

If south Vietnam falls to the communist, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Burma, and Pakistan would also fall like dominoes

Diem

Ruler of south vietnam

New state of Hawaii entered and sent several Asian Americans to congress

What as the Asian American movement?

Stop the spread of communism

What best describes our reason for entering the Vietnam war?

Put in mass public trials and executions

What did Castro do?

Naval quarantine, instead of a blockade since blockade is an act of war

What did JFK order?

U.S armies from South Korea ground

What did Nixon want to remove?

They build a 90 mile wall separating east and West Berlin

What did the soviets do to stop their people from fleeing?

He was impeached

What happened to Nixon?

North Vietnam was communist South Vietnam was capitalist

What part of Vietnam was communist? Capitalist?

61%

What percentage of the men killed were 21 or younger?

Democratic President

What type of president was JFK?

Paris Peace Agreement- U.S would not abandon south Vietnam if they signed agreement with North Vietnam it ended hostility between North Vietnam and the U.S.

What was the Paris Peace Agreement, what did it do?

58 16

What was the oldest killed? Youngest?

South Vietnam collapses to North Vietnam and communism takes over.

What was the result of the Vietnam war?

Exposing cigar, poisoned wetsuit, poisoned milkshake, exploding conch shell

What we're some examples of assassination attempts?

JFK LBJ Nixon

What's the order of the presidents?

1960

When did Cuba and and the Soviet Union sign a treaty?

1960

When did JFK become president?

November 22, 1963

When did JFK die?

2 years

When you sign up for peace corps how long do you volunteer for?

Wanted us in the air

Which statement best describes Richard Nixon's plan for Vietnamization?

The first to launch was Russia, the first to step foot on the moon was the U.S

Who was the first to launch people into space? Who was the first to step foot on the moon?

The soviets

Who were the first to give in?

To separate east Germany (communism) and west Germany (capitalism)

Why was the Berlin Wall built?


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