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Wright Brother’s Airplane
Wright brothers , Wilbur ( Millville , Indiana , 16 as April as 1867 - Dayton , Ohio , 30 as maypole as 1912 ) and Orville ( Dayton , Ohio , 19 as August as 1871 - 30 as January as 1948 ) were two airmen, engineers , inventors and pioneers of aviation, generally named together, and recognized worldwide as those who invented, built and flew the world's first airplane successfully, even when there is some controversy about it. -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
Independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, ending the First Indochina War. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, was a war conflict between 1955 and 1975 to prevent the reunification of Vietnam under a communist government. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia -
Tet Offensive
The Tet offensive was a military operation planned by the government of North Vietnam and executed by the Army of North Vietnam and the Vietcong in 1968, all of them communist, against allied forces led by the United States , especially the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ERVN, Army of South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." -
Woodstock Music Festival
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival, or Woodstock Festival, was a hippie congregation with rock music performed from Friday 15 until the early hours of Monday, August 18, 1969 -
Draft Lottery
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On December 1, 1969 the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from January 1, 1944 to December 31, 1950. ... It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service since 1942. -
Manson Family Murders
The Manson family was a group or sect established in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was a United States manned space mission whose goal was to get a human being to walk on the surface of the Moon -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States between 1969 and 1974, the year he became the only president to resign from office. Previously, Nixon had been vice president of the United States during the presidency of Dwight D. -
Invasion of Cambodia
The Invasion of Cambodia was a series of military operations carried out in eastern Cambodia, in 1970, by the United States and South Vietnam, within the framework of the during the Vietnam War. These invasions were the result of the policy of US President Richard Nixon -
Kent State Shootings
The shootings at Kent State ( Kent State shootings ), also known as the Massacre of 4 May ( May 4 massacre ) or the Slaughter of the Kent State was an event happened at the University of Kent, Ohio , where he happened chaotic panorama between students and members of the National Guard , on Monday 4 of maypole of 1970 in which four students were killed and nine wounded (one of them suffered permanent paralysis ) at the hands of the National Guard, who shot the students. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of US political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. -
26th Amendment
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old -
War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon or Liberation of Saigon was the capture of the city of Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, by the National Liberation Front of Vietnam and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on April 30, 1975
