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The 1950’s-60’s70’s-80’s
Miranda Moultrie

Nixon Back Again

The United States presidential election of 1968 was the
46th quadrennial presidential election, held on
Tuesday, November
5, 1968.

Moon Shot

On July 21, 1969,
President Nixon spoke from the Oval
Office to Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin at the
Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the
Moon, Americans
Neil Armstrong and

Woodstock
A village in New
York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival. The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the
United States in the
1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the
Democratic National
Committee
headquarters at the
Watergate office complex in
Washington, D.C

Watergate

Punk Rock
Punk rock developed between
1969 and 1976 in the United States,
United Kingdom, and Australia.

Begin

Begin was Prime
Minister of Israel.
Begin’s most significant achievement as
Prime Minister was the signing of a peace treaty with
Egypt in 1979
(Egypt-Israel Peace
Treaty)

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