70s
- In 1946 France starts fighting against a rebellion in Vietnam. The US supplies aid to the France. Vietnam wins independence.
- in 1956 North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam. The US starts sending advisers to South Vietnam.
- Golf of Tonkin incident resulting in Congress giving a blank check to LBJ to enter a war against the Viet Cong
- American public is told that the US is winning the war with 125,000 soldiers in Vietnam in 1965. The Viet Cong perform a major offensive on a large portion of cities on Tet taking them over. They would soon be driven out of the cities with over 3 times more losses but this had a huge blow on American Moral
- Anti-war protests pick up as more and more people disapprove of the war
- My Lai massacre where American soldiers kill innocent villagers
- Kent State Shooting where the National guard shoot on protesters
- Pentagon papers show how the US isn't winning the war pushing even further for the US to exit the war.
- Nixon is elected president with a focus on foreign policy. He drives a wedge between China and the USSR. He is the first president to travel to China and to meet Mao Ze Dong. However, he eventually resigns after the watergate scandal and before he can be impeached. He is eventually given a pardon by his successor.
- Women start going for more rights and eventually win the right to contraceptives and abortion but still have a ways to go with equal wages
- Ronald Reagan becomes president and gives the famous speech "Tear down that wall!" Soon the Berlin wall is torn down and countries start switching over to communism falling like dominoes. Eventually the USSR falls and becomes the Russian Federation.