Environmental lobbying and demonstrations after the Three Mile Island nuclear power station accident in 1979 ended the 20-year-long growth of civilian nuclear power in the USA. By 1980, environmentalism was an established part of national life. […]
The concern for environmentalism reached new heights in the seventies. The sudden oil crisis in 1973 laid the foundations for the trans-Alaska pipeline. It was a technical feat for the Americans, however, the celebrations were short-lived. […]
The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Everyone in America realized that mankind can’t afford to poison the Earth, because there’s nowhere else we can possibly go. […]
The decade of the sixties saw many Americans rise up and take notice of the problems plaguing the environment. It was the beginning of a new popular movement which benefitted the mankind. […]
The Watergate scandal ruined Nixon and forced him to resign. The combination of the Vietnam War and then the Watergate scandal created a sour mood of suspicion and betrayal inside the United States. […]
The Watergate scandal ruined Nixon. While he had to appear to be prosecuting Watergate as vigorously as possible, he simultaneously had to be involved in covering it up. […]
Nixon opened diplomatic negotiations with China. His visit there began the re-incorporation of China into the American diplomatic world. Shortly after visiting China, he went to Moscow, where both sides agreed to limit their missile build-up. […]
Though Nixon’s early career had marked him as an able and talented politician, he lost two elections, both a national and a local one. However, in 1968, he made a comeback and won the presidential election. […]
The very rapid changes in society between the early 1960s and 1980 led to a sharp anti-feminist backlash. The campaign called ‘StopERA’ was launched to oppose ERA, Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. […]
General Westmoreland, the American commander in Vietnam had claimed that the end of the War was near. The Tet offensive proved him wrong. […]
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