First American In Space (Alan Shepherd) 1961
First American orbits earth John Glenn 1962
- Alan Shepherd, and NASA.
- It was at may 5th, 1961.
- 15 Minuets that sub-orbital flight to the pacific ocean for 304 miles.
- 30 Second view of mercury. Through the window.
- Did not orbit earth Altitude 116.5 miles.
- Mercury capsule.
- First American to fly in space, human was the Soviet Union.
- Alan shepherd was going to be the first human in space but mercury capsule was difficult to build.
- Second person in the world to go to space.
- He called his capsule freedom 7.
First American orbits earth John Glenn 1962
- John Glenn, he orbit earth.
- Morning of February 20th.
- He saw a beautiful view of earth.
- He saw puffy thick clouds over earth.
- Also he saw dust storms in the atmosphere.
- He passed over the Indian Ocean, He saw the sunset in space he saw the most beautiful colors.
- His capsule was the friendship 7 spacecraft.
- He was orbiting earth for 5 hours.
- During reentry, NASA suspected that the capsule’s heat shield, protection against the deadly heat of friction caused by falling through the atmosphere, might not remain in place.
- Glenn had to troubleshoot, but his landing was safe. The spacecraft re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and was safely taken aboard the USS Noa.
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First women in space Valentia 1963
- Valentia Vladimirovna Tereshkova, first women in space.
- She was born in the Soviet Union on march 6th 1937.
- Mission was launched June 16, 1937.
- It orbit earth 48 times.
- The flight lasted 2.95 days (70.8 hours).
- The Vostok 5 spacecraft was recovered on June 19, 1963 in the Soviet Union.
- She landed about 380 miles northeast of Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
- Valentina Tereshkova was given the title "Hero of the Soviet Union," received the Order of Lenin, and was honored with the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.
- She never flew in space after this.
- On November 3, 1963, Tereshkova married another cosmonaut (Andrian Nikolayev, who also went into space).
U.S sends troops to Vietnam 1965
- U.S was involved United States entered the war to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia. American leaders feared that Communist forces would gain control of Vietnam.
- location Vietnam and U.S 1965.
- In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, per the authority given to him by Congress in the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
- Decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam.
- President Johnson has commuted a further 50,000 US troops to the conflict in Vietnam.
- Monthly draft calls will increase from 17,000 to 35,000 - the highest level since the Korean War, when between 50,000 and 80,000 men were called up each month.
- It will take the US force in Vietnam up to 125,000 but officials say at this stage demands should be met by conscription, without calling upon the reserves.
- By the end of the year 180,000 US troops had been sent to Vietnam.
- In 1966 the figure doubled. 80,000 Americans had been killed or wounded in the Vietnam War by summer 1967.
- Pressure to withdraw mounted, not least because money for domestic reforms was diverted to the military. There was Rioting in US cities and demonstrations on university campuses in the summer of 1967.
1969: Millions march in US Vietnam Moratorium
- Americans have taken part in peace initiatives across the United States to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam.
- The Peace Moratorium is believed to have been the largest demonstration in US history with an estimated two million people involved.
- In towns and cities throughout the US, students, working men and women, school children, the young and the old, took part in religious services, school seminars, street rallies and meetings.
- Supporters of the Vietnam Moratorium wore black armbands to signify their dissent and paid tribute to American personnel killed in the war since 1961.
- The focal point was the capital, Washington DC, where more than 40 different activities were planned and about 250,000 demonstrators gathered to make their voices heard.
- American combat troops had been fighting the Communist Viet Cong in Vietnam since 1965.
- Some 45,000 Americans had already been killed by the end of 1969. Almost half a million US men and women were deployed in the conflict, and opposition to the war was growing.
- The Moratorium for the first time brought out America's middle class and middle-aged voters, in large numbers. Other demonstrations followed in its wake.
- Nixon had already established a gradual programmer of withdrawal of US forces, but the war continued, supported by his "silent majority" of voters.
- After an established ceasefire in 1973, US deployment in Vietnam ended. Saigon eventually capitulated to the Communist forces on 30 April 1975.