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Kent State Shooting Aftermath Opposition to the United States involvement in Vietnam led to several domestic confrontations between antiwar demonstrators and government troops. National Guard troops stunned the nation when they shot into a crowd of protesters during a 1970 demonstration at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine. U.S. Involvement in Vietnam War Ends On January 27, 1973, a cease-fire agreement was signed by all the participants in the Vietnam War. United States president Richard Nixon announced the terms of the agreement in a televised address. Although the agreement provided for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, it did not resolve the conflict. Fighting continued until South Vietnam surrendered in 1975. Movies about the Vietnam War? Platoon (1986) Apocalypse … United States’ Relationship with China The 7th fleet The Shanghai Communiqué in 1972 The key problem that affected the progress in U.S.-China relations remained the Taiwan problem. Reform, Radicalism and Disappointment 1961-1973 Kennedy’s New Frontier program aimed to wipe out poverty and end segregation and voting rights abuses. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 Lyndon Johnson singed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Johnson’s War on Poverty campaign greatly reduced hunger and suffering in the U.S.. The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The liberal period was short-lived due to resistance from white supremacists and actual benefits to the blacks were slow in coming. Martin Luther King, Jr an the March on Washington I have a dream Contrary Martin Luther King’s non-violent Civil Rights movement, the Black Muslims led by Malcolm X advocated violence in self defense and attempted to separate themselves from white society. At the same time, some reform-minded whites, especially college students, began to challenge the very basis of the American Dreams.