1970's
The 70's was a time period where the Vietnam war started up. The Vietnam war was the first war that the US lost. They started out by sending South Korea supplies that would help them defeat North Vietnam. But he US got involved once they said North Vietnam attacked one of their ships. LBJ used that incident to request more troops and supplies. He also asked for a blank check allow him to expand the war as he saw fit. So Congress authorized the authority to to use all necessary measures to repel any armed attack. They used many bombs on this war, the most bombs that the US had dropped on anyone. A lot of it was wasted material because they didn't bomb to kill, they only bombed to warn. Later the Viet Cong launched a surprise attack that killed a bunch of the US troops and it was the major turning point of the war. Then came the My Lai Massacre, which was when troops were ordered to destroy the village of My Lai because they thought Viet Cong would be there. But here were no Viet Cong troops, but William Calley decided to massacre the village anyways, In this time period Nixon got elected into the office and then almost got impeached.