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The Second Cold War
The Cold War was a global political struggle between capitalist and communist countries the greatest war powers after World War II the United States and the union of Soviet socialist republics (USSR). “Cold“ because it was never a “hot“ war, direct shootings between the US and soviet union never occurred. The collapse of the Berlin Wall (1989) -
Ronald Reagan Elected as President
Reagan secured the presidency through appealing to the growing conservatism of much of the country In the problem, Reagan focused less on eliminating government redirecting serve new ends. In line with that goal, his administration embraced supply-side economic theories that had among the New Right. -
Ronald Reagan Nearly Assassinated
While the postwar to recently gained popularity on March 30, 1981, Reagan survived an assassination attempt by a mentally unstable young man named John Hinckley. Public support swelled for the hospitalized president. -
Democratic Leadership Council Formed
In February 1985, a group of centrists fires the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) as a vehicle for distancing the party from organized labor and Keynesian economics while cultivating the business community. Jesse Jackson dismissed the DLC as “Democrats for the Leisure Class," but the organization included many of the party's future leaders, including Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. -
Black Involvement in Entertainment Industry
In 1982, pop singer Michael Jackson release a thriller, the best-selling album of all time. Oprah Winfrey begin her phenomenally successful nationally syndicated talk show in 1985. Comedian Bill Cosby's sitcom is about an African-American doctor and lawyer raising their four children through the highest ratings on television for most of the decade. Cosby’s fictional TV family represented a growing number of black middle-class professionals in the United States. -
Stock Market Crash -1987
The stock market crashed. On Black Friday the market plunged to 800 points erasing 13% of its value and investors lost more than $500 billion. -
The Berlin Wall comes Crashing Down
In June 1987, American president Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and demanded that Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev "Tear down this wall" Less than three years later, amid civil unrest in November 1989, East German authorities announced that their citizens were to and from West Berlin. The world. Within months, the Berlin Wall was reduced to rubble on October 3, 1990 -
World Trade Center, Pentagon & Pennsylvania Field Plane Crashes
Men trained by al-Qaeda carried out a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States that had been planned for years. The attackers simultaneously hijacked four large passenger aircraft with the intention of crashing them into major landmarks in the United States, inflicting as much death and destruction as possible.