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1995-2015
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Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City Bombing was a domestic terrorist attack carried out by Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice Terry Nichols. Fed up with the amount of government intervention and attacks in Waco, TX, and Ruby Ridge. Because of this government militarism, McVeigh sought to take action by blowing up their Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. He parked a van carrying homemade explosives and parked it out the daycare center in the building. The explosion killed 168 people and injured 684 more. -
Attacks on September 11th
On 9/11, three planes were hijacked and crashed into American buildings. Two planes famously hit the twin towers in NYC, and the third into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. These were hijacked by members of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia. The attacks changed America forever, adding new strict travel regulations at airports. More famously, it united the nation around a single cause and saw a boom in community within the nation across both parties. -
The Great Recession
In 2008, the stock market took a huge hit. A huge housing bubble had formed in the years leading up to the recession. Once it popped, the housing market and, in turn, the economy tanked. As people could not pay their mortgages and the banks started to go under. President Bush handled the crisis by providing 700 billion dollars in federal aid to banks, companies, and families in need