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Jimmy Carter - Camp David Accords
After 13 days of trying, president Carter got Anwar El Sadat (Egyptian president) and Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister) to sign a peace treaty. -
Jimmy Carter - Iran Hostage Crisis
After a group of Islamist students took over the American Embassy they held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. -
Ronald Reagan - Assassination Attempt
Just 69 day into his presidency, the assassination attempt happened. He was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel when Reagan was injured near his lungs by John Hinckley, Jr. -
Ronald Reagan - AIDs
After Reagan stood by and did nothing to help fight against the AIDs epidemic, someone he knew had died from it. This changed his mind and it became one on his "top priorities." -
Ronald Reagan - Iran Contra Affair
During Reagan's administration, people in office started selling weapons to Iran secretly, because they believed that doing so would free the American hostages. -
Ronald Reagan - End Of The Cold War
By the end of Reagans presidency, the Cold War ended because of US-Soviet egotiations. -
George H.W. Bush - Berlin Wall Falls
East Germany opened its borders and Germans tore down the Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin. -
George H.W. Bush - Gulf War
Iraq invades Kuwait for its resources, violating international law. -
Bill Clinton - NAFTA
After Bush signed the NAFTA agreement President Clinton did not alter it, he completed it. NAFTA provided for gradually reduced tariffs and the creation of a free-trading bloc of North American countries. -
Bill Clinton - Balance Federal Budget
Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act which raised taxes on the rich, and cut taxes of low-income families. -
Bill Clinton - Lewinsky Affair
Clinton was accused of having a sexual affair with one of his intern Monica Lewinsky. They took him to court and he lied under oath about having an affair with her. -
Bill Clinton - Impeachment
When President Clinton was found guilty of lying under oath aboout having an affair with Monica Lewinsky, the house of representatives tried to impeach him for lying. It failed because the senate did not agree that he should be impeached for covering up his sex life. -
George W. Bush - September 11
While President Bush was reading to students at a school he was informed that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers. Osama Bin Laden was responsilbe for the attack. -
George W. Bush - War In Afganistan
Because of what happened on 9/11 the US felt they had to get justice and Bush declared war on Afghanistan. -
George W. Bush - Axis of Evil
Bush was informed that Saddam had amassed huge caches of biological and chemical weapons and believed that the weapons could be a source of arms for terrorists. He called Iraq and other nations "Axis of Evil" -
George W. Bush - War in Iraq
Bush went to war with Iraq because he believed they had harmful weapons and he wanted to get rid of them. -
Barack Obama - Obamacare
President Obama wanted a way to make health care easier to have, so he came up with Obamacare. In this plan, he wanted people who already had it to have security and stability. He wanted to give health care to the people who didn't have it. He also wanted to make sure that costs of health care did not go up. -
Barack Obama - Osama Bin Laden Death
Obama ordered a team of Navy Seals to kill the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden.
