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Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter created a peace treaty between Isreal and Egypt in Washington, D.C with the Isreali Prime Minister and the President of Egypt and Carter as witness. -
Hostages in Iran
An angry mob of Islamic college students overtook the american embassy in Tehran taking 55 americans into hostage. They wouldn't let them go even though President Jimmy Carter tried hard to get them released, but they weren't until Ronald Reagan was inagurated. -
Assasination Attempt
President Ronald Reagan left the Hilton hotel from doing a speech and six shots were fired at him. Close to death he survived the 20 year curse. -
Star Wars
Ronald Reagan had increased his spending on his project which was a defense machinie that would be used to protect the US from the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union was aiming towards us. -
Iran-Contra Affair
Came to light when it was discovered that President Reagan sold arms to Iran. Reagan said that what he intended was not to get the hostages released but to improve thier realtions between the United States and Iran. -
AIDS Epidemic
Reagan publicly spoke about the epidemic in 1987 by the end of that year thousands of men and women were dying. He ignored the issues for 7 years and research for it was underfunded. -
Berlin Wall Falls
They had lifted the ban and allowed people from East Germany and Berlin to travel without visas. Later that day the poeple on their own will decided to tear it down. President Bush really didn't have to do much with it. -
Persian Gulf War
WIth the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, President Bush thought this as a threat to the whole world that had realtions with them about oil. He decided to -
N.A.F.T.A
Bill Clinton signe the North American Free Trade Agreement which got rid of every trade barrier between the US, Canada, and Mexico. -
Goverment Shutdown
President Clinton wanted to balance the budget. Congress and the Clinton disagreed on all the harsh cuts that Clinton wanted to make causing the goverment to go intoa shutdown. -
Personal Responsibility and Work Opputunity Act
This act ended welfare, providing new programs to help the U.S like TANF and JOBS. President Clinton provided many more oppurtunities for people. -
Impeachment
BIll Clinton was impeached for lying under oath when he was asked if he had an affair with a woman. He denied, but evidence showed he did. In the end, he wasn't impeached and served a second term. -
9/11
On 9/11 terrorist boarded a plane and took control and flew the plane in the World Trade Center in New York City which killed thousands of people. -
Homeland Security
President Bush announced publicly the establishment of Homeland Security that would focus on the security of the country caused to be enforced because of the 9/11 attacks. -
War in Afghanistan
After the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Bush announced waron terror meaning the start of war in afghanistan.The goal was to get rid of the Alqueda terrorists. -
Axis of Evil
President Bush had delivered a state of the union speech to congress where he explained severealy countries that he considered axis of evil, meaning the were a threat to the peace of th country. -
Affordable Care Act
Obama singned a new act which expands Medicaid Health care to new benefits, cutting costs, and improving care for patients. This new act is also known as ObamaCare. -
Osama Bin Laden KIlled
The leader of the terrorist group Al-Queda was killed in Pakistan by the U.S. He was the leader of the terrorist group that had an attack on 9/11.
