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Iran Hostage Crisis - Jimmy Carter
The Iran Hostage Crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the U.S. Fifty two Americans were held hostage for 444 days. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan - Jimmy Carter
In 1979 Soviet troops landed in Afghanistan saying that they did not invade, but they were invited over by the Amin government. The Soviets killed Amin and replaced him with Babrak Kamal. Babrak need Russian military support to stay in power because many Afghan soldiers joined the Mujahdeen which was a guerrilla group fighting the Soviets. The U.S. knew that Soviet Union has gotten themeselves into their own Vietnam war. -
Lebanon - Ronald Reagan
In the summer of 1982 the U.S. was drawn into military involvement in Lebanon. Reagan sent 800 U.S. marines in August 1982 as part of a multinational peacekeeping force. A civil war broke out and the U.S. was in the middle of it. The U.S. troops were attacked a couple of times and Reagan had no choice, but to attack back. -
Iran - Contra Affair - Ronald Reagan
In U.S. history secret arrangement in the 1980's to provide fund to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra affair was the product of two separate initiatives during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. The first was a commitment to aid the contras who were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The second was in order to secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon. -
Space Shuttle Challenger - Ronald Reagan
The Space Challenger disaster occured was when Space shuttle challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of it seven crew members. -
Tear Down this Wall Gorbachev - Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan challenged the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy berlin wall. The Berlin wall was eventually torn down. -
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - George H.W. Bush
n March 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground, and more than 10 million gallons of oil spilled into Prince William Sound in Alaska. -
Panama - George H.W. Bush
George Bush was trying to remove Noriega the Panamanian dictator out of power. George Bush sent troops to Panama Noriega took refuge and hid underground. He was found in the beginning of January and he was brought back to Miami where he was convicted of drug charges and was sent to prison.
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Somalia - Bill Clinton
Weeks before Clinton took office George H.W. Bush had sent troops into Somalia, a country located in eastern Africa. What started out as a humanitarian mission to combat famine grew into a bloody military struggle, with the bodies of dead American soldiers dragged through the streets of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu in October 1993. -
Genocide In Rwanda - Bill Clinton
The Rwanda genocide was a genocidal slaughter of the Tutsi and their defenders by the Hutus that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days over 500,000 people were killed. Estimates of the death toll have ranged from 500,000 - 1,000,000 or as much of 20 percent of the population. -
Oklahoma City Bombing - Bill Clinton
he Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It would remain the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11 attacks six years later. The bombing claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680 people. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars. -
Suicide Attack on the USS Cole in Yemen - Bill Clinto
Seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured. This event was the deadliest attack against a United States Naval vessel since 1987.The terrorist organization al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. A U.S. judge has held Sudan liable for the attack, while another has released over $13 million in Sudanese frozen assets to the relatives of those killed. The American Navy has reconsidered their rules of engagement in response to this attack. -
911 Terrorist Attack - George W. Bush
On September 11th, 2011, there was a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks on launched by the islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the U.S. in New York City and the Washington D.C area. Two planes were crashed into the World Trade Center. One was crashed into the Pentagon and one that was going to the white house was crashed into an opened field because the passengers got hold of the plane. -
War in Afghanistan - George W. Bush
After the incident of 911 the U.S. troops to invade Afghanistan to get rid of the al-Qaeda Also to capture some of the leaders that ordered the attack. This has been the longest war in U.S. even longer than the Vietnam War. -
Hurricane Katrina - George W. Bush
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81B. -
North Korea -George W. Bush
North Korea was threatening the U.S. by trying to build a nuclear weapon and use it on the U.S. On May 7,2007 North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear. On September 2, 2007, North Korea agreed to disclose and dismantle all of its nuclear programs by the end of 2007. By May 2009, North Korea had restarted its nuclear program and threatened to attack South Korea. -
Troops In Iraq - Barack Obama
The U.S. still had troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama wanted to remove all the troops out of Iraq. Eventually Obama did get the troops out of Iraw bringing and end to the war in Iraq. -
Osama Bin Laden - Barack Obama
Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was finnally found and killed by group of Navy Seals. The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was launched from Afghanistan. After the raid, U.S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried it at sea within 24 hours of his death. Al-Qaeda confimed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.
