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G.I. Bill
This was a bill that offered benefits to WW2 veterans. They could get low intresr rates on housws, college tutition would be paid, and it's still artound today.Officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. You will receive a monthly housing allowance and up to $1000 a year for books and supplies. The housing allowance is paid at a percentage based on your active duty service, and your credit load. -
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Little Boy
Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. In this gun-type device, the critical mass is achieved when a uranium projectile which is sub-critical is fired through a gun barrel at a uranium target which is also sub-critical. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. This was very different from the Marshall Doctirne that focused on feeding the people in west europe -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.This was vey different from the Truman Doctrine becasue it only focused on suplment not actually the helping of the west europe people to fight off -
Berin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The U.S. was basically trying to give West Berlin food/ supplies to be able to survive becasue the were locked off from resources and didn't have anything. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.in 1950 he publicly charged that 205 communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. He had sad that he had a red bbok that had names of all of the communitsic spies. When asked to show this book he didn't want to and people then reliazed that he lying so people lives were being ruined because he lied. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley makes Rock n' Roll a phenomenon. Presley was born extremely poor and he grew up with black peole, so he adopted the rythmn and blues. Elvis basiccally did a combination of Gospel and blues and that's why he became so popular.He created his own mon the 'Elvis the Pelvis'. This was basically his own move.He also took songs from black people like ' his' song Hound Dog, which was taken from Big Momma Thorton. -
The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s called “beatniks,” expressed their alienation from conventional, or “square,” society by adopting an almost uniform style of seedy dress, manners, and “hip” vocabulary borrowed from jazz musicians. they advocated personal release, purificaation, and etc. -
Ceasar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.Mexican-American Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) was a prominent union leader and labor organizer. Hardened by his early experience as a migrant worker, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. -
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The 1950s
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Doctor Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.The vaccine he created was the first safe and effective vaccine for polio.n 1947, Salk took a position at University of Pittsburgh, where he began conducting research on polio, also known as infantile paralysis.The vaccine used polio viruses that had been grown in a laboratory and then destroyed. -
Hydrogen Bomb
an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), using an atom bomb as a trigger. fision is the nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller partsand fusion is the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This case made white people in the south really mad.This is something that had a part in sparking the civil rights movement. Little Rock nine is also something that happened becasue of this case. -
The Fair Deal
Truman basically added to the New Deal when he made the Fair Deal. The Fair Deal focused on Healthcare, Public Housing, Education, and Public Works. Minimium Wage, Electricity, and Telephones were also with the Fair Deal. the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953. -
Earl Warren Supreme Court
Earl Warren was an American jurist and politician who served as the 30th Governor of California and later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.Warren led the Court through many landmark cases dealing with race, justice, and representation. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, Warren headed the investigating commission.Warren led the Court in a series of liberal decisions that transformed the role of the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Nikita Kurshev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. He is important becuse he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida -
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Civil Rights
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Bill Haley and The Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band was also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets. A popular song by them was 'Rock around the Clock.' They also contributed to Rock& Roll becoming popular. This group contained multiple mebers who all played a part if the were there for a shortime period or a long time period. -
Emment Till
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. He went to mississpi to spend some time with his uncle and cousins. Before he left home his mother taugh him the rules of the south but that still wouldn't have been able to save him.The 2 white men that tortured and beat Till denied it and was found innocent of the crime, but 4 months later they admitted to it. -
Montgomery bus boycott
the Mongomery bus boycott was a form of social protest by black people. It all started with Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is the lady that wouldn't give up her seat for a white man, so she was arrested for it. This sparked outrage with the black people who ride the bus. Parks was in the Black part of the bus, so it made people mad. Black people were tired of of the segregation on the buses when they were the reasons why the bus company had business so the companies lost money and desegerated the buses. -
Spuntnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.Sputnik maad America fearful because it meant that the Soviet Union was now in the lead of th psace race, but it also mad us made because America was under the impresson that The Soviet Union wasn't buildcing anything -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools. This resulted in Cooper v.Aaron, and was caused by Brown Vs. Board. This left a huge impact on the Civil rights movement, becasue it allowed for american to se what was happening. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was by President Eisenhower and was his way of legally protecting african americans right to vote across the country.a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. This also included the Southeren Bloc and group if Senators who were trying to black the legislationn and oppsosed Civil Rights. -
Ike Turner
Ike Turner mad the frist Rock n' Roll song, 'Rocket 8'.Ike was a black person so no one would listen to his music, and Bill Haley then stole his song. It was a rip off. Turner had a good song, but no one would listen to it unless it was a man that sang it. Turnr was married to the famoous Tina Turner who he would beat and suppress. -
Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.He won the election because of Television. When having debates with Nixon because he looked better on Tv. He made sure to always look nice for the camera. -
The New Frontier
The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. -
Hippies
(especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs.They are also A hippie is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. -
Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so. When Nixon ran for office in the electionof 1960 he lost to Kennedy. Nixon lost because he looked horrible n Tv. When the debates would be shown on TV Nixon looked horrible when in comparison to Kennenndy, adnso the Tv had a big factor to play with him not winning the elction -
LSD
a synthetic crystalline compound, lysergic acid diethylamide, that is a potent hallucinogenic drug.Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings. It can last for 8 to 10 hrs. It's a cobination of carbon. nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen -
Sit- ins
Sit ins happened in the late 1950s and was were non violence goes from schools to other public places. They would do the sitins in eateries, which would allow for that place to lose customers and the media would come so it would allow for white peopl across the world to see what was happening and how black people were being treated. They were arrested and beat up, and this encouraged young people to join n. -
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The 1960s
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The Peace Crops
This was a U.S. government agency of volunteers, established by executive order by Pres. JFK on March 1, 1961, and authorized by the U.S. Congress through the Peace Corps Act of September 22, 1961. (From 1971 to 1981 it was a subagency of an independent agency called ACTION.) The first director of the Peace Corps was Kennedy’s brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver.The purpose of the Peace Corps is to assist other countries in their development efforts by providing skilled workers in the fields. -
Albret Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.r. Sabin not only dedicated his entire professional career to the elimination of human suffering though his groundbreaking medical advances, he also waged a tireless campaign against poverty and ignorance throughout his lifetime. -
NASA
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958[10] with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958. -
Birgmingham Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. This was weere 4 little girls were kiled. the bombing happened in a very famous black church and the little girls was going to sunday school trying to grab robes for the choir and they were then murded by teh bomb -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. JFK was with his wife, Jackie, and the goveerner of Texas at that time. Kennedy was shot ad the bullet that shot him wen through the shoulder of the govereber of Texas. Jackie was ckose to getting shot but she didn't she came oout if the ordeal safe and healthy. -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was an American Marxist and ex-Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. There is alot of speculation that Oswald didnt really kill JFK abd that's because of a number of reasons -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1964. He is so important even though he lost the eletion of 1964. He is credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He was a vocal opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, believing it was an overreach of federal government. -
Daisy Girl Ad
was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign. This add showed a little girl picking Daisys when a atomin bomb goes off this is meant to allow for the american peole to think that they dont want for that to happen -
Freedom Suummer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Was crated by Robert Moses. He proposed the idea of Freedom Summer to SNCC and COFO leaders in the fall of 1963 and was chosen to direct it early in 1964. 3 peple went mising and were found dead. -
The Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. In response to these reported incidents, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina -
The Great Society
The Great Society was a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs. It was spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment. -
The Rodeney King Indcident
Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.Their reasoning was that he was drunk driving. This allowed for the people(white) to see how bad things were in the south or just in general. -
The Tet Offensive
A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.he Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. The offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, but the size of the communist attacks had caught the American and South Vietnamese allies completely by surprise. -
MLK Assaination
On Thursday, April 4, 1968, King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The motel was owned by businessman Walter Bailey and named after his wife.an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST.He was a very important figure in american life and had values that were helpful for the Civil Rights movement -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969.The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy : perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. -
The New Right
This was a group of conserveasties from all catergories.these conserveaties come from businees, religion, farmer, demorcrat or ets, backgrounds. They will want a smaller goverment. Less is more in their eyes.They also wanted industrial jobs back, which will not happen. The people have wanted that for 40 year ansd they are still not gonna get that.This is also where you will see the south to start voting republican. Map will chaneg from blue to red. -
Phyllis Schlafly
Reperesented the women in the US who wanted to stay homea dn take care of the family. She gave those women a vioce. She was aginst the women's movement and especially the Equal Rights Amendment. -
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The 1970s
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The Nixon Tapes
It's basically when Nixon admitted to being apart of a crime or incident that he said he wasn't apart of. This tapes exist because Nixon records all of his conversation, so by law he had to had over the tapes.The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff, produced between 1971 and 1973. -
Title 9
Was part of the 1972 Education Act. If men have it then women should have it to.was signed by President Nixon in June of 1972 to become a law. The main purpose of Title IX is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that is federally funded. -
Roe Vs. Wade
This was a case based off of abortion. A lady wanted to have an abortion but it was illegal for her to have one, and she didnt' believe Texas/gov't had the right to control what she does with her body. Since it takes years adoption.for a case to happen in the supreme court th lady had her baby but gave it away for adoption. This was a very important case because it sparked the debate of pro-choice or pro-life -
Endangered species act
meant to protect animals that will go extinct. Requires Fish and Wildlife service to list endangered species(plants and animalsz0. It was steps to protect after identification.It's basically to stop the killing of those animals and the the bad envoriment. it's to give them a better life so that species can continue on. Has presented alot of species from going extinct -
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. It's a A research and educational institution whose mission is to build and promote conservative public policies. It was a non profit lobbying group. It included free enteroise, linted goverment, indvivual freedom, and family values -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He previously was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, after two terms in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. When he served as served as the nation's chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. Carter's perceived mishandling of these issues led to defeat in his bid for reelection -
Camp Accords
he Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. -
The Moral Majority
The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. They played played a significant role in the 1980 elections through its strong support of conservative candidates. This term used to label conservative Christian political factions that are characterized by their support of socially conservative policies. -
3 mile island
Will make amerucans not want nucleur power. Oartial ncleur meltdown un 1979(eastern Pennyslyvaniia). Nucleur radiation leaked out into nearby town. Americans weary of nucleur power. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving “peace through strength” abroad. -
Sandra Day O'Connor
She was the first Supreme Court Justice. Regean nominated her and is right leaning, but she changes her views to liberal ideas. She sided with conserveratives oof the court. She retires in 2006 due to her husbands declining health(Alzheimer's). -
SDI
Stragetic defense inititave 'star wars' was developed by regean and given to the soviets to make them go bankrapt. The missile shield defense against soviet missles. There were statelites with laser. They intended to give the soviets the same technology and hoped they would go bankrupt, so the pepl were starving.Therefore the soviets start to resent communism and they spent alot of money on developing it then there people. -
Discount Retailing
Discount Reatailing bagan in the 1960s in places like K-mart, Home Depot, and Best buy. Sam Walton(walmart) created a chain of stores that had a varity of products at low prices. just in time Inventory where products arrive at precise time needed, Computers track Inventory and no large in house stock -
Entertainment
Cable Tv is created. There were tv shows like CNN, ESPN, and BET. Robert Johnson was the 1st billionare and he founded BET. Rap music is now popular. A genre that was created by black and we now have VHS, video games and video arcades -
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The 1980s
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Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine supported rebels fighting communism and Regean didn't want to contain it he wanted to get rid of it.The effort to support the contras was one component of the Reagan Doctrine, which called for providing military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments. -
Space Shuttle
the 1st space shuttle(colombia) was launched in april 1981. Sally ride was the 1st american women to be in space.The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of the Space Shuttle program. -
Iran Contra
Thye were the Sandinistas(pro communist) they took over the us govermen in iran.They overthrow the pro americana dictator in Nicaragua.Regean will secretly arms contras( agianst the contra).and congress found out.the Regean Administration will continue to illegaly supportieng contras so they will start selling weapons to iran to fund the contras because we cant put it in the budget and it diesnt leave a paper trial,they will exchange for the release if amerucan hostages. oliver nrth takes blame. -
George H.W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. His Vice President was Dan Quayle. In the Election of 1993 He re rean for office but was defeated by Bill Clinton. His wife was Barbara Bush and she recently died, and his son, George W. Bush would become one of the United States presidents. -
The Persian Gulf war
The 1st Iraq war. The USA is not friends with Iran and ends up in a stalement. The US and Arab lnd Iraq billion s of dollars. Saddam Hussein ws the Iraqi eaderand he blames Kuwait for dept, so to get rid of the debt he wll invade Kuwait. He claims Kuwait was once part if Iran, but you don't mess with countries that gives the US Country. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her partner is Stedman Graham and Winfrey is worth 2.8 billion dollars.She's Democrtice, her alma mater is Tennesse state university, and sh'e been in the entertainment industry since 1971. She is so famous because she was the 1st black lady to do a numerous amount of things. Richest Black women on earth. -
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The 1990s
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Election of 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992.It was between Bill Clinton and George Bush.Bill Clinton won this election. The 3rd party helped clinton win the election. -
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreeement encompasses Mexico, the U.S., adn Canada. This agreement will knock down Trade barriers and there were rules put in place for several industries. Inluding Ag and Technology. Amerucans will lise many jobs from NAFTA.This will also stop Mexican Knocked off products. -
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. His Vice President was Al Gore and Clinton was married to Hiliary Clinton who would run run the elcetion of 2017 and lose to president Donald Trump.Clinton was impeached on two charges one for prejury and the obstruction of justice. -
NATO
The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. world's largest free trade zones and laying the foundations for strong economic growth and rising prosperity for Canada, the United States, and Mexico.the main objectives is the liberalization of trade between Canada, Mexico and the United States -
DADT
Don't ask, don't tell" the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994, when Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 issued on December 21, 1993, took effect, lasting until September 20, 2011.As the nation's attitudes about homosexuality shifted, a movement grew to repeal “don't ask, don't tell.” In 2010, Clinton said he regretted the policy. -
Lewisnky Afair
The Clinton–Lewinsky scandal was an American political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The affair lasted for about 2 years, and the affair was made known when Monica Lewinsky cowork, Ms.Tripp recoreded a conversation between the 2 where Monica told Tripp about her Affair with the president and soon an agent of Tripp found out and released the info. -
Welfare Reform
Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system, with the goals of reducing the number of individuals dependent on government assistance, keeping the welfare systems affordable, and assisting recipients become self-sufficient.a comprehensive bipartisan welfare reform plan that will dramatically change the nation's welfare system into one that requires work in exchange for time-limited assistance -
DOMA
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a law that, among other things, prohibited married same-sex couples from collecting federal benefits. It was overruled on June 26, 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.The Supreme Court struck down a portion of DOMA last year that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.But because the rest of the law is still in effect, states are not required to recognize legal marriages performed in other states. -
election of 2000
The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush (1989–1993), and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President. George Bush won the elction. By having an elctoral vote of 271 and the poplar vote by 50,456,002. Bush's home state is Houston.Tthe vote was so close as to mandate a recount. The outcome of the election was decided by the US Supreme Court in Bush vs. Gore -
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Mary Gore andwrote alot of books like 'An inconvinet truth...' During the elction of 2000 he went up aginst Bush jr. and lost. He is a democrat -
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader was apart of the Indpendent/Green Party. He was a former consumer rights advocate. Ralph was a envorimentalist as well and was one of the closest lections ever.an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism and government reform causes. -
Bush v. Gore
Gore takes it to SCOTUS and they decide 5 to 5 that Bush won. This happened because judges couldn't be told how to count votes, and gore wins popular vote by half a million. Bush won the electoral college -
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Contemporary
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No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2001 and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Jan. 8, 2002, is the name for the most recent update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. -
Patriot Act
USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. Willexpand the gov't powers to spy on you. Security concerns lead to new federal legislation and they listen in to everything. The law enforcement and intelligence agancies will conduct a wide-sweeping searches abd survillance. Theu detained immigrants, monitored bank accounts, and wiretapped suspected callers without warrants Executive ovvereavh of power. -
9/11
September 11, 2001 was when 19 Al- Qaeda boardered planes and they had box cutters on them. Bpx cutters can kill people. 4 planes will turn courses. 2 will hit World Trade Center buildings, 1 will hit the pentagon. They were looking for the white house, but couldn't find it becasue it was hard to find.The people on the 4th plane paseengers will learn aboout the attacks and will try to subdue terrorits and the terrorists will nsedive the plane in a field.3000 people will die. -
Hurricane Katrina Incident
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.Katrina was also one of the costliest natural disasters and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. Katrina casued 125 billion dollars of damage, and affedcted areas like New Orleans, Mississpi, Alabama, and etc. -
the grest recession
The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country.Alot of people were desperate for ju=obs because they lost it all, especially if u wwere fresh out of college.The economy went bust in the middle of the campaign(Fall 2008) happend because teachers were buying mansions with the salary of a teacher people couldn't afford it so they left the houses -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017.Obama went to Havard University, and his wife is Michelle Obama. Obama is from Chicago and was from Honolulu. Obama was the 1st African American president. Obama wins 53 percent of the elction.
