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Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis was an international crisis that lasted over three years and ha seized sixty six american citizens at the United States embassy and held fifty two of them hostage for more than a year. The results to this event had happened over the later affects and aftermath of Iran Islamic Revolution that lasted a year and it had overthrown the Pahlavi monarchy and had had a very huge and dramatic effect on domestic policies in the United States and poisoned the U.s an Iranian relation -
The Smith Act
Formally known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940, the act was a legislation that made encouraging, advocating, or participating in the organizing of a violent overthrow of the government by any organization or society a criminal offense and also required that non-citizen adult residents in the U.S. register with the government. The act prosecuted 215 alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists until a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1957 declared them unconstitutional. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
The G.I. Bill Of Rights, also known at Servicemen's Readjustment Act was passed in 1944 and it provided help and benefits to the veterans serving time during World War II. The Bull of Rights had provided them with grants for school and college tuition , low-interest mortgage and very small business loans, job training, hiring privileges and unemployment payments. Over 9 million veterans were receiving over 4 billion dollars under the bills unemployment program. This benefited them after the war -
Little Boy Bomb
The little boy bomb was one out of two bombs used in the nuclear man made attack that happened in the Japanese city of Harishoma and it had been the first nuclear weapon used in war. This was an attack that took place during World War II and the bomb was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history after the Trinity Test. It was reported to explode with n energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT. The bomb does not sound big but it actually created significant destruction to the city. -
The 2nd Red Scare
The second ed scare is well known to be a period from 1950-1956 in America,it was characterized by heightened political repression against communist, as well a campaign spreading fear of their influence on American institution and of espionage by Soviet agents.Because of the Red Scare, communism had grown very quickly in a short amount of time. It had also raised fear because of the growing communist countries during the World War II but most importantly the Soviet Union.The U.S then feared them -
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Cold War
America and its allies attempt to keep communism from spreading into Europe, Asia and Africa. A geopolitical, ideological and economic struggle between superpowers. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was well known as the European Recovery Program that has channeled over 13 billion dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe during the hard years the country faced. This plan had been successful and had created economic recovery.. The plan had gained its name from the secretary of state, George C. Marshall. The main goal was for Europeans to have financial success and had also created a mixture of public organization of the private economy that was used in the U.S. -
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal had been the name of Truman's plan on January 5th 1949. The plan by Truman had recommended that all Americans were allowed to have health insurance and people of low income hat made the minimum wage. He believed that the minimum wage were was to be increased. Americans were guaranteed to give people human rights. But Truman's plans were not popular when the topic came to be said with congress and they had rejected and disagreed with his plans for the health insurance and the pay. -
Rock 'n' Roll
During the 1950's Rock and Roll became very popular type of music that originated in the United states. Rock had originated from other sounds and types of music. Rock and Roll had also included and influenced movies, television, lifestyle, fashion, attitudes and language. It had began to make a huge controversy and many parents of young kids were scared for the type of music to influence their young children. It also stood for "sex". It was highly debated by historians of music to spread news. -
TV Shows
The TV Shows during 1950's were considered at the golden age of television as "watching TV". Televisions had became a new form of entertainment along with radios and sport. The televisions were very well known because of the shows that were going on at the time and TV programming expanded. at the end of the decade most american families had their own televisions. Sitcoms and comedies were among the best show like I Love Lucy. -
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1950s
Shortly after the end of WWII, the end of the 1950s saw the United States rise as the world’s strongest military power. A Superpower in Its booming economy and a vast amount of resources. As well as the growing fruits of prosperity bestowed in new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods, which were made available to much more people than ever before. However, the 1950s was also a time of the rising advent of communism and the civil right movements. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley is one of the most well known artist in American History. He was porn to a poor country in Mississippi. He brought a lot of attention to people who enjoyed old school music around 1954 when he was 19. His music was said to be rhythm-and-blues with a unique style that was not common and not heard before. "Heartbreak Hotel" became Elvis first number one hit and became a national sensation. Many teenagers and young adults were very interested and obsessed with Elvis and his music. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War began in 1954. The communist forces from Vietnam had taken power in the north and the armed conflict between the two, southern and northern armies had continued until a decisive battle in May 1954 ended the victory for the northern forces.The roots of the war had been because of the French taking control and the colonial rule they've had since the 29th century. When world war 2 began the Japanese had invaded Vietnam and the leader formed the league for the independence of Vietnam -
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Civil Rights
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War had officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against blacks—they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South. By the mid-20th century, African Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them. -
Polio Vaccine
The Polio Vaccine was a vaccine that prevented poliomyelitis but for short polio. There were two different types of polio and people were given an injection. The World Health Organization recommended for kids, teenagers, and adults to be given the vaccine to prevent the spread of the disease. The vaccines had eliminated polio from most of the world and had reduced the number of cases reported each year. There were more ways to take the vaccine to get it into your body.It included side effects. -
Emmett Till
On August 28 Emmett Till's body was found beaten and shot. The death had happened supposedly because he said "Bye Baby" to a white woman on his way out after buying candy from a store. At the time there had been many deaths that had happened over black males flirting or attempting to flirt with the white woman. Emmett Till's body had been in horrible shape and conditions were so bad that people could not identify his face or body. Emmett's mom had held an open casket for people. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist to refused to give up her seat to a white man while she was on the Montgomery Bus Boycott in an Alabama bus. This caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott that had helped launch the nationwide efforts to change segregation of public facilities. The incident took place in 1955 and was arrested after not giving up her seat to the white man. The Montgomery boycott lasted over a year and affected the bus company which led them to lose a lot of money affecting them. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott is a very important event that had taken place as a civil rights movement during the fight for African American rights in the late 50's. Blacks were protesting by refusing to ride the city buses in Montgomery Alabama. The point of the protest was to show Montgomery hat unfairness Rosa Park's event was. The protest was the first large scale U.S, demonstration against segregation. This was caused when Rosa parks was arrested after not giving up her seat to a while man. -
Orval E. Faubus
On September 1957 the governor Orval E. Faubus had became the national symbol of racial segregation and he used the Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the entrance and the enrollment of nine black students who had entered and enrolled into the white high school known as Central High School. The Black students also called the Little Rock Nine.The actions from the Governor had angered many black people and saw this as a racist act and started protest while white people were glad this happened -
Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine is one of the most well-known groups of people in American history. The little nine rock were high school students who were enrolled into Central High School which was well known to be a white school and their attendance was a test from the Brown v. Board of Education that had declared segregation in public school unconstitutional. On September 4, 1957, which was the first day of school at Central high the students were mocked, screamed at and shamed after they were escorted -
Launch of Sputnik
The first ever artificial and orbiting satellite that was launched by the Soviet Union in Fall of 1957. This event made Americans more fearful of falling behind to the Soviets in space technology and resulted in the creation of NASA and sparked the Space Race that took place between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Feminism
During the 1960's America had included a lot of women that were not being respected from their family life and workplaces they are interested in.The stereotypical women was expected to follow a specific path, to marry in her early 20's, start a family quickly and be a stay at home mom focusing her life onto her kids and provide her husbands needs. There were limited of jobs like nurses, teachers or secretaries.Women were tired of it and started fighting for equality and started protest in the US -
Peace Corps
In 1960 John F. Kennedy ha proposed to the University of Michigan that developing countries were going to help developing countries by spreading peace. He encouraged aid and he believed they deserved education. Volunteers were sent and did a variety of jobs with the countries that asked help, they wanted to teach children to read and write and other volunteers helped with labor intensive jobs such as buildings and public buildings and schools.JFK's main goal with this was to halt communism -
Kennedy and Nixon
During the 1960's John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon had squared off their first ever presidential debates and this was the first ever in history. The purpose of this followed the new era of crafting a public image and taking advantage of the media exposure. The country had been heavily engaged in the heated Cold War with the Soviet Union in which had first caused the beginning of the space race and the launching the Sputnik satellite. There was the need for a strong leader to help the country. -
Anti-War Movement
During the 1960's was one of the most diverse forces in the 20th century during U.S. History. The anti war movement had included independent interest. The peace movement had already had a lot of peace and different types of movements. When the war in Vietnam began many believed that south Vietnam from communist aggression was in the national interest. The peace movement leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. As the war went on things got worse and the peace movement was spreading -
Hippies
During the mid 1960's there was a type of culture that blossomed throughout the United States that had also included Flower Power movement.The word Hippie was taken from the word Hipster.The word hippie is used to describe the technicolor heart in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco and many people were into the Love not war influence.Floral patterns and bright colors and growing our beards and had became part of the evolving counter culture. It also included fashion,film and literature -
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1960s
This is the decade where hundreds of thousands of Americans gave new life to the nation's democratic ideals. However, African-Americans used sit-ins, freedom rights, and had marched to protest segregation. Many Americans believed this time period was the dawn of the Golden Age, but by the end, it seemed as if the nation was falling apart. -
Sit-Ins
Towards the beginning of the 1960's facilities such as schools and universities across america were very mad over the racism that america had been developing and had not advanced at all. The Montgomery bus boycott had just taken place and blacks and supporters were trying to make a change.The sit ins were designated as a non violent protest that angered many. Black students would demonstrate this protest across america by entering all withe facilities in a very peaceful matter that angered white -
New Frontier
During Kennedy's campaign he stated hat america was in the edge of a New Frontier and had announced in his inaugural speech when he spoke about a generation of Americans.During his run as president he wanted the government to change and take it to a new direction.His whole administration had headed by strong and dedicated personalities and the Kennedy staff was also very young and this had gave him energy and commitment that he would improve the nation with the new generation and young people -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
An event that took place after the discovery of Soviet ICBMs in Cuba by U.S. U-2 spy planes. The U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff, and a fear of a possible WWIII emerged across America, but a deal was established between Kennedy and Khrushchev, allowing the U.S. to inspect Soviet ships and forced the removal of ICBMs from Cuba in exchange for the U.S. dismantlement of their ICBMs in Turkey and U.S. isolation from Cuba. -
I Have A Dream
On August 28, 1963, 500,000 people marched on Washington towards the Lincoln Monument, led by Martin Luther King Jr. to battle the Southern Bloc. The march was staged on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, being symbolic to achieving Civil Rights. On this day, MLK gave his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream," with millions of people around the world watching it live, appealing to many Americans across the nation and a significant event in the fight for civil rights. -
Birmingham Bombing
The Birmingham Bombing was an event that occurred on September 15, 1963, in which the KKK hurled a bomb into 16th Street Baptist Church, killing 4 girls, in resistance to MLK's March on Washington roughly 2 weeks prior to the incident. The men responsible for the disaster were never put on trial until after 2000. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy took multiple shots to the neck and a fatal shot to the side of the head as he rode down Elm Street through Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-marine with communist sympathies, from the 6th floor of a book depository. The assassination resulted in the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson as President aboard Air Force One. -
Assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald
Around noon on November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Dallas nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein while Oswald was being transferred to Dallas police headquarters. Ruby stated his intentions were solely because of Kennedy's murder. -
The Warren Commission
The Warren Commission was an investigative mission established by Lyndon B. Johnson a week after the assassination of Kennedy to explore Kennedy's death. The yearlong investigation, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination, but was ineffective in debunking any conspiracy theories surrounding the event. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a legislation passed in 1964 that outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment, passed by President Johnson. The act made it illegal not to hire based on race, religion, or ethnicity, and was instrumental in achieving civil rights. -
The Counterculture
The Counterculture was a cultural phenomenon embraced by individuals and young rebels known as Hippies, seceding the Beat Generation and consisting of unorganized youth rebellions against mainstream institutions, values, and behavior that more often focused on cultural radicalism, highlighting peace, love, and restrictionless living, rather than political activism. -
Daisy Girl Ad
The "Daisy Girl" ad was a controversial and political advertisement that was aired only once on the media during the 60s, encouraging and urging the nation to vote for Lyndon B. Johnson. The ad portrayed a little girl in a field when a nuclear bomb goes off, implying an unstated message that a vote for Barry Goldwater results in the death of Daisy Girl and many others. -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1964 in opposition to Democratic candidate Lyndon B. Johnson. Goldwater was the Senator of Arizona and had very conservative ideas, some of which promoted the rid of the New Deal and Great Society. Goldwater loses the election to LBJ by a landslide. -
The Great Society
A revision and addition to the New Deal proposed by Lyndon B. Johnson that promised a higher focus on education, good standards of living, and beautification. Its main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a legislation passed in 1965 that ensured the right to vote to all Americans. The act ended literacy test and other means of restricting voting rights, becoming essential for the black right to vote in the South. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, civil rights activist and abolitionist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. King was giving a speech at a local church when Ray shot King through the cheek from a distant balcony. King's assassination was a catalyst for riots by black protesters across the country and his death played an instrumental role in speeding up the process of achieving civil rights. -
LSD
Synthesized by Albert Hoffman in 1938 and promoted by psychologist Timothy Leary during the 1960s, LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, was a psychedelic drug used by hippies and young rebels during the Counterculture movement in order to highlight their perception of the purpose of life and escape the issues of society. Consumption of LSD resulted in vivid hallucinations, or "acid trips," and was widely abused by the youth, resulting in its national ban on October 24, 1968. -
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1970s
The 1970s were a tumultuous time. In some ways, the decade was a continuation of the 1960s. Women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians and other marginalized people continued their fight for equality, and many Americans joined the protest against the ongoing war in Vietnam. By the end of the decade, these divisions and disappointments had set a tone for public life that many would argue is still with us today. -
Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency was initiated by Nixon and born in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution. Its purpose was to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. Since its creation, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. -
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the U.S. constitution that guaranteed equal rights to all citizens regardless of gender. The amendment sought to erase the legal distinction between male and female, but ended up failing to be ratified. Phyllis Schlafly was instrumental in defeating the amendment, as she organized a movement of conservative women and highlighted the possibilities women could experience, such as reduced rights or harmed family life. -
Title IX
Under Nixon's presidency, Title IX was passed which declared that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court case held on January 22, 1973, in which the Supreme Court ruled that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. Abortion was a controversial topic for decades and women participated in protests in hopes of legalizing the practice. -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is an act that provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems in which they depend on. -
Gerald Ford Presidency
Gerald Ford had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign. Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords was a treaty signed at the White House in Washington D.C. between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, laying the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. -
Three-Mile Island
A partial nuclear reactor meltdown that occurred on Three-Mile Island in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1979 after shutting down a fission reaction but a fuel core became uncovered. Nuclear radiation leaked out into a nearby town but residents were unaffected. The incident made Americans wary of nuclear power and was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Moral Majority
The Moral Majority was a political party founded by Jerry Falwell, an evangelical preacher who was pro-life, pro-family, pro-American, and pro-morality. The political party formed a conservative political bloc in the late 70s and early 80s. -
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Many Americans embraced a new conservatism in social, economic and political life during the 1980s, characterized by the policies of President Ronald Reagan. Often remembered for its materialism and consumerism, the decade also saw the rise of the “yuppie,” an explosion of blockbuster movies and the emergence of cable networks like MTV, which introduced the music video and launched the careers of many iconic artists. -
Election of 1980
The Election of 1980 was a presidential election between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter. Raegan was a former governor of California running against Carter in his second term, who was haunted by a bad economy and the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Reagan defeats Carter in November, and subsequently, after Raegan is sworn in, Ayatolah Khomeiri releases the American hostages in spite of Carter. -
Reaganomics
Reaganomics were President Reagan's economic policies during his two terms that he served in office. Reaganomics's goals were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce government regulations, tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation, and cut spending and taxes. This new tax program was prompted by Reagan because he had hoped for "a second American Revolution for hope and opportunity." He implemented many practices that hampered growth. -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle program, officially known as the Space Transportation System, is the U.S. government's manned launched vehicle program, administered by NASA and officially began in 1972. The first ever space shuttle was launched in April 1981 with one of the passengers being Sally Ride, allowing her to become the first American woman in space. Only two failures have taken place within the Space Shuttle program: the Challenger, and Columbia. -
AIDS Crisis
The U.S. (CDC) publish a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR), describing cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia(PCP), in five young, previously healthy, gay men in Los Angeles. All the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working; two have already died by the time the report is published. This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will become known as the AIDS epidemic. -
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006 and was the first women ever to serve on the Supreme Court. O'Connor was known for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions and is remembered as acting as a sturdy guiding hand in the court's decisions during those 24 years in office. In 2009, her accomplishments were recognized by President Obama who honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. -
The Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative, other known as Star Wars, was a program initiated by President Reagen, under the Peace Through Strength Initiative, with intentions to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to protect the United States by preventing missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. Reagan intended to give the Soviets the same technology in hopes that they would go bankrupt in doing so. -
The Reagan Doctrine
During Reagan's Union address, he defined some of the key concepts of his foreign policy, establishing the Reagan Doctrine, serving has the foundation for his administration's support of "freedom fighters" around the globe. This policy translated into covertly supporting the Contras in their attacks on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua; the Afghan rebels in their fights against the Soviet occupiers; and anticommunist Angolan forces embroiled in that nation's civil war. -
The Challenger Explosion
The Challenger explosion was an incident that occurred on January 28, 1986, in which the American shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up in 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft's 10th mission. The event took the lives of 7 astronauts aboard. It was later discovered that 2 rubber O-rings had failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch. The tragedy received extensive media coverage and prompted NASA to temporarily suspend all shuttle missions. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah is an American media proprietor, talk show host, and producer. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media" she has been ranked the richest African-American and is currently North America's first and only multi-billionaire black person. -
Iran-Contra Affair
In 1986, pilot Eugene Hasenfus confessed that he was shipping military supplies into Nicaragua for use by the Contras, an anti-Sandinista force that had been created and funded by the United States, after his plane was shot down. Additionally, he also claimed that the operation was run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. As a result, Congress passed the Boland Amendment, forbidding the CIA or any other U.S. agency from supporting the Contras. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.Constructed by the German Democratic Republic. starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off . West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992 -
Cell Phones
In the 1990s, the 'second generation' mobile phone systems emerged. These differed from the previous generation by using digital instead of analog transmission, and also fast out-of-band phone-to-network signaling. The rise in mobile phone usage as a result of 2G was explosive and this era also saw the advent of prepaid mobile phones. -
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The Persian Gulf War
On November 29, 1990, the U.N. authorized the use of "all necessary means" of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15. Early on the morning of January 16, 1991, a massive U.S.-led air offensive, known as Operation Desert Storm, hit Iraq's air defenses, communication networks, weapons plants, oil refineries, and more. Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous damage, leading Iraqi forces to brutally suppress uprisings by the Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south. -
The Rodney KIng Incident
On March 3, 1991, taxi driver Rodney King became internationally known after being beat by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase. George Holliday, a witness, videotaped the entire incident from his balcony and sent the footage to a local news station, exposing the 4 officers that participated in the beating of King. The tape became nationally viral and resulted in the 1992 Los Angeles riots to take place, where 55 people were killed and over 2,000 injured. -
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Balkans Crisis
On June 25, 1991, the parliaments of Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, triggering the immediate deployment of the Belgrade-controlled Yugoslav army towards the affected borders and airports. After a ten-day conflict, the JNA withdrew from ethnically homogenous Slovenia. Croatia's ethnic Serb rebels who opposed independence launched a four-year war. Serbs boycotted the referendum, 60% of Bosnia's citizens voted for independence and Bosnia won international recognition on April 6, 1992. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
A policy introduced by Gorbachev consisting of free speech and rebuilding after addressing the economic and political issues that were taking place unexpectedly backfired and unleashed the pent-up emotions and political beliefs of the Russian population, resulting in countless movements and violent protests to spark across Russia. A failed coup against Gorbachev by hard-line Communists took place in August 1991 resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Union only a few months after. -
Election of 1992
The Election of 1992 was a presidential election between Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George Bush. Independent candidate Ross Perot secured nearly 19% of the vote, being the highest percentage of any third-party candidate in a U.S. presidential election in 80 years and taking votes away from Bush, allowing for Clinton to take the victory and become the 42nd President of the United States. -
Clinton's Healthcare Reform
Created in January 1993, Clinton's health care plan, sometimes referred to as "Hillarycare," was a healthcare reform proposed by the Clinton administration, primarily promoted by the First Lady Hillary Clinton. Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, planned to be one of the cornerstones of the administration's first-term agenda. The plan ultimately received backlash and the popularity of the reform diminished. -
The World Trade Center Attack (1993)
On February 26, 1993, terrorists parked a rental van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center's twin towers and lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb stuffed inside with intentions of collapsing the entire building. 6 casualties occurred and more than 1,000 people were injured in the following explosion, carving out a crater several stories deep and propelled smoke into the upper reaches of the quarter-mile high skyscrapers. -
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement is a treaty between Canada, the United States, and Mexico. This agreement between the three countries allowed for the removal of trade barriers and increase investment opportunities. NAFTA is the world's largest free trade agreement with its members contributing more than $20 trillion as measured by gross domestic product. -
Lewinsky Affair
The Lewinsky affair scandal had been an american political sex scandal that had involved the President Bill Clinton at the time and a twenty two year old White House Intern Monica Lewinsky. There had been a scandal of cheating and drama between 1995 and 1997 and was then reported and exposed in 1998. Clinton had tried to clear his situation in a television speed who then claimed and said that he had never had any sexual relationship with the intern but was then investigated for impeachment -
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Contemporary Times
The Contemporary World, characterized by a number of events, and the ongoing advent of war in the Middle East. Now in modern times, technology has made a gigantic leap in the medical, science, and engineering field. A number of healthcare and economic reforms have also been laid out in the century, as the rate of living has increased all around. However, on the horizon and outwards America's foreign policies and connections will undoubtedly bring about a new era of war and injustices. -
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.
Bush narrowly won the November 7 election, with 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266 (with one elector abstaining in the official tally). -
No Child Left Behind
The No child left behind was an act that authorized and promised federal education programs that kids in grades 3-8 are needed to test in math and reading and are expected to meet or exceed state standards in reading and math by 2014. The main purpose of the No child left behind was to help kids with their hopes to achieve accountability,flexibility, research based education. This was for states to require basic skills and to receive federal school funding to help the school and kids -
9/11
the 9/11 attacks were one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in the United States.On September 11th 2001,19 militants who were apart of the Islamic extremist groups al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes in hopes of targeting them back into the world trade center located in New York City and into the twin towers. One of the airplanes was hijacked and flown into the pentagon in Washington D.C. an the fourth plane was crashed into Pennsylvania after passengers attacks the person driving the plane -
Patriot Act
The patriot act was passed and made to allow investigations to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking. But i also included the access to many other things such a surveillance against more crimes of terrorism and allowed federal agents to follow sophisticated terrorist rained to evade detection, conduct investigation without tipping off terrorism. The goal was fr this act to prevent things like the 9/11 attacks to happen again with security -
2nd Iraq War
The Iraq war, also known as the second Persian gulf war started when conflict in Iraq consisted of two phases . The first conflict was over a conventionally fought war in March through April and then combined the force of troops from the Unites States and Great Britain. The war between the neighboring middle eastern countries resulted in a tleast half a million of deaths due to the tragic war and several billion dollars worth of damage but did not win anything from either sides of fighters -
War of Terrorism
The War of Terror in the international military campaign made from the U.S. government after the 9/11 attacks in New York city, Washington, and Pennsylvania in 2001. The name of the campaign represents a metaphor of the war to refer to a variety of actions that do not constitute a specific war as traditionally defined. There had been so much disbelief that the terrorist attack had even taken place to begin with and it was a bigger surprise to president George bush and wanted to help and makeup -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29th 2005 and stuck the Gulf Coast of the United States. The hurricane was a category 3 when it first hit land and traveled 100 to 140 miles an hour and stretched about 400 miles across and the storm did damage.Not only did the hurricane cause deaths but it also left a lot of trash and flooding and the government was taking too long to meet the needs of people affected by the hurricane.Mississippi and Alabama was displaced and damages were up to $100 billion -
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The Great Recession
The Great Recession represents the sharp decline in economic activity during the late 2000s, which is generally considered the largest downturn since the Great Depression. The “Great Recession” applies to both the U.S. recession, officially lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, and the ensuing global recession in 2009. The economic slump began when the U.S. housing market went from boom to bust and large amounts of mortgage-backed securities and derivatives lost significant value. -
Election of 2008
The Election of 2008 was a historical presidential election between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator John McCain of Arizona. Barack Obama won nearly 53% of the popular vote and garnered 365 electoral votes, winning the election, becoming the 44th U.S. president, and the first ever African-American elected into the White House. -
The Great Recession
The Great Recession, officially lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, was a large economic downturn that began with the bursting of an $8 trillion dollar housing bubble. Unemployment rates significantly rose and the resulting loss of wealth led to sharp cutbacks in consumer spending. This incident was the most dramatic employment contraction of any recession since the Great Depression during the 1930s. -
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA, is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The act was based largely on proposals by Obama and was intended to provide a stimulus to the U.S. economy in the wake of the economic downturn. The objective of the stimulus package was to reinvigorate the economy and prevent or reverse the recession by boosting employment and spending. -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor became the first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina. She had been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District on New York and had been nominated by Bill Clinton and her nomination had really slowed down the republican but was then confirmed in 1998 but on her second circuit she had appealed more than 3,00 cases and wrote about 380 opinions. On May 2009 President Barack Obama had nominated Sonia to the Supreme Court and has supported liberal -
Obamacare
The Patient and protection and affordable care act, also known as obamacare was a United States federal statue enacted by the state congress and signed into the law of president Barack Obama. Obamacare act was passed in goals to help low income family and help people who couldn't afford health care be able to do so with the help of the new act. The number of people who were covered by the act and increased the coverage was due and the medicaid eligibility and to major changed to health care
