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Cold War
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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. The goal for the Truman Doctrine was to help stop the spread of communism through the use of economic and military aid. This policy allowed us to lend anti-communist counties money to help fight communism spread. -
2nd Red Scare
The second Red Scare refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society due to the panic of losing the Cold War. With the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and China as well as the Korean War, people were scared that communism could infiltrate the United States after the end of World War 2. The climate of fear and repression linked to the Red Scare finally began to ease by the late 1950s. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was put in effect under the United Sates Secretary of State, George Marshall as an American initiative to aid Western Europe.The Plan was intended to improve the economic situations of the countries of Western Europe and, at the same time, to discourage them from embracing communism. However the Soviet Union refused to accept aid from the Marshall Plan for they believed the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states. -
The Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin from Stalin due to capitalism in Germany and blockade of supplies on the border, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. The first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin in June 1948. As a result, the Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. -
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by US President Truman to Congress in his State of the Union address. The Fair Deal recommended that all Americans have health insurance, that the minimum wage be increased, there be public new housing,& that by law, all Americans be guaranteed equal rights.However at the end, the Deal is sealed back due to difficulties with Korea;Yet Truman fights for keeping the New Deal. At the end racial discrimination was banned in hiring practices -
The Forgotten War
Also known as the Korean War, this was much less a war but more of a conflict over the Japanese colony with the divide of US and USSR. North Korea was created by the Soviet Union and was controlled by Kim il-Sung South Korea was created by the United States. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. North Korea was armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea,the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Parsley was originally was born to a poor family in East Tupelo, Mississippi. When he was a teenager, the Presleys moved to Memphis, where Elvis began attracting attention with his music in 1954, at the age of 19. Once Elvis came out with the greatest album in 1956 he became known as one of the best recording artist of all time he was dubbed "the king of rock and roll". With his music he created his own sexually suggestive dance styles and took most of his music form African Americans. -
Beat Generation
The "beatniks" referred to themselves at artists, novelists, & poets. This Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work influenced American culture & politics during WW2. They rejected the American values, materialism, and culture & rejected home ownership, having a career and the idea of marriage. They believed in their individual freedom and pleasure and supported drugs & public sex.They were known as pro hippies and even sought out words form African Americans -
Television
Television struggled to become a national mass media during the 50's and 60's. n 1952 for the first time, television news was able to broadcast the Republican and Democratic conventions live from Philadelphia to the rest of the nation. The number of commercial TV stations rose from 69 to 566 during the mid 1950's. During this time, many of the genres that today's audiences are familiar with were developed – westerns, kids' shows, situation comedies, sketch comedies, game shows, dramas, & news. -
Atomic/ Hydrogen Weapons
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan in 1949.Because this was unexpected, United States was caught off guard leading them to monopoly atomic weaponry and launches the Cold War.In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. America tested the first Hydrogen in 1952 which then beat the Russians in the creation of the "Super Bomb". Americans was afraid of soviet testings and hoped communism wasn't spreading across the nation -
Dr. Jonas Salk
Polio, a disease that has affected humanity throughout recorded history, attacks the nervous system and can cause varying degrees of paralysis. American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio in 193. Dr. Salk was a medical student at New York University and during World War II helped develop flu vaccines. -
Brown v Board of Education
The U.S Supreme Court Justice, Earl Warren announced that State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This overturned the Plessy v Ferguson for it said "separate but equal" but it was just separate and unfair. The Brown v. Board of Education made it illegal to have segregated schools, waiting rooms, and restrooms. Of course many people were still against this however they were forced to integrate for it was now illegal -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Till was a young boy who was traveling to Mississippi to visit his family from Chicago.His mom wanted Emmett to be familiar with the segregation treatment in the South. Supposedly Emmett accepts a challenged to ask a white woman out by a group of his friends.He whistled to 21 year old Carolyn Bryant. Four days later Emmett was abducted into a shed where he was beaten very badly. He was then driven to a river,was forced to strip and was then shot in the head His body was found in the river -
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. It started when a white man demands Rosa Parks seat when she sat there first; Rosa refuses to give up her seat which causes a massive decrease in the bus industry due to the boycott. The Boycott as a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.Dr. King had a great influence over America through his strong belief in nonviolent protest helped set the tone of the movement. Dr King was travelling to Tennessee to give a speech at a church where he was staying at Lorraine Motel- his usual stay. While standing on the balcony,Dr King was assassinated by James Earl Ray; he later dies at a local hospital leaving a legacy behind. -
Space Race
The Space Race began with the Soviet Union has just launched the world's first satellite,Sputnik. Sputnik was the first orbiting satellite that was launched in the October 1957.It was just a beeping radio signal used as a political experiment in space.In fearful of the Soviet military control of space,Americans created The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Soon new scientists & astronauts in the U.S assembled to develop satellite technology as the race between US & USSR began -
Sit-Ins
Sit-Ins were nonviolent acts to where African American would sit in public places such as restaurants & stay seated until they are served just like any other white person.These NonViolence Sit-ins go from schools to other public places as blacks wanted white people to see their struggle.The first sit-in was in Greensboro,North Carolina where then it started to become a national movement. African Americans would sit in white only seats & remained there until served as a sign of civil disobedience -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
One of President Eisenhower's main goals was to protect African-American voting rights across the country as Southern whites were heavily resisting voting rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It also outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests -
The Little Rock Nine
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The Little Rock 9 was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central HighSchool in 1957.Their enrollment wasfollowed by the Little Rock Crisis,in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus,the Governor of Arkansas.When the Governor is running for re-election,he denied the entrance of the 9 black students to where only white students admitted to it -
Civil Rights During the 1950's
There were three main reasons for Civil Rights during the 1950s being Television, Baby Boomers, and the Cold War. As television was becoming more and more popular, the media was sure to report all kinds of treatment- including the Jim Crow mistreatment towards black African Americans by white people. People started seeing innocent blacks being attacked without fighting back which made them feel guilty and was hard to ignore. America was was supposedly spreading democracy as apposed to Communism. -
Election of 1960
The Election of 1960 was betweenJohn Kennedy from the Democrat Party versus Richard Nixon who was from the Republican Party. Kennedy was a young& invigorating looking man where asNixon wasn't-he also the VP of Eisenhower.This debate was was the first ever to be television which continued on to be how Americans saw debates through the T.V Kennedy took television to his advantage as he knew you had to look good for people to like you.The debate pushed Kennedy to the top & it becomes a close debate -
The New Frontier
The New Frontier was a slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies. Kennedy was one of the youngest presidents being that he wanted to raise minimum wage, cut business taxes, and wanted to land a man on the moon. Kennedy found 'The Peace Corps' which was an organization to help young college graduates working in poor countries for humanitarian projects. This was largely accomplished;However, many conservatives didn't support the liberal agenda of President Kennedy -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War started by the North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. America's military won the war, but our politicians lost it. The Communists in North Vietnam actually signed a peace treaty, effectively surrendering. -
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were a group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement.The Freedom Riders,who included both blacks & whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960's in order to challenge racial segregation.Freedom Ride happened when seven blacks & six whites left Washington D.C on two public buses bound for the Deep South.They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia , which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. Kennedy's Administration faced its most serious foreign policy crisis as Castro wanted protection in Cuba. The Soviets send troops and medium range ICMB's; However, armed missile sites are spotted by spy planes which leads 40K Soviet troops to be sent to Cuba. This lasts 13 days -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where he eventually joined the US Marines & later defected to the Soviet Union for a period of time.He returned to America with a family & eventually acquired firearms.After some debate by government operatives over Oswald's possible role as a spy,he was allowed to stay in the city of Minsk,where he was closely monitored.He later moved to Dallas where he rose an interest in communism transforming his support for Cuba which led him to the killing of JFK -
Civil Rights in the 60's
Martin Luther King had an organization for the Civil Rights Movement called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.It desegregated all of Birmingham including restaurants,restrooms, &buses.This organization also used the the media to broadcast the brutality faced by the African Americans.Civil Rights became stronger as more liberals & whites joined to help fight desegregation.Black teens helped with volunteering in the march.All violence was caught on the media to show how bad brutality is -
Assassination of JFK
Kennedy was running for his second term as he flew over to Love Airfield, Dallas to give a speech in the downtown area. His arrival was televisioned & portrayed through the media which let everyone know when, where, and how he was arriving to Dallas. The route to his arrival was wildly publicized for people to come and see him. This caused a man named Harvey Oswald to to shoot from 6th floor of a book depository as he claimed to hate America.JFK was shot twice where he later died within an hour. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups to expand black voting in the South. Robert Moses was the one who proposed this idea to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Council of Federated Organizations where he was granted permission to direct it. Freedom Summer was a turning point in the civil rights movement and helped people aware of the violent going around towards black people. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
In early August 1964, two U.S. 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 incident in the Gulf of Tonkin led to America's open entry into the Vietnam War. -
The Great Society
The Great Society was Lyndon Johnson's slogan for his campaign as running for the Democratic Party against Barry Goldwater, a Republican. Lyndon Johnson's promised a better education & a good standard of living and beautification.Johnson's main goal was the elimination of poverty & racial injustice. For the Election of 1964, Johnson took the television to his advantage by an advertisement called the Daisy TV Ad. It was a response to Goldwater's NATO comments to show the power of nuclear weapons -
Counter Culture
This was a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultures. These were mainly young students who took on discrimination and poverty during the Vietnam War. They rejected middle class values, renounced middle class values, used drugs, and believed in exploring their inner selves. They were all about peace and love and didn't give into new technologies such as cars and suburban homes. -
Voting Rights of q965
President Johnson saw Selma march on television & saw the harsh mistreatment towards African Americans. He later announced that he would pass voting rights to legislation as it was then signed into law in August 1965.This act prohibited literacy tests, poll taxes & other discriminatory laws.Johnson succeeded and overcame legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
Watts Riots
The Watts Riots took place in Los Angeles,California in poor areas where there was a high unemployment, poor schools,&drug usage. This riot started when a young African American motorist, was pulled over & arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated.This made the whites more aware of what's going on making the change their views on Civil Rights because of the Watts Riots.They saw militant black protesters & supported suppression of protesters -
Women During the 1960s
Women were first portrayed as happy homemakers, teachers, and nurses and were only seen to get married and carry children. However during the 1960's, women started to fight for themselves first with the introduction of birth control pills. Women started to have more control of their own decisions and their desires. A woman named Betty Friedman believed a woman could do the same tasks as a man. She wrote a book "The Feminine Mystique" where she focused on equal treatment, opportunity, & pay. -
Stonewall Riot
The Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28. These violent protests took place in New York City and other protesters from around the country. The Stone-well Riot brought gay rights to the forefront even though many Americans were against the LGBT community. -
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Title IX
The Title 9 was part of the 1972 Education Act which is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.Under Title 9, all schools must have it under their coordinator,schools must have an established procedure for handling sexual misconduct, schools are required to protect pregnant & parenting students from discrimination, and all schools must take immediate action to ensure a victim can continue their education without worry -
Watergate
The Watergate scandal happened when U.S President Nixon broke into the offices of McGovern. He sent five of his people as plumbers to spy on important phone calls through a broken wire tap.They get caught by a security guard & are arrested for the crime. Nixon manages to keep away from Watergate, however there are rumors of what Nixon did & revealed that Nixon had a secret taping system.An investigation was launched on him as they demanded the tapes. Nixon gives an edited version & later retires -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act is one of the few of US environmental laws passed in the 1970's & serves enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.The Endangered Species Act requires Fish & Wildlife Service to list endangered species including plants & animals so that they are protected & have protection after identification. Citizens across the country also protect the biodiversity& wildlife within their own communities -
Decline of the Industrial Midwest
Around this time, U.S currently owns 40% of the worlds oil until it reached the peak of oil production to where they had to rely in Middle East's oil. OPEC was organized for 12 of the worlds major oil exporting nations to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. By 1974 US had a high rate of unemployment and experienced unusual high prices.As people were trying to fight off the Recession of 1974, inflammation had gotten worse -
Roe V. Wade
Prior to this time period there were many protests for having legalized abortion;some women continued to see it as a crime to kill a fetus despite the first trimester and many states had outlawed abortion. The only time abortion was allowed before Roe v. Wade was if the delivery of the child would cost the mother.A woman named Norma Mccorvey sued Texas for telling her what to do with her body.She was forced to have her baby and went to trial as SCOTUS rules outlawing abortion is unconstitutional -
Recession of 1974
The Recession of 1974 came into form due to stagflation or inflation during the recession causing an increase of high unemployment & unusual increasing prices.Americas auto industries started to sell less cars as gas prices were extremely high.Therefore,Japan started manufacturing smaller cheaper cars causing competition between the US & Japan.America starts to focus more on technology rather than manufacturing.People such as Steve Jobs & Bill Gates invent a computer & a cheaper operating system -
Jimmy Carter's Presidency
Jimmy Carter is from the Democratic Part and is one of the 1st presidents to nominate women & minorities into cabinet positions for better opportunities.President Carter was an unknown man who was a former peanut farmer in Georgia& a former submarine commander.Jimmy arranged the Camp David Accords between Egypt & Israel in 1978.He tried to rally the American spirit in the face of economic decline but was unable to stop therapid increase in inflation. He later earned respect & won the Nobel Prize -
Election of 1980
Election of 1980 was against Ronald Reagan who was from the Republican Party versus Jimmy Carter representing the Democrat. Ronald Reagon was the former governor of California and a former actor in the 40's and 50's leaving the United Conservatives Coalition behind him. Jimmy Carter was responsible for the bad economy and failed to rescue hostages. Therefore, Reagon defeats Carter easily in the election of 1980.This election marked the beginning of what is popularly called the Reagan Revolution. -
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AIDS Crisis
Many Americans didn't know what Aids was as it was a new concept to the American Society. Many thought AIDS was only given to gay people as a 'punishment from God' for being gay. Furthermore this issue didn't receive much attention as it was only perceived as a gay mans disease. Thousands of homosexuals were effected by AIDS which later spread to the heterosexual community through blood transfusions.Later on mothers or both parents of more than 10 million children will have died AIDS. -
Reagan Presidency
From the Republican Part, President Reagon made history by naming Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro of NY as his vice-presidential running mate. However, Mondale's candidacy was tainted by his service as vice president to Carter. Reaganomics was the federal economic polices of the Reagan administration where policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth. -
Reagan Domestic Policy
Reagan's policies stressed conservative economic values, starting with his implementation of supply-side economic policies, dubbed as Reaganomics by both supporters and detractors. Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation. -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by NASA, which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight, killing all aboard. The explosion was caused by a faulty seal in the fuel tank. The shuttle program was halted while investigators and officials drew up new safety regulations, but was resumed in 1988 with the flight of the Discovery. -
Life in the 1980s
The 1980's are portrayed as a wealthy & successful time for America as baby boomers were the ones to emphasize on the accumulation of wealth.Discount retailing started in stores such as Home Depot,Best Buy, Walmart,& KMart. Products were to arrive on time just as needed as technological advancements let computers track inventories.Cable televisions became standard for most American households as it led in a whole host of new programming where rap music became popular & VHS players came into play -
Fall of The Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe,the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West.More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration.People used hammers & picks to knock away chunks of the wallhey became known as wall woodpeckers while cranes & bulldozers pulled down section after section. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945 -
Persian Gulf War/ 1st Iraq War
The US & Arab nations lend Iraq billions leaving Iraq in debt.The leader of Iraq,SaddamHussein invades Kuwait for not forgiving their debt.Therefore,President George H.W Bush deploys troops to Saudi thinking Saddam wouldinvade other countries for oil fields.The US bombs important Iraqi installations & destroyed power grids for communication.For the 2nd phase,we defeat Iraqi forces insideKuwait;however US forces dont invade Iraq as Saddam sets oil fields on fire.This causes Iraq to be sanctioned -
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born an isolated farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, Oprah attended Tennessee State University on a full scholarship she had won based on her communication skills. Oprah opens her own talk show on where she talks about the issues and trends of the day. She soon becomes one of the richest black women around the world. The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated . -
Election of 1992
The election of 1992 is against William Jefferson Clinton from the Democratic Party and George H.W Bush representing the Republican Party. Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas as he was not very known but was understanding & charismatic;he cared for others thought & wanted to be helpful.George H.W Bush was still popular and known for the Persian Gulf War. There was also a third party,Ross Perot, an independent who was running against Bush and Clinton; however he ended up helping Bill Clinton win -
Bill Clinton's Presidency
Entered off in January 1993, as the first democratic president since Jimmy Carter and a self-proclaimed activist. He had a very domestic agenda. Bill Clinton is known for being president during one of the longest periods of peace and economic expansion in American history. He is also known for being governor of Arkansas and for being impeached while president -
Technology
As technology continued to expand and advance throughout the years, personal computers became huge.Instead of going to a public place to use it,millions of people had it in their homes as it was also affordable. Computer industries started to flourish.The internet starts on military basis during 1960's and computers allowed communication. Public schools &universities also started having computers for educational. Cell phones start replacing landlines. People found this lifestyle more efficient -
The Balkans Crisis
Civil War broke out between Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia between Bosnian Christians and Bosnian Muslims. Serbians forces murder thousands of Muslim Bosnians after the fall of communism in 1991. Clinton was eventually forced to intervene and so the U.S had to lead NATO forces to launch a massive aerial bombardment of Serbia to stop Milosevic's policy of ethnic cleansing. Te genocide continues as Kosovo & Albania want independence from Croatia & Serbia. NATO begins to bomb sites to stop the genocide -
The Lewinski Affair
Clinton is rumored to be having an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinski.A prosecutor named Kenneth Star hears about this affair from a female civil servant as she confronts Monica;she is up front about it & tells the servant in confidence. The media gets a hold of this and Clinton is put on trial. Under oath, he denies the affair despite the physical evidence found. Clinton was then impeached for perjury and his resulting political battles kept him from being productive in his final -
Election of 2000
The two candidates for the election of 2000 were Al Gore from the Democratic Part and George W. Bush representing the Republicans. Al Gore was Bill Clinton's Vice President, and environmentalist, and a baby boomer retirement. George W. Bush was a governor of Texas, was part of the Ownership Society & was the son of George H.W Bush.George W. Bush narrowly lost the popular vote to Democrat Al Gore but defeated Gore in the electoral college. This went down as one of the closest elections in history -
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. While living with his grandparents,Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy, He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979. As one of only three black students at the school, Obama became conscious of racism and what it meant to be African-American. He was soon interested in law and ran for for U.S Senate. Te in 2008 he anounced he was running for president making the headlines of newspapers & the media -
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George W. Bush's Presidency
George W. Bush was George H.W Bush's son and the forty-first president. He served as a congressman, a governor of Texas, was a CIA director, a UN Ambassador, and the vice president to Ronald Reagon. George W. Bush sends troops to overthrow Manual Noriega in the Panama. He also led the U.S to success in the Gulf War, forcing Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. George W. Bush was seen as a reckless divider rather than a uniter. He challenged research on global warming, and didn't support abortions. -
9/11
There were nineteen alQaeda hijackers boarded on 4 planes. Someone said they had a bomb in box cutters & people beloved it. 4 planes turn course as two other planes hit the World Trade Center buildings. Another plane hits the largest office building,Pentagon,however it wasn't as destroyed as the twin towers.The Pentagon was only bombed by mistake of trying to find the White House.Almost 3000 people die in 9/11.US requests the terrorists from Afghanistan, however when they refused, we bombed them -
Patriot Act
This expands the governments law enforcement powers. They had security concerns which led to new federal legislation. This also applies to law enforcements and intelligence agencies, which let conduct wide- sweeping searched and surveillance. This detained immigrants and monitored their banks accounts very closely. Poeple are being watched closely over phone calls. Everyone thinks Bush might be over reaching his power for all these advancements invaded peoples personal privacy. -
Second Iraq War
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction; He would use chemical weapons in war with Iran.Saddam supposedly wants to try to get nuclear & biological weapons.We prevent further attacks on the US before they terrorists try to attack us.Bush believes Saddam had terror links & the media portrayed it as such too making Americans believe it too,however it was false.Bush then demands UN weapons to be allowed in Iraq. We had troops in Baghdad & Iraq soon falls as Saddam gets captured and executed -
Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the U.S. with a Category 3 when it made to rainfall. Thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage. The Coast Guard rescued some 34,000 people in New Orleans alone, and many ordinary citizens commandeered boats, offered food and shelter. President George W. Bush, seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere -
Election of 2008
The election of 2008 was between the first black person to run from the Democratic Party, Barack Obama against John McCain representing the Republican Party.Barack Obama is against the Iraqi War and manages to beat out Hilary Clinton through the campaign. John McCain was a former Vietnam war prisoner of War and a former navy pilot. Both presidential campaigns promised to get out of the Iraq situation. Obama ended up winning the the election marking history as the first black president. -
Obama's Presidency
President Obama came into a very stressful time during the economy as it was during a downfall.There were falling home prices, poor lending habits by banks, and risky advertisements. All these led to massive foreclosures. The government had no choice but to bail out many industries and this became known as The Great Recession, which was one one the worst economic collapses since the Great Depression. -
Obamacare
Obamacare also called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Obamacare has significantly increased the number of people with health insurance coverage. It did that by overhauling the individual insurance market where people buy their own policies and expanding Medicaid, a public program that covers low-income Americans. Obamacare includes lots of policies that change the way doctors get paid, with the aim of slowing the ever-growing cost of health care.
