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Warren Commision
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Johnson through Executive Order 11130 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President Kennedy, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence. -
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Fat Man
Code name for an atomic bomb that was dropped over the city of Nagasaki by the United States, the bomb 128 inches long, and 60 inches in diameter, weighing about 10,300 pounds. Designed in Los Alamos laboratory. -
Hiroshima
This happened during the final stages of the second World War, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the city of Hiroshima killing 75,000 and wounding 150,000. This ended in negotiation since most of the population was dead. -
Orval Fabus
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967. Faubus' name became internationally known during the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, when he used the Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the isolation of Europe into two separate zones from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. This divided Europe into two different zones, the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West due to the decline of communism that followed political events in eastern Europe in 1989. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy which stated that it's purpose was to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. Announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948, Harry pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. The Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. Becoming the foundation of American Foreign policy. -
Alger Hiss
The American government which was accused of being a soviet spy in 1948, Alger Hiss was born in Baltimore, November 11, 1904. Hiss was convicted of Perjury in regards to his testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
After WWII, the capital of Germany, Berlin, was split into 4 different military zones. Joseph Stalin did not like that capitalism was on the western side of the city, which caused the borders to close off the in between the two sectors he hoped that the west would give up and give into communism. Since nothing was allowed to leave these areas of Berlin the US dropped off necessary supplies into these areas. -
West Berlin Supplies
Soviets tried to force the western allies out of Berlin by imposing a land blockade on the Western Sections. The west used it's air corridors by supplying their part of the city during the Berlin Airlift -
Marshall Plan
This was an American activity to help out the Western side of Europe, the United States gave over $13 billion in monetary support to help remake Western European economies after the finish of World War II. The arrangement was in operation for a long time starting April 8, 1948 -
Television
The television is a device that receive electronic signals and makes them into pictures and sounds. TV overpowered newspapers, magazines, radios as a source of news info and diversion. TV advertising gave the vast market for new fashions and products. It televised athletic events made college/pro sports a major source of entertainment. TV programming created a popular image of American life: white, middle class, suburban. -
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Ike Turner
An African American musician, band leader, talent scout & record producer. Ike Turner was a very talented man. His musical career began in his childhood playing the piano. His teacher, Pinetop Perkins taught him how to boogie-woogie he then later transformed that into early "Rock & Roll". Turner's recording of "Rocket 88" is one of example of rock and roll, electric guitar and saxophone. It was different. Since everyone was stuck on Jazz -
Koren War (Forgotten War)
This was the conflict between Democratic North Korean and the Republican South Korea. The war started on June 1950, then became an international problem, the United Nations which included the U.S., joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and China came to North Korea’s aid. After 3 long years the war finally came to an end in July 1953. However, North and South Korean are still divided into two hostile states the border is still there to this day. -
Dr. John Salk
Polio crippled and killed millions worldwide, and the successful vaccine virtually eliminated the scourage. Salk was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of a killed-virus polio vaccine. He was the first to introduce an effective vaccine against Polio. When the vaccine was approved for general use in 1955, Salk became a national hero. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave him a special citation at a ceremony held in the Rose Garden at the White House. -
Elvis
Elvis Presley was born in January of 1935 to an extremely poor family nearby an African American community. This helped him adopt the blues and their culture. Presley was known for his style of sexually suggestive dancing. The hip thrust. This gave him the nickname "Elvis the Pelvis". He went on to gain popularity through appearances on television shows such as the Ed Sullivan show. This modern way of singing, dancing, and sexual dancing offended millions of older Americans. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. 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" -
Emmett Till
Emmitt Till, 14 year old boy from Chicago who went down to Mississppi to visit his family. Emmett's mother wanted him to go see how different it was from the North in the 1950s. He was accused of flirting with a white woman, which eventually lead to his death, Emmett was killed by the husband and brother of the white woman which accused him of asking her out, they shot him in the head, and threw his body into the river. He had an open funeral casket to show everyone what Jim Crow's law does. -
TV Shows
Beginning the switch from radio to TV for their news, TV was attracted huge audiences. As specials were still a big deal and color TV was starting to gain some attention. The 1950s TV was led by sitcoms and game shows. For example, "I Love Lucy" was very popular and had three year run at the top of the ratings. Also, "$64,000 Question" which gained viewers through the 1955-1958. However, in the late 50s, westerns completely took over. In 1958, eight of the top ten TV shows were westerns. -
Polio Vaccine
Polio was a disease that was brought in by a virus, causing the victim to develop paralysis and would result in death. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran his presidency with yung polio. The first polio vaccine was introduced in 1955 by Dr. Jonas Salk. This vaccine was able to kill the virus from the inside,by 1961, an oral form of this vaccination was developed and to the U.S. In 1994, polio was eradicated from most parts of the United States and the world. -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Till was a 14 year old Black boy from Chicago that went to Money, Mississippi with his uncle. While in Money, Emmett allegedly spoke to a white woman in Roy Bryant's store. Days later Roy Bryant and Miliam decided to enact revenge on Till and kill him. When his body was found, his mother held an open casket. Making many black people angry about the conditions in the south. The trial for Emmett's death was ruled not guilty. -
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005) refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, which spurred on the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was one of the first Civil Right's protests, this was caused by Rosa Parks not giving up her seat to a white man while on a bus. She was arrested by the Montgomery police, as a result many of the black people who lived in the city decide to boycott the bus system for an entire year they walked to their destinations. Soon, the Supreme Court ultimately ordered the Montgomery bus system to desegregate the bus systems. -
G.I. Bill
Allowed men and women in uniform returning from the war to continue their education at govt expense; veterans also received over $16 billion in low interest, govt backed loans to buy homes and farms and to start businesses. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. n 1949, nearly 9 million veterans received up to $4 billion from the bill’s unemployment compensation program. -
Little Richard
Little Richard was known for his flamboyant performances, Little Richard's hit songs from the mid-1950s were defining moments in the development of rock ‘n’ roll. He wails and screams in his songs like in the songs “Tutti-Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally”. Richard turned these songs into huge hits and influenced such bands as the Beatles. In 1951 Richard caught his first major break when a performance at an Atlanta radio station, and In 1955 Richard hooked up with Specialty Records producer Art Rupe -
Beat Generation
Referred as "Beats" or "beatniks", this group of people consisted for artists, novelists, and poets. The Beat Generation was an american social and literary movement originating in the 1950s and centered in the bohemian artist communities in mostly San Francisco. they rejected american materialism and culture, such as home ownership, careers, and marriage. Yearned for individual freedom and pleasure. Also, black communities influenced with slangs, sucha as "dig it" and "man" -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African american students:boys and girls, who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their presents at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Eisenhower's Intervention
President Eisenhower had a dilemma when the Little Rock 9 crisis happened, he knew he had a vow to uphold the Constitution's laws as the President of the United States.This meant that he had to protect the rights of the Black students, and had to flex the power of the executive branch and sent the federal troops to stop Faubus' intrusion of the federal Brown v. Board law. After this, the students attended Central High School. This showed that the government would uphold Civil Rights laws -
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was the American attempt to overthrow communist government Fidel Castro. This plan ended up failing due to Americans not supporting it, the U.S air support did not arrive. President John F. Kennedy took responsibility for the failure. The incident was an embarrassment for the U.S. Castro then used the failed invasion to get even more aid from the Soviet Union and strengthen his grip on power -
Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish ancestry and developed an even better, oral vaccine for polio and used it to allow for the eradication of polio. Sabin's vaccine was licensed in 1960 and replaced Jonas Salk's inactivated poliovirus vaccine, and the vaccine prevented the actual contraction of the disease and eliminated polio. He was on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.. -
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State. The same day, he sent a message to Congress asking for permanent funding for the agency, which would send trained American men and women to foreign nations to assist in development efforts. The Peace Corps captured the imagination of the U.S. public, and during the week after its creation thousands of letters poured into Washington from young Americans hoping to volunteer. -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Boi shot President Kennedy in the dome piece. Oswald was a former US Marine known for poor accuracy the former Marine scoped Kennedy from a building while he was in his drop top during a presidential motorcade, Oswald shot twice at Kennedy from a building. The first shot wounding him and the second one taking his face off. Oswald was murdered on November 24, 1963 in Dallas, TX, shot and killed by Jack Ruby. -
The Birmingham March
The Birmingham March was a large protest against segregation by African Americans. This large protest would be organized by Civil Rights African American leaders such as Martin Luther King. Jr. This protest however, would lead to a large amount of violence and would force the United States army to appear to better control the situation. This violence would be broadcasted and shown to the world, giving influence that segregation should be stopped. -
George Wallace (Gov. Of Alabama)
George Wallace was one of the opposing forces to Civil Rights and especially opposed the policy of desegregation and integration. He was elected governor of Alabama in 1962. In his 1963 inaugural address, Wallace promised “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” He took this so literally that when black students tried to attend he physically stopped them from entering till he was pressured federally. -
Birmingham Bombing
The Birmingham church bombing occurred when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—a church with a predominantly black congregation that also served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people injured.This attacked was caused due to Jim crow and the organization know as the KKK. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963. He was shot while riding through Dallas, Texas, in an drop-top convertible. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy along his side, with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas. Oswald fired shots from the sixth floor of a building, shooting Kennedy in the face killing him. President Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes after being shot. -
Daisy Girl
The Daisy Girl Ad was a sixty second political advertisment that aired September 7, 1964. It shows a little girls counting the petal of a daisy which looks up and sees a nuclear weapon go off, killing the little girl. This as was used for the Presidential Election of 1964; it was Lyndon B. Johnson's response to Barry Goldwater's comments on NATO. It is the advertisement that played to the fears of the public over the cold war and is the ad that made LBJ win the election by a landslide. -
Malcolm X
Born Malcolm Little, Malcolm changed his last name to "X" to represent the unknown name of his African American ancestors and the culture that was lost during slavery. X was the complete opposite of Martin Luther King. Malcolm X believed in violence, he converted to the Nation of Islam in 1964, and became a Muslim. -
Anti-War Movement
The movement against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began small among peace activists and intellectuals on college campuses–but gained national attention in 1965, after the U.S began bombing North Vietnam. Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by Students for a Democratic Society, attracted a widening base of support over the next 3 years, peaking in early 1968 after the successful Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese troops proved that war’s end was nowhere in sight. -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was born on January 2nd, 1909. He was an American politician who served in the 60's and 70's. He was also a five-term Senator from Arizona from 1953 to 1965 and from 1969 to 1987. He had a strong impact on the conservative resurgence and the libertarian movement. -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. President Johnson first used the term "Great Society" during a speech at Ohio University. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation were launched during this period. -
Selma March
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests, a Southern state with racist policies. In an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with violence from local cops and racist white groups. As the world watched, the protesters under protection of federalized National Guard finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. -
Hippies
Hippies were a group of people a part of the counter culture against the typical American ideas. Their original movement of counter culture began on campuses of colleges. They had believed in peace, nonviolence, and living in the movement without an worries of the future. They would have inspiration from rock and roll music and artist such as Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and used their music to create their ideas of counter culture. -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. In 1969, community social programs became a core activity of party members.The Black Panther Party instituted a variety of community social programs, most extensively the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, and community health clinics to address issues like food injustice. -
LSD
LSD was popularized in the 1960s by individuals such as psychologist Timothy Leary, who encouraged American students to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.” This created an entire counterculture of drug abuse and spread the drug from America to the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Even today, use of LSD in the United Kingdom is significantly higher than in other parts of the world.While the ‘60s counterculture used the drug to escape the problems of society. -
Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. -
The New Right
The New Right was the outspoken conservative movement of the 1980s (which began in the mid 1970s) that emphasized such "social issues" as opposition to abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, homosexuality, and affirmative action. It was mainly a doing of the Republican Party, and it followed America's mass liberalization due to the Great Society. It saw another rise of laissez-faire capitalism and a reactionary response to the social progressivism of the 1960s. -
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal agency established by Nixon to protect and preserve the environment; along with the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the establishment of OSHA, this agency made notable progress in reducing automobile emissions and cleaning up waterways and toxic dump sites. At the time, America was doing a lot of pollution without actually caring about the environment but the EPA helps maintain certain standards across the country to protect the environment. -
Phyllis Schlafly
Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1924, Phyllis Schlafly was an American writer and political activist. She was best known for her opposition to the women’s movement and especially the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1967, Schlafly began publishing The Phyllis Schlafly Report, a monthly newsletter intended to mobilize her supporters and inform them about political issues and candidates. In a 1972 issue of the newsletter she announced her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. -
Watergate Scandal
Watergate Scandal was a major scandal that dealt with president Nixon. Nixon had set up an illegal break-in into the Democratic National Committee office. These people who were entering were known as plumbers. The plumbers would then try to wire tap the phones, however, they would be caught leaving Nixon with questionable suspicion. As a result, Nixon would resign from presidency before his eventual impeachment from office. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment that would ban any discrimination based on sex. It was at first seen as a great victory by women's-rights groups. The amendment fell 3 states short of the 38 required for ratification. However, many states have adopted similar amendments to their state constitutions. Although defeated, the popularity of the amendment showed how far feminists had come. -
Watergate
The scandal began when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. The burglars had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents- all for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. Nixon went to extreme lengths to cover up the crime and in August 1974, after his role in the conspiracy was revealed, Nixon resigned. -
Roe vs. Wade
In the 1970's, Jane Roe was an unmarried and pregnant Texas resident. In Texas it was illegal to abort a fetus unless it would save the mother's life. Roe filed suit against Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, stating the statue on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy implicitly guaranteed in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In deciding for Roe, the Supreme Court legalized abortion during the first trimester. -
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation was a conservative American think-tank that promoted the principles that made America great: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. It attacked liberal legislation and the permissive culture it had created. followers envisioned themselves as crusaders, working against what one conservative called "the despotic aspects of egalitarianism." -
OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference in September of 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. On October 17, 1973, OPEC announced a decision to cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel. According to OPEC, exports were to be reduced by 5% every month until Israel evacuated the territories occupied in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. -
Stagflation
Economic term from the 1970s used to describe a situation where inflation and unemployment increase during the same time period. During the 60's and 70's, the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation and 6% unemployment. It decreased Americans' purchasing power which ultimately led to a recession in the U.S. economy. Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter had difficulty dealing with this issue. Nixon attempted to solve the problem by implementing his New Economic Policy. -
General Ford's Presidency
Former President of the United States who was appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned in the fall of 1973 due to the shame of Nixon's Watergate scandal. He succeeded to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation in August 1974 and focused his brief administration on containing inflation that was happening at the time and reviving public faith in the presidency. He was defeated narrowly by Jimmy Carter in 1976. -
Jimmy Carter
Former President of the United States that actually was very irrelevant prior to his presidency and worked as a peanut farmer in Georgia. He defeated Gerald Ford in 1976. As President, he arranged the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in 1978 but saw his foreign policy legacy tarnished by the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis in 1979. Carter wanted to help America with its energy problems but he came at a time when the country was declining economically. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords was an agreement between Israel and Egypt that was signed on September 17, 1978, that led to a peace treaty between those two countries. This was the first ever treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbors. Influenced by U.S. President Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Pres. The agreements became known as the Camp David Accords because the negotiations took place at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. -
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. a political action group formed in the 1970s to further a conservative and religious agenda, including the allowance of prayer in schools and strict laws against abortion. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis erupted when a group of militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and took 53 American hostages. The Iran Hostage Crisis arose following Iran's Islamic Revolution by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini and the forced exile of the Shah of Iran. On 22 October 1979, President Carter made the decision to allow the exiled Shah into the United States for medical treatment and this action resulted in Iran Hostage Crisis with demands to extradite the exiled Shah. -
Election of 1980
This election was between Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan. The economy at this time was bad due to a recession and high inflation. Reagan campaigned to cut income taxes and to reduce government spending while increasing defense spending to challenge the Soviet Union. Carter fought for more government programs and mentioned the importance of human rights and preventing nuclear war. Ronald Reagan's victory resulted in Republicans gaining more power for the next few -
AIDS Crisis
AIDS is the advancement of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV. In the 1980's this became a very controversial issue as it spread to the United States, when it was first noticed in a gay man in 1981, soon people began associating with the disease as a homosexual disease due to how many gay people had the disease, but the disease actually spread to heterosexual people as well. There were many questions about AIDS at the time and many people didn't now how the disease spreads. -
Reaganomics
This was a name given to Ronald Reagan's economic policies as the President. Reagan created something called "trickle down" economics where more wealth should be given to those who are already rich because eventually people who are in the lower class would see the benefits of the rich getting richer. Reagan wanted to do this by reducing regulations for companies in order to limit the power the federal government had in the economy and stimulate it -
Rap Music
A genre of music that usually contains hard, inappropriate lyrics. Many cultures have now adopted this way of music, the music usually rhymes and uses slang, foul language and the artists are considered as "rappers". CHIEF SOSA -
Jimmy Carter
Born on October 1, 1924 in Georgia, James Earl Carter was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. During his presidency, 'Jimmy' Carter struggled to respond to formidable challenges, including a major energy crisis as well as high inflation and unemployment. He later lost the election of 1980 to Ronald Reagan. In 2002 Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for diplomacy and adcovacy. -
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Election of 1980
This election was between two main candidates, Ronald Reagan for the Republicans, and Jimmy Carter the current president who is a Democrat. Reagan was originally a movie star who then became the governor of California in 1966. Then, in 1980 he decided to run as a republican against Carter. Jimmy was running off of the ideals from the last election in 1976. Ultimately Reagan ended up beating Carter and securing the presidency. -
A.I.D.S. Crisis
The A.I.D.S Crisis was an at first denied crisis that had not quickly been dealt with. The reason for this was because of it's affiliation with gays and how it was a "gay plague". Since the disease had mostly effected gays, it was thought to be harmless to those that were heterosexual. As a result, little was down by politicians. However, as it began to spread to others that were not considered gay, people began to become fearful and worried of this disease. -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan appealed to the common man and "populist" ideas. He served as governor of California from 1966-1974. Iran released hostages on his Inauguration Day in 1980. While president, he developed Reaganomics, the trickle down effect of government incentives. He used the Strategic Defense Initiative to avoid conflict. His meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War. He was also responsible for the Iran-contra Affair which bought hostages with guns. -
Music Television
MTV: Music Television was a television station meant to air music videos on cable television, The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first music video to air on the new cable television channel. MTV would become an extremely influential force in the music industry and allowed for many influences in pop culture at the time to rise. Eventually, the company would start airing non-video programming, geared toward teenagers and young adults -
Sandra O'Connor
She was the first ever female to serve on the Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006, Sandra was a moderate conservative, she often made her opinions on cases by researching the topic in depth, in her later years she became more of a liberal on topics.Sandra Day O’Connor retired from the court on January 31, 2006. Part of her reason for retiring was to spend more time with her husband, who was very ill at the time. Today, O'Connor lives in Arizona as a retired Justice. -
SDI
Ronald Reagan's proposed missile-defense system, this plan wanted to have orbiting satellites in space that would be able to fire laser beams to vaporize any ICBMs as soon as they would lift off. This was popularly known as "Star Wars". This plan also wanted to give the technology to the Soviet Union as well, and if both nations had it there would be no point in threatening nuclear war against each other. This plan was scientifically impossible and astronomically expensive. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
During this period of time, the Soviet Union was being to fall and lose their control in areas. Later, after a meeting with United States president, Ronald Reagan, and Soviet Union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, they eventually were able to come to an agreement of tearing down the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the people of Eastern and Western Germany were tearing down the wall and became a single country once again. -
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Bill Clinton
Ran in the election of 1992 as part of the democratic side. Governor of Arkansas, was announced on October 3, 1991 in Little Rock, Arkansas. After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 1992, the campaign announced that then-junior Senator from Tennessee, Al Gore, would be Clinton's running mate. -
Election of 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. 1992 Presidential Election. The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush; Democrat Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot. -
Bill Clinton Presidency
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. The presidency of Bill Clinton began at noon EST on January 20, 1993, when Bill Clinton was inaugurated as 42nd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2001. -
Al Gore
Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. He was the 45th Vice President from 1993 to 2001, under Bill Clinton. He was also the democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election, but was beaten by George W. Bush. -
Election of 2000
The election of 2000 was between Republican George W. Bush(former president George H. W. Bush's son) and Democratic candidate Al Gore, the Vice President at the time. -
Bush vs. Gore
This court case was between presidential candidates Gore and Bush. This ended with the Florida Supreme Court's law declaring that making new election laws to recount after they have been counted once is unconstitutional. -
9/11
The September 11th attacks were executed by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, lead by Osama Bin-Laden. This event involved the hijacking of four planes, two hitting the World Trade Center, one hitting the Pentagon, and one crashed in a field. 2,996 people were killed, and 6,000 people were injured. -
Election of 2008
Yung Obama vs. John McCain. The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.Barack Obama's victory and the 2008 presidential election in general is one for the history books.Election. On November 6, 2012, Obama was re-elected for his second term as President of the United States. He won 65,899,660 popular votes and 332 electoral votes, with two states less than in his 2008 victory. -
Yung Obama
He was the 44th president of the United States, and first African American elected to that office. A lawyer and community organizer in Chicago, Obama served in the Illinois State Senate before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. After a protracted primary election campaign against Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama sealed the Democratic Party's nomination and defeated Senator John McCain on November 4, 2008. Due to his popularity , he was reelected for his second term in 2012.
