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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 Balkans Crisis
The Balkans Crisis was two successive military conflicts that had deprived and affected the Ottoman Empire and almost all the left over land in Europe. The first Balkan war had been fought between members of the Balkan League wish consisted of Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro and The Ottoman. The founder had been the Russian auspices and their first goal was to take Macedonia away from Turkey who had already been involved in a whole different war with two other countries, which was Italy -
Smith Act
The Smith Act also known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940 had passed thr federal law in 1940 which planned to make criminal offense to advocate the violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member of any group or society devoted to such advocacy. It was a very serious crime if anyone intended to cause th overthrow or the destruction of any such government,prints,publishing, issues, circulates,sells, distributes or publicly displays of any written matter advocating. -
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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 -
Trinity Test
The trinity test began when the efforts of the Manhattan Project had finally became to fruition in 1945. After the three years of hard and long research and many experiments the world first nuclear device known as the gadget ad been successfully detonated in New Mexico desert. The Trinity Test was a est that needed to be done before the actual activation of bombs to prepare for a successful outcome, The preparation had many encouragements and the challenges faced were very multi faced and large -
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Civil Rights
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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. -
Fat Man
The Fat man was an atomic bomb that was dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on the 9th of August 1945.The Fat man was one out of two bombs used in the surprise attack. The other bomb was the Little boy. The Fat man had marked the third ever man made nuclear explosion in history. The bomb had been made and built by the scientist and engineers at Los Alamo Laboratory using plutonium from the Hand ford Site.The fat man was an example of the first early design of the bomb -
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 -
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. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a very famous doctor that would test the polio virus vaccine. With the help of the Virus Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine Salk began to develop the techniques that would lead to the vaccine to help and remove the horrible virus at the time. Salk had believed that with the help of his vaccine it would kill the polio virus at the time and could immunize without risk of infecting the patient, he tested the vaccine on people who were not infected -
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. -
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a new and cultural and literary movement that was claimed to be the nations consciousness.It hadn't became a large movement in sheer numbers.This movement had happened right after the second cold war and was seen as a conventional structure of society. It had included liberate poetry and included progressive jazz.The beat generation were the central elements of beat culture are rejections an standard narrative values spiritual quest. it included eastern religions and drug -
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, Th Honeymooners and I married Joan had all earned very high ratings -
The Space Race
The space race is a very well known and iconic moment in U.S history, After the World War II the United States started dealing with new problems such as the Cold war where the Soviet Union and and United States were put against each other. Towards the beginning of the 1950's space was the big talk and it had became a very dramatic topic and saw this as a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and each side wanted to create the technology to see who went to space first. -
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1950's
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Bill Haley and his comets
Bill Haley and His Comets were an american rock and roll band that were very famous and founded in the 1950's. The band came to an end when Haley died in 1981. The song "Rock Around the clock"
became their biggest hit because it cause national success. The had later sold a million copies of Crazy Man, Crazy which was something heard a lot from the teenage audience. They're success came to a sad end when the popularity in the united states began to go down during the years 1956 and 1957. -
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 continues 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 29th century. When world war 2 began the Japanese had invaded Vietnam and the leader formed the league for the independence of Vietnam -
Elvis
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. -
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 am injection. The World Health Organization re commended 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 yeae. There were more ways to take the vaccine to get it into your body.It included side affects -
Emmett Till. Tragedy
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 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 to realize Jim crow -
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. -
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 a Alabama bus. This caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott that had helped launch the nation wide 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 loosing a lot of money affecting them -
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 9
The little rock nine is one of the most well known group 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. In 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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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1960's
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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 -
JFK moon speech
On May 25th 1961,president JFK had spoke and gave a speech at rice university to announce the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American man to the moon before the end of the decade. The soviet union and America had been in the space race for a while and JFK felt extreme pressure to catch up with the soviet union. America did not win the space race because on April 12,1961 Yuri Gagarin had became the first human ever in space, this then added more pressure to America to make heir mission -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was the person who allegedly assassinated President John. F Kennedy in Dallas Texas on November 22nd 1963. Oswald had been taken to jail two days later but was then killed by Jack Ruby. Lee Harvey had gained a very high interest in literature and began his studies in New York. In 1956 he had joined the U.S. Marine s and was court-martialed twice in 1958.His support over communism began getting stronger and had ordered a gum which made him seem very sketchy over the death of JFK -
I have a dream speech
The "I have a dream speech" is one f the most important and historical events in american history. The speech was given by Martin Luther King Junior who was a civil rights activist for black people during the 19th century. His many efforts were towards ending racism and segregation all across america. In the spring 1963 he had organized the demonstration in Alabama. The speech by Martin Luther was just a step from many to advance in the end to racism that impacted many people all over America -
Birmingham Bombing
The Birmingham Church Bombing took place on September 25 1963 which exploded at the 16th street Baptist Church.The church was an predominately black congregation that also was used as a meeting place for civil rights leader for the black community.Their were four young little girls that killed at the scene and left many injured. After the incident there was a lot of anger and violent crashed between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention to the struggles and incident -
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of John F. Kennedy took place on November 22nd,1963 in Dallas Texas. JFK was traveling the west and planned to speak in nine different states in a week. His goal was to talk about the important themes such as education, national security and world peace.There were massive crowds of excited people ad everyone was waving at the president and the Kennedy's, it turned to main street and John F. Kennedy decided to ride with the top down, he was shot two times and was pronounced dead -
Warren Commission
A week after Presidents John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas Lyndon Johnson had established a new commission to investigate Presidents Kennedy's death. It had taken over a year t o conclude the alleged gunman responsible for Kennedy's death. The investigation led them to believe it was Lee Harvey Oswald that had acted alone in the assassination of the 35th president. The investigation groups was desperate to get any information to solve the case to the death of John F. Kennedy -
Counterculture
The counterculture during the 1960's was a period when long held values and normal behaviors were changed. Young men and women were starting to become political activist and getting involved in politics which slowly lead them to start a different culture surprising many. Young people would separate themselves from the mainstream and expected culture and this affected their appearance and lifestyle. Feminism started to become something women and girls were interested in and the hippie lifestyle. -
Freedom Summer
The freedom summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project and led to the 1964 voter registration drive that was part of the civil rights organizations including the congress on Racial Equality. On June 15, 1964 the first three hundred arrived and two of the three hundred white students had disappeared Michael Shwerner and Andrew Goodman who were both from New York and a local Black American also disappeared by the same James Chaney. Their beaten bodies were found six weeks later murdered. -
Daisy Girl Ad
The Daisy girl ad caused conversation during 1964 and changed american politics in history. The ad showed a three year old in a dress picking petals in a flower field. She was counting down and suddenly a massive nuclear bast happened. The message had been from Lyndon Johnson. The ad was used to promote the presidency Lyndon Johnson because Barry Goldwater was a genocidal maniac who wanted to use bombs. Lyndon Johnson had won the presidency easily because of the emotional and powerful ad. -
Selma March
The selma Montgomery march was a part of many civil rights protest during the protest era that were happening during Alabama. There were many racist policies that had to come to an end. The march was led by Martin Luther King Junior and the march took place during the several protest at the time. The march was stopped two times and once was stopped by police and ended violently. Over 25,000 people participated in the march and walked 50 miles. All the event became known as American civil rights. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to send a man to the moon and these were the first steps to advance in space studies. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men on the moon. The main plan with Apollo 11 was to achieve its first primary mission (to perform a manned lunar landing and return safety to earth) this had opened new doors. Neil Armstrong had said the famous words that are very well known now a days "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -
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1970's
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Enviromental Protection Agency
The Environmental Agency act was made to help control and to regulate the pollution that was happening at the time.They wanted to prevent illnesses from happening and recourse to get hurt. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) came with more Acts such as the Noise pollution act, nuclear waste policy act,resource conservation and recovery act,river and harbor act, safe drinking water act.They wanted to reduce air pollution and decrease the trash that was being dumped on oceans, it was helpful -
Nixon Tapes
The Nixon Tapes are known to be audio recordings of conversations between President Richard Nixon at the time and also included the Nixon administration officials that Nixon's family friends and the white house staff had produced between 1971 and 1973. There was a taping system built in the Oval office and also in the Oval office desk. The purpose of the taped were to capture and record audio transmitted by telephone calls with telephone taps and concealed microphones. Taped were then deleted. -
Watergate hotel
The Watergate hotel had included and started one of the biggest scandals in presidential history.The scandal began on June 17,1972, several burglars were arrested in the office of the democratic national committee who were located at the Watergate complex in the capital. They were caught wiretapping phones and stealing important documents which caused Nixon to take aggressive and serious steps and his conspiracy was revealed and Nixon had to resign leaving the Vice president to become president -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was established to protect and recover species that were being endangered in their ecosystem which animals depend on. Congress had passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973 and it was meant to recognize the natural and rich heritage and the value of the nature. In 1972 president Richard Nixon had declared that the conservative efforts in the United States aimed towards preventing extinction of species and the act was then signed and passed on December 28th for help -
Roe v. Wade
Roe V. Wade was a legal case that the U.S Supreme court had taken in on January 22, 1973. The case had began over talks on abortion throughout america at the time. The Supreme court had declared a pregnant women to be allowed to be entitled to have an abortion until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy without any interference of the state. The rule before this was made was that women were bale to have abortions only when the mothers life was in danger preventing different abortions -
Nixon's Presidency
Richard Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States and is known as the first president to ever resign in office. Nixon had resign in 1974 during his second term,he didn't want to face impeachment so he decided to choose the option and resign instead after the huge Watergate scandal.During Nixon presidency he had achieved many successful things such as forging diplomatic ties with china and the soviet union and withdrawing and withdrew U.S. troops from a very unpopular war in Vietnam -
Personal Computers
The first personal computer was first introduces in 1975. The first computer were made by Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Jobs. The personal computer business was doing really well and helped the economy a lot since the teenage population were amazed by the new creation that allowed them to have access. They are much different hat the laptops that are made today such as the size, the speed, the lay out, access to different things on the computer and many other things that are very helpful today -
Jimmy carter
Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. Jimmy Carter had struggled a lot during his run as president and had many problems involving formidable challenged and major energy crisis, high inflation and a lot of unemployment. There were foreign affairs that had re opened that included U.S. relations with China and made a very hard efforts to solve the Arab-Israeli conflicts that had been affecting the U.S. for years. Jimmy Cater had ran after his presidency for a second term. -
Three Mile Island
The three mile island was the site of a nuclear power plant located in the south of Pennsylvania. At the three mile island the worst mechanical and human errors took place, the events that happened this day had caused many problems and issues. A commercial nuclear accident was caused and had released a very dangerous radioactive gasses into the atmosphere which later spread throughout . Because of the sad incident the United States was scared for something like this so they dont make any anymore -
The moral Majority
The Moral Majority was an organization made for politics that had been founded in 1979 by Jerry Falwell. There are positive things that came from the organization such as helping to establish the religions right as a force in American politics. The organization first began when was response to the social and cultural transformation that had occurred in the United States in two different eras.Since it was established by Falwell he described is as a pro family and pro american and a strong policy -
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1980's
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Election of 1980
The Election of 980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election that took place on November 4th 1980. The republican nominee was Ronald Reagan who won the presidential election. The democrat running against Reagan was Jimmy Cater. There had been a lot of talk and conservativism towards Ronald Reagen's run and election, a lot of people and historians considered the election to be a realigning election, Jimmy carter did not win due to the unpopularity and poor relations with democratic leaders -
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first women to serve in the court of the Associate Justice of the Supreme court of the United States. She had served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan in 2006. After the court she had been elected official and a judge in Arizona and had served again as the first female Majority Leader of state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona senate. Sandra Day O'Connor considered herself a federalist and moderate republican intended to narrowing her argument -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle program was one of the four human spaceflight programs that was made from NASA that had a goal of accomplishing a routine transportation for Earth to orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. The space shuttle was made from two reusable solid rocket boosters and disposable external fuel tank that carried up to eight astronauts at a time and being able to hold up to 50,000 lb of payload into the Earth orbit. This pace shuttle was winged manned spacecraft and achieved the orbit -
MTV
On august 1st 1981 MTV was aired for the first time ever and started off with music. MTV had became one of the biggest forms of entertainment in TV,that included the most popular music. It had revolutionize the music industry and had became an influential source of pop culture and entertainment to the United States and other parts of the world that aired the popular and very highly televised TV show.Europe, Asia and Latin america were a few other countries that featured MTV and gained popularity -
A.I.D.S Crisis
A.I.D.S. had been the talk of the century following a great number of people affected from the deadly disease. Throughout the years the illness and disease seemed to spread and with little to no advance medication the disease was more known to be contagious. During the early summer of 1980 the U.S centers for disease Control and prevention had established Aids hotline to responds to any one with questions to help them with information because of how serious the disease had gotten over the years -
SDI
The strategic Defense initiative also known as the SDI and Star Wars was a program first introduces on March 23,1983 under President Ronald Reagan. Th e purpose of the program was o develop a well sophisticated and serious missile system to prevent attacks from other countries that would want to attack or see the U.S as a thread but it was almost made over threats from the Soviet Union an fear that there would be possible attacks from them. The name star wars came along over lasers used -
The Reagan Doctrine
Ronald Reagan who was president at the time made his own foreign policy and had established what is known as the "Reagan Doctrine". The purpose of this Reagan doctrine was to serve as the foundation for the Reagan administration support of freedom fighters around the world. Reagan had said many famous words that were the foundation to the new idea and the words laid the foundation for the program towards the military assistance to the freedom. Reagen believed that his policy was very succesful -
Iran Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair had been a very secretive US government arms deal that had freed the 52 American hostages that here held in Lebanon after many conflicts had taken place.The ensuing political scandal had grown and left the family of the hostages very worried and distressed over the long wait to get them back Th scandal had also affected the presidency of ronald reagan and threatened to bring down his high as a president.This all started when the US had relations with other countries -
Challenger Explosion
The very famous NASA space shuttle Challenger Explosion had exploded a minute after liftoff.The challenger space shuttle had seven astronauts aboard including the first civilian in space.It was later announced hat the space shuttle failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch.Because of the explosion NASA decided to temporarily suspend all space shuttle missions after the devastating news and loss.After the tragic loss NASA made sure to check everything before an official mission -
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1990's
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Rodney King Incident
Rodney was born on April 2nd 1965 and would later be known to be involved with the police on a brutality case that had involved The Los Angeles Department on March 3 1991.There was footage that showed and proofed that the Los Angeles Department had been striking Rodney King with their batons while other police officers stood around and did nothing to stop or prevent the attack of the beating of Rodney King.The footage had been aired and caused a lot of public outrage from everyone towards police -
Election of 1992
The presidential election of 1992 included Bill Clinton sitting in the democrats and also included the republican George Bush. And the independent candidate Ross Perot had won 18 percent of the votes which was the highest percentage ever won by a third party candidate in presidential election history in 80 years. The democratic race had been very heated and intense because Harking was also running for the president position and the front runner appeared to be Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton had won -
Health Care Reform
During Presidents Clinton's presidency, Clinton had appointed a health care reform task force to help develop a better proposal for health care benefits for all american citizens and residents, He had composed over more than 30 working groups to dress many problematic things and specific health care issues to help improve and prevent health care related things foe the future.Clinton had also called for integration of public mental health and substance use. His goal was to better health issues -
World Trade Center Attack
On February 26, 1993 a terrorist had taken place in the world trade center that had included bombing. There had been a truck bomb that was set on below the North Tower on the World Trade center in New York Center. The terrorist attack was targeted by a terrorist group that included Ramzi Yousef, Ahmad Abouuhamlima, and other men who were part of the group. A year after the terrorist group was convicted of the crime of carrying the bomb into the world trade center and years later two others. -
Dont Ask, Dont Tell Policy
The Dont Ask, Dont Tell Policy had been announced by President Bill clinton at the time which was the military policy on gay service members on July 19,1993.The policy was to allow members who were gay to serve in the military regardless of their sexuality but only if hey were closeted. This prohibited men who were openly gay to serve in the military. This policy had began after many complains and outrage to ban gays in the military to serve.Bill Clinton thought this homophobic action would help -
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement also known as the NAFTA, the agreement had been signed by Canada,Mexico and the United Stated that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America but the agreement was official on January 1st 1994. The agreement had included many things such as the two supplements: the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. Many people don't agree that the NAFTA had been beneficial to North America -
Defense of Marriage Act
The Defense Of marriage act was a federal law passed on September 21st 1996 that denied federal recognition of same sex marriages and authorizes states to refuse to recognize same sex licensed in other states. The law had been passed out of feat that a lawsuit in Hawaii would force the state to give attention to the other states who passed the law. Steve Chapman believed that the DOMA would contradict how the nation had previously delt with same sex marriage in the past before the law was passed -
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
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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 attacks
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 -
Hurrican 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 -
Housing Bubble
The Housing Bubble was the sales of homes in the United States that had gone into a really huge change in a short amount o time and they were doing anything possible to fix the sales. The prices of the houses peaked in early 2006 which then affected many citizens and a few years later the prices were reported to drop and they announced that they had the largest price drop in history in house sales. There was also a credit crisis that came along with i and resulted from the bursting of prices. -
The Great Recession
The Great Recession had started on December of 2007 and ended two years later making it the greatest recession since the last war. The great recession had a lot of respect in the beginning in attempt to help the economy but sadly it ended when the unemployment rose from 4.3 percent of 9.5 percent towards the end of the great recession. The financial effects on the great recession also affected the home prices and fell approximately 30 percent and the non profit organizations were $69 trillion -
Sonya 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 -
Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War came to be when there had been a very long war between Iran and Irag and had ended the United Nations in August 1988 and by mid 1990 the two places had already been negotiating permanent peace treaty. But just as things seems to be resolved the foreign ministers had met up in hopes of the treaty to be resolved and issues would be fixed but after going back to their states Hussein delivered a speech accusing neighboring nation Kuwait of siphoning crude oil from oil fields -
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
