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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift is a U.S. effort to deliver supplies including two million tons of food and coal by air to West Berlin in 1848-1849. This was a response to the Soviet blockade of the city. Stalin had ordered a blockade were all supplies were cut off. In May 1949, Stalin lifted the blockade conceding that he could not prevent the creation of west Germany, -
Second Red Scare
Between the 1940s and 1950s, America was concerned the threat of communism growing in Eastern Europe and China. The subsequent Cold War helped to start a second and longer Red Scare. Some international events that helped lead to this event was the USSR refusal to allow free elections in Eastern Europe after WWII. The Berlin Airlift and the Korean War was also a part of the Second Red Scare. -
G.I Bill
The G.I Bill came to be signed by president Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944. It is also known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. It offers WWII veterans low interest rates on houses, a paid college tuition, and business loans. This bill is still in work today, establishing hospitals and covering expenses. Between 1944 and 1949, almost 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from Bill’s unemployment program. -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill made his most famous speech, in March 1946 which he described the new Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In 944-1945, Soviet armies established a communist government across Eastern Europe closing it off from the West. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine, a U.S. foreign policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism. -
Truman Doctrine
It was first utilized in Greece and Turkey in the late 1940s. It guaranteed to provide support like money and ,military supplies. By 1950, the U.S. had given 400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. The doctrine also helped countries fight communism. -
Marshall Plan
Following the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan was introduced. it was a massive aid program by George Marshall to rebuild Europe from debts of World War II and restore faith in capitalism. Make Europe rich and strong again and prosperous enough to resist communism. The plan applied to Western Europe only. American labor, farming, and manufacturing practices (technology) sent to Europe. -
Fair Deal
Fair Deal were proposals put by U.S President, Harry S. Truman to Congress. I 1949, Truman proposed a package of reforms-The Fair Deal. Truman was able to get some gains in public housing, minimum wage, and Social Security increases. The Fair Deal was a domestic program that called to an end to job discrimination for African Americans. Anti-communism was also a key element in his foreign and domestic policies. -
Elvis
Elvis Presley was conceived in 1935 of every a poor family living in East Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis adored music as a youngster however was compelled to act naturally instructed. He started getting attractions for his music in 1954. He had his own particular unmistakable style and of others, similar to Black mood and blues melodies. Move moves related with this classification persuaded they were sexually suggestive. In 1956, Elvis turned into a national hit for different teenagers. -
Beat Generation
- The movement started in the late 1950s, after WWII. It is a rise in artists, novelists, and poets. They rejected American Materialism and culture, home ownership, careers, and marriage. They believed in individual freedom and pleasure: drugs and sex. This generation is the foundation of hippies a war protests in the 1960s. They borrowed slang from black community: phrases like “dig it, and “man.”
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Korean War
Between WWII, the Japanese had control of Korea's natural resource. The war was fought between North Korea and South Korea. After the war ended, they hoped to their own nation, but allies split them where the soviet controlled North and the U.S controlled the South. 54,000 Americans died to keep communism. The war proved that the U.S is willing to go to war to halt communism. -
Bill Haley and the Comets
The amazing gathering Bill Haley and the Comets turned into a hit for their tune "Shake Around the Clock." This melody remained number one for two months and sol generally around twenty-five million duplicates the world over. Prior to their arrival of the tune, shake n' roll was over and again tossed out due to its awful effect on young people. Bill Haley and the Comets is said to change the way of life of Americans and around the world. -
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1950s
Conflicts amongst socialism and free enterprise ruled the decade, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. The contentions incorporated the Korean War in the beginnings of the decade and the start of the Space Race with the dispatch of Sputnik. Alongside expanded testing of atomic weapons, this made a politically preservationist atmosphere. -
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (Little Richard) was born on December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia. It is said that his melodies from the mid-1950s characterized the early shake n' move time. His eagerness transformed melodies into tremendous hits and affected ands like the Beatles. In 1955, Richard joined with Specialty Records maker Art Rupe. Notwithstanding his melodies, Little Richard showed up in a few shake films. -
Malcolm X
Dark Muslim priest and persuasive dark pioneer who moved far from King's peaceful strategies for common insubordination. He split with the Black Muslim development and shaped the OAAU which pulled in numerous youthful, urban blacks with its message of communism and self improvement. He pushed patriotism, self-protection, and racial detachment. Malcolm X was killed in 1965 while giving a discourse in New York City. -
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Civil Rights
The social equality development was a battle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to accomplish Civil Rights equivalent to those of whites, incorporating measure up to circumstance in work, lodging, and instruction, and in addition the privilege to vote, the privilege of equivalent access to open offices, and the privilege to be free of racial separation. No social or political development of the twentieth century has had as significant an impact -
Television
It was new stimulation where one could watch the news. The shows "I Love Lucy" and "Father Knows Best" started setting the perfect families demonstrating acquiescence and diligent work. Lawmakers used the TV as power, for instance, the Kennedy v. Nixon banter about. John F. Kennedy realized that individuals would go for appearance, driving him to be successful in the decision. He had gotten to looking attractive and enabling watchers to see him "presidential like" -
Dr. Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was a scientist and doctor. He was born in October 28, 1914 at New York, New York. He attended various universities like the University of Michigan, City College of New York, New York University, and College of Medicine. In 1947, he began researching on polio at the University of Pittsburgh. On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was released in the U.S. The oral vaccine was available in 1961. About two years later, he established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. -
Albert Sabin
Dr. Albert B Sabin is known as the developer of the oral live virus polio vaccine. It was tested outside of the U.S from 1957-1959. Soon, a successful vaccine was used to treat polio across the globe. A swell as dedicating his entire professional career to eliminate human suffering, Dr. Sabin also waged a campaign against poverty. He is known for his contributions in bringing peace and fighting diseases by cooperating internationally. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a NAACP part who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 when she was captured for abusing Jim Crow manages on a transport. In the wake of being captured, MLK encourages the dark group to blacklist, which hurt the transport organizations. It endured over a year, and finished in '56 when the SC pronounced isolated transports illegal. Her activity and the long blacklist that took after turned into a symbol of the mission for social equality. -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American who lived in Chicago with his mom, Mamie. He went up North to visit Uncle Mose in a Money, Mississippi. On August 24, he was at a store and endeavored to play with a white lady, Caroline, to inspire his cousins. Caroline's significant other, Roy, and his sibling, JW, take Emmett to a shed to beat and shoot him. At that point they toss him in a stream and was just perceived by a ring that his mom gave him before he exited. -
Ike turner
Like many other artists, Ike Turner made his upcoming because of R&B. He was born in November 5, 1931 in Mississippi and grew up listening to blues. Twenty-five years later, he married a singer Anne Mae Bullock and helped her create her stage persona, Tin Turner. They both created several hits and won an Grammy Award in 1971. Ike Turner struggled with drug addiction and died of a cocaine overdose in December 12, 2007. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower passed this bill to set up a perpetual commission on social liberties with investigative forces, however it didn't ensure a ticket for blacks. It was the principal social liberties bill to be ordered after Reconstruction which was bolstered by most non-southern whites. It prevented race authorities from meddling with dark voter enrollment and set up a Civil Rights Commission. Set up the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. -
Space Race
It was a competition between Soviet Union and the U.S for power and supremacy. Both nation s focused on winning firsts in the space exploration. This seemed necessary for national security. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and the president of the U.S wanted to prove their scientific superiority. Both countries believed that conquering other space was very important. -
Little Rock 9
A gathering of African-American understudies who were selected in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The resulting Little Rock Crisis, in which the understudies were at first kept from entering the racially isolated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and afterward went to after the intercession of President Eisenhower, is thought to be a standout amongst the most essential occasions in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Sit-Ins
A quiet dissent by dark understudies against isolation at lunch counters. In Greensboro, NC, 4 dark understudies arranged a sit-in to dissent the isolation in broad daylight places. Every day they sat down at whites just area and requested nourishment, yet they were not served on the grounds that they were dark, they sat sitting tight for the sustenance that would not be served and declined to move. Prompted the arrangement of the SNCC and sit-ins at sustenance counters the nation over. -
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1960s
The 1960s was per decade of the Gregorian date-book that started on 1 January 1960, and finished on 31 December 1969. The expression "1960s" additionally alludes to a period all the more frequently called the Sixties, signifying the complex of between related social and political patterns far and wide. This "social decade" is more approximately characterized than the real decade, starting around 1963 with the Kennedy death and closure around 1974 with the Watergate Scandal. -
Peace Corps
A government organization made by President Kennedy in 1961 to advance deliberate administration by Americans in outside nations, it gives work energy to enable creating nations to enhance their foundation, medicinal services, instructive frameworks, and different parts of their social orders. Some portion of Kennedy's New Frontier vision, the association spoke to an exertion by after war liberals to advance American qualities an impact through gainful trades over the world. -
Earl Warren Supreme Court
Baron Warren was a dubious Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969. He drove the Court in a sweeping racial, social, and political decisions, Including school integration a securing privileges of people blamed for wrongdoings; directed the Brown v. the Board of Education case. Court made when Eisenhower delegated the already preservationist Earl Warren as Chief equity William J Brennan Jr. The court turned into a vehicle for social change and backer for singular rights. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962, Soviet weapons began to import to Cuba. Kennedy reacted to warning that the U.S would not tolerate the offensive weapons in Cuba. The crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the Soviets and USA over ballistic missiles placed in Cuba. The outcome of the crisis caused Cuba to remain communist and heavily armed. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was going to Dallas to begin gathering support for the up and coming presidential race of 1964. Kennedy's death and burial service turned into an extremely important occasion for that age as the country was made up for lost time in distress and watched Kennedy's state memorial service on TV. His short administration was seen as a high purpose of the after war time and cast its effect on American legislative issues amid the 1970s. -
Lee Harvey Oswald
As indicated by government examinations, he was the marksman who killed JFK. He was an ex-marine who deserted to the Soviet Union. He lived in the Soviet Union until June 1962. Oswald was at first captured for the murder of cop Tippit, who was executed after JFK was shot. Oswald was later accused of the murder of Kennedy. After two days Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Rudy on live TV. -
Ascendancy of Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the Senator from Texas and was John F. Kennedy's running-mate in the 1960 race. He was confirmed as president after Kennedy's death, and he dealt with a noble and proficient change, vowing coherence with his forerunner's arrangements. He immediately shed the traditionalist shading of his senate years to genuine the inert liberal underneath. Congress passed the milestone Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited racial separation. -
I Have A Dream Speech
The March on Washington was an enormous showing of high contrast individuals in Washington in light of Kennedy's bill. Driven by Martin Luther King Jr., he gave his well known "I had a fantasy" discourse to a huge number of individuals and enlivened the country. It was one of the biggest and best exhibit in US history. This walk was in help of the social liberties charge. This discourse offered for the finish of racial preference. -
Anti-War Movement
The Anti-War Movement was an understudy challenge that began as the Free Speech development in California and spread far and wide. All individuals f the Anti-War Movement shared a restriction to war in Vietnam and denounced U.S. nearness there. They guaranteed this was abusing Vietnam's rights. This development brought about developing activism on grounds went for social change and so on. Basically a white collar class development which is viewed as social. -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater was a republican candidate who was an exceptionally traditionalist representative in Arizona. In the 1964 decision he figured out how to get a vast prevalence of more than 61 percent. His stage included decreasing government contribution, subsequently restricting Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lyndon B. Johnson wound up winning against and was made a beeline for filling a large number of his objectives. -
Feminism
Otherwise called the Second Wave of Feminism, is term that alludes to the 1960s Women's Liberation Movement that crusaded for square with rights on issues, for example, business, conjugal connections, and sexual introduction. Established by Robin Morgan, who was dynamic in social liberties and antiwar developments in the 1960s preceding establishing numerous radical women's activist gatherings, wellbeing systems, and establishments. -
Daisy Girl Ad
In September 1964, Lyndon Johnson's Campaign ran the now-great TV advertisement called "Peace Little Girl," featuring a young lady "Daisy" tallying down daisy petals she was picking, trailed by a storyteller checking down an atomic dispatch. Intended to depict his GOP adversary, Barry Goldwater, as a rash fanatic who decision would prompt atomic was, it was on;y ran once as a commercial, however news projects would later air it too. -
Hippies
Radicals put stock in hostile to realism, free utilization of medications, they had an easygoing demeanor toward sex and against congruity. Amid the mid-1960s, flower children honed free love and took drugs, ran to San Francisco in view of its low lease and interracial groups. They lived in mutual "crash cushions", smoked pot and took LSD, sexual unrest, new counter culture, nonconformists who impacted US contribution in Vietnam. -
Black Panther Party
An African-American association built up to advance Black Power and self-protection through demonstrations of social fomentation. It accomplished national and global nearness through their profound inclusion in the neighborhood group. This was a helper of the more prominent development, frequently begat the Black Power Movement. The development had provocative talk, aggressor act, and social and political twists for all time changed the shapes of American Identity. -
Death of MLK
Martin Luther King was shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. MLK was shot on his gallery by James, setting off a mob in 110 urban communities. In Washington, D.C., the uproar endured 4 days and 12 were killed while 1,000 harmed. Took 15,000 troopers to reestablish arrange, disillusioned after various social liberties riots; started to face profound situated issues of destitution and bigotry for blacks. -
Stonewall Riot
In June 1969, cops assaulted this Inn, which was a gay club in New York, and started capturing supporters for going to the place. Gay spectators insulted the police and after that assaulted them. Somebody began a fire in the Inn, nearly catching individuals inside. This denoted the start of the gay freedom development. New associations likewise started to ascend, similar to the Gay Liberation Front, which was established in New York. -
Warren Burger Supreme Court
Was the fifteenth Chief Justice of the United States serving from 1969 to 1986. Was selected by Richard Nixon to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Burger won Senate affirmation. He looked to enhance the organization of the government legal. -
Silent Majority’s involvement in politics
Nixon calls national solidarity on Vietnam War exertion and to assemble bolster for his arrangements; his call for help is an endeavor to limit the reestablished quality of the antiwar development. Swore that the U.S.s was "going to keep our dedication in Vietnam" -
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The 1970s as a "rotate of progress" in world history concentrating particularly on the financial upheavals,[1] following the finish of the after war monetary boom.[2] In the Western world, social dynamic qualities that started in the 1960s, for example, expanding political mindfulness and monetary freedom of ladies, kept on developing. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 decisions brought about the triumph of its Conservative pioneer Margaret Thatcher, the primary female British Prime Minister. -
Nixon Tapes
Sound where Nixon subtly recorded 3700 hours chronicles of discussion between U.S President Nixon and his organization official, Nixon's relatives, and White House staff. This assumed a major part in his renunciation of administration. -
Equality Rights amendment
An amendment to design and guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizen regardless of sex. Seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
Phyllis Schlafly
1971 was when she became the leader of the Pro-family movement. She started her own national volunteer organization called Eagle Forum. She had a 10-year battle and had a victory once the Equal Rights Amendment was established as she fought with the radical feminist movement. -
Title IX
- Federal civil rights law that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. Prohibits discrimination based on sex in any federally funded education program or activity. Avoids the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs.
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Roe v. Wade
Point of interest choice issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of he legality of laws that criminalize or limited access to premature births. The point of interest Supreme Court choice with respect to authorized premature birth. Find out about the case, the choice and its effect on the United States. -
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an exploration and instructive establishment, prevalently known as a "research organization," whose mission is to figure and advance preservationist open approaches in light of the standards of free undertaking, restricted government, singular flexibility, conventional qualities, and a solid national guard. An American preservationist open arrangement think tank situated in Washington D.C. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
A political standoff amongst Iran and the United States. 52 ambassadors and natives were held prisoner for 444 days. A gathering of Iranian raged the U.S. Government office in Tehran, taking in excess of 60 American prisoners. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
The war began when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. They carried out guerrilla warfare that drives Soviets out. During December, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan and assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. When Mikhail became leader of the Soviet Union, he wanted the war to end by increasing Soviet troops. This didn't work, and instead caused cost the economy. -
The Moral Majority
Prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and republican Party. They were a strong support group of conservative candidates. Founded by a Baptist minister named Jerry Falwell and his associates but was soon dissolved in the late 1980s. -
Robert Johnson
Established the Black Entertainment Television with his better half and turned into the main Africa-American extremely rich person in the wake of pitching the system to Viacom in 2001. He has since begun another business, The RLJ Companies, and has put resources into a NBA group, a film organization, and political causes and battles. -
Black Entertainment Television
The network first aired 1980. Its founder, who was a former lobbyist for the cable television industry in the late 1970s. In that capacity, Johnson quickly recognized the dearth of television programming designed from the African American public and created BET to reach that demographic audience. -
Election of 1980
A race of Ronald Reagan overcoming Jimmy Carter. This is because of Carter's disliked and poor relations amost the Democrat pioneers. Reagan battled to build resistance spending, execution of supply-side financial arrangements, and an adjusted spending plan. -
Reaganomics
Government monetary approaches of the Reagan organization. These arrangements consolidated a monetarist monetary strategy, supply-side tax reductions, and local spending cutting. Their objective was to decrease the extent of the government and animate monetary development. -
Rap Music
It was another dialect that rose from the roads as it talked about the particles and the great circumstances that were happening on each square. Rappers moved group with their extraordinary verses and soon moved toward becoming something large as it climbed and originated from the dark group. -
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1980s
The decade saw awesome financial change because of advances in innovation and an overall move far from arranged economies and towards free enterprise private enterprise. Numerous financial analysts concur at any rate that the ascent of monetary imbalance, amassing harm to open foundations in view of the results of deregulation, and expanding blast bust venture cycles. -
Music Television
Aired with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll” , spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first space shuttle launch countdown of Columbia and the launch of Apollo 11. Soon it showed the top 40 radio, video disc jockey, and bantered about music news between the clips. -
Satellite Entertainment
The quantity of dish proprietors develop, link organizations, and link administrations started to see them as "privateers" who were taking signs. This gave dish proprietors and preferred standpoint to naturally get the unadulterated flag to a stereo intensifier. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
Expected to build up a refined ballistic missile destroying rocket framework keeping in mind the end goal to keep rocket assaults from alternate nations, particularly the Soviet Union. They discharged a film titled "Begin Wars" since it made people in general effectively connect the program with new and imaginative advancements. -
Reagan Doctrine
Was a foundation for the Reagan administration's support of "freedom fighters" or anti-communists around the globe. It was for the American people and congress to stand up to the Soviet Union. The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Iran Contra Affair
A political outrage in the United States that happened amid the second term of Reagan's Administration. It was a mystery U.S. government arms bargain that liberated some American prisoners held in Lebanon yet additionally subsidized furnished clash in Central America. This debilitated to cut down the administration of Ronald Reagan. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall occurred in November, when the Cold War began to show across Eastern Europe. In, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Berlin asking the leader of the Soviet Union to bring down the wall. During that time, the Soviet Union was already in starting point to collapse. Then, the borders were open and people moved freely between Eastern and Western Germany. Most of the wall was brought down because of people chipping away as they celebrated an end to divided Germany. -
Ronald Reagan
The 40th President of the United States. He was a piece of the republican party and cut assessments, expanded guard spending, arranged an atomic arms lessening concurrence with the soviets, and is attributed with conveying a snappier end to the Cold War amid his term. He additionally finished two-terms. Reagan regarded the pestilence A.I.D.S as a joke. -
Persian Gulf War
International conflict that was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 1990. Egypt and several other Arab nations joined the anti-Iraq coalition and contributed forces to the military buildup, known as Operation Desert Shield. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War began. -
George H.W Bush
Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. While active in the public sector, he was known simply as George Bush; since 2001, he has often been referred to as George H. W. -
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1990s
Socially, the 1990s are described by the ascent of multiculturalism and elective media, which proceeded into the 2000s. Developments, for example, grunge, the rave scene and hip jump spread far and wide to youngsters amid that decade, supported by then-new innovation, for example, satellite TV and the World Wide Web. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney King was an African American who became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating by Lost Angeles police officers in 1991 was videotaped and broadcast to the nation. That led to riots, the riots over five days in the spring of 1992 left more than 50 people dead, and more than 2,000 injured. -
Election of 1992
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. The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 1992. Democrat Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush. -
World Trade Center Attack
It was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade in New York City. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured over a thousand. The bomb instantly cut off the World Trade Center’s main electrical power line, knocking out the emergency lighting system. The bomb caused smoke to rise to the 93rd floor of both towers, including the stairwells. -
Health care reform
Was a 1993 health care reform package proposed by the administration of President bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the pan, First Lady, of the United States Hillary Clinton. Is a general rubric used for discussion major health policy creation or changes. Health care reform typically attempts to improve the access to health care specialists. -
Don’t ask, don’t tell Policy
Is a ban on gay and lesbian service members is officially in the dustbin of history. For 17 years, the law prohibited qualified gay and lesbians Americans from serving in the armed forces and sent a message that discrimination was acceptable. As the nation’s attitudes about homosexuality shifted, a movement grew to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In 2010, Clinton said he regretted the policy. Later that year, Congress passed, and President Barack Obama signed a measure repealing DADT. -
Welfare Reform
In 1996, after constructing two welfare reform bills that were vetoed by President Clinton, Gingrich and his supporters pushed or the passage of the Personal Responsibility and work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), a bill aimed at substantially reconstructing the welfare system. -
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
The federal government must recognize the legal marriages of same-sex couples. Because of Section 2 of DOMA, the ruling does not require any state to legalize or recognize a lawful marriage from another state. On December 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Oral arguments were heard on March 2013. Ina 5-4 decision on June 2013, the Court ruled Section 3 of DOMA to be Unconstitutional, declaring it “a deprivation of the liberty o the person protected by the Fifth Amendment. -
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Contemporary history is politically overwhelmed by the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union whose impacts were felt over the world. The showdown, which was chiefly battled through intermediary wars and through mediation in the interior governmental issues of littler countries, at last finished with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in 1991, after the Revolutions of 1989. -
Election of 2000
The election pitted Republican George W. Bush against Democrat Al Gore. The election hinged on results from the state of Florida, where the vote was so close as to mandate a recount. The outcome of the election was ultimately decided by the U.S Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. Bush narrowly lost the popular vote to Democrat Al Gore but defeated Gore in the electoral college. -
Bush v. Gore
Was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida’s 2000 presidential election. On December the court had preliminary halted the Florida recount that was occurring. Bush lost popular cote to former Vice President Al Gore in 200 but won the electoral vote for U.S. president. Bush won presidency after a mandatory recount in Florida, and an additional hand recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court was ruled unconstitutional. -
Compassionate Conservatism
Is an American political philosophy that stresses using traditionally conservative techniques and concepts to improve the general welfare of society. The term itself is often credited to U.S. historian and politician Doug Wead, who used it as the title of a speech in 1979, although its origins lie in paternalism. This label and philosophy has been espoused by U.S. Republican and Democratic politicians since then though in recent times. -
Patriot Act
Is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation expanded, the full tittle is “Uniting and strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. The USA Patriot Act was passed by Congress as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. -
War on Terror
The continuous battle by the United States and a portion of its partners to counter universal fear based oppression; likewise called war on psychological warfare. Country Security is the office made to battle the war on fear. U.S. president George W. Shrub initially utilized the expression "war on psychological warfare" on 16 September 2001, and after that "war on dread" a couple of days after the fact in a formal discourse to Congress. -
No Child left behind Education Act
Is a federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress. It authorizes several federal education programs that are administered by the states. The law is a re-authorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The main goal of this act is to ensure all students are proficient in grade-level math and reading. -
The Great Regression
Refers to worsening economic conditions affecting lower earning sections of the population in the United States, Western Europe and other advanced economies starting around 1981. These deteriorating conditions include rising inequality; and falling or stagnating wages, pensions, unemployment, and welfare benefits. The decline in these conditions has been by no means uniform. Specific trends vary depending on the metric being tracked, the country, and which specific demographic is being examined. -
Housing Bubble
Is a run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation and exuberance. Housing bubbles usually start with an increase in demand, in the face of limited supply, which takes a relatively long period of time to replenish and increase. Speculators enter the market, further driving demand. How did it “pop”, this happens while the supply of housing is still increasing. In other words, demand decreases while increases, resulting in fall in prices. -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Justice and third woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Through hard work and dedication, she has accomplished everything she has set out to do. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 2009 by 68-31 vote and was commissioned by President Obama the same day. She was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts on August 2009. -
Undoing of DOMA
The Defense of Marriage Act is a 1996 law passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton, that forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Oral arguments were heard on March 2013. In a 55-4 decision on June 2013, the Court ruled Section 3 Of DOMA to be unconstitutional declaring it “a deprivation of liberty of the person protected by the Fifth Amendment.”
