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GI Bill
It was the end of the war and veterans were coming back, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill, in order to help soldiers secure stability as they returned to civilian life. This was pasted on June 22, 1944 which helped the returning veterans with stuff like returning back to education, housing and money if they wanted to start up a business. It was to help the veterans back on their feet after serving our country -
38th parallel
This was the name for the border that split Korea into South and North Korea before the war in 1945. This line is at 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane and is also known as 38th North. In 1950, America crossed this border which then caused China to enter the war. America sided with the South while China sided with the North. -
Atomic Bombs
These were the ultimate weapons of its time. They were deadly with chemicals that can kill in massive quantities. America was the first to successfully build atomic bombs and they were planning to use the atomic bombs on Japan, would not surrender to America. There were 3 bombs that were made Trinity, Little Boy, and the Fat Man bombs. Trinity was the first bomb and was used as a test. Little Boy and Fat man were released on major cities in Japan to try to make them surrender. -
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Fission Vs Fusion
Fission vs Fusion is basically another way to say compare the Atomic bombs and the Hydrogen bombs. The atomic bomb was made to separate atoms in an outward direction which is called fission. The hydrogen bombs do the opposite, the atoms of the hydrogen atoms fuse together or collide together instead of bouncing away from each other which is called fusion. This causes stronger damage. In fact the hydrogen bombs are 1,000 times stronger than the atomic. -
The Fair Deal
Taking after FDR's New Deal, Truman made the Fair deal. The deal would domestic policy reforms including national health insurance, public housing, civil rights legislation and federal aid to education. He wanted an increase in the minimum wage, federal assistance to farmers and an extension of Social Security, as well as encourage anti-discrimination. However, congress rejected national health care. But minimum wage did double from what it was. -
2nd Red Scare
It followed after the first red scare during WW1, but there were many similarities to both scares. Red scares were when Americans were afraid of communism spreading to the US. Red baiting was the act of trying to figure who is a communist in the UD government and taken them down. HUAC was established to help with the red scare, but was in the height of its power in the 2nd red scare. This scare mostly affected the artists and entertainers who were branded as communist and couldn't work. -
Joseph McCarthy
He was a republican senator for Wisconsin that pushed further for the red scare. He told the public in a conference that he has evidence that there were 250 people in the government that were communism. He was trying to red bait and accuse those people of being communist and it just happened because the public believes anythind during this time period. It was only unit McCarthy tried to attack the army that he lost his supporters and power. -
Rock 'n' roll
During this period, the popular types of music was Rock 'n' roll. There are musicians like Elvis "the king of rock", Little Richard, Ike turner, Bill Haley and the comets made the type of music really take off. However there were also bad associations with this type of music too. Some believe it was bad because they thought that it increase sexual activities in teenagers. Some thought that it was associated with violence and drugs. There were people that loved this period and some that did not. -
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Television
There were many inventors that claim to first make television, but it was really John Logie Baird. After WW2, it was a toy for the wealthy. But just 10 years later, nearly two-thirds of American households had a television. It also affected politics majorly because now people could see their candidates instead of only listening to their voice, or traveling to place to place. Harry Truman was the first president to be on TV. -
Billy Haley and the Comets
The members of the band were Bill Haley, bassist Marshall Lyte, Steel guitarist Billy Williamson and accordionist Johnny Grande.
They fused elements of country music, Western Swing, and black R&B to produce some of rock and roll's earliest hits. Their song "Rock Around the Clock" is the fourth-best-selling single worldwide by sales (25 million). The band continued to gain member and lose members, but kept going until Haley's death in 1981 -
Jonas Salk
There were many ways to get polio so trying to find a vaccine was tried and unsuccessful until Jonas Salk. He was the man that found the cure for polio, the polio vaccine. There were many that tried to do it, injecting themselves with the disease to find out if their cure had worked, many just tested it on many things. After he had successfully tested it on himself and his family, the University of Michigan publicly announced that they had the vaccine. -
Polio Vaccine
Another name for it is poliomyelitis. This is a virus that attack the nerves in the spinal cord and causes paralysis and was incurable until March 26, 1953. Dr. Jonas Salk on a national radio said that he had successfully made a vaccine for this virus. There were many outbreaks and epidemics in the past years and even just the year before the vaccine was made. 1952, over 3000 people had died from polio and 58,000 new cases. This discovery put Salk in engraved in history. -
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Civil Rights
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Domino Theory
It was the theory that surrounds if communism was in one country, it will spread to the neighboring countries and then the neighboring neighboring countries will adopt that government and soon communism will spread everywhere. President Eisenhower was the first to use the analogy in a press conference. They were most worried about the southeast Asia countries like Vietnam. Since Americans were afraid of communism coming to power, they took it as a way to butt themselves into the war. -
Emmett Till tragedy
Emmett Till was a 14 year old kid that lived in Chicago, but visited his cousins in Mississippi. He did not know how bad Jim Crow and oppression. He made the mistake of whistling at a white women. After than, he was kidnapped at night by the husband and brother of the white women. They found a body in a river unrecognizable because of how mutilated his body was, only his father's ring was the identification. This event was actually the spark of the Civil Rights movement. -
Little Richard
Little Richard is one of the people that made Rock and Roll popular during the 1950s along with Elvis, Billy Haley, Ike turner and a few other musicians. He was a singer and a piano player. He was adopted by a white family and started his career in music. He got produced and his music became famous with songs like "tutti frutti" that made No.17 instantly. He then later fell out of rock and went into gospel and church music, but later turns back to rock. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This started after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and she went to jail. A person of the name Jo Ann Robinson began spreading out the word about a bus boycott. Telling them not to ride the bus anymore. It will hurt the industry because most of the riders were colored people. This lasted for a year and it was successful, it almost drove the bus industry out of business because people were carpooling more than taking the bus. -
Rosa Parks
She is the famously known woman that was starting the fight for civil rights. She was not the one that started the Civil rights movement, but she help in pushing for it. It all started when a white man told her to get up and give him this seat, she refused to stand up. During that time, colored people were suppose to sit in the back of the bus and if there were no seats left, they were suppose to give up their seats for the whites. When she refused, she was arrested. Things began to take off. -
Elvis Presley
One of the most iconic significant figures in the 20th century. He is also known as the king of rock, King of rock and roll, or just the king. he was both a musician, singer, and an actor. to put in how popular he was, he was the third-highest-certified music artist in the US (146.5 million album certifications). He influenced everything, from the way he dressed to the way he spoke. His most infamous line is "Thank you, Thank you very much". -
Civil Rights Acts of 1957
President Eisenhower was trying to protect African american voting rights across the country, but the white southerns heavily resisted it. This caused the Southern Bloc where Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina segregationist filibustered for 24 hours reading the telephone book. This was the longest filibuster in history during the time and because of this, he prevented the act from pasting in congress. -
Little Rock 9
It was a nickname for the 9 black students that wanted to go to an all white school near their homes and not the all black school across town. They were segregated from going to this school and they were trying to get in, but Governor Orvaul Faubus didn't let them and even put troopers around the whole school to stop them from going in. Eisenhower fought back and gave those 9 students troops that followed them everywhere and protected them for the year. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the name of the first earth satellite that was sent into space. The Soviet Union was the one to first create and send it to space successfully. The space race between america and the soviet union was the one that pushed for this satellite. Both countries were racing to be the first one to have territory per-say in space. A sophisticated piece of metal that is the size of a beach ball, 183.9 pounds that can orbit the entire earth in 98 mins changed history forever. -
Counterculture
It was the time where people disgarded middle class value like being proper and uptight. This was the new "chill" version of society and it was all because of the Beat. Everything was about living freely and peacefully. They got to do things that they would never have done in the past. Hippies started to pop up everywhere, people were doing LSD and heroin to feel different and stuff like that. Rejected the idea of having a family or marriage, average jobs and things like that -
Television and Politics
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history. The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major impact on the election’s outcome, but ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential ingredients of a successful political campaign. They also heralded the central role television has continued to play in the democratic process. -
New Frontier
President Kennedy's New frontier was a new plan for America and is going to be used to get people vote for him. The new frontier was also meant a new way of doing things, that the future is going to be different and America is right on the edge of it. In his New frontier, he wants to increase federal aid in education, increase minimum wage, free medical care for the elderly, and expand the space and science programs that will literally take american to a new frontier. -
Hippies
They were apart of the Counterculture time periods. They rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs like LSD and heroin. They were dress in weird clothing and was very laid back, not like the typical white american. -
Sit ins
Sit ins were a form of non-violent protest that Martin Luther King proposed to fight for civil rights.The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is the group that participated in these sit ins. It started in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. These kids sit in the white section of restaurants and wait to be served. Whites began to hurt those kids by hitting them, throwing hot coffee, spraying ketchup and things like that -
LSD
This is one of the drugs that hippies in the counterculture used to get high and feel things that they never felt before. It will make you feel very intoxicated and hallucinations. It effects your mental state and emotional state. At least 20.2 million U.S. residents had used LSD. LSD is not the only drug there was, they also used heroin. They all make you see, feel and do weird things. This was at first a drug for science, but not in the counterculture -
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Peace Corps
It was a new agency that was part of the Department of state. President Kennedy passed it to promote world peace and friendship between the rest of the world. It would be fully funded and will sent trained Americans to different parts of the world to help others in need. Peace Corp would all together help the world understand America and America to understand and know more about the rest of the world. It is a compromise that will help all of the sides. -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was an invasion on Cuba after a man named Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorial president. The president before Castro was anti communist and allies with america, but Castro isn't not as friendly and dependent on America as much. So America and the CIA were planning a total invasion. However Castro knew about this and when Americans attacked, he had them surrender after 24 hrs of fighting. -
Naval Quarantine
The word quarantine replaced the word blockade because that term was usually used during time of war. So Naval Quarantine was when america ships blocked off ships that carry missile and bomb materials from the Soviet Union to Cuba. Soviet and Cuba had an secret alliance and they were secretly building bombs. America did not like that and turned to stop them. Some ships turned back but some did not. -
Birmingham Bombing
This happened in September, 1963 after the March in Washington. A bomb was hurdled inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham (African american church) and because of that bomb, 4 girls died. The KKK was responsible for their deaths, they were upset about the march and did that to scare them into leaving. However, they were never put on trial until after 2000, some are in jail as of now and some died in jail -
Ascendancy of Lyndon Johnson
A few hours after President John F Kennedy was assassinated, the vice president at the time was Lyndon Johnson. So of course he would be the next one to be inducted into office. 2 hours and 8 mins after Kennedy's death, Johnson was swore into office on Air Force One aircraft. So for 2 hours and 8 mins, america did not have a president and this would be the reason of the 25th amendment. -
The Assassination of JFK
The 35th president, John F. Kennedy will be shot in the head in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. He was only on his 3rd year of his first term and was in Dallas with his wife to start campaigning for his next term. They rode a motorcade down the streets and at around 12:30pm as they passed the Texas School Book Depository, shots were fired and it hit Kennedy directly in the head and hit the governor too. He was pronounced dead after 10 mins, the shot was fatal. -
Barry Goldwater
He was United States Senator from Arizona that was with the republican party, opposite party of Lyndon Johnson, Democratic party. He was very very conservative and believe that the New deal and Great society should just be gone. He wanted to get rid of those things and go back to the olden times. He did not want social security and did not civil rights. Believe that it went too far and that races should stay like how it was in the past. -
The Great Society
This was created during Johnson's Presidency. It followed the new deal, the fair deal and the new frontier. It was what Johnson was going to focus on during his term. The Great society actually was kind of like an extension of the New Deal which promised higher standard of living, better education and beautification of cities and things like that. During the Great Society was the civil rights act and became one of the known things that Johnson did. -
Malcolm X
His real name is Malcolm Little, but he changed it. He was African-American Muslim minister that believe that Islam is the religion for black people. He had spent 6 years in prison, part of the Nation of Islam, and was an aggressive civil rights activist. Except he did not like whites that support civil right to help their cause at first. He did not believe in non-violent protest and some accused him of preaching racism and violence. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was passes under the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. He allowed the legislation get passed. This resulted in banning segregation in business and places open to the public.It also made it illegal for a business not to hire someone due to their race, religion, sex, or ethnicity. This civil right act is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Daisy Girl Ad
This was a video about this little girl who was playing with flowers, counting each petal, not exactly in order. Then there was a voice that started counting down from 10 and then a loud boom happens and the screen goes black and the girl goes away. The ad was meant to scare people of nuclear warfare, and the boom and countdown represented a bomb and it killed the little girl. Johnson used this ad to win against Goldwater who was for nuclear warfare. This caused Johnson to win in a landslide -
My Lai Massacre
This was a massacre that happened during the Vietnam war. American troops had word that there were guerrilla fighter hiding out in one of the small villages in the northern coast of South Vietnam called My Lai. So the troops were command to destroy the village. However there were no guerrilla fighters hiding there, only unarmed women, children and old men. That day they were all murdered brutality and high end people covered it up until the truth was reveal and became an international scandal. -
The Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
He was in Memphis, Tennessee to give a speech at a church on April 4, 1968. During the speech, he actually foreshadow his death by saying that he is not scared of dying and that he would be with the lord. The assassination was on the balcony of Lorraine Motel, shots were fired and one hit the neck of MLK. He was rushed to the hospital, but he died an hour later at the age of 39. Many African Americans were devastated and furious about the murder of MLK -
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
President Nixon was the founder of this organization. It is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. They help from regulating safety food with Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), ways to reduce pollution and help the environment, and when congress passes laws, its up to EPA to put them into actions and into regulations. -
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Title IX
It states "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." This basically mean that you cannot excluded anyone from an school event due to gender. This was signed one 1972 by the president, Richard Nixon and enacted by Congress -
Watergate
This was one of the biggest political scandal in the United States in the 1970s. The scandal was about 5 men that were trying to help re-elect President Nixon, Republic and broke into the headquarters of the Democratic party in the Watergate Hotel. They were caught stealing papers and trying to plant listening bugs. Nixon denied having any relations with them, but later evidence proved him to be lying and this resulted in him resigning from the president position. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The equal rights amendment, also known as ERA, states that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution apply equally to all persons regardless of their sex. Things like terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.This was powered after the 19th amendment, women were pressing for equal rights under the law, they were pushing for more. there needs to be at least 38 states that have to ratify it, but only 35 did. -
Endangered Species Act
This is one of the dozen acts that were put in place to help protect endangered species from becoming extinct, hence the name. It not only protects the animals but their ecosystem and habits too. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are the 2 organizations that help protect these animals from being over hunted. It is very important because without it, the whole balance of the ecosystem will fail. -
Gerald Ford Presidency
He is going to be the 38th president of the United States and will be the only president that has not been elected for Vice president or President. He was an american politician and will serve one term from 1974 to 1977 The reason for Ford coming into this position was because of the resignation of Nixon and the scandal. During his presidency, he was faced with inflation and economic decline along with other things. -
Nixon's Resignation
The event that led to the first ever president to quit his job was the Watergate Sandal. Nixon was denied having any involvement with this scandal and CREEP (the Committee to Re-elect the President) which he made to help him get re-elected. That organization was caught in the act of stealing papers and bugging the Democratic Headquarters. Nixon said that he did not know what they were going to do, but turned out to be lying and had to resign. -
3 Mile Island
The 3 Mile Island was a nuclear power plant in near Middletown, Pa. On March 28,1979, the #2 reactor has a cooling malfunction and it melted part of its core and the TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Only some of the radioactive gases were release, but there was no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public luckily. This was apparently the most serious accident U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history. -
Moral Majority
It is it's own definition that defines as "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". It is associated with Christians and Republicans. The founders are Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, Paul Weyrich. They are all about conservative social values like family and pro-american. They are against gays, abortions, pornography and other things not Christian like. -
Iran hostage crisis
A group of Iranian students from The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed into the U.S embassy in Tehran and took hostage 52 american citizens and diplomats. This happened from Nov 4, 1979 – Jan 20, 1981 which is about 444 days until they were finally release. This event happened supposedly due to the fact that the students of Iran no longer wanted United States intervention into their country. Some say that this hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter a second term as president. -
Election of 1980
Election of 1980 was the election for the 40th President of the United States. The candidates were between Jimmy Carter representing the Democratic party, Ronald Reagan representing the Republican party and John Anderson as a independent. Reagan and Carter were the ones that were the main players. Carter was unpopular due to his term before which had high inflation and unemployment, gasoline shortages, and a hostage crisis. This caused Reagan to win this election. -
Jimmy Carter
He was the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In the Election of 1980, he was running for a second term against Ronald Reagan. However because of what had happened during his previous term, leaving United States economy in high inflation and unemployment did not help him win his second term. Ronald Reagan was the one that won the Election of 1980 and will beat Carter in a landside. -
AIDs Crisis
It started off as HIV, an unknown and transmission was not accompanied by noticeable signs or symptoms.and at first there were a few case here and there, but never in the United States.
Then by the 1980s, HIV has mutated into HIV-1, HIV-2, AIDs and were in 5 countries, including United States. There started to be more cases in the US, that are being transfered from person to person through intercourse and other methods. Many cases and deaths began to occur. -
Robert Johnson
He was the first Billionaire African American in history. This was possible due to BET, Black Entertainment Television. He got an education at University of Illinois and using political and business connection to make a tiny cable outlet. He saw that there was an African american audience that was untapped and unrecognized so that began BET. It airs 2 hours a week and soon claimed an audience of more than 70 million households. -
Discount Retailing
This was the genius thing that caused Sam Walton's net worth to be $100 billion dollars by the time he died. Discount Retailing can be defined as a retail shop that sell products for lower price, but still make more profit because of the quantities. Sam used this to create the world's largest corporation, Walmart, then expanded to Sam's Club. This was a big thing because they did not have this before and the prices were cheap so why wouldn't anyone take the chance of saving money -
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Sandra Day O'Connor
She is going to be the first woman to be on the nation highest court, the Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before that she was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate, then Ronald Reagan nominated her into the Court and that's how it she became the first woman on the Supreme Court. She is now 88 years old and is retired. She was in the same position from 1981 to 2006. -
Music Television
Also known as MTV. It was a new cable television channel that features music videos of songs that come out. The first music video that was release on the channel was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”. This television channel made the music popular and revolutionized the industry. Soon it became influential to pop culture and will spread through the United states to Europe as well. MTV now as days is a reality tv show and is responsible for entertainment of people to this day. -
Sam Walton’s Just-in-Time Inventory
Sam Walton was once the richest man in the United States during the time. The thing that made him famous was Walmart. He was a business man since he was 7, as he went to school for business, he found out something indigenous and will make society change into what we know today. He realized that if you sell something for cheap, but more quantity rather than higher prices and less quantity, you would gain more profit and both sides are happy. The next branch was Sam's club who opened in 1983 -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars”
This was the first program that was started under the Reagan's Presidency. The purpose of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from the Soviet Union. This was because of the tension between the 2 superpowers during the Cold war. The nickname "Star Wars" came from the fact that they associate it with lasers and the movie Stars Wars came out during the same time and the name just stuck. -
Challenger Explosion
The space shuttle Challenger was on its 25th mission when a terrible event occurred. The Challenger had exploded a few mins after take off. That day, 7 lives were taken and one of those lives would have been the first civilian to go to space, as the Teacher in Space, Christa McAuliffe. Later they figured out what went wrong, two rubber O-rings, which had been designed to separate the sections of the rocket booster, had failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch -
Persian Gulf War
Also known are Operation Desert Storm. It all started when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered an invasion in Kuwait in Austin 1990. The Kuwait called the United States to back them up and so begins the Persian Gulf War. There were air attacks relentlessly for 42 days on the air and ground, by then most Iraqis have ran away or surrendered out of Kuwait. This event is going to simmer and soon will lead to the Iran war in 2003. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is a huge supporter of charities, she donates millions of dollars to these charities. In the 1990s were when she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Talk Show Host for "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She is every popular and loved all across american. Her famous words "You get a car, You get a car" -
Technology in 1990s
There were a lot of advances in technology during this time. Before technology was very limited in movement and power, computers were big and bulky with limited storage, expensive and very slow. Now there are affordable personal computers, along with that the world wide web invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and internet allowed people to access more information. Other things like e-mails, online gaming, digital files, affordable cell phones were some things that changed in this era -
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Rodney King Incident
On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was pulled over in Los Angeles by the police for speeding. They then began to beat him horrendously and while that was happening, there was a man named George Holliday caught it all on video. They went to trial and the police officers were charged. However this event caused riots in 1992 against discrimination and it started to spread, more people started to get hurt. King however said to CNN that he forgives them and that we should all just get along -
Election of 1922
The election was for the 42nd president of the United States and there were 3 major candidates, Bill Clinton representing the Democratic party from Arkansas, George H. W. Bush, representing the Republican party from Texas, and Ross Perot representing as an independent from Texas as well. Bill Clinton was the victor of this election with most of the electoral and popular votes. Bush was not as popular because he didn't fulfill his promises during his term. -
World Trade Center Attack
The World Trade Center Attack were twin towers in Manhattan, New York that was completed in 1973. Soaring at 110 stories each, a work place for more than 50,000 people. On February 26, 1993, terrorists had loaded their homemade bomb, which weighed about 1,200 pounds in a rented van. They parked in a garage and lit a 20 feet fuse and ran. The bomb blew and six people died, including a pregnant woman. More than 1,000 others were injured. The towers remain standing. -
NAFTA
NAFTA is short for North American Free Trade Agreement. This agreement was between all of North America; Canada, America, and Mexico. The agreement was to break the barrier of taxing imports and exports between the countries. The reason being was to make it easier and cheaper on each other instead of taxing each other even though we are on the same side. It started dropping in 1994 and then in 2008 is was finally completely gone. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy
This happened during the Clinton administration. Basically the policy was for the homosexuals in the military. During this time, people were still judgmental, rejected homosexuals, bash and discriminate those that do reveal that they are. "Don't ask, Don't tell" is saying that if you are gay, don't tell and if you think that someone is gay don't ask. They basically wanted soldiers to not be themselves and hide and that they should be shamed of it. Clinton in 2010 then revealed that he regretted -
DOMA
DOMA is a acronym for Defense of Marriage Act. This is a federal law that defines marriage is between one man and one women, not 2 men, not 2 women, not 1 man and 2 women, strictly just 1 man and one woman. It also allowed states to refuse same-sex marriage as valid. If it is not defined as a real marriage, people are not able to get federal marriage benefits and that is an issue of same-sex marriages. -
Lewinsky Affair
Political sex scandal that caused in Bill Clinton to be impeachment. In 1998, Clinton gave sworn testimony in a sexual harassment case that he had never engaged in sexual activity with an intern named Monica Lewinsky. But then there was evidence that proved Clinton had lied under oath about the affair, to which Clinton admitted, Although Clinton was ultimately not convicted by the Senate, the scandal put a bad rep on his legacy. -
Election of 2000
The candidates for the election of 43th president were George W. Bush representing the Republic party and Al Gore representing the Democratic Party. This was such a close election that they had to do a mandatory recount in Florida. This is known as the Bush v. Gore (SCOTUS case). Bush had lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote and in the end of everything, the Supreme Court ruled that Bush had won the election. -
Bush v. Gore (SCOTUS case)
This was a Supreme Court Case due to the election of 2000. The election between Bush and Gore was too close to call which was the winner. It all came down to one state, Florida. Which is also Governed by Bush's little brother. The Supreme Court had to step in because of the voting went pass the date set by law. Everything was split, Florida's justices 4-3 and the Court Justices 5-4, they had to re-vote, now unanimous. In the end Bush became the president of the United States -
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No Child Left Behind Education Act
This was under Bush administration, the U.S. congress passed the act of NO child Left Behind stating the kids have to take standardized state tests in math and reading. It is like an extension of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It is the most sweeping education-reform legislation since 1965. It doesn't matter the economic status, it will provide fair and equal education for every child, hence the name No Child Left Behind. -
9/11 Attacks
This is one of the most memorable, saddest time in the United states. Everyone that was killed or helped during these times are all remember and honored. September 11, 2001 there were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States. They hijacked 4 planes: One plane at the Pentagon, 2 planes attacked the Twin towers of the world trade center, and another crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. It was a day no one would forget. -
USA PATRIOT Act
The USA PATRIOT Act is in all caps for a reason, that reason being a 10 letter abbreviation for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". This act was a response for the 9/11 attack that happened the same year. After that attack american will not be the same. It was effort to never let this kind of disaster happen again, even though it may violate the 4th amendment. -
Hurricane Karina Disaster
This is one of the most destructive hurricane that has hit the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Katrina was only a Category 3 before it hit land, it turned into a Category 5, 140-174 mph and causes $125 billion of damages. The states that were damaged the most New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The after effects were flooded cities, damaged houses or total lost of their homes. It took years for people to rebuild their lives from this disaster -
Housing bubble
There was a housing bubble that had happened in 2007. What happened was a price of the houses went from lowish to high and people begin to buy, but then the demand just stops and the prices of the house to fall down and slowly keeps going down and down. It has to go back down to cause a housing bubble. So in short when demand decreases while supply increases, resulting in a fall in prices causes a housing bubble. All bubbles will be popped and it will cause a dramatic change in the economy. -
Election of 2008
The candidates for the 44th president was Barack Obama representing the Democratic Party and John McCain representing the Republican party. This is was a very special election and year for America because there are many things that are different about this election. First of all, this would be the first African american candidate for president and the numbers of voters that participated in this election was the highest that it ever was before. -
Barack Obama
This man made history as the first ever African American President in the United States. He beat John McCain in the 2008 presidency election and also made the most number of voters in any election ever before. During his term, he did many things to help the nation. Things like the DACA program or ObamaCare. He was a president that would laugh at his own jokes.He ended the war in Iraq and eliminated Osama Bin Laden. He did many things at a president. -
Affordable Care Act
Also known as Obamacare or for short "ACA". This is actually 2 separate pieces of legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The purpose of this act is to provide millions of people that have low incomes to get good quality care and affordable as well. The act helps get them more choices and expand coverage and insurances, healthcare related things like that. It also Relates to Medicare and CHIP.
