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The Smith Act
Known as the Alien Registration Act of 1940, the act was a legislation that made encouraging, advocating, or participating in the organizing of a violent overthrow of the government by any organization or society a criminal offense and also required that non-citizen adult residents in the U.S. register with the government. The act prosecuted 215 alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists until a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1957 declared them unconstitutional. -
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The Cold War
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G.I. Bill
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. From 1944 to 1949, nearly 9 million veterans received close to $4 billion from the bill’s unemployment compensation program. The education and training provisions existed until 1956. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An event during WWII in which the United States resorted to attacking cities of Japan with atomic bombs, one being Hiroshima with the atomic bomb "Little Boy," yielding 15 kilotons of TNT, and was a decisive event that ultimately resulted in the surrender of the Japanese and the final end of WWII. The event resulted in the death of roughly 140,000 Japanese civilians and soldiers. This was the first ever use of an atomic weapon in warfare in world history. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
An event that took place during WWII three days following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in which the United States dropped the atomic bomb, "Fat Man," yielding 21 kilotons of TNT, on Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 80,000. This event was the last atomic bombing in world history to date and was one of the decisive events that resulted in the surrender of the Japanese and the end of WWII. -
38th Parallel established as border
A line that was established to divide Soviet and American occupation zones after the surrender of the Japanese in August 1945 and became a permanent boundary between North and South Korea after an armistice was established between the two countries in 1953. The new border between the countries is now often called the DMZ, or demilitarized zone, which crosses the 38th Parallel North and the Korean Peninsula from southwest to northeast. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. Direct American military force was usually not involved, but Congress appropriated financial aid to support the economy and military of Greece. -
Dr.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 -
The 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. -
The Korean War
Between WWII, the Japanese had control of Korea's natural resources. The war was fought between North Korea and South Korea. After the war ended , they hoped to be their own nation, but the allies split them where the Soviet controlled the North and the U.S. controlled the South. 44000 Americans died to keep communism "contained." The war proved that the U.S. is willing to go to war to halt communism. -
The second Red Scare
The second Red Scare was the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940's through the 1950's, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This episode of political repression lasted longer and was more pervasive than the Red Scare that followed the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. Popularly known as “McCarthyism” after Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), who made himself famous in 1950. -
Space Race
After World War II drew to a close in the mid-20th century, a new conflict began. Known as the Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union against each other. Beginning in the late 1950's, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. -
TV Sows
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 -
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1950's
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The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary movement during the 1950's consisting of rebellious "beats," "beatniks," or "proto-hippies," who were artists, novelists, and poets that borrowed slang from black communities and rejected American materialism, culture, home ownership, careers, and marriage. Participants promoted individual freedom and pleasure, such as drugs or sex, and laid the foundation for war protests in the latter 1960's . -
Little Richard
An influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades, Little Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950's, when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll. His music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk. Little Richard influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop -
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940's and early 1950's, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, and rhythm and blues, along with country music. While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920's and in country records of the 1930's, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. -
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. -
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Civil Rights
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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 year. There were more ways to take the vaccine to get it into your body.It included side affects -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement. -
The 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 the. -
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. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
In 1957, President Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation. The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.It also established a federal Civil Rights Commission with authority to investigate discriminatory conditions -
Orval 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. -
The little rock nine
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. -
Hippies
In 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 Ash-bury 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
In 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. -
Sit-Ins
In 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. -
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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. -
Jack Ruby
Jack Leon Ruby March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967 was the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the murder of Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit two days earlier. A Dallas jury found him guilty of murdering Oswald, and he was sentenced to death. -
Ascendancy of Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States; he was sworn into office following the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Upon taking office, Johnson launched an ambitious slate of progressive reforms aimed at creating a “Great Society” for all Americans. Many of the programs he championed Medicare, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act had a profound and lasting impact in health, education and civil rights. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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 -
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 -
The 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. -
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. -
Counter Culture
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. -
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. -
OPEC
OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry. OPEC’s formation by five oil-producing developing countries in Baghdad in September 1960 occurred at a time of transition in the international economic and political landscape. -
The New Right
Not everyone was happy with the social changes brought forth in America in the 1960's and 1970's. When Roe vs. Wade guaranteed the right to an abortion, a fervent pro-life movement dedicated to protecting the "unborn child" took root. Anti feminists rallied against the Equal Rights Amendment and the eroding traditional family unit. Many ordinary Americans were shocked by the sexual permissiveness found in films and magazines. Those who believed homosexuality was sinful lambasted the gays. -
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1970's
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Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. The amendment was introduced in Congress for the first time in October 1921. -
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 -
Roe v. Wade
A landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life. -
The Heritage Foundation
An American conservative public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership. Heritage has since continued to have a significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and is considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the United States. -
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. -
Nixon's Presidency
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. -
Three-Mile Island
Three Mile Island is the site of a nuclear power plant in south central Pennsylvania. In March 1979, a series of mechanical and human errors at the plant caused the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, resulting in a partial meltdown that released dangerous radioactive gasses into the atmosphere. Three Mile Island stoked public fears about nuclear power—no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States since the accident. -
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. -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan appealed to the common man and "populist" ideas. He served as governor of California from 1966-1974. Iran released hostages on his Inauguration Day in 1980. While president, he developed Reaganomics, the trickle down effect of government incentives. He used the Strategic Defense Initiative to avoid conflict. His meetings with Gorbachev were the first steps to ending the Cold War. He was also responsible for the Iran-contra Affair which bought hostages with guns. -
Election of 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. Due to the rise of conservationism following Reagan's victory, some historians consider the election to be a realigning election that marked the start of the "Reagan Era".Carter's unpopularity and poor relations with Democratic leaders encouraged an intro-party. -
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A.I.D.S. Crisis
Emerged originally from the politics of urban gay communities in North America. Gay men living with a disease of unknown etiology and sobering mortality faced not only a threat to their health, and the stigma that soon accompanied it, but a phenomenon sociologists in other settings have described as "social death." undiagnosed gay men also faced the stigma of the disease, and gay community political leaders began trying to combat the problem of stigma on behalf of the whole community. -
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 -
strategic Defense initiative (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. -
Reagan Doctrine
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. The doctrine was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991. Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements. -
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 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. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is a black woman who had her own talk show called the Oprah Winfrey show that garnered her massive success across the world and eventually she became one of the biggest influences in pop culture and business, because whenever she promoted a product it would gain success overnight. Oprah eventually founded her own network OWN. Today, she is the richest black woman in the world with over two billion dollars as her net worth. -
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1990's
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Persian Gulf War/ 1st Iraq War
This was a "war" fought by the United States after Iraq attempted to invade Kuwait. Iraq wanted the oil fields that Kuwait had access to in the Persian Gulf, they didn't view this as an invasion because historically Kuwait has been a part of Iraq. Saddam Hussein had other goals than just controlling Kuwait he wanted the rest of the Middle East. After the United States got involved Iraq lost the war, and Hussein stayed in power. Eventually there was a ceasefire. -
Election of 1992
This election was between the former Democrat Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton, and the current president George H. W. Bush. The current Bush administration faced many economic promise backlashes which caused a lot of resistance to be met with his re-election campaign. As a result this opened up the way for Bill to win the presidency. But for the first time a third party candidate was gaining major coverage, Ross Perot who was a billionaire with no prior political experience. -
Ross Perot
A billionaire at the time, Perot wanted to run for the office of President of the United States. As a result Perot became an independent candidate and marked the beginning of third parties drawing away votes from the bigger Democratic and Republican parties. Perot lost the election in the end but still had a voice in the political sphere and debated with Clinton over the North American Free Trade Agreement. -
World Trade Center Attack (1993)
Terrorists drove a rental van into a parking garage under the World Trade Center’s twin towers and lit the fuses on a homemade bomb stuffed inside. Six people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the blast, it left a large crater below the towers. At the time, it was one of the worst terrorist attacks ever to occur on U.S.territory, it would eventually be overshadowed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when Al Qaeda operatives crashed hijacked airplanes into the towers. -
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 -
Black Entertainment Television
Black Entertainment Television (BET) is a Viacom–owned cable network based in Washington, D.C. The cable channel is viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide. Its founder, Robert L. Johnson, was a former lobbyist for the cable television industry in the late 1970's. In that capacity, Johnson quickly recognized the dearth of television programming designed for the African American public and created BET to reach that demographic audience. Also he was the first African American Billionaire. -
Welfare Reform
Aug 22, 1996 Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system, with the goals of reducing the number of individuals dependent on government assistance, keeping the welfare systems affordable, and assisting recipients become self-sufficient. Classical liberals, libertarians, and conservatives generally argue that welfare and other tax-funded services reduce incentives to work, exacerbate the free-rider problem, and intensify poverty. -
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. -
Bush v. Gore (SCOTUS case)
It also ordered that every county in Florida must immediately begin manually recounting all "under-votes" because there were enough contested ballots to place the outcome of the election in doubt. Governor George Bush and his running mate, Richard Cheney, filed a request for review in the U.S. Supreme Court and sought an emergency petition for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court's decision. The U.S. Supreme Court granted review and issued the stay on December 9. -
9/11 Attacks
The 9/11 attack was 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 USA 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 title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”. The abbreviation, as well as the full title, have been attributed to Chris Kyle, a former staffer on the House Judiciary Committee -
The War on Terror
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.The naming of the campaign uses a metaphor of war to refer to a variety of actions that do not constitute a specific war as traditionally defined. U.S. president George W. Bush first used the term "war on terrorism" ,and then "war on terror" a few days later in a formal speech to Congress. -
No Child Left Behind Education Act
The No Child Left Behind Act was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. -
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. -
The Great Recession
Was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000's and early 2010's. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country. In terms of overall impact, the International Monetary Fund concluded that it was the worst global recession since the 1930's (the Great Depression) The causes of the recession originated in the U.S, particularly related to the real-estate market, though choices made by other nations contributed as well. -
Election of 2008
The Election of 2008 as the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, a long-time Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of Senator John McCain of Arizona and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. Obama became the first African American ever to be elected as president, and Joe Biden became the first Catholic to ever be elected as vice president. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Developed in response to the Great Recession, this act primary objective was to save existing jobs and create new ones as soon as possible. Other objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most affected by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy. -
Affordable Care Act (ACA) “Obamacare”
Obamacare is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Obama The term Obamacare was first used by opponents, then re appropriated by supporters, and eventually used by President Obama himself. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 amendment, it represents the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
