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Panama Canal
The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Colombians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal. This panama canal was really expensive but it has helped with transportation in the ocean and other large bodies of water for quicker transportation. -
Warren Burger Supreme Court
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1986. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Burger graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1931. He helped secure the Minnesota delegation's support for Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention. After Eisenhower won the 1952 presidential election, he appointed Burger to the position of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division. -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962. Originally a Mexican American farm worker, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His efforts made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. -
Little Richard
Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia, Little Richard helped define the early rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with his driving, flamboyant sound He was a very big figure during the rock and rolled area and many people got influneced by his music. During these times rock and roll was a very huge popular movement which many started following and spreading. Little richard had money and style which many people wanted to have during this time period of rock and roll. -
Lionel Sosa
Sosa grew up in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Lanier High School, Sosa served in the United States Marine Corps. In his twenties he designed many logos, including the Ricos drop of flavor, and worked at Texas Neon designing neon and plastic signs, eventually opening his graphic design studio, SosArt. Sosa entered political advertising by supporting John Tower. With Sosa's support, Tower won 37% of the Hispanic vote. The previous Hispanic best vote percent for a statewide republican -
GI Bill
The G.I. Bill of Rights or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. This bill ha help more than millions of returning veterans find jobs and provide for their family. This was very good for the veterans and thanked them for their service that they did for their nation and their people. -
Little Boy
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). The bomb caused significant destruction to the city of Hiroshima and its occupants. This was a big move and change in warfare at the time, very deadly basically a sudden death if you were inside the radius of it. -
Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, most of whom were civilians. They remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. Hiroshima basically got destroyed by these bombings. -
Fat Man
Fat Man was the code name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the US on August 9 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third-ever man-made nuclear explosion in history. It was built by scientists and engineers at Los Alamos Laboratory using plutonium. It was a very big explosion that showed our power of these atomic bombs during those times, we had many. -
Nagasaki
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a 21 kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000 were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese residents, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, and 400 prisoners of war. Nagasaki had been the target of small scale bombing by the United States. Though the damage from these bombings was relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki. -
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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain, was a political, ideological military barrier erected by the soviet union after world war II. It was the name for the boundary dividing europe into two seperate areas from the end of world war II in 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991. The terms symbolizes the efforts by the soviet union to bock itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non soviet controlled area. It was not literally an iron curtain but it was seen as a strong boundary. -
George W. Bush
Born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Bush was elected President of the United States in 2000 when he defeated Democratic Vice President -
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. More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. It became the foundation of american foreign policy. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. -
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Gore was Bill Clinton's running mate in their successful campaign in 1992, and the pair was re-elected in 1996. Near the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was selected as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election but lost the election in a very close race after a Florida recount. Al gore did good for a vice president at the time. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S, British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany so they would send these planes for their help. The Berlin Airlift was simply a 327 day operation in which the U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948. This was an important event in us history -
Fair Deal
Domestic reform proposals of the second Truman administration (1949-53); included civil rights legislation and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, but only extensions of some New Deal programs were enacted. An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress. Many people thought this was a big deal while others did not. -
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Rock and Roll
Rock and roll was a genre of popular music that fused black rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and country styles, crossing the cultural divide that had separated black and white musical traditions. often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music. -
Television
TV overpowered newspapers, magazines, radios as source of news info and diversion. TV advertising meant a vast market for new fashions/ products. TV programming created a popular image of american life: white, middle class, suburban, with traditional gender roles. also sometimes portrayed less conventional lifestyles. Oppressed/less fortunate people could see the way everyone else lived - contributed to sense of powerlessness and isolation. It really changed the world and how people functioned. -
Dr. Jonas Salk
Salk was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of a killed-virus polio vaccine. While researching and developing a vaccine for polio, an infection disease caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract, Salk injected himself, his wife and his three sons. Salk announced the success of the initial human tests to a national radio audience on March 26, 1953. He was a very important person during this time when horrible things were going on. -
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history, . she was the richest African American of the 20th century North America's first multi-billionaire black person and has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world -
Brown v. Board Of Education
The 1954 supreme court decision holding that school segregation in Topeka, Kansas, was inherently unconstitutional because it violated the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection. this case marked the end of legal segregation in the us. . Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. It was one of the biggest cases in history. -
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four-and-a-half years before entering private practice in 1984. Many saw her as a successful women. -
Elvis Presley
Memphis-born singer whose youth, voice, and sex appeal helped popularize rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s, the music was heavily drawn from black rhythm and blues traditions. Commonly known using only his first name, he was an icon of popular culture, in both music and film. Elvis was the important because it help the whites became more aware of the black culture and "steal" many more music from them. He was a very big influence in these time periods and many people enjoyed this even to this day. -
Polio Vaccine
Polio crippled and killed millions worldwide, and the successful vaccine virtually eliminated the scourge caused. Generates serum antibodies to neutralize the virus in the bloodstream. Jonas Salk an American doctor invented the polio vaccine in 1953 and announced safe on April 12, 1955.. This vaccine helped many people get a cure of this disease going around. It was a very strong impact that was on the people and society so now this isnt around due to this vaccine. -
Albert Sabin
Best known as the developer of the oral live virus polio vaccine, Dr. Sabin not only dedicated his entire professional career to the elimination of human suffering though his groundbreaking medical advances, he also waged a tireless campaign against poverty and ignorance throughout his lifetime. On October 6, 1956 Sabin announced that his live-virus polio vaccine is ready for mass testing. He was a very professional person that many people looked up to as smart and with the people. -
Orval Faubus
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967. A Democrat, he is best remembered for his 1957 stand against desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis, in which, by ordering the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School, he defied a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court made in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education. -
NASA
The creation of this was a result of the space race between USA and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, NASA was created in 1958 from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, formed 1915) and other related organizations. On this day of 1958, President D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He called the signing an historic step, further equipping the United States for leadership in the space age. This space race was important. -
LSD
LSD is one of the most potent, mood-changing chemicals. It is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is found in the ergot fungus that grows on rye and other grains.It is produced in crystal form in illegal laboratories, mainly in the United States. These crystals are converted to a liquid for distribution. It is odorless, colorless, and has a slightly bitter taste. It is a powerful drug that makes you see things that arent there and really changes the mental state you are in at the moment. 8 hr -
Chicano Mural Movement
The Chicano mural movement began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. Chicano muralism has been linked to pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas, who recorded their rituals and history on the walls of their pyramids, and Mexican revolutionary-era painters José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaros Siquieros, -
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OPEC
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Cartel comprising Middle Eastern states and Venezuela. OPEC aimed to control access to and prices of oil, wresting power from Western oil companies and investors. In the process, it gradually strengthened the hand of non-Western powers on the world stage. -
Peace Corps
A federal agency created by President Kennedy in 1961 to promote voluntary service by Americans in foreign countries, it provides labor power to help developing countries improve their infrastructure, health care, educational systems, and other aspects of their societies. Part of Kennedy's New Frontier vision, the organization represented an effort by postwar liberals to promote American values and influence through productive exchanges across the world. It was an important agency at this time. -
Fallout Shelters
A fallout shelter is a civil defense measure intended to reduce casualties in a nuclear war. It is designed to allow those inside it to avoid exposure to harmful fallout from a nuclear blast and its likely aftermath of radiation until radioactivity has dropped to a safer level. A basic fallout shelter consists of shielding that reduces gamma-ray exposure. Concrete, bricks, earth, and sand are some of the materials that are dense or heavy enough to provide fallout protection. Very expensive. -
Feminism
This refers to the 1960s Women's Liberation Movement that campaigned for equal rights particularly in America on issues such as employment, marital relationships, sexual orientation and for social and economic rights in addition to the more basic rights they had won during first-wave. Both men and women join this movement but it is mostly women that fight for their rights. They want people to know that they deserve what everyone else deserves and should be able to do anything that men do. -
I have A Dream Speech
A public speech delivered by Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. He wanted to put an end to racism in the United States and also called for civil and economic rights. His main purpose of his speech is to remind America of the struggles of the Blacks in America and to demand equality. This speech to this day is very well known by many, it is a big piece of african american history that many to this day still read it and enjoy it. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.Kennedy was riding with his wife, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where President Kennedy was pronounced dead about thirty minutes after the shooting; -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963 was an American Marxist and ex-Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Five government investigations[n 1] concluded that Oswald shot and killed Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. To this day many people hate him for assassinating the ex president and many still remember how it all happened -
Jack Ruby
Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot . Ruby, who was immediately detained, claimed that rage at Kennedy’s murder was the motive for his action. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder. He was seen as a hero by some but still got charged and well other people saw him as evil -
Warren Commission
Was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963. Its 888-page final report was presented to Johnson on September 24, 1964. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of Kennedy, officer J.D. Tippit and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald. The Commission's findings have since proven controversial and been both challenged and supported by later studies. IT was important during these times. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. This act was big at the moment. -
Great Society
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. Many people saw this as a great movement for not only the nation but also the people and their well being. The main goal of this was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice that was going on at the time of this reform. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it brought jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap. This act that went through in 1965 was liked by many people all throughout the nation. -
Watts Riots
The Watts Riot was a civil disturbance in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The six-day riot resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992. These riots were very cruel and bloody and it was seen all over the news and spread by people. A lot of people did not like this and wanted to take action against this type of violence. -
hippies
Hippies believed in anti-materalism, free use of drugs, they had a casual attitude toward sex and anti-conformity, (1960s) practiced free love and took drugs, flocked to San Francisco- low rent/interracial, they lived in communal "crash pads", smoked marijuana and took LSD, sexual revolution, new counter culture, Protestors who influenced US involvement in Vietnam. Typically having long hair and wearing beads, they rejected conventional values and took hallucinogenic drugs. -
Ike Turner
Ike Turner was first known for their late-1960s and early-1970s recordings and their soul revue. Prior to that, Ike was well established as a seminal figure in the early years of rock & roll as both a performer and talent scout. He overtly sexual performers in rock. Ike and his wife recordings rarely captured the intensity of their live performances; in fact, their only gold album and one of their two highest charting is a live album. His music really tuned around the world and people liked that -
Anti-War Movement
The Anti-War Movement was a student protest that started as the Free Speech movement in California and spread around the world. All members of the Anti-War Movement shared an opposition to war in Vietnam and condemned U.S. presence there. They claimed this was violating Vietnam's rights. This movement resulted in growing activism on campuses aimed at social reform etc. Primarily a middle-class movement. This movement was seen as positive for many people because many did not like this violenece. -
Death of mlk
On the night of April 3, King gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church in Memphis.Just after 6 p.m. the following day, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39. Many people still to this day remember this event happening and still keep him in their hearts and thank him for all his effort. -
Stonewall Riot
In June 1969, police officers raided this Inn, which was a gay nightclub in New York, and began arresting patrons for attending the place. Gay onlookers taunted the police and then attacked them. Someone started a fire in the Inn, almost trapping people inside. This marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement. New organizations also began to rise up, like the Gay Liberation Front, which was founded in New York. This riot was a big event that many people new about and eventually got big. -
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Environmental Protection Agency
A governmental organization signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1970 designed to regulate pollution, emissions, and other factors that negatively influence the natural environment. The creation of the it marked a newfound commitment by the federal government to actively combat environmental risks and was a significant triumph for the environmentalist movement. This agency changed alot of things during these times and many people saw it as a positive impact for their community and environment. -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System (STS), was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. This program was good because it made a lot of technological advances. -
Email
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system. It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day. This to this day is still used and professionally. -
TiTle IX
A part of the Education Amendments which prohibited sex discrimination in any educational programs or activities that are funded by the federal government. It basically meant that no person in the US shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. This was something important in history which to this day still is somewhat around. -
Roe v. Wade
Legalized abortion and is at the center of the current controversy between "pro-life" and "pro-choice" advocates. The Court ruled that a woman has the right to an abortion without interference from the government in the first trimester of pregnancy, contending that it is part of her "right to privacy." The Court maintained that right to privacy is not absolute, however, and granted states the right to intervene in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. This was a big case for many women. -
Heritage Foundation
Conservative ideas; The Heritage Foundation, a public policy that promotes the principles that made America great: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. conservative american think tank in washington D.C to promote conservative public policies. based the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values. this foundation was powerful in that it changed many peoples view -
Endangered Species Act
Identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations, protected threshold and endangered species and directed the FWS to prepare recovery plans; Richard Nixon, Enacted in 1973. Recognizes the value of species habitat. Authorizes designation of critical habitat and calls for recovery plans for listed species. Legislation designed to protect species in danger of extinction. This act helped many species stay away from extinction. -
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States who was a peanut farmer and former governor of Georgia, he defeated Gerald Ford in 1976. As President, he arranged the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in 1978 but saw his foreign policy legacy tarnished by the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis in 1979. Domestically, he tried to rally the American spirit in the face of economic decline, but was unable to stop the rapid increase in inflation. He was seen as a bad president by many people due to that. -
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States who was a peanut farmer and former governor of Georgia, he defeated Gerald Ford in 1976. As President, he arranged the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel in 1978 but saw his foreign policy legacy tarnished by the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis in 1979. Domestically, he tried to rally the American spirit in the face of economic decline, but was unable to stop the rapid increase in inflation. He was seen as a bad president by many people due to that. -
Video Head System (VHS)
The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. It was VHS vs. Betamax. VHS, or Video Home System, was based on an open standard developed by JVC in 1976. The format allowed longer playtime and faster rewinding and fast-forwarding. JVC showed a two-hour tape that was so compact, Popular Science called it “smaller, in fact, than some audio cassette decks. This was a technological advancement during the time. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The 444 days in which American embassy workers were held captive by Iranian.The crisis began when revolutionaries stormed the American embassy, demanding that the United States return the shah to Iran for trial. The episode was marked by botched diplomacy and failed rescue attempts by the Carter Administration. After permanently damaging relations between the two countries, the crisis ended with the hostage's release the day Ronald Reagan became president. This crisis was a big moment in us hist -
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Ronald Reagan
First elected president in 1980 and elected again in 1984. He ran on a campaign based on the common man and "populist" ideas. Iran released hostages on his Inauguration Day in 1980. He developed Reaganomics. He cut out many welfare and public works programs. 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. By many he was liked. -
Reagonomics
The economic policies put forth by the administration of President Ronald Reagan, especially as emphasizing supply-side theory. Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey. It refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics or voodoo economics by political opponents, and free-market economics by political advocates This had many ups and downs. -
MTV (Music Television)
MTV founded Aug, 1 1981, was 24/7 stream of music videos. In the 1980s, MTV was instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran, whose videos played in heavy rotation. MTV went on to revolutionize the music industry and become an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels. To this day its around. -
Sandra Day O'Conno
Born in El Paso, Texas, on March 26, 1930, Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate. In 1981 Ronald Reagan nominated her to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received unanimous Senate approval, and made history as the first woman justice to serve on the nation's highest court. O'Connor was a key swing vote in many important cases, including the upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006 after serving for 24 years. She was a good woman and many people liked her. -
A.I.D.S Crisis
The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV found its way to the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumonia in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. Treatment of HIV/AIDS is primarily via a "drug cocktail" of protease inhibitors, and education programs to help people avoid infection. Initially, infected foreign nationals were turned back at the U.S. border to help prevent additional infections. -
Internet
It is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web -
Iran Contra Affair
Scandal that erupted after the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in hopes of freeing American hostages in Lebanon; money from the arms sales was used to aid the Contras (anti-Communist insurgents) in Nicaragua, even though Congress had prohibited this assistance. Talk of Reagan's impeachment ended when presidential aides took the blame for the illegal activity. This was a big political scandal in the united states that occurred ruing the second term of the Reagan administration. -
Challenger Explosion
On January 28, 1986, the American shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission It was later determined that 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. The tragedy and its aftermath received extensive media coverage and prompted NASA to temporarily suspend all shuttle missions. This was a very sad mission. -
George H.W Bush
Forty-first president of the United States. A former congressman, diplomat, businessman, Republican party chairman, and director the CIA, Bush served for eight years as Reagan's vice president before being elected President in 1988. As president, he oversaw the end of the Cold War and the revitalization of the American military in the Persian Gulf War. He faced a severe economic recession late in his term that severely damaged his popularity, and he lost his bid for reelection in 1992. -
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Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton entered off in January 1993, as the first democratic president since Jimmy Carter and a self-proclaimed activist. He had a very domestic agenda. When in office he had a lot of controversial appointments. When a longtime friend, Vince Foster, committed suicide it sparked an escalating inquiry into some banking and real estate ventures involving the president and his wife in the early 1980s. This became known as the Whitewater affair. By many he was liked until what he did. -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy
It was about homosexuality in the U.S. military mandated by federal law. The act prohibits any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes.
Policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. -
North American Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Agreement took effect Jan.1st, 1994, creating a free-trade area between the US, Canada, and Mexico; provides for the tariff-free movement of goods and products, financial services, telecommunications, investment, and patent protection within and between the signatories. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. This agreement was very big at the time and is still around to this day with newer policies and agreements. -
Bush v. Gore (SCOTUS case)
Bush v. Gore was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. The ruling was issued on December 12, 2000. On December 9, the Court had preliminary halted the Florida recount that was occurring. Eight days earlier, the Court unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. The Electoral College was scheduled to meet on December 18, 2000, to decide the election. This was a big case. -
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Ross Perot
He rose as a significant third party candidate. A tech-company billionaire who spent his own money campaigning, he ran on one main issue: the U.S. must get the debt under control--he caused the split votes letting Democrats win. He ran an independent presidential campaign in 1992 and a third party campaign in 1996, establishing the Reform Party in the latter election. Both campaigns were among the strongest presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in U.S. history. -
9/11 Attack
Common shorthand for the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, in which 19 militant Islamist men hijacked and crashed four commercial aircraft. Nearly 3000 people were killed in the worst case of domestic terrorism in American history. This event occurred when i was already a little kid and it was very sad to see. People all around the world saw it either by tv, news, radio or just other people. It was a very sad day that to this day is still remembered by many americans. -
2nd Iraq War
Saddam Hussain was accused of having stockpiles of weapons osf mass destruction. President George W Bush convinced the congress to declare war on the dictator in 2003. Within a few weeks the dictator was overthrown but an insurgent war started that lasted until 2011. . The invasion occurred as part of a declared war against international terrorism and its sponsors under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. This was something that many people did not want. -
Barack Obama
Forty-forth president of the United States, and first African American elected to that office. A lawyer and community organizer in Chicago, Obama served in the Illinois State Senate before being elected to the U.S. senate in 2004. After a protracted primary election campaign against Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama sealed the Democratic Party's nomination and defeated Senator John McCain on November 4, 2008.Barack Obama is seen as many peoples favorite president all over america. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
ARRA, intended to create jobs and promote investment and consumer spending during the recession that followed the financial collapse in 2008. No Republicans in the House and only 3 Republicans in the Senate voted for this bill, arguing against the massive growth in federal spending. This act made a lot of differences at the time and helped rebuild a lot of stuff like roads and other infrastructure. -
Obama Care
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. 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, representing health -
Undoing of DOMA
Section 3 of the Act was struck down in 2013 (United States v. Windsor), DOMA, in conjunction with other statutes, had barred same-sex married couples from being recognized as "spouses" for purposes of federal laws, effectively barring them from receiving federal marriage benefits. DOMA's passage did not prevent individual states from recognizing same-sex marriage, but it imposed constraints on the benefits received by all legally married same-sex couples. This was something big recently. -
Defense of Marriage Act
Section 3 of the Act was struck down in 2013 (United States v. Windsor), DOMA, in conjunction with other statutes, had barred same-sex married couples from being recognized as "spouses" for purposes of federal laws, effectively barring them from receiving federal marriage benefits. DOMA's passage did not prevent individual states from recognizing same-sex marriage, but it imposed constraints on the benefits received by all legally married same-sex couples. This really had an impact on marriages.
