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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was also an american politician who was the 40th president of the united states he was a Hollywood actor in his 20's and later was the republican governor of California. Reagan became very popular. Reagan cut taxes and also survived in the 1981 assassination But at the age of 93 he died of a disease. -
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Rosa Parks
This is the black women that refused to go to the back of the bus because of her skin color. She was arrested for this. After that, it sparked a bus boycott. Barely any black people rode buses. She is currently dead -
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Gerald ford
Ford was an american politician who was the 38th president of the united states. he was the first unelected president. Ford was also elected for the house of representatives which when he was he served 25 years. then he ended up serving on the warren commission and much more. -
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martin Luther king jr
he was an american baptist minister. he was apart of the american civil rights movement from the 1950's until he was assassinated. he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964 and that's why we remember him each year on martin Luther king day since 1986. -
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Elvis
Elvis was was an american singer. he was one of the biggest names in rock'n and roll. In the 1950's he appeared on the radio television and silver screen. he ended up dieing because of heart failure which was cause of his drug addiction but he is still popular to this day. -
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baby boom
baby boom increased in birth rates. after WWII the birth rate increased like a lot. -
Donald trump
trump is the 45th president and he is are current president. before he entered politics he was a business man and a television personality. Also a meeting in January that they had recently was on immigration and he thought African nations weren't anything. and trump said that he would give up the TV show he was doing just to run for president. -
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was the 42nd us president who served in office from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was also in the white house. The house of representatives ended up impeaching Clinton because of sexual relationship he had with someone in the white house. -
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cold war
the cold war was after WWII. It was between the us and soviet union. But they did not fight each other directly because they both supported opposite sides. -
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Berlin blockade- Berlin airlift
the Berlin blockade was one of the first major international difficultly during the cold war. Russians also wanted Berlin all to themselves which they closed all highways railroads and more from western this made it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any supplies they needed. -
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Warsaw pact
the Warsaw pact was know as the treaty of friendship. the soviet union and seven European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw pact. the soviet saw this as a threat and responded with the Warsaw pact. East Germany left the pack. -
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Vietnam war
the argument was really tense by the continuing of the cold war between the united states and soviet union. More than 3 million people including 58,000 Americans were killed in the Vietnam war and than more than half were dead -
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Berlin wall
in 1961 the communist government of the German began to build a barbed wire concrete barrier between east west Berlin. it divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. November 9th 1989 that night there was a crowd moved the wall. some ended up crossing into west Berlin and the other people worked on tearing it down. -
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Cuban missile crisis
the leaders of the us and soviet union was involved in the 13th day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear armed soviet missiles on Cuba. John Kennedy told Americans about the missile. many people ended up getting a fear that the world was going to go into a war. -
Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
June 5 1968 42 year old president Robert f Kennedy was seriously shot 3 times in a hotel in Los Angeles. This was also after he just completed a speech celebrating his victory of when he won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election -
watergate
the Watergate started June 17 1972 when several burglars were arrested in office of the democratic national committee in Washington DC. They were caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents It had changed the american politics in different ways. -
challenger explosion
the challenger explosion exploded on January 28th just 73 seconds before liftoff. two rubber O-rings were separated from the sections of the rocket booster which had failed due to cold temperature on the morning they did the launch. which they had to decline all the shuttle missions. -
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Persian gulf war
the Persian gulf war began with a massive us led air offensive storm. after 42 days of attack president George h.w bush declared a cease fire on February 28th which most surrender. then something else led to a second gulf war. -
September 11, 2001
19 people associated with the Islamic extremist group AL - Qaeda and took four airplanes and carried suicide attacks. two of the planes crashed into the twin towers of the world trade center in new York city and the third plan hit the pentagon outside of Washington dc and the fourth plane crashed into a field. almost 3000 people were killed during 9/11 and all this happened on Tuesday morning on 9/11. -
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hurricane Katrina vs hurricane Harvey
hurricane Katrina made a landfall near Louisiana and the Mississippi border on august 29 2005 and there was 3 storms measured 350 miles across. Katrina produced the highest storm in the united states and there was 1,833 deaths. The Harvey made a landfall in rock-port Texas and 4 storms measuring 200 miles across. but flooding and rained topped 47 inches in some of the areas. There was 39 deaths in Texas.
