The U.S. history timeline 1980-2001

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  • Boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics

    Boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics. To protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

  • The Refugee Act of 1980

  • Ronald Wilson Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States

  • First launch of STS Columbia OV-102

  • Ronald Reagan's famous speech at the end of the Cold War, proposing the Star Wars program

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    Invasion of Grenada.

  • The Soviet Union and its Allies boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics.

  • We Are the World

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    Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran-Contra Affair. The incident that caused a serious political crisis after the disclosure of secret arms sales to Iran by the Reagan administration.

  • The Space shuttle Challenger disaster

  • Firearm Owners' Protection Act

  • The Republic of the Marshall Islands became independent

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986

  • Ronald Reagan speaks in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Germany. His appeal to Mikhail Gorbachev tore down this wall!.

  • Stock markets around the world collapsed, including on Wall Street

  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

  • Yellowstone fires of 1988

  • George Herbert Walker Bush was inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • Space shuttle Discovery takes off with the Hubble Space Telescope

  • German Reunification

  • The World Wide Web opens to the public

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    Gulf War

  • The Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended

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    Los Angeles riots of 1992

  • William Jefferson Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States

  • North American Free Trade Agreement

  • 1994 Northridge earthquake

  • Don't ask, don't tell.

    Don't ask, don't tell. The policy bars military personnel from discriminating against or harassing members of the military who are not openly gay, lesbian or bisexual, while excluding those who are openly gay, lesbian or bisexual. The policy was repealed on September 20, 2011, after which gays and lesbians in the United States were officially allowed to serve openly

  • Oklahoma City bombing

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    government shutdown

  • The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

  • George Walker Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States

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    The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.

  • September 11 attacks

    September 11 attacks. Nineteen aL Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger planes. Hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing everyone on board and many people in the building. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, causing other nearby buildings to be destroyed or damaged. Hijackers also crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, near Washington, DC.
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    Operation Enduring Freedom

  • USA PATRIOT Act.

    USA PATRIOT Act. Expanded the powers of U.S. police agencies to prevent terrorism.

  • The United States withdrew from the anti-Ballistic Treaty

  • No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

  • United States Department of Homeland Security