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Y2K Fiasco
The computers couldn't comprehend that the year would change from 1999 to 2000. People thought that the world was going to end. -
Bush/Gore Race
This was the 2000 presidential election. George Bush was a republican and governor of Texas while Al Gore was a democrat and the former vice president. This was the closet presidential election ever. -
Hanging "chads" in Flordia
2000 was the first year to have an electronic ballot. Many of the elderly people in Florida had a hard time figuring out hoe to use the new system. This resulted in miscounting within the state of Florida due to the hanging chads that remained on the ballot. -
Bush V. Gore
Due to the incident in Florida Al Gore went to court with George Bush demanding a recount. The supreme court ruled in favor of Gore and Florida started recounting the ballots by hand. Al Gore announced that he was no longer in the race, only to find out later that he would have won. -
Bush Inaugurated
George Bush was the 43rd president of the United States. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as Vice President. -
Timothy McVeigh out to death
Timothy McVeigh was convicted in 1997 of 168 counts of first degree murder from the Oklahoma City Bombing. His execution was delayed nearly a month due to 3,000 found papers about the bombing that the government failed to give over to the defense lawyers. -
9-11 Terror Attacks
This was one of the worst terror attacks in American History. 4 planes were hijacked by Al Qaeda. 2 hit the twin towers, 1 hit the pentagon and another crashed in a field. -
Patriot Act Passed
President Bush passed this act in response to the attacks of 9-11. The act was designed to interfere and obstruct terrorist acts. The law is intended to help government agencies detect and prevent possible acts of terrorism, or sponsorship of terrorist groups. -
Enron Scandal
This event involved the Enron company in Houston Texas. The CEO Skilling and founder Lay guilty of conspiracy and fraud. Lay is convicted of all six counts against him and Skilling is found guilty on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, false statements and insider trading. -
Shuttle Columbia Explosion
On Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. This was the second space disaster after the challenger. The cause of the accident was a piece of foam that had fallen off the Shuttle's external fuel tank during launch. The foam struck the left wing of the shuttle, causing serious damage that ultimately led the vehicle to disintegrate when it reentered Earth's atmosphere. -
War in Iraq
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U.S. forces swept through the country. Started by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in September 1980, the war was marked by indiscriminate ballistic-missile attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons and attacks on third-country oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. -
Capture of Saddam Hussein
U.S. soldiers found Saddam Hussein hiding in a six-to-eight-foot deep hole, nine miles outside his hometown of Tikrit. The man once obsessed with hygiene was found to be unkempt, with a bushy beard and matted hair. He did not resist and was uninjured during the arrest. A soldier at the scene described him as “a man resigned to his fate.” -
Reagan Dies
Former President Ronald Reagan died on June 5 2004. Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's disease and it took his life at the age of 93. -
Bush and Kerry Campaign and Election
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. Foreign policy was the dominant theme throughout the election campaign, particularly Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. -
Asian Tsunami
The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by slippage of about 600 miles of the boundary between the India and Burma plates off the west coast of northern Sumatra. Whole towns and settlements were washed away by the force of the water. It led to the deaths of an estimated 230,000 people in 13 countries – and more than 128,000 in hardest-hit Indonesia, alone. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage. -
Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita hit the coast of Texas. This was a category five hurricane and 175 miles per hour wind. Rita caused mass evacuation from Houston. -
Democrats take control of house and senate
Democrats won a 51st seat in the Senate and regained total control of Congress after 12 years of near-domination by the Republican Party. The shift dramatically alters the government's balance of power, leaving President Bush without GOP congressional control to drive his legislative agenda. -
Saddam Hussein executed
Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity. Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003, was accused by an Iraqi court of committing numerous massacres during his rule. These included the 1982 slaughter of Shias in the town of Dujail and the 1988 Halabja massacre, in which he used chemical weapons against a Kurdish town that dared to rise against him. -
Nancy Pelosi
Politician Nancy Pelosi became the first female Democratic leader of the House of Representatives and the first female speaker of the House. Pelosi was sometimes a divisive figure. A vocal critic of President George W. Bush's stance on the war in Iraq, she advocated for the withdrawal of troops from the region. -
McCain/ Obama campaign and race
John McCain was a republican senator from Arizona. Barack Obama was a democrat senator from Illinois. Both party's would be making history as Obama would be the first African american man to be elected president, while McCain's vice president was a female. -
Steroids in baseball scandal
"The steroids era" refers to a period of time in Major League Baseball when a number of players were believed to have used performance-enhancing drugs, resulting in increased offensive output throughout the game. -
First "Bailouts" begin
Massive bail-outs of financial institutions and other palliative monetary and fiscal policies were employed to prevent a possible collapse of the world financial system. The crisis was nonetheless followed by a global economic downturn, the Great Recession. -
Barack Obama Elected
Barack Obama was elected as the first american american president of the United States. Obama served as the 44th president of the Unites States -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is an economic stimulus bill created to help the United States economy recover from an economic downturn that began in late 2007. ... According to ARRA's statement of purpose, it was developed to: To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery. -
President Obama inauguration
President Obama inauguration had the largest attendance of any event in the history of Washington, D.C.
Largest attendance of any Presidential Inauguration in U.S. history and Obama was the first African American to hold the office of President of the United States. -
Aff. Care Act
The affordable care act was put into place by President Obama. The law had 3 primary goals...
* make more affordable health insurance for more people
* Expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the federal poverty level.
*Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally. -
Operation Geronimo
The first indication for President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed came when a Navy SEAL sent back the coded message to Washington that said simply, "Geronimo-E KIA."Geronimo was the code name for the operation that sent two teams of 12 SEALS zooming by Blackhawk helicopters to a walled compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, on Sunday to kill or capture the most wanted man in the world.
