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Ronald Regan is elected President
during his campaign against Jimmy Carter, he gained significant support and won the election. during his presidency, he increased military funding and helped cut taxes for Americans. -
United States embassy bombing in Beirut
The bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on April 18, 1983, was the deadliest attack on a US embassy up to that point. The blast killed 63 people, 17 of those who were Americans. The attack is considered the beginning of anti-us attacks from extremist Islamist groups. -
The Challenger disaster
As a part of NASA's shuttle program this flight planned to send the first school teacher into space but due to a malfunction in the rocket fuel began to leak and tragically destroyed the rocket and crew. This event permanently tarnished NASA's reputation and resulted in less funding and more restrictions on the shuttle program. -
The Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl nuclear powerplant in Ukraine melts down due to an emergency scenario test that went wrong when the backup generators failed and when the operators performed an emergency reactor shutdown a combination of poor technicians and design of the powerplant resulted in a nuclear meltdown that killed many emergency personnel and cost billions in damages. -
George Bush is elected president
He won against his running mate Micheal Dukakis. During his presidency, he helped reunite Germany and was the final president to participate in the Cold War. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
When East Berlin Citizens hear of the news that the Berlin Wall will be taken down they storm to the west and break through the wall to West Berlin and celebrate with the West Berlin Citizens to finally be free. -
End of the Cold War
After the fall of the Berlin wall many other eastern European countries followed suit and many people began immigrating west. The Soviet Union was slowly dying and once Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President the Soviet Union dissolved. -
Terrorists Bomb World Trade Center
A bomb was planted in a parking garage next to the world trade center. While no substantial damage was sustained to the World Trade Center 6 people were killed and thousands were injured -
The European Union is formally established
The EU was formally established after the Maastricht Treaty and allowed for much more relaxed border control and trading between countries -
9/11 disaster
in the morning of September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes crashed into the world trade center resulting in the death of 3 thousand people. This resulted in the United States declaring war on terror and they sent troops to the middle east to bring down Al Qaeda.