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Significant Historical Events from 1995 to 2015
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Oklahoma City Bombing
Two men involved with white nationalist groups, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, held a truck bombing that destroyed the Alfred Murrah Federal Building. This killed 168 people and 600 injured. This showed an increased rise in white hate groups and radical antigovernment militias. The country was forced to confront the threat of terrorism, both foreign and domestic. The president during this time, Bill Clinton, criticized those who enduced and took part in this violence.(Kruse and Zeilzer, 221)