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Smith Act
The Smith Act also known as the Alien Registration Act was signed into and passed as a law on June 28, 1940 and the purpose of this act was to set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the United States government by force and it required all non- citizen adult residents to register. It was introduced by Howard W. Smith. -
G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) was an act that offered World War II veterans low interest rates on houses they wished to purchase, it helped pay college tuition, and business loans that is still around today. It came into office on June 22, 1944. -
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The 1950s
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Trinity Bomb Test
The Trinity Bomb Test was another atomic bomb that was dropped during World War II. on July 16, 1945. In the early 1940's, “The Manhattan Project.” Trinity was the world's first atomic bomb so for the project, the drop site took place at Los Alamos, New Mexico. At 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists detonated a plutonium bomb at a test site located on the U.S. Air Force base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, some 120 miles south of Albuquerque. -
Little Boy
The Little Boy Bomb was an atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 during World War II. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. The Hiroshima bombing was said to be the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation the inefficient Little Boy design would ever again be required -
Fat Man
Fat Man was the second atomic bomb made. The first was the "Gadget" detonated at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945. In the implosion-type device, a core of sub-critical plutonium is surrounded by several thousand pounds of high-explosive designed in such a way that the explosive force of the HE is directed inwards thereby crushing the plutonium core into a super-critical state. Dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, it was the second nuclear weapon used in a war. -
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The Cold War
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was created by George Marshall. its purpose was to give loans to rebuild Western Europe and restore faith in capitalism. It only applied to Western Europe unlike the Truman Doctrine that was for the whole world. It helped in American labor, farming & manufacturing practices to Europe. -
Berlin Aircraft
The Berlin Airlift is where tons of supplies were being drooped from aircraft's that last almost a year. Stalin was upset and did not like capitalism in Germany so he seals off the border. Later on Berlin was divided into 4 military zones. U.S & British planes supply West Berlin with air shipments. Eventually they decided to reopen the border. -
Truman Doctrine
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine is to stop the spread of communism. It provides economic and military aid that helps countries fight against communism. It is given to the whole world that came into existence in the year of 1948. -
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was an economic extension of the New Deal that was added by Harry Truman. The Fair Deal offered health care, public housing, education and public works. He also called for higher minimum wage, electricity and telephones. This plan also led on to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950. -
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy was a Wisconsin Senator from 1947 up until his death in 1957. He had claimed he had a list if communists in the year 1950. He started attacking Democrats, celebrities and even government officials. He intimidated witnesses, ignored the facts and made up charges that eventually goes to far. -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was a communist that was convicted of perjury because he lied about passing government documents to Chambers and because he also denied that he had seen Chambers since 1937. He went to two trials within the years of 1949 and 1950. He also happened to be a spy for the Soviets. Eventually, Americans were convinced of communist danger, which worried a lot of the citizens. -
Korean War (The Forgotten War)
The Korean War was more of a conflict than a war. It all occurred when 75,000 soldiers from North Korea decided to make their way to the 38th parallel. The war broke out around the Cold War. The U.S then joined sides with South Korea to help fight in the war. After 3 years of fighting, the war finally came to en end with over 5 million causalities and sadly North ans South Korea are still separated from each other till this day. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was the New Soviet premier in 1953 and severed as premier from 1958 to 1964. He overtures of peace and prosperity and believed that war was a lie. He was responsible for secretly built military and space technology and eventually he ends up surpassing up America. -
Polio Vaccine
The Polio Vaccine had many fails that was not effective until 1953, this vaccine was created by Dr. Jonas Stalk, he was the original created for the polio vaccine. Thousands upon thousands of children were debilitated per year that led to people being left paralyzed after the disease was over. At first people had to receive the vaccine in shot form up until 1961 in which is was then created in pill form. Stalks' vaccine was revolutionary. -
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
The Rosenberg's were the individuals who gave Atomic Bomb secrets to the Soviets during and after World War 2. In March they both were charged with espionage On June, 19, 1953 both Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death by the U.S government and were soon executed a year or two after they were caught for their crime. -
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Civil Rights
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The Domino Theory
The Domino Theory is the fear of if one nation were to fall to communism then it would lead to a chain reaction and then the rest of nations would fall to communism. It was said that America failed to prevent communist victory and Eisenhower had did the speech known as the domino theory so it was his plan to help contain and prevent the spread of communism from affecting the whole road. -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Till was an African American boy who grew up in Chicago. Emmett, his cousins and a few friends found themselves at a store in Mississippi on August 24, 1955. On that day Emmett was dared to go talk to the white woman behind the counter, so he did go up to her and talk to her. A few days later the woman had told her husband what had happened to her and so he went out looking for Till with his brother-in-law when they finally had Till in their grasp, they killed him in a tool house. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955 was a day where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Alabama. The bus has two sections, a section in the front of the bus for whites and in the back of the bus it was for colored. It was the law that if there were no more seats on the bus in the white section then the bus driver had the right to move an African American out of their seat, but Rosa Parks did not give up her seat so she got arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The blacks of Montgomery would boycott the buses on the day of Parks’ trial, Monday, December 5. By midnight, 35,000 flyers were being mimeographed to be sent home with black schoolchildren, informing their parents of the planned boycott. While Parks was found guilty, the boycott grew bigger and the drama in Montgomery continued to gain attention from the national and international press. And on November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was born January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was not recognized until the mid 1950's where be then became a sensation around the globe. He came into the generation where Rock N Roll was first coming into the light and becoming popular and Elvis Presley grew to be one of the most popular artists till this day. From a young age, he was fascinated in music and he eventually decided to make a living out of it and became a world sensation and had many big hits across the nation. -
Little Rock 9
The event of Little Rock Nine is when Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called out the state National Guard to prevent black students from attending high school in Little Rock in 1957. After a tense standoff, President Eisenhower deployed federal troops, and nine students—known as the “Little Rock Nine”—were able to enter Central High School under armed guard. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower, which was a Civil Rights Commission, but had little real effect and was mostly symbolic. Its purpose was to help promote equal rights among the people, but it was not very successful in doing so like giving them the right to vote. -
Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the very first orbiting satellite came to life. It was not huge, matter in fact is was said to be the size of the a basketball so it was not humongous but it was extraordinary It was known to be a beeping radio signal . Unfortunately, America was not able to fully compete with USSR until late January 1958 which is when they launched their first satellite. -
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration also known as NASA was the time where new American scientists and astronauts began to flourish after the launch of Sputnik by the soviets. With our technology advancing, the program got a better understanding of how the earth looks and what else is out in our solar system. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs is when Fidel Castro, a young Cuban nationalist took any army to Havana so for next couple of years the CIA made it a mission to try and push Castro from being in power. Eventually, President Kennedy had taken over Eisenhower's CIA campaign in which he had to equip an army of Cuban exiles . On April 15, 1961, Cuban exiles had performed a strike against Cuban airfields -
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The 1960s
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Sit-Ins
Sit-ins was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service that then reached out to colleges in the South. Despite all the arrests that were made during these protests, they did have an impact upon the society. It went from small group to 300 students in a matter of days. -
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries also known as OPEC is a organization that took place in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela from September 10 to 14 in 1960. The Purpose of OPEC is to unify petroleum policies among the countries to help keep the prices of petroleum stable and efficient. This organization is still around till this day. -
The New Frontier
The New Frontier is when President John F. Kennedy was elected and was known to be the youngest one to be elected as President. He had plans to rise minimum wage, to cut business taxes by 90%, and wanted to have a man land on the moon , even though the Soviets were ahead in the Space Race when they launched Sputnik into space in 1957. -
The Peace Corps
The Peace Crops was founded by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961. The purpose was to promote world peace and friendship. So Kennedy wanted a counter- program where Americans would be more involved with global peace, development, freedom and democracy. At the first launch of the new program, there were only 51 volunteers, but as time flew by it grew to at east 500 volunteers within that same year and recently almost 220,000 Americans in various countries are in the Peace Corps. -
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Riders is where various groups made up of African Americans and white civil rights activists participated in Freedom Ride, which is where they took bus trips through the South. When they reached Alabama, they were awaited by police officers and a angry mob of white protesters and later on a court case took place as well stating that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well. -
Kennedy's Speech at Rice University
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy went to Rice University to give his speech "we choose to go to the moon" was the speech that Americans were determined to go out their way and make it a mission to land on the moon. It was said that his speech is what sparked the Apollo 11 mission and in 1969, make the mission possible and a huge success. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis dealt with the United States and the Soviet Union, in which they both engaged in a 13 day war with one another. The Soviets were shooting missiles at Cuba and so President Kennedy announced a naval blockade around Cuba and that if it came down to the United States having to use military force then the U.S would get involved. It was said that many people feared that a Nuclear War was going to break. -
"I Have a Dream Speech"
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Had a Dream" speech in Washington D.C in front of thousands of people.speeches, but never with the force and effectiveness of that day in August in Washington. He equated the civil rights movement with the highest and noblest ideals of the American tradition, allowing many to see for the first time the importance and urgency of racial equality. His famous speech is still talked about until this day. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was on his way to Dallas, Texas with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy in an open Lincoln convertible and driving along the street and waving to the crowd when all of a sudden three shots were fired and hit President Kennedy and Governor Connally and sadly 30 minuted later after Kennedy was shot, he was pronounced dead. That same day, Lyndon Johnson was the president of the United States of America. -
The Warren Commission
The Warren Commission came into existence in November 29, 1963 that was set up by President Lyndon Johnson who took over office after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the purpose of the Warren Commission was to investigate the assassination of Kennedy and figure who was responsible for the President's death. They eventually tracked down a man named Lee Harvey Oswald and said he was the one who killed Kennedy, -
Freedom Summer
Free Summer was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Unfortunately they had to face The Ku Klux Klan, police and state and local authorities carried out a series of violent attacks against the activists, including arson, beatings, false arrest and also faced a few facilitates within the year. -
ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile)
The Inter Continental Ballistic Missile or ICBM is were nuclear missiles that can go anywhere in the world. It took place in the late 1950's and its said that nuclear missiles were an technology extension that was developed by Germany from World War II. The purpose of the ICBM is to carry payloads such as nuclear warheads a long distance. The missiles are launched from a launched on the ground are sent to reach the Earth's orbit and then re-enter the Earth's atmosphere to eliminate targets. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the act that helped end segregation that were occurring in public places and even banned discrimination whether is was because of race, color, religion or sex that was first mentioned by Kennedy was put into law by Johnson. The act was successfully passed on July 02, 1964. This act helped to over power the laws that were put into place by Jim Crow . -
The Great Society
The Great Society took place under Lyndon B. Johnson who happened to be one of the 20th Century's Great Legislators. The purpose of the Great Society was to promote and promise education, good standard living and beautification and the President's main goal of having all these different type of programs and policy initiatives was to put an end to poverty, improve the environment and establish equality among the nation. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed and singed into law in August 06, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and he was also appointed with Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson was the one who focused on giving African Americans their right to vote that happened to be the 15th Amendment of the Constitution. -
Death of MLK
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at Lorraine Motel while he was outside on the balcony, socializing with his fellow associates when all of a sudden a shot was fired that then hit the Civil Rights leader in the neck and pronounced dead in Memphis, Tennessee. A few months later they came across a man named Ray who they thought was the one who committed the crime but in the end dropped the case. -
Apollo 11
On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission was launched into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the very first men to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. The Apollo 11's main mission was to perform a lunar landing and it was successful and a camera recorded humankind's first step on the Moon -
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The 1970s
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was founded under the presidency of President Richard Nixon and it was created on December 02, 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. EPA can be found in Washington D.c and its purpose includes fines, sanctions, and other measures. -
Space Shuttle Program
The Space Shuttle Program came into existence on January 5, 1972 that at first was a plan tat President John F. Kennedy had in mind to have a land on the moon, but since he was assassinated and killed President Richard Nixon took over office and he was the president that the Space Shuttle Program was born and created under. Almost a decade after the program was created, the United Sates had sent their first men to land on the moon in 1981. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the United States Senate and sent to the states. In October 1971 Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, it won the requisite two-thirds vote from the U.S. House of Representatives. Then on March 22, 1972 it was approved by the U.S Senate. However, Hawaii was he very first state to ratify the possibly new 27th amendment but overtime the federal government and the states made an agreement to declare and protect the legal rights of the women of the United States -
Plumbers
The Plumbers were part of the Watergate Scandal that occurred on June 17, 1972 which the Plumbers went into the Watergate Hotel/ Complex, which is where the Headquarters of Democratic Party. It was five of Nixon's so called "plumbers" stole campaign information, they broke wire tape, but at one point they were spotted and caught by a security guard and were put under arrest. Eventually, they went to trial and supposedly when Nixon was asked if he know about it, he said no. -
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was declared by President Richard Nixon and he put into place on December 28, 1973 which was one of the few dozens of US environmental laws passed in the 1970's, and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. -
Nixon Tapes
The Nixon Tapes were released to the public on August 5, 1974. It revealed that Nixon used taping systems and he wanted tapes for future president book. The Senate and Justice Department felt like it was best to launch investigations on Nixon and when they were investigating, they had demanded for the tapes that Nixon had recorded, but he refused and then wanted to fire the Justice Department captain and one day Nixon gives them an edited version of the tapes and he was found innocent. -
Video Head System (VHS)
The creation of the Video Head System or the VCR was invented from the Victor Company of Japan also goes by JVC and was not released to the public until September 9, 1976. It was used in home for educational purposes, home videos, or feature films. The VCR took cassette tapes instead of DVD's. The Victor Company of Japan did a collaboration with Sony and Matsushita in the late 1960's to the ealry 1970's.The VCR is still in some houses today and is one of the best technology inventions out there. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a water gate passage that is a system of locks that would carry boats up and down. It was built around 1903 to 1914 under President Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. On September 7, 1977 President Jimmy Carter had singed a treaty to give the Canal to panama, but it was not handed over to Panama until December 31, 1999, which is when Panama took complete control over the Panama Canal. -
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson was in Hazlehurst, Mississippi on May 8, 1911. Johnson was a famous blues performer in the 1970's. He was a songwriter, guitarist, and a singer. He went around as best as he could. He wrote 29 songs which he recorded in Dallas and San Antonio from years 1936 to 1937. By the 1960's he was getting recognized by music producers and thousands of people. Leading up to his death on August 16, 1938, but he went down in history as one of the best blue performers of all time. -
Three-Mile Island
The Three-Mile Island is where there the antinuclear movement emerged as a social movement in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. During Women Strike for Peace demonstrations on November 1, 1961, roughly 50,000 women marched in 60 cities in the United States to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.In 1982, a million people marched in New York City protesting nuclear weapons and urging an end to the Cold War nuclear arms race. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis took place on November 4, 1979, which is where a group of Iranian students walked in to U.S Embassy in Tehran, where the group of Iranians' took at least 60 Americans in hostage. They did this because of the "wise" decision to allow Iran's deposed Shah. The students set their hostages free on January 21, 1981, 444 days after the crisis began and just hours after President Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address. -
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The 1980s
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Election of 1980
The Election of 1980 was the presidential election of Ronald Reagan who is from the Republican Party and his opponent, Jimmy Carter who is from the Democratic party. Ron;ad Reagan was then the new President of the United States of America with electoral votes of 489 along with popular votes of 44 million, compared to his opponent, Jimmy Carter who had electoral votes of 49 and 35 million popular votes. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. In 1959 to 1960, he served as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), during which time he testified in front of the House Un-American Activities Committe (HUAC). March 30, 1981, Reagan survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan then created the Reagan doctrine in 1985. -
Music Television (MTV)
The Founders of Music Television or MTV was Robert Pittman, Tom Freston, Les Garland, and John Sykes. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the very first music video to go on air on the new cable television channel, which initially was available only to households in parts of New Jersey. In 1984, the channel launched the MTV Music Video Awards, which were followed in 1992 by the MTV Movie Awards. MTV is still on TV till this day that is one of the largest shows in the world. -
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was put into law on February 06, 1985. The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration’s support of “freedom fighters” around the globe.This policy translated into covertly supporting the Contras in their attacks on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua; the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviet occupiers; and anticommunist Angolan forces embroiled in that nation’s civil war. -
Challenger Explosion- Space Shuttle
On January 28, 1986, NASA was getting ready to launch the space shuttle Challenger into space. They were all set and ready to take and off and when they did, there were cameras rolling and people watching it on TV. Just when they took off, it was a clean ride through into the sky until all of a sudden the space shuttle Challenger just exploded in mid- air, killing all of the seven astronauts that were on board of the space shuttle. The cause of the disaster was due to a malfunction. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961 that separated West Berlin and East Berlin. Pn November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased so they took that advantage and started to make their way into West Berlin, some just walked straight in, while others marched to the wall and started to tear it down using hammers and picks and then the wall started to fall apart and then it fell. -
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The Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War or also known as the First Iraq War from 1990 to 1991 occurred on August 8, 1990. Saddam Hussein was the one responsible for the ordered invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm, which is where George H.W Bush deployed troops to Saudi Arabia and the U.S was afraid that Saddam was going to invade other countries. They were bombing and sending in troops which they defeated 4 days in. -
Bill Clinton
William J. Clinton also known as Bill Clinton was born in Hope, Arizona on August 19, 1946. He was a Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 then was re-elected as the governor in 1983 to 1992. Bill Clinton served as the third youngest candidate to run and we was going for 42nd president of the United States from the years 1993 to 2001. During his first term, Clinton enacted a variety of pieces of domestic legislation, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Violence Against Women Act -
George H.W Bush
George H.W Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as Ambassador to the United Nations, and in 1973, Bush became the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The following year, President Gerald Ford appointed Bush as the ambassador to China and later reassigned Bush to the position of Director of Central Intelligence. He also had his son, George W. Bush run for President in 2001. -
Election of 1992
The Election of 1992 was the presidential election of William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton (Democrat) and George H.W. Bush (Republican) who was the Governor of Arkansas for more than four years. Before he was elected president of the United States in 1992. He was not known by many until the election, but people liked him because he was charismatic and understanding. George H.W Bush was known for his large deficits and down turning economy and he was popular for the Persian Gulf War. -
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA was put into place and passed as a law by President Bill Clinton on December 08, 1993. It's job, duty or purpose was to knock down trade barriers.It was basically a trade pact between the U.S, Mexico and Canada to eliminate tariffs and trade restrictions between all of the three nations. The pact, which took effect on January 1, 1994, created the world’s largest free-trade zone. -
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
The Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996. DOMA, is a federal law in which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and authorizes states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages, so if gay or lesbian couples wished to be married that they would have that right and be recognized as a married couple in other states. This act was passed due to a Supreme Court case that took place in Hawaii in 1993. -
The Lewinsky Affair
The Lewinsky Affair was a case that was accusing Bill Clinton of having an affair Monica Lewinsky. Their little secret was kept for a while until Kenneth Star who was a prosecutor had heard about the affair from a female civil servant and so Monica had told the civil servant in confidence about her and Bill. When it got out to the world, Clinton was in denial of the affair and testifies to Kenneth he did not do anything wrong. In the end, many of lies and scandals were told at the end of 1990's. -
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Election of 2000
The Election of 2000 was between candidates George W. Bush who was an republican and was also the Governor of Texas and Al Gore who was an democrat, he was Bill Clinton's vice president, an environmentalist and also a baby boomer retirement. This election was honestly one of the closest presidential elections in American history. Florida was the one who decides the winner. -
Bush v. Gore
The Bush V. Gore case was the court case that took place between candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore. This election happened to be one of the closest elections in American history. So Gore had the case taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. It was up to the Supreme Court to decide who won the election that Bush won the electoral college, but that Gore wins popular vote by half a million. -
9/11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001 the United States was under attack when a total of four airplanes were hijacked by terrorists. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. ue to the amount of deaths and damage that took place it triggered the U.S to fight back. This is a national holiday in the United States of America. -
The Patriot Act
The Patriot Act was passed and signed off by President George W. Bush October 26, 2001 and it was to improve the abilities of the U.S law enforcement to deter terrorism ever since the event of 9/11 took place which resulted in the damage of the World Trade Center and the pentagon. It allowed law enforcement to use any sort of surveillance and wiretapping if it came down to investigate any terror-related crimes . -
Second Iraq War
The Second Iraq War took place in March 2003. Weapons of Mass Destruction were in use because Saddam used chemical weapons in war with Iran in the 1980's and so Saddam supposedly tries to get nuclear and biological weapons to use in the warfare. At this time the Bush Doctrine was signed into law and the purpose of this doctrine was we could use force against any nation that harbored terrorists. When war broke out with the bombing, troops were in Baghdad for 3 weeks, but Iraq fell soon after. -
Hurricane Katrina Disaster
On August 29, 2005, just off the Gulf Coast of the United States, Hurricane Katrina had hit New Orleans. When the storm arrived on land, it turned into a category 3 hurricane where the storm started to develop winds ranging from 100- 140 M.P.H. and stressed almost 400 miles across the land. It's rain fall started to flood houses and buildings and eventually, nearly 80 percent of the city was under some quantity of water. -
Election of 2008
The Election of 2008 took place on November 4, 2008 where the two candidates, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator John McCain of Arizona went head to head. Barack Obama garnered 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote while as for John McCain got 173 electoral votes and more than 45 percent of the popular vote. In the end of the election, Barack Obama was elected the first African American president of the United Sates of America. -
John McCain
John McCain was born on August 29, 1938 in Coco Solo, Panama. was long-time Arizona Senator John S. McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner-of-war from years 1967 to 1973 and when he was released he decided to serve as a Republican congressman and also a senator from the state of Arizona. He was the running candidate for President Barack Obama in the year 2008. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. In 1996, Obama officially launched his own political career, winning election to the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat from the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park. On November 4, lines at polling stations around the nation heralded a historic turnout and resulted in a Democratic victory, with Obama capturing some Republican strongholds and he won the election over his opponent John McCain. -
The Great Recession
The Great Recession occurred on December 1, 2008. It was when the economy corrupted in the middle of the campaign in the fall of 2008. What had happened during this time was failing prices of homes, horrible lending habits by banks and risky investments that lead to massive foreclosures. It was so bad that the Government had to bail out many industries. It was said that this was the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act happened under President Obama's presidency and took place on February 17, 2009. The cost of this deal was going to roughly $700 billion in government spending. It was designed to create new jobs and save the existing jobs as well and to help spur economic growth. It also helped provide temporary relief programs for those individuals that were most impacted by the Great Recession so it helped with education, health and also with renewable energy. -
Sonya Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor who is Puerto Rican, was born in The Bronx, New York on June 25, 1954. President Barack Obama had elected Sonia Sotomayor on May 26, 2009 had selected her to be part of the United States Supreme Court and then on August 6, 2009, Sonia was commissioned then two days later she was sworn in and then she became the third woman and the first Hispanic justice to be on the Supreme Court. -
Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)
Obama Care or the Affordable Care Act is what President Barack Obama gets passed reforms for private health insurance so it was required that everyone had to have insurance or do the alternative and pay a fine. Many Liberals were upset since it was not a single-payer system like it was in Europe, but in 2018, President Donald Trump had got rid of Obama Care.
