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1980 presidential election
Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
President Reagan proposed new space- and ground-based defense systems to protect the United States from nuclear missiles in his 1984 Strategic Defense Initiative. -
United States invasion of Grenada
The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada -
1988 Presidential Election
Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. -
Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of its existence as a sovereign state. -
1992 presidential election
Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, -
2000 Presidential Election
Held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, -
9/11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen operatives of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization hijacked four passenger planes on the East Coast. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.