1980-2001

1980 presidential election

Nov 4, 1980

Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.

Strategic Defense Initiative

Mar 23, 1983

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

Oct 25, 1983

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

Nov 8, 1988

Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts.

Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

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

Dec 26, 1991

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

Nov 3, 1992

Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush,

2000 Presidential Election

Nov 7, 2000

Held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president,

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

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.