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The Second Cold War
The Cold War was a global political struggle between capitalist and communist countries the greatest war powers after World War II the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist republics. It caused the collapse of the Berlin Wall. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan Elected as President. -
Farm Aid Benefit Concert
Prominent musicians including Neil Young and Willie Nelson organize farm Aid, a benefit concert at the University of Illinois football stadium desiring to raise money for struggling farmers. -
Democratic Leadership Council Formed
A group of centrists fires the Democratic Leadership Council as a vehicle for distancing the party from organized labor and Keynesian economics while cultivating the business community. -
Bernhard Goetz Murdered Black Teenagers
A thirty-seven-year-old white engineer, Bernard Goetz shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers on a New York Subway car. The Subway Vigilante that the young men-armed with screwdrivers-planned to rob him. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act. American policymakers hoped to do two things: deal with the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States while simultaneously choking off future unsanctioned migration. -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market crashed. On Black Friday the market plunged to 800 points erasing 13% of its value and investors lost more than $500 billion. -
Crash of the Berlin Wall
American president Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and demanded that Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev "Tear down this wall." -
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Somalia
The United Nations attempted to address the crisis with United Nations Operation in Somalia to provide assistance. President George H.W. Bush authorized the dispatch of U.S. troops to Somalia to assist with famine relief as part of the larger United Nations effort. -
World Trade Center, Pentagon & Pennsylvania Field Plane Crashes
Men trained by Al-Qaeda carried out a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States that had been planned for years. The attackers simultaneously hijacked four large passenger aircraft with the intention of crashing them into major landmarks in the United States, inflicting as much death and destruction as possible. They ended up crashing into the Twin Towers or also known as the World Trade Center.