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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 (USSR). “Cold“ because it was never a “hot“ war, direct shootings between the US and soviet union never occurred. The collapse of the Berlin Wall (1989)
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Reagan secured the presidency through appealing to the growing conservatism of much of the country In the problem, Reagan focused less on eliminating government redirecting serve new ends. In line with that goal, his administration embraced supply-side economic theories that had among the New Right.
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While the postwar to recently gained popularity on March 30, 1981, Reagan survived an assassination attempt by a mentally unstable young man named John Hinckley. Public support swelled for the hospitalized president.
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In February 1985, a group of centrists fires the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) as a vehicle for distancing the party from organized labor and Keynesian economics while cultivating the business community. Jesse Jackson dismissed the DLC as “Democrats for the Leisure Class," but the organization included many of the party's future leaders, including Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.
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In 1982, pop singer Michael Jackson release a thriller, the best-selling album of all time. Oprah Winfrey begin her phenomenally successful nationally syndicated talk show in 1985. Comedian Bill Cosby's sitcom is about an African-American doctor and lawyer raising their four children through the highest ratings on television for most of the decade. Cosby’s fictional TV family represented a growing number of black middle-class professionals in the United States.
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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.
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In June 1987, American president Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and demanded that Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev "Tear down this wall" Less than three years later, amid civil unrest in November 1989, East German authorities announced that their citizens were to and from West Berlin. The world. Within months, the Berlin Wall was reduced to rubble on October 3, 1990
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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.