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Panama Canal treaty renegotiated. U.S. agreed to transfer control by 2000 back to Panama.
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Proposition 13 was approved by Califonia voters on June 6, 1978. It was a movement meant to lower the state's property taxes.
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Pres. Carter’s greatest foreign policy triumph was the peace treaty signed between: Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
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Jerry Falwell, a televangelist, and Paul Weyrich founded the Moral Majority in June of 1979. It was founded to suport conservative issues.
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Pres. Carter’s greatest foreign policy crisis occurred in Iran when the U.S. backed Shah was overthrown in an Islamic revolution headed by the religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Revolutionaries took 52 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy and held them for 444 days.
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Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union. President Carter placed an embargo of grain exports the U.S.S.R. andhad the U.S. boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. http://www.socialistunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/russian_invasion_of_afghanistan_1.jpg
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N.A.S.A. launched the first ever space shuttle, Columbia, on March 12, 1981. Before it was destroyed on re-entry, it had made 27 missions into space
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Sandra Day O'Connor begins serving as the first female Justice of the Supreme Court! She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by President Reagan on March 23, 1983. He funded it to develop a system to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles
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President Reagan sent American troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada to remove communists and set up a more US friendly government
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After being elected in 1980 due to the Iran Hostage Crisis, Reagan later got re-elected in 1984 due to this: Pres. Reagan won reelection in 1984 by defeating Democrat Walter Mondale and his running mateGeraldine Ferraro : the first female V.P. candidate of a major party
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The Reagan Doctrine was to build up the military and aid those opposed to communism. In 1983, Pres. Reagan sent troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada to remove communists and set up a pro- U.S. government.
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Members of Reagan’s administration such as Colonel Oliver North secretly sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. Money from the sales was given to the Contras after Congress had forbiden it.
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Pres. Reagan met with the new Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ( INF ) Treaty.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement was signed between the US, Mexico, and Canada to promote free trade and increase the US exports to compete with the European Union.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) was formed so that they could settle disagreements between nations. Opposers of this program feared that this would cause the loss of unskilled jobs to cheaper labor overseas.
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George W. Bush wins the 2000 election over Democrat Al Gore and Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.
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Passed by Congress to make it easier to conduct surveillance in the U.S. to fight terrorism. Controversial and opposed by civil rights groups.
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Four planes were hijacked, and three of them crashed into the World Trade Twin Towers, and the other into the Pentagon. This was the act of an Islamic group named Al Qaida, which was led by Osama Bin Laden
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The Department of Homeland Security was formed on November 22, 2002 to coordinate government agencies in the war on terrorism.
