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Elvis Presly
Elvis Presly was the King of Rock n Roll. He was drafted into the army in 1952. In 1960, was done in the army and tried to re-build his figure. He was born on January 8, 1935 in Mississippi. This event was important to US history because he changed rock and roll.He also donated to manny charities around the United States so he impacted society. -
United Nations
The United Nations is a peace keeping organisation. It job was to solve disputes between countries. There where 6 bodies in the United Nations. Its headquarters is located in New York City. The importance of the United Nations was to try to prevent another World War. This impacted American Society in many different ways. It provided better education, vaccines, and hunger problems. Not with just the United States but with other countries too. -
NATO/ War Saw Pact
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was created because if a country gets someone in NATO, the other countries will back them up. The War Saw Pact was created to go up against NATO. The War Saw Pact was run by the Soviet Union. The headquarters for NATO was in New York City. This event was important to United States history because NATO is still around today. NATO impacted politics because it was created to not have another world war. -
Brown vs Board of Education
IN 1954, Oliver Brown ask the local school board if his daughter would be able to attend a all white school. It was closer to there house. It also violated the 14th amendment. This took place in Topeka Kansas. This event was important to US history because it overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson case. The military was sent to help kids get to class. This effected the US society because it changed where kids went to school. -
JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy got assassinated by Lee harvey Oswald. On Friday November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas Kennedy go assassinated during a parade. He got shot in the head with his wife sitting right next to him. He died at 2:00 p.m that same day at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. This event was important to U.S history because the presidents now have more security. This impact the U.S politics because the president died. Another reason was because there had to be a new president afterword. -
Medicare/Medicade
Medicare and medicate are almost the same thing, but they where started by different people and the ages where different. For Medicare it was started by Lyndon Johnson and was for citizens over 65 pay their hospital bills. Medicare was stared by the Social Security Administration and this was to help pay for citizens of all ages, and this was why both where important. This impacted United States society because people where able to pay their bills. -
Space Shuttle Challenger
On January 28, 1986, the first civilian passenger, Christa McAuliffe a school teacher, went up into space. NASA wanted more public interest. The take off was at Cave Canaveral. At 11.39 am, Challenger took off, 59 seconds after take off there was black smoke coming fro the space craft. At 74 seconds, it burst into flames and disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean.There where no survives. This was important because now there are more tests for shuttles to go through now. -
Persion Gulf War
This was between the United Staes, Kuwait, and Iraq. On August 10 1990, Saddam Hussein sent 1000,000 troops in Kuwait. The US wanted to stop Iraq's influences in the middle east. All of the fighting took place in Iraq. This event was important because 28 countries helped the United States and not Iraq. This impacted the United states Economy because it casts billions of dallers to re-build Kuwait and $700 million on the oil spills. -
Financial Crisis of 2008
In 2008, the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis science the Great Depression. This took place at wall street their main headquarters. Companies that normally rely on credit suffered majorly. Banks, trusting none to pay them back stopped making loans. Insurance Companies traded credit swaps making trillions. The impact of this event was that deep recession had been taken over most of the world. This impacted the US economy because we didn't have any money.
