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GI Bill
The G. I. Bill of Rights, or the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, had provided for college or vocational education for the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as GI's or G. I.s) as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses The goal was to help veterans get back to work, life, and live the american dream. Many people had agreed that veterans should be helped through gov assistance program -
Trinity Tested
The Trinity Test was named by Oppenheimer who picked the name "Trinity" for the test site, enlivened by the verse of John Donne. At the point when the bomb was at long last exploded on a steel tower, a light blaze and sudden rush of warmth was trailed by an extraordinary blasted of sound resounding in the valley. A wad of flame attacked the sky and afterward was encompassed by a cloud around 40,000 feet over. With a power equal to around 21,000 tons of dynamite, the bomb demolished the pinnacle. -
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Cold War
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Iron Curtain Speech by Churchhill
Iron Curtain was made prominent by, English Head Winston Churchill, to portray the Soviet Association's strategy of seclusion amid the Cool War. In 1946, Winston Churchill gave a discourse in which he pronounced that Russia had constructed an "Iron Window ornament" isolating eastern Europe from western Europe. Churchill implied that the Soviet Association had isolated the eastern European nations from the west with the goal that nobody comprehended what was happening behind the curtain. -
Truman Doctrine announced to Congress
The Truman Doctrine was a precept that was created by Truman as per the regulation strategy that guaranteed financial guide to those battling communists. President Harry S. Truman displayed this address before a joint session of Congress. He approached Congress for $400 million in military and monetary help for Turkey and Greece. Joined States would give political, military and monetary help to every single popularity based country under tyrant forces.The regulation would later reason issues. -
Marshall Plan effective
The "Marshall Plan" was arranged for that the US thought of to resuscitate war-torn economies of Europe. This arrangement offered nearly $15 billion to Western and Southern Europe. The Marshall Design was separated into two goals towards the finish of the entire arrangement. The first was to help revamping a portion of these nations, and the second was to advance American development. As a result of the second goal, this arrangement would likewise come to be known as the "New Deal for Europe". -
Berlin Airlift
Before the "Berlin Airlift", the Berlin Blockade occurred and the blockade was an endeavor to starve out Berlin, keeping in mind the end goal to pick up matchless quality. The barricade was a high point in the driving rain War, and it prompted the Berlin Airlift. Soviets did not trust Planes alone could fly in enough supplies for the 2 million Berliners. Americans and English fly in 5000 tons of sustenance, fuel, prescriptions daily. Planes would take off and arrive at intervals of 3 minutes. -
Internal Security Act enacted over Truman's veto
The demonstration itself was named after Patrick McCarran of Nevada. The McCarran Interior Security Act was authorized amid the early Cool War years and not long after U.S. mediation in the Korean War because of developing household anti‐Communist fears. In the wake of Republican allegations that the Truman organization was not sufficiently determined against Communists and Comrade sympathizers in the Unified States, a coalition of preservationist Democrats and Republicans embraced the measure. -
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1950s
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of conspiracy
Julius Rosenberg received detailed information about the building and maintenance of an atomic bomb from David Greenglass who was a sergeant in the US army at the time. Ethel and Julius began to conspire about releasing secrets to the Soviet Union. She was brought to trial on the same date as her husband, Julius. Both were convicted and executed. Julius later turned over this information to Harry Gold, who in turn gave it to Anatoly A. Yakovlev, the vice consul from the Soviet Union in New York. -
Senator Taft announces intentions to run for President
Taft was a noticeable moderate statesman. As the main rival of the New Arrangement in the Senate from 1939 to 1953. He drove the effective exertion by preservationist coalition to check the energy of worker's organizations, and was a noteworthy defender of the remote approach of non-interventionism. Robert Taft needed to disassemble New Arrangement constrain energy of the associations. A case of his work would be the Taft-Hartley Act. Robert Taft pushed this through Congress, over Truman's veto. -
"Duck & Cover" officially released
Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear bomb in 1949. The American people were panicked at the possibility of nuclear bombs. So, another Federal Civil Defense Administration was set up in 1951 to teach and promise the nation that there were approaches to survive the Soviet Association. Many colleges contemplated a way to accomplish feeling administration amid the beginning of the Cold War. Duck and Cover was finished in January 1952, and around 1.1 million individuals saw these recordings. -
Bill Haley and the Comets founded
Bill Haley was a very iconic artist back then as he blended sounds from country, dixieland, and R&B before the term "Rock and Roll" was invented and used in contemporary society. Many say that he is best known for his hit single “Rock Around the Clock,” an anthem for rebellious teenagers. However, Haley had been producing hits and pioneering the genre even before “Rock” launched him to superstardom. Haley has been called “the father of rock and roll” and “rock ‘n’ roll’s first star. -
Brown v Board of Education begins
Linda Brown was the one who caused events leading up into the event. Black girl who was refused enrollment in the closest school to her house because of segregation.The Brown v Board had ended with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that outlawed segregation in public education by finding that separate public schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. The decision was the beginning of the end of official racial segregation in all facets of public life. -
Polio Vaccine
Prior to the release of the vaccine, Summer was known as “polio season.” Children were most susceptible to paralytic poliomyelitis. In 1947 Salk accepted a position at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to establish a Virus Research Laboratory. During this time, he had conducted tons of trials. On April 12, 1955, Thomas Francis, Salk’s mentor and the director of the trial, reported that the vaccine was safe, potent, and 90% effective in protecting against paralytic poliomyelitis. -
Taft dies; Knowland becomes majority leader
Robert Taft was elected Republican leader on January 2, 1953. Then he died the following July 31. William Knowland was then elected and appointed Republican leader on August 4, 1953 , while Lyndon Johnson was elected Democratic leader on January 2. William Knowland was the youngest majority leader in Senate history having been elected to the position at the age of 45 years old. Johnson was the youngest Democratic floor leader. William Knowland retired from the Senate end of 85th Congress. -
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Civil Rights
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Emmett Till buried
Emmett Till was an African-American. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store there. hooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person. When a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the bus boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. -
Elvis Presley makes "Heartbreak Hotel" a hit
Elvis Presley was a Memphis-born singer whose youth, voice, and sex appeal helped popularize rock 'n' roll in the mid-1950s. Commonly known using only his first name, he was an icon of popular culture, in both music and film. Singer whose music helped to transform and revolutionize popular music in the 1950s. He had fused rhythm and blues with bluegrass and country to form a new genre of music known as rock n' roll. "Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by him and was released as a single. -
Passage of Civil Rights Act forwarded by Johnson
It was the first civil rights bill to be enacted after Reconstruction which was supported by most non-southern whites.Passed under the Johnson administration, this act outlawed segregation in public areas and granted the federal government power to fight black disfranchisement. The act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent discrimination in the work place. This act was the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction and invalidated the Southern Caste System. -
Sputnik Launched
The Sputnik was widely known for the events that the Soviet Union launched. This first satellite took orbit on October 4, 1957. Humiliated at being upstaged by the Russians, the U.S. reshaped the educational system in efforts to produce the large numbers of scientists and engineers that Russia had. In addition, to better make scientific advancements, NASA was created in 1958. Created by Congress, it brought a national aeronautics agency to administer non-military space research and exploration. -
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1960s
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Four black college students stage sit-in
The Greensboro Four were four young black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. These four had taken place in a planned "sit-in" influenced by the non-violent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality in 1947. They were also driven by the death of Emmett Till. -
The construction of the Berlin Wall begins
East Germany and East Berlin part of Communist Party. About 2.5 million fled for freedom. Nikita Khrushchev demanded border to be closed. Government had began building Berlin Wall. Kennedy unwilling to go to war with S.U. Wall stood as a symbol of Cold War for three decades., 1961 - The Soviet Union, under Nikita Khrushev, erected a wall between East and West Berlin to keep people from fleeing from the East, after Kennedy asked for an increase in defense funds to counter Soviet aggression. -
The Cuban Missile Crises begins
Kennedy didn't want to invade Cuba because that could have started world war but he could not let the missile sites be completed. With his advisers, he decided on a naval blockade to prevent Russian ships delivering the missiles for the Cuban sites. Khrushchev warned that Russia would see the blockade as an act of war. Secretly, the Americans suggested a trade-off of missile bases - US bases in Turkey for Russian bases in Cuba. At the same time, a US spy plane had been shot down but was ignored. -
Cuban Missile Crisis resolved
The Russians made the first public move. The ships heading for Cuba turned back, and Khrushchev sent a telegram offering to dismantle the Cuban bases if Kennedy lifted the blockade and promised not to invade Cuba. Then, as though having second thoughts, he sent a second letter demanding the dismantling of the Turkish bases. At the vital moment, a US U2 spy plane was shot down. However, Kennedy ignored the attack and agreed to the first letter, and secretly to the second. The crisis was over. -
MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
One of the most prominent black civil rights leaders, King called for black assertiveness and nonviolent resistance to oppression. He is famous for his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" written when he was in jail during the protests which promotes the doctrine of civil disobedience, a method of that urges blacks to ignore all laws that they believe are unjust. The letter then circulated around the world, sparking tons of movements towards the fight for equal rights and deserved treatment. -
I Have A Dream speech
The "I Have a Dream Speech" was a speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the demonstration of freedom in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. It was an event related to the civil rights movement of the 1960's to unify citizens in accepting diversity and eliminating discrimination against African-Americans. MLK appeals mainly to his listeners' desire for a better future. In his speech, he frequently repeats "Let freedom ring", as it had additional power to it because it's a familiar patriotic song. -
Birmingham Bombing
The Birmingham incident had happened on September 15, 1963, when a bomb detonated before Sunday morning administrations at the sixteenth Road Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—a congregation with a transcendently dark gathering that likewise filled in as a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders. Four young ladies were slaughtered and numerous other individuals harmed. Shock over the episode and the fierce conflict amongst dissenters and police that took after helped spark movement. -
JFK Blown Away!!
President Kennedy was going in an open top car through the streets of Dallas when three rifle shots rang through the air, evidently shot from the 6th floor of the adjacent Book Safe building. The first of these projectiles missed its stamp, while the second infiltrated the back of the President's neck. Kennedy's steel-boned back prop which he wore to lighten his consistent torment held Kennedy in an upright position, regardless of his injury, letting the last shot to strike the back of his head. -
The Tonkin Resolution is passed
Toward the beginning of August 1964, two U.S. destroyers positioned in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been let go upon by North Vietnamese powers. Because of these revealed episodes, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked for authorization from the U.S. Congress to expand the U.S. military north. On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approving President Johnson to take any measures he accepted were important and had taken the duty of keeping peace. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election
Already being president, in 1964, Johnson continued to be running for the administration against Republican Congressperson Barry Goldwater of Arizona. With people in general apparently having little hunger for Goldwater's staunch conservatism, LBJ won in an avalanche. He received 61 percent of the famous/popular vote, and the biggest edge of triumph in U.S. race history. Johnson utilized his race order to take up arms against destitution in the Assembled States and socialism in Southeast Asia. -
Selma March
The Selma to Montgomery march was progression of Civil Rights challenges that happened in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with profoundly settled in supremacist approaches. In Spring of that year, with an end goal to enlist dark voters in the South, walking the 54-mile course from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were gone up against with savage brutality from neighborhoods near. The historic march, and Martin Luther King, Jr's participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 effective
The Voting Rights Demonstration of 1965, marked into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, intended to conquer legitimate obstructions at the state and nearby levels that kept African Americans from practicing their entitlement to vote as ensured under the fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Voting Rights Act is viewed as a standout amongst the most extensive bits of social equality enactment in U.S. history. The voting rights charge was passed in the U.S. Senate by a 77-19. -
The Watts race riots in Los Angeles begin
Watts Race Riots of 1965, arrangement of savage showdowns between Los Angeles police and inhabitants of Watts and other dominatingly African American neighborhoods of South-Focal Los Angeles that started August 11, 1965, and went on for six days. The uproar prodded from an occurrence on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a youthful African American driver, was pulled over and captured by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Thruway Patrolman, for suspicions of driving while intoxicated. -
The first public burning of a draft card
Draft-card burning was an image of protest performed by a great many young fellows in the US and Australia in the 1960s and mid 1970s. The main draft-card burners were American men participating in the restriction to Joined States association in the Vietnam War. The main all around advanced dissent was in December 1963, with a 22-year old pacifist, Eugene Keyes, setting flame to his card on Christmas Day in Illinois. In May 1964, a bigger showing, with around 50 individuals participating. -
Medicare begins
Added to the Social Security that aids the elderly. Medicare and Medicaid was established through the passage of Social Securities Amendments of 1955, provided subsidized health care to disabled and elderly Americans above 65 (Medicare) and health coverage to low income families and individuals (Medicaid). Medicare and Medicaid were established under Title XVII of the Social Security Act by LBJ. On April 1, 2014, Paul Ryan proposed major changes to the medicare system to cut federal spending. -
Black Panther Party formed
The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The Black Panthers attracted widespread support among young urban blacks who wore the groups distinctive leather jackets, black berets, and often openly displayed weapons. The Black PP was created in order to "patrol the pigs", or cops. The group declined as a result of deadly shootouts and destructive counterintelligence activities that exacerbated disputes between Panthers and other black militant groups. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.The name of the offensive comes the Vietnamese New Year, when the first major attacks took place -
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at a Memphis hotel. James Earl Ray, white man who resented the increasing black influence in society. King's murder set off a new round of riots across the country, while both blacks and whites mourned the tragic death of a charismatic leader. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last legislation. -
American Indian Movement (AIM)
The movement was established to turn the consideration of Indian individuals toward a recharging of deep sense of being which would grant the quality of resolve expected to invert the ruinous approaches of the Assembled States, Canada, and other colonialist legislatures of Focal and South America. AIM has more than once brought effective suit against the government for the assurance of the privileges of Local Countries ensured in settlements, treaties, the Unified States Constitution, and laws. -
Stonewall Riots
In 1969, police officers raided this Inn, which was a gay nightclub in New York, and began arresting patrons for attending the place. Gay onlookers taunted the police and then attacked them. Someone started a fire in the Inn, almost trapping people inside. This marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement. New organizations also began to rise up, like the Gay Liberation Front, which was founded in New York. Homosexuals fought back for the first time, the beginning of gay pride movements. -
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1970s
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Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a big impact. In The Ends of Power, H. R. states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. -
President Richard M. Nixon goes to Moscow
President Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. Although it was Nixon’s first visit to the Soviet Union as president, he had visited Moscow once before as U.S. vice president. Nixon’s second visit to Moscow in May 1972, this time as president, was for a more conciliatory purpose. United States and the USSR reached a number of agreements, including one that laid the groundwork for a joint space flight in 1975. Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. -
Roe vs. Wade
Jane Roe wanted to have an abortion. Unfortunately for her, Texas law said that a woman could not seek an abortion unless the pregnancy was detrimental to her health. She teamed up with a lawyer to fight against this law. Eventually, the case made its way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Justices ruled 7-2 that the Texas law was unconstitutional based on the Fourteenth Amendment. The case legalized abortion. It said that state laws could not restrict abortions in the first trimester. -
The Arab Oil Embargo
During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Syria and Egypt tried to regain the territory that they had lost to Israel during the Six-Day War. American support helped Israel win the war, but it caused the Arab nations (OPEC) to impose an oil embargo on the United States. To conserve oil, a speed limit of 55 MPH was imposed. An oil pipeline in Alaska was approved in 1974 and other forms of energy were researched. The embargo caused an economic recession in America and several other countries. -
President Richard M. Nixon resigns office
Richard Nixon was a good president as he was responsible for getting the United States out of the Vietnam War by using "Vietnamization", which was the withdrawal of 540,000 troops from South Vietnam for an extended period. He was responsible for the Nixon Doctrine. However, he was the first President to ever resign, due to the Watergate scandal.Watergate is a name given to the scandal the Nixon administration committed where hired "goons" broke into Democrat HQ at Watergate hotel for any dirt. -
Apple I introduced
Apple Computer 1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation, a VW Microbus, for a few hundred dollars, and Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500; however, Wozniak said that Jobs planned to use his bicycle if necessary. -
Jimmy Carter beats Gerald Ford in election
This was the first presidential election run under the post-Watergate amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act. President Ford was renominated despite a challenge from conservative Ronald Reagan. Success in the primaries gave former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter the Democratic nomination. Carter ran as an outsider and promised never to lie to the American people. Ford was hurt by the pardon and a misstatement on Poland in a debate; Carter won a close race. -
Microsoft becomes a registered trademark
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Bill Gates and Paul Allen register the trade name “Microsoft” with the Office of the Secretary of State of New Mexico. Previously, Gates and Allen had been working under an informal partnership known as “Micro-soft”, a combination of Microcomputer and Software. The partnership continued for several more years until Microsoft incorporated in July of 1981, just prior to the introduction of the IBM PC. -
An accident at the Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island is the site of an atomic power plant in south focal Pennsylvania. In Walk 1979, a progression of mechanical and human mistakes at the plant caused the most exceedingly terrible business atomic mischance in U.S. history, bringing about a fractional emergency that discharged risky radioactive gasses into the air. Three Mile Island fed open feelings of trepidation about atomic power—no new atomic power plants have been worked in the Unified States since the event itself happened. -
The Iran Hostage Crisis begins
On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. However, the hostage-taking was about more than the Shah’s medical care it was a dramatic way for the student revolutionaries to call break. -
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1980s
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The Mt. St. Helens volcano erupts
An earthquake struck below the mountain in the Washington state, triggering the largest landslide in recorded history and a major volcanic eruption that scattered ash across a dozen states. The sudden lateral blast heard hundreds of miles away removed 1,300 feet off the top of the volcano, sending shockwaves and pyroclastic flows across the surrounding landscape, flattening forests, melting snow and ice, and generating massive mudflows. A total of 57 people lost their lives in the disaster. -
Election of 1980
The United States presidential decision of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential race. It was hung on November 4, 1980. Republican candidate Ronald Reagan vanquished occupant Democrat Jimmy Carter. Because of the ascent of traditionalism following Reagan's triumph, a few history specialists view the race as a realigning race that denoted the beginning of the "Reagan Era ". Reagan was 69 at the time and turned into the most established individual to ever win a presidential decision. -
President Ronald Reagan undergoes assassination attempt
Two months after taking office Reagan survived an assassination attempt in Washington DC. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan suffered a punctured lung and recovered in only 12 days. This gained him sympathy and respect. He was seriously wounded and had to get emergency surgery. Unfatally wounded the president, the press secretary, and a secret service agent -
The first launch of the Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral
The space shuttle Columbia is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, becoming the first reusable manned spacecraft to travel into space. Piloted by astronauts Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young, the Columbia undertook a 54-hour space flight of 36 orbits before successfully touching down at California’s Edwards Air Force Base on April 14. A tragedy in space again rocked the nation on February 1, 2003, when Columbia, on its 28th mission, disintegrated during re-entry of the earth’s atmosphere. -
Sandra Day O’Connor first female U.S. Supreme Court justice
Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate. In 1981 Ronald Reagan nominated her to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received unanimous Senate approval, and made history as the first woman justice to serve on the nation's highest court. O'Connor was a key swing vote in many important cases, including the upholding of Roe v. Wade. She retired in 2006 after serving for 24 years.As a judge, Sandra Day O'Connor developed a solid reputation for being firm but just. -
The initial proposal for SDI
Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (1983), also known as "Star Wars," called for a land- or space-based shield against a nuclear attack. Although SDI was criticized as unfeasible and in violation of the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Congress approved billions of dollars for development, known as "Star Wars," President Reagan's SDI proposed the construction of an elaborate computer-controlled, anti-missile defense system capable of destroying enemy missiles in outer spaced. -
The “Reagan Doctrine” is announced
This doctrine called for US support anywhere in the world to support anticommunist activity. The doctrine was designed to serve the dual purposes of diminishing Soviet influence in these regions, while also potentially opening the door for capitalism (and sometimes liberal democracy) in nations that were largely being governed by Soviet-supported socialist governments. Anti-communist morality; believes detente is a tool the Soviets are using to manipulate the U.S. was a strategy that was used. -
Iran Contra Affair begins
Iran Contra Affair begins a scandal that erupted after the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in hopes of freeing American hostages in Lebanon; money from the arms sales was used to aid the Contras (anti-Communist insurgents) in Nicaragua, even though Congress had prohibited this assistance. Talk of Reagan's impeachment ended when presidential aides took the blame for the illegal activity. Americans kidnapped in Beirut by Iranian govt, so deal, scandal including arms sales to the M.East -
Challenger Explosion
Challenger detonated 73 seconds into flight, killing all on board. The blast was caused by a flawed seal in the fuel tank. Program was ended while authorities drew up new security directions, however was continued in 1988 with the flight of the Disclosure. The essential objective of transport mission 51-L was to dispatch the second Following and Information Transfer Satellite (TDRS-B). It likewise conveyed the Austere Halley shuttle, a little satellite that should have been discharged. -
The stock market crash known as Black Monday occurs
The leading stock-market index plunged 508 points, the largest one-day decline in history, which followed the bailouts of many banks as the federal and international trade deficit continued to grow as falling oil prices hurt the economy of the Southwest, slashing real estate values and undermining hundreds of savings and loan institutions. The terms Black Monday and Black Tuesday are also respectively applied to October 28 and October 29, 1929, which occurred after Black Thursday on October 24. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall indicated the end of the Warsaw Pact, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe, NATO continued to exist but expanded to include many former members of the Warsaw Pact, USA and Soviet Union agreed to reduce nuclear warheads by about a third. It additionally resulted in Germany reunification: East Germany ceased to exist, and the Soviet Union had withdrew its troops from what was East Germany, British, French and US troops remained in Western Germany. -
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1990s
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Persian Gulf War / 1st Iraq War
Iraq wanted to take over Kuwait's oil fields, and wanted access to the Persian Gulf (for oil transport). Iraq considered Kuwait to be part of their country, and Saddam Hussein wanted control of the Muslim world. In the end, Iraq was defeated, and its army was reduced. Economic hardship was created for the Iraqi people due to trade sanctions imposed after the war. The U.N. cease-fire agreement called for Iraq to allow U.N. inspectors to look for and destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. -
Rodney King Incident
As this was happening, a bystander, George Holliday, videotaped much of the incident from a distance. It had showed LAPD officers repeatedly striking King with their batons while other officers stood by watching, without taking any action to stop the beating. A portion of this footage was aired by news agencies around the world, causing public outrage that raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD and increased anger over police brutality and social inequalities in Los Angeles. -
The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is passed
The proposal represented that, “No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.” Its provision fulfilled Madison’s belief that Congress should not be permitted to vote itself pay raises arbitrarily without constituents being able to register their approval or disapproval. With no time limit on ratification, the 27th Amendment was ratified in May 7, 1992, when Michigan approved it. -
Election of 1992
The United States presidential election had three major candidates: Republican President George H. W. Bush; Democrat Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot. Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the peace following. -
World Trade Center is bombed
A terrorist bomb was detonated in a parking structure of the World Trade Center in New York City, leaving a pit. The 1993 World Trade Center besieging happened on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was exploded underneath the North Pinnacle of the World Exchange Center in New York City. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate-hydrogen gas improved gadget was expected to thump the North Pinnacle into the South Pinnacle, cutting the two towers down and executing a large number of individuals. -
(NAFTA) goes into effect
The reason for NAFTA is to dispose of hindrances to exchange, promote fair competition, increase investment openings, give assurance of innovation rights, make techniques for the determination of exchange question, build up a structure for growing NAFTA's advantages. It expanded exchange, helped U.S. farm exports out, made exchange surplus in administrations, decreased oil and staple costs, and it had ventured up remote direct speculation. However, many US jobs were lost and wages suppressed. -
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy
President Bill Clinton recommended this policy in 1993. It was adopted by the Congress and regulations were written by the Department of Defense in 1993. Servicemen and women could be discharged from the military on the basis of being gay only if they made a statement that they were lesbian or gay, engaged in physical contact with someone of the same sex, or married or attempted to marry someone of the same sex. Over 9,000 servicemen and women have been discharged as a result of this policy. -
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
PRWOR transformed the welfare system in the U.S. It ended the federal guarantee of assistance to families with dependent children and aided greater flexibility to the states in administering welfare. The act required the welfare recipient to work within 2 years, one can receive welfare to 5 years, required mothers to name the biological father of her children and seek child support from him, and permitted the welfare recipient to remain home to care for children only in two-parent families. -
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) enacted
DOMA was signed into law by President Clinton. The act defines marriage as an act as "only legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. The law also allows states not to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally in other states. The law also prohibits same-sex couples who are legally married according to proper ceremonies get such as not being able to leave a spouse an inheritance being subject to estate tax regulations and not being able to file joint federal income taws. -
Monica Lewinsky scandal begins
President Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. After the questioning at the White House is finished, Clinton goes on national TV to admit he had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton maintained that while he was being as unhelpful as possible to Jones's lawyers in his earlier deposition, he had not actually lied. There was a sense of "generally low morale within the staff throughout the scandal". -
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Contemporary
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a seat for the United States Senate
In 1999, when senior New York Representative Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared his retirement, Hillary Rodham Clinton exploited this and joined the race to succeed him. On November 7, 2000, she won with 56 percent of the vote against New York Republican Delegate Rick Lazio. At the point when Representative Clinton sat down at the opening of the 107th Congress (2001– 2003), she got assignments on three panels: Condition and Open Works; Wellbeing, Instruction, Work, and Annuities; and Spending plan -
Bush v Gore
Supreme Court decided that the territory of Florida's court-requested manual describe of vote votes in the 2000 presidential race was illegal. The case ended up being the peak of the hostile presidential race between VP Al Gore and Texas Representative George W. Bush. The result of the race depended on Florida, where Senator Bush drove VP Gut by around 1,800 votes the morning after Decision Day. Since the profits were so close, Florida law called for an automatic machine recount of ballots. -
9/11 Attacks
The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3000 died in the attacks -
No Child Left Behind Education Act
NCLB was the aftereffect of a planned exertion between social freedoms and business get-togethers, and what's more the two Democrats and Republicans on Authoritative Incline and the Support association, which endeavored to drive American power and close the achievement opening among poor and minority understudies and their more advantaged peers. Since 2002, it's outsizedly influenced training, learning, and school change and end up being dynamically questionable with instructors and the general. -
Identity of Deep Throat revealed
Washington Post writers Bounce Woodward and Carl Bernstein got data from an abnormal state government official who was given the moniker "Profound Throat." He disclosed to them that previous CIA operator and Nixon staff part Howard Chase was associated with the Watergate embarrassment. The proof inevitably prompted President Nixon's abdication in August 1974. In a 2005, found to be the partner chief of the FBI who turned into a mystery witness and broke the Watergate story to journalists. -
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast
Considered to be the one crisis of the Bush administrations second term and in is inefficiency to deal with the crisis. It destroyed 80% of New Orleans and more than 1300 people died, while the damages were $150 billion. Major hurricane that destroyed New Orleans and the golf region in August 2005. There was lack of federal response and compassion ignited debate of poverty and race in America; Bush administration was accused of showing indifference to those who were affected by the massive storm -
Civil Rights activist, Rosa Parks, dies
December 1, 1955, after a long day's work at a Montgomery department store, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home.As the bus Rosa was riding continued on its route, it began to fill with white passengers. The driver demanded, "Why don't you stand up?" to which Rosa replied, "I don't think I should have to stand up." The driver called the police and had her arrested. Later, Rosa recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in effect
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a fiscal stimulus that ended the Great Recession. Congress approved President Obama's plan to put $787 billion into the pockets of American families and small businesses. That would boost demand and instill confidence. Following President Bush's plan, the Troubled Asset Recovery Program. There was Immediate Relief for Families, Modernized Federal Infrastructure, More Alternative Energy Production, and Expansion on education and healthcare. -
Swine Flu, is deemed a global pandemic
Worldwide spark of influenza. The movement of troopers amid WWI spread the infection. 20-40% of individuals on the planet are evaluated to have turned out to be sick with the infection that assaulted the youthful. Individuals now and again felt fine early in the day and were dead by night. 675,000 individuals kicked the bucket in the U.S. what's more, 50 million around the world. The flu that cleared the world in 1918 slaughtered an expected 50 million individuals, 1/5 of the total population. -
Affordable Care Act (ACA) “Obamacare”
The demonstration has 3 basic goals set. To make direct restorative scope open to more people. The demonstration outfits customers with endowments that lower costs for families with compensation in the region of 100% and 400% of the administration poverty level. Stretch out the Medicaid program to cover all adults with pay underneath 138% of the administration destitution level. Support inventive therapeutic care transport methods planned to cut down the costs of social insurance overall.
