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Apple II Computer Released
The Apple 2 computer was introduced in was the first successful mass produced microcomputer meant for home use. Rather clunky this 1984 version of the Apple to you was the smallest and flickers model yet introduced indeed it had revolutionized about the substance and design of personal computers. -
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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 (USSR). “Cold“ because it was never a “hot“ war, direct shooting between the US and soviet union never occurred. The collapse of the Berlin Wall (1989) -
Ronald Reagan Elected as President
Reagan secured the presidency through appealing the growing conservatism of much of the country In 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. -
Ronald Reagan Nearly Assassinated
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. -
Democratic Leadership Council Formed
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. -
Black Involvement in Entertainment Industry
In 1982, pop singer Michael Jackson release thriller, the best selling album of all time. Oprah Winfrey begin her phenomenally successful nationally syndicated talk show 1985. Comedian Bill Cosby sitcom 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. -
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. Farm for closure skyrocketed during Reagan’s tenure. Expanded a world production meant new competition for American farmers, while storing interest rates cause the already sizable debt held by family farms to mushroom. -
Immigration Reform and Control Act
In 1986, Reagan also signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act. American policy makers hoped to do two things: deal with the milions of undocumented immigrants already in the United States while simultaneously choking off future unsanctioned migration. The former goal was achieved (nearly three million undocumented workers received legal status) but the latter proved elusive appointments. -
Bernard 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. Pollsters found that 90 percent of white New Yorkers sympathized with Goetz 61 Echoing the law-and-order rhetoric (and policies) of the 1960s and 1970s, politicians-both Democratic and Republican-and law-enforcement agencies mandated longer present sentences for those arrested. -
Stock Market Crash -1987
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. -
The Berlin Wall comes Crashing Down
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 the world. Within months, the Berlin Wall was reduced to rubble on October 3, 1990 -
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Somalia - 1992-1995
The United Nations attempted to address the crisis with United Nations Operation in Somalia to provide assistance, in April 1992. 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. President Bill Clinton pulled U.S. troops out of combat, and all U.S. troops left the country in March 1994. The UN withdrew from Somalia in March 1995. Fighting continued in the country. -
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. Source: A, Taylor. (Sept 8, 2011). 9/11 The Day of The Attacks. Retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/09/911-the-day-of-the-attacks/100143/
