Timeline: Holt_Carter to Bush Administarations

Jun 28, 1969

Stonewall Riot: began the gay activist movement for civil rights.

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Apr 22, 1970

Earth Day: First celecbrated by the envirnomental movement

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Nov 2, 1976

James Carter defeated President Ford in the election

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Jun 6, 1978

Proposition 13 (approved by California voters on this day)

Picture Source California voters led a movement to lower property taxes.

Sep 17, 1978

Camp David Accords: President Carter's greatest foreign policy triumph, a peace treaty signed between Anwar Sadat, Egytian president and Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister.

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Nov 4, 1979

Iran Hostage Crisis: President Carter's greatest foreign policy crisis

Picture Source The Iran Hostage Crisis occured in Iran when the United States backed Shah and was overthrough in an Uslamic revolution headed by the religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini. REvolutionaries took 52 American hostages form the U.S. Embassy and held them for 444 days (until January 20, 1981).

Dec 24, 1979

Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union

Picture Source Cater placed an embargo of grain exports on the U.S.S.R. and had the U.S. boycott the 1980 Mascow Olympics.

Apr 12, 1981

NASA launched the first space shuttle; Columbia

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Mar 23, 1983

Strategic Defense Initiative (SID) or "Star Wars"

Picture Source President Reagan funded an initiative to develop a system to intercept and destroy nuclear missiles.

Nov 6, 1984

President Reagan won the reelection

Picture Source He defeated Democrat Walter Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro.

Feb 6, 1985

Reagan Doctrine: to build up the military and aid those opposed to communism.

Picture Source The United States gave aid to Afghan revels (Mujahadeen) fighting Soviet occupies and to Contras who sought to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government to Nicaragua.

Aug 20, 1985

Iran-Contra Scandal

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(Picture is Oliver North) Members of Reagan's administration such as Colonel Oliver North secretly sold weapons to Iran in exhange for the relaese of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. Money from the sales was given to the Contras after Congress had forbiden it.
Ended March 4, 1987.

Dec 8, 1985

President Reagan met with the new Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

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Nov 8, 1988

George H. W. Bush won election over Democrat Michael Dukakis.

Picture Source H. W. Bush called for a "compassionate conservatism" in his domestic policy.

Jul 26, 1990

Americans with Disailtities Act (ADA) Effective

Picture Source ADA forbid discriminatin and mandated access to public places in regards to persons with physical or mental disablities.

Aug 2, 1990

Operation Desert Storm

Picture Source The United States organized a U.N. coalition of forces to expel Iraq from Kuwit in the Persian Gulf War.
General Norman Schwarzkopf led the war.
Colin Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who organized it.
The Iraquis were defeated in 100 hours and Kuwait was liberated, but the U.S. stopped short of overthrowing Saddam Hussein after achieving its stated objective of liberating Kuwait.

Nov 3, 1992

William Clinton defeated President Bush in the 1992 election

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Jan 1, 1994

The North American Free Trade Agreement came into force.

Picture Source Abbreviated N.A.F.T.A. The United States joined Mexico and Canada in forming this to promote free trade and increase U.S. exports so as to compete with the European Union.

Jan 1, 1995

World Trade Organization (WTO) oficially commenced

Picture Source The WTO formed to settle trade disputes between nations. Critics of these programs fear the loss of U.S. unskilled jobs to cheaper overseas labor.

Nov 30, 1995

Domestic Terrorism: Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb...

Picture Source ... at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City =, Oklahoma and killed 168 civilians. This was intended as revenge for federal actions at Ruby Ridge and the Branch Dravidian compound. McVeigh and other members of militias distrusted the power of the federal government.

Aug 7, 1998

Al Qaida launched bombing aganist the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

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(the man in the picture is the one that was behind the bombings) Terrorists were angery over the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.

Nov 7, 2000

George W. Bush won the election over Democrat Al Gore and Green Party Ralph Nader

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Sep 11, 2001

9/11

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(picture is the memorial built were the towers stood) Four plans were hijaked in a terrorist attack on the United States. Two were crashed into the World Trade Center Towers and one into the Pentagon. The attack was launched by an Islamic group called Al Qaida led by Osama Bin Laden.