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Ran against Gerald Ford and won
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Gerald Ford ran against Jimmy Carter in the election Carter won a narrow victory and won popular vote by less than 2 million first president from the Deep South and was a peanut farmer and governor of Georgia.
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The Soviets decided to invade Afghanistan
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In the late 70s there was signs of the falling economy the industry nearly collapsed
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Was an actor
Won because of Carter’s weakness -
Jimmy Carter ran up against Ronald Reagan and Reagan won. Reagan was a actor and one due to Carter’s weaknesses.
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President Jimmy Cater decided to boycott the Moscow summer Olympics
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He was re-elected to his second term in 1984
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Explodes on take off everyone inside died
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First VP to be elected president sense Martin Van Buren
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Bush ran against Michael Dukakis and bush became the first serving Vice President to become president and only served one term
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Cease fire was announced and Kuwait was liberated
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Bush was forced to raise taxes dropping his approval rating to 49% in 1992 and Bill Clinton defeated Bush.
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The whitewater scandal led to Clinton getting impeached
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Clinton was having sexual relations with a White House intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky.
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In 1998 the federal government announced that they had a surplus and fewer people relied on public aid
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Clinton’s VP Al Gore won the popular vote over George Bush and had to recount the key state Florida and showed that bush won more electoral votes
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The Medicare program which began in 1965 exceeded 200 billion dollars
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Terrorists from AL-Qaeda flew planes in the World Trade Center in NYC. They also flew one into the pentagon in Washington D.C. and outside of Philadelphia. Osama Ben laden planned the attacks and killed roughly 3000 people. Bush increased antiterrorism measures.
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Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel peace prize in 2002 only president to win after office.
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Fear Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and none were found motivation change to liberate Iraq
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Was said to have weapons of mass destruction then was found tried and executed
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Democrat Barack Obama ran against John McCain Obama won becoming the first black president
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American people decided to speak to the nation in a prime time address to Congress
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It was passed after some elaborate legislative wrangling to get the House to pass the senate bill
