-
Ronald Reagan is elected to be the President of the United States of America.
-
An war led by the United States to free Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion.
-
The Berlin Wall comes down, borders open, and the Soviet Union separated into different republics. Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe ended.
-
A Republican plan that called for welfare reform, congressional term limits, and a balanced-budget amendment.
-
The deadliest domestic terrorist bombing in U.S. history at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
-
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Florida Supreme Court’s decision that manual recounts should continue in all counties where a statistically significant number of undervotes for the presidential election
-
A series of airline hijackings by al-Qaeda that resulted in the falling of the world trade center, an attack on the Pentagon Building, and a plane crashing into rural Pennsylvania.
-
The economic downturn after the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble and the global financial crisis
-
Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States, he is also the first African American president.
-
Reform law that increases health insurance coverage for the uninsured and implements reforms to the health insurance market