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Rock ‘n’ Roll (Elvis)
Makes Rock & Roll a phenomenon was born extremely poor. Adopted rhythm & blues from African Americans. Created his own "sexually" suggestive dance style. Became the “The King of Rock 'n' Roll”. -
G.I. Bill
Also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, sought to provided a range of benefits from returning veterans from the war. Around 8.8 million veterans used the bill to help their studies where 2.2 million when to college and the rest went to a training program. -
Atomic/Hydrogen Weapons (Fat Man)
The name fat man was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki in World War 2. It was one of two atomic bombs used in World War 2 and was one of three ever detonated. -
Iron Curtain
Name for the boundary dividing Europe into two different areas at the end of World War 2 and lasted until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was used by the Soviet Union to block itself from contact with West Europe and meant to keep its people held within the USSR. -
Truman Doctrine
This policy was created to counter the Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Truman established that the U.S. would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations who were under threat from authoritarian forces (aka the Soviets). -
Marshall Plan
This plan was used to provide aid to Western Europe, where the U.S. gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild West Europe after the end of World War 2. The goals were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and to make Europe great again! -
Berlin Airlift
British and Soviet militaries divided Germany into two. The U.S. and its allies supplied the Soviet sectors from the air. Which lasted for more than a year supplied more than 2.3 million tons of food and supplies to West Berlin. -
The Fair Deal
Focused on healthcare, public housing, education & public works. Increased the minimum wage, electricity and telephone access and was forced to scale back because of Korea and fighting dem commie b@$t@rd$. -
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation is a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. Central elements of Beat culture are a rejection of standard narrative values, spiritual quest, exploration of American and Eastern religions, rejection of materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. -
Television (TV Shows)
When TV became popular in the 1950s, Tv shows began to be produced to shows that related to traditional family values and "adventure". A few of the shows were "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet", "I Love Lucy" and "Leave it to Beaver". -
Rock ‘n’ Roll (Ike Turner)
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. Turner began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm, as a teenager. Allegations by Tina Turner of domestic violence by Ike, damaged Ike Turner's career in the 1980s and 1990s. -
2nd Red Scare (McCarhyism)
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.[1] The term refers to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression as well as a campaign spreading fear of influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents. -
Rock ‘n’ Roll (Bill Haley and the Comets)
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. Bill Haley and the Comets was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of America and the rest of the world. -
Earl Warren Supreme Court
Earl Warren is best known for the liberal decisions of the so-called Warren Court, which outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one man–one vote" rules of apportionment of election districts. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -
Entertainment (Oprah Winfrey)
Orpah Gail Winfrey, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was aired from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. She has been ranked the richest African-American, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's first and only multi-billionaire black person. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Polio Vaccine (Dr. Jonas Salk)
Was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Polio was considered one of the most frightening public health problems in the world. Salk and a few other scientist developed one of the first successful cures for polio. idk the date just the year. -
Emmett Till Tragedy
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 in 1955 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)
Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, who the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Rock 'n' Roll (Little Richard)
Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia, Little Richard helped define the early rock 'n' roll era of the 1950s with his driving, flamboyant sound. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions, the Brown v. Board of Education, which had eventually led to the integration of public schools. Violence against blacks rose there and in other states, as in Little Rock, Arkansas where that year President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating into a public school. -
Little Rock 9 (Orvaul Faubus)
Orval Eugene Faubus served six consecutive terms as governor of Arkansas. His stand against what he called “forced integration” resulted in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s sending federal troops to Little Rock. In September 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. -
Vietnam War (Ho Chi Minh Trail)
Was a logical trail that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam. This trail provided support for the Vietcong throughout the war. -
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The New Right
The NEW RIGHT was a combination of Christian religious leaders, conservative business bigwigs who claimed that environmental and labor regulations were undermining the competitiveness of American firms in the global market, and fringe political groups. Like most movements, the New Right contained an extremist element. Racial hatred groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the AMERICAN NAZI PARTY joined the outcry against American moral decline. -
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Stagflation
During the 60's and 70's, the U.S. was suffering from 5.3% inflation and 6% unemployment. Refers to the unusual economic situation in which an economy is suffering both from inflation and from stagnation of its industrial growth. -
Counter Culture (LSD)
As LSD became available for recreational use, it started to gain a massive reputation as a magic pill for a direct spiritual experience. This dovetailed perfectly with the radical questioning of government and social norms that was prevalent in the 1960s. As LSD became synonymous with hippies and the countercultural movement, it quickly earned a stigma in the rest of society. -
Sit-Ins (Greensboro, North Carolina)
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,[2] which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.[3] While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement. -
New Frontier
The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. This dealth with the Economy, Taxation, Labor, Education, Welfare, Civil rights, Housing, Unemployment, Health, Equal rights for women, Environment, Agriculture, Crime Defense -
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil-exporting nations. OPEC was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. OPEC is a cartel that aims to manage the supply of oil in an effort to set the price of oil on the world market, in order to avoid fluctuations that might affect the economies of both producing and purchasing countries. -
Television (Politics)
Television swept the nation during the 1950s, this was the game changer during the 1960 election for the president of the U.S. Nixon and Kennedy were the running mates during the election where many knew Kennedy was winning by the way he presented himself on TV. -
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The work is generally related to social and economic development. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Bay of Pigs)
A failed military invasion of Cuba executed by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group brigade 2506. It was intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. -
Atomic/Hydrogen Weapons (ICBMs)
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 3,400 miles primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery. Similarly, conventional, chemical, and biological weapons can also be delivered with varying effectiveness, but have never been deployed on ICBMs. Most modern designs support multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target. -
March on Washington (“I Have a Dream Speech”)
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Assassination of JFK (Lee Harvey Oswald)
Lee Harvey Oswald was an American former U.S. Marine who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. According to four Federal government investigations and one municipal investigation, Oswald shot and killed Kennedy as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in the city of Dallas, Texas. -
Assassination of JFK (Warren Commission)
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 196 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963. The Commission's findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies. -
Counter Culture (Anti-War Movement)
An anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. -
Ascendency of Lyndon Johnson (Daisy Girl Ad)
Daisy Girl was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign. Though only aired once, it is considered to be an important factor in Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and an important turning point in political and advertising history. -
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. The major areas this policy dealt with is Civil rights, War on Poverty, Programs, Education, Health, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Public broadcasting, Cultural centers, Transportation, Consumer protection, Environment, Housing, Rural development, Labor, Conservative opposition -
Counter Culture (Hippies)
The counter culture was a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. Hippies were famous for their drug use and opposing the war. "Love not war". -
Warren Burger Supreme Court
Warren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative, and the U.S. Supreme Court delivered numerous conservative decisions under him, it also delivered some liberal decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure. -
Race to Space/Moon (Apollo 11)
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that successfully landed the two first humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin commanded the lunar module Eagle and landed the spacecraft in 1969. -
Nixon’s Presidency (Watergate)
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. -
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership. Heritage has since continued to have a significant influence in U.S. public policy making, and is considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the United States. -
Gerald Ford’s Presidency
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon. He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and subsequently the only person to date to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office. -
Entertainment (Robert Johnson)
An African American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. He is the founder of BET, which was sold to Viacom in 2001. Johnson is the former majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. He became the first black American billionaire. Johnson's companies have counted among the most prominent African-American businesses in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -
Jimmy Carter’s Presidency (Equal Rights Amendment)
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens regardless of gender; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. Congress had originally set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979. Through 1977, the amendment received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. -
The Moral Majority
he Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s. -
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Jimmy Carter’s Presidency (Iran Hostage Crisis)
The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981 after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. It stands as the longest hostage crisis in recorded history. -
Soviet–Afghan War
Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, where insurgent groups like the mujahideen fought against the Soviets and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Between 562,000–2 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. -
Entertainment (Video Head System (VHS))
From the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were videotape format wars in the home video industry. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure. VHS eventually won the war, dominating 60 percent of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period. -
Entertainment (Black Entertainment Television (BET))
Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom. It is the most prominent television network targeting African-American audiences, with approximately 88,255,000 American households receiving the channel. The channel has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. -
Election of 1980(Jimmy Carter)
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The contest was between the Democratic national ticket of incumbent President Jimmy Carter from Georgia and Vice President Walter Mondale from Minnesota, and the Republican national ticket of Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor and former Governor from California with his running mate George H.W. Bush -
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Reagan Presidency(Reagonomics)
The economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics or voodoo economics by political opponents, and free-market economics by political advocates. -
Entertainment (Music Television (MTV))
In the 1980s, MTV was instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran, whose videos played in heavy rotation. Its programming consisted of basic music videos that were introduced by VJs (video jockeys) and provided for free by record companies. As the record industry recognized MTV’s value as a promotional vehicle, money was invested in making creative, cutting-edge videos. -
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Reagan Presidency (Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars”)
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. -
Reagan Presidency (Reagan Doctrine)
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. The doctrine was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The doctrine was designed to diminish Soviet influence in these regions as part of the administration's overall strategy to end the Cold War. -
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Reagan Presidency (Iran Contra Affair)
Was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. -
Space Shuttle Program (Challenger Explosion)
NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean. Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring was not designed to fly under unusually cold conditions as in this launch. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded barrier wall made of concrete that physically and socially divided Berlin from starting from the Cold War till 1989. It finally came to an end when the wall was demolished in late 1989 after weeks of rioting between the two sides. -
Technology (Internet)
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and other CERN scientists begin to create the first actual incarnation of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee and his colleagues developed a shared format for hypertext documents which was named hypertext markup language or HTML. This changed the world as it allowed people to connect from anywhere in the world quickly and opened new opportunities. -
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Persian Gulf War / 1st Iraq War
The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney Glen King was a taxi driver who became internationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers following a high-speed car chase. A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. -
Bill Clinton Presidency (World Trade Center Attack - 1993)
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 pound gas enhanced bomb was intended to send the North Tower crashing into the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so but killed six people and injured over a thousand. -
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. -
Bill Clinton Presidency (Welfare Reform)
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is a United States federal law considered to be a major welfare reform. The bill was a cornerstone of the Republican Contract with America. President Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we have come to know it". -
Bill Clinton Presidency (Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA))
The Defense of Marriage Act was a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. DOMA barred same-sex married couples from being recognized as "spouses" for purposes of federal laws, effectively barring them from receiving federal marriage benefits. -
Bill Clinton Presidency (Lewinsky Affair)
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
The Lewinsky scandal was an American political sex scandal that involved 49-year-old President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The sexual relationship took place between 1995 and 1996 and came to light in 1998. Clinton ended a televised speech with the statement that he did not have sexual relations with Lewinsky. -
Election of 2000 (Ralph Nader)
The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney. He cited "a crisis of democracy" as motivation to run. He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was also nominated by the Vermont Progressive Party and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina. The campaign marked Nader's second presidential bid as the Green nominee. -
Election of 2000 (Ralph Nader)
The 2000 presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, political activist, author, lecturer and attorney. He cited "a crisis of democracy" as motivation to run. He ran in the 2000 United States presidential election as the nominee of the Green Party. He was also nominated by the Vermont Progressive Party and the United Citizens Party of South Carolina. -
George W. Bush Presidency (9/11 Attacks)
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others.Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed. -
George W. Bush Presidency (PATRIOT ACT)
USA PATRIOT stands for"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". From broad concern felt among Americans from both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress rushed to pass legislation to strengthen security controls. -
George W. Bush Presidency (No Child Left Behind Education Act)
A U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels. -
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George W. Bush Presidency (2nd Iraq War)
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 or more Iraqis were killed in the first 3–4 years of conflict. -
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Election of 2008 (The Great Recession)
The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country. In terms of overall impact, the International Monetary Fund concluded that it was the worst global recession since World War II -
Obama Presidency (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Great Recession, the ARRA's primary objective was to save existing jobs and create new ones as soon as possible. Other objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most affected by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy. -
Election of 2000 (Al Gore)
Al Gore from Tennessee was a consistent front-runner for the nomination. The focus of his campaign was a plan to spend the record-breaking budget surplus on a variety of social welfare programs to help the poor and the middle-class, along with campaign finance reform and gun control. -
Obama Presidency (Affordable Care Act (ACA) “Obamacare”)
The Affordable Care Act was designed to increase health insurance quality and affordability, lower the uninsured rate by expanding insurance coverage and reduce the costs of healthcare. It introduced mechanisms including mandates, subsidies, and insurance exchanges. The law requires insurers to accept all applicants, cover a specific list of conditions and charge the same rates regardless of pre-existing conditions or sex.
