Presidential Events

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  • Carter becomes President

    thirty-ninth President of the United States.

  • SALT II (CARTER'S TERM)

    SALT II arms reduction proposal to Soviet leadership in Moscow, intending to give the U.S. an advantage, is rejected

  • Panama canal (CARTER'S TERM)

    Carter and Panamanian President Omar Torrijos Herrera sign the Panama Canal Treaty, handing control of the canal to Panama and guaranteeing the canal’s neutrality

  • Department of Education is established (CARTER'S TERM)

  • Reagan becomes President

  • American hostages from Iran Hostage Crisis are released (RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • President Reagan signs the tax cut bill, the Economic Recovery Tax Act

  • Fifty States Project for Women (RAEGAN'S TERM)

    identify and revise state legislation that discriminates against women

  • War on drugs starts (RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • First commercial operations mission of the Space Shuttle ( RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • Social Security Amendments are signed (RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • U.S.-Mexico Agreement on the border area environment is established (RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • Minimum Drinking Age Bill is signed, establishing 21 years as the minimum age ( RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • The Stock Market crashes ( RAEGAN'S TERM)

  • H. Bush becomes president

  • H. Bush signs Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities.

  • H. Bush deploys U.S. forces for the defense of Saudi Arabia

  • Clean Air Act ( H. BUSH TERM)

    most significant environmental legislation ever passed, seeks ways to reduce smog and atmospheric pollution, which includes prohibiting the use of leaded gasoline in motor vehicles by the end of 1995

  • H. Bush signs Civil Rights Act

    provides the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and allows for the possibility of emotional distress damages

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed ( H. BUSH TERM)

  • Clinton becomes President

  • Terrorist attack on the world trade canter ( CLINTON'S TERM)

  • 'dont ask, dont tell' (CLINTON'S TERM)

    Clinton announces “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing homosexuals to serve in the armed forces

  • NAFTA (CLINTON'S TERM)

    Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada and Mexico

  • Lawsuit (CLINTON'S TERM)

    Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones files lawsuit of alleging sexual harassment by then-governor Clinton in 1991

  • Vietnam relations (CLINTON'S TERM)

    normalizes relations between the United States and Vietnam

  • Welfare ( CLINTON'S TERM)

    signs bill providing for major reforms to the nation’s welfare system, limiting lifetime welfare benefits to five years and giving more control to states

  • W. Bush becomes president

  • 9/11 attack (W. BUSH TERM)

  • War in Afghanistan begins ( W. BUSH TERM)

  • W. Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act

  • W. Bush authorization for use of military force against Iraq.

  • W. Bush signs the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act

  • Hurricane Katrina (W. BUSH TERM)

  • W. Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

  • Obama becomes president

  • Obama signs his first bill into law. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act gives workers more time to take their pay discrimination cases to court.

  • Obama signs the $787 billion stimulus package into law and approves sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan.

  • Obama declares to Turkey's parliament ''the United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam