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Iran hostage situation-Jimmy Carter
66 americans taken hostage -
Air traffic controller strike- Ronald Reagan
In summer 1981 PATCO, the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike -
Iran-contra affair-Ronald Reagan
Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, and gave funds to Contras -
Berlin Wall-Ronald Reagan
End of cold war -
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990-George H.W. Bush
The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. -
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Gulf War
Iraq invaded kuwait and that called for immediate responses from the world. US, Britain, and surprisingly Russia helped. This in turn caused saddam hussein and iraq to retreat. -
Somali Civil War-Bill Clinton
Horrible civil war that the US did not get into. -
Don't ask, don't tell
The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. -
War in Afghanistan
The primary driver of the invasion was the September 11 attacks on the United States, with the stated goal of dismantling the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base -
The Iraq War
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their -
"Don't ask, don't tell"
Obama repelled the policy -
Iraq War
Obama ended the fighting