The End of the Cold War and 9/11 (1980-2001)

By Ashleigh28
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    Jimmy Carter Becomes President

    Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential election against republican Gerald Ford

  • MTV created

    MTV was one of the most influential cable channels of the 1980s, they showed music videos of popular singers, which were criticized by the Religious right.
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    Reagan becomes President

    Ronald Reagan wins the 1980 election against Walter Mondale. Reagan was then reelected in the 1984 election

  • Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987

    This treaty between the Soviet Union and the US caused a dramatic reduction in nuclear weapons in both countries

  • Stock market crash of 1987

    In October of 1987, the stock market unexpectedly crashed 22.6 points. Billions were lost in a day, it became known as Black Monday.
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    George W.H. Bush becomes President

    Bush becomes president after winning the 1988 election against Michael Dukakis.

  • Berlin Wall Falls in Germany

    After World War Two, Germany was divided amongst the Allied forces into four sections. These sections were controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The USSR shut down access to West Berlin on August 12, 1961, when soldiers laid down 30 miles of barbed wire in one night to shut down the mass migration of East Germans over to West Germany. On August 15, the beginnings of a concrete wall was assembled, and would remain until it was destroyed on November 9,1989.

  • USSR dissolved

    Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), created in 1922,the heart of communism in Europe and Asia, fell Dec 26, 1991.
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    Bill Clinton becomes President

    Bill Clinton won the 1992 election against George H.W. Bush. He then won the 1996 election against Republican Bob Dole
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    George Bush becomes president

    George Bush (son of former president George H. W. Bush) wins the 2000 election against Democrat Al Gore, becoming president in 2001. He won the 2004 election against democrat John F. Kerry

  • 9/ 11 attack on the Twin Towers

    On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes and flew two into the Twin Towers buildings in New York City. Another plane was flown into the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed in a field after passengers attempted to retake control. This event was the largest terrorist attack in history. No one on the four planes survived and thousands died in each of the buildings hit by the planes. Hundreds of firefighters and police officers died trying to save the victims of this attack.